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RETABLE

Definition: RETABLE

RETABLE

Noun

1. A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: RETABLE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Support

Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: RETABLE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dominican Painting in East Anglia: The Thornham Parva Retable and the Musee De Cluny Frontal (reference)

  • Grunewald le Retable d'Issenheim (reference)

  • La pala, ou, Le retable italien des origines à 1500 (reference)

  • Le retable des damnées : trois pièces en un acte (reference)

  • Le retable des quatre saisons : [poèmes] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: RETABLE

"RETABLE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RETABLE" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translations: RETABLE

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

Manx

  

skelloo altaragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etableray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: RETABLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "RETABLE": retables. (additional references)

Words ending with "RETABLE": interpretable. (additional references)


Misspellings

"RETABLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ketambe, reable, rectable, relabel, relable, retab, retabled, retables, retube, ritable, rotable, Rotaflex, Rotaflo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RETABLE"

Words rhyming with "RETABLE" (pronounced 'Re*ta"ble'): Bauble, Bawble, Bedrabble, Bedribble, Bejumble, Bescribble, Betumble, Bibble-babble, bible, Commemorable, Condemnable, gribble, Mabble, Moble, Nimble, Nubble, Outbabble, Penible, Perpetrable, Pubble, reassemble, Remble, resemble, Romble, rubble, ruble, Scabble, scumble, Sparble, stubble, unable, Undouble, Unnoble, unstable, Wirble, Wobble. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RETABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bleater.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-r-t"

-1 letter: beater, belter, berate, elater, labret, rebate, relate, treble.

-2 letters: abele, abler, alert, alter, arete, artel, baler, beret, betel, blare, blate, blear, bleat, eater, elate, laree, later, ratel, rebel, relet, taber, table, taler, telae.

-3 letters: abet, able, alee, bale, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, brae, brat, bree, earl.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-r-t"
 

+1 letter: arbelest, atremble, bleaters, bracelet, liberate, rateable, rentable, retables, tearable.

 

+2 letters: alterable, arbelests, beastlier, blathered, blatherer, blattered, bleariest, bracelets, bracteole, celebrant, celebrate, elaborate, enterable, erectable, heritable, liberated, liberates, prebattle, refutable, relatable, reputable, steerable, tableware, tenurable, tolerable, traceable, tradeable, treatable, utterable, veritable, vertebral.

 

+3 letters: bilgewater, blastomere, blatherers, bracteoles, breathable, breathless, brocatelle, celebrants, celebrated, celebrates, celebrator, creditable, deliberate, deportable, deterrable, elaborated, elaborates, elucubrate, exportable, extricable, extrudable, filterable, integrable, marketable, obliterate, penetrable, permutable, rabblement, rebuttable, remittable, repeatable, reportable, resectable, resemblant, resettable, restorable, returnable, tabernacle, tablewares, talebearer, targetable, temperable, terminable, tetherball, trabeculae.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETABLE


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

52 45 54 41 42 4C 45

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)

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Bibliographic Items: "RETABLE"


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