Slubbed

  

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Slubbed

Definition: Slubbed

Slubbed

Adjective

1. Of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Slubbed

Synonyms: homespun(p) (adj), nubbly (adj), nubby (adj), tweedy (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: slubbed cloth (industry).

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Usage Frequency: Slubbed

"Slubbed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slubbed" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Slubbed

Language Translations for "slubbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

粗纺 (Slubbing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubbedslay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slubbed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-l-s-u"

-1 letter: bulbed, subbed, subdeb.

-2 letters: blebs, blubs, blued, blues, bulbs, bused, duels, dulse, leuds, lubed, lubes, ludes, slued.

-3 letters: beds, bedu, bels, bleb, bled, blub, blue, bubs, buds, bulb, debs, dels, dubs, duel, dues, ebbs, elds, leud, lube, lude, lues, sled, slub, slue, sued, used.

-4 letters: bed, bel, bub, bud, bus, deb, del, dub, due.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-l-s-u"
 

+1 letter: stubbled.

 

+2 letters: bluebirds, dumbbells, slubbered, squabbled.

 

+3 letters: bluebeards, bluebloods, subaudible.

 

+4 letters: blunderbuss, bubbleheads, landlubbers.

 

+5 letters: boatbuilders, bodybuilders, subdividable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Slubbed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 75 62 62 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    ..-    -...    -...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01110101 01100010 01100010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#117 &#98 &#98 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0075 0062 0062 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53788768687170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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