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Definition: Nose Ring |
Nose RingNoun1. A ring worn on the nose as an ornament or on the nose of an animal to control it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Nose Ring |
| English words defined with "nose ring": Unringed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nose ring": Allegiance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're a bad dresser if you wear a green nose ring with a red shirt. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) There's also that dark side to the nose ring. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nose ring | 546 |
bull nose ring | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nose ring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rreth për hundë për dem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خاتم الأنف حلية تلبس في الأنف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | халка на носа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | anneau de nez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חח (hook, swivel), זם (earring, shackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | orrkarika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鼻輪 , 鼻木 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はなぎ, はなわ (garland, wreath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fainey stroaney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osenay ingray lenço de bolso (wipe). (various references) inel de nas. (various references) ноздревое кольцо. (various references) nosna minđuša, brnjica (muzzle, ring, twitch). (various references) nosring. (various references) burun halkası (cattle-leader). (various references) кільце в носі, ніздряне кільце. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inaure, inaurem, inaures, inauris, inaurium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: negronis. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: eringos, ginners, ignores, negroni, regions, signore, snoring, sorning. | |
-2 letters: ensign, eringo, genros, ginner, girons, goners, grison, groins, ignore, inners, irones, nosier, nosing, orgies, region, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, rosing, senior, sering, signer, signor, singer, sinner, soigne, soring. | |
-3 letters: eosin, genro, girns, giron, giros, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grins, groin, inner, irone, irons, neons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: censoring, endorsing, necrosing, nitrogens, nonsigner, reasoning, ringbones, signorine, vignerons, worsening. | |
+2 letters: boringness, coarsening, conserving, constringe, conversing, engrossing, grindstone, hoarsening, ignorances, ingression, nonsigners, omniranges, organzines, reasonings, reckonings, reopenings, resonating, resounding, responding, shortening, snookering, snorkeling, stringendo. | |
+3 letters: anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, carcinogens, congressing, considering, constringed, constringes, countersign, enscrolling, enshrouding, ensorceling, ergonovines, fibrinogens, foreignness, generations, grindstones, ingressions, ingrownness, interposing, ironmongers, modernising, monseigneur, necropsying, networkings, nitrogenase, nitrogenous, nonearnings, personating, recognising, reignitions, reseasoning, resignation, resummoning, sermonizing, shoehorning, shortenings, trypsinogen, unreasoning, unsoldering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 73 65 52 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01010010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o s e   R i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0073 0065 0052 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48818571252758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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