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Apsidal

Definition: Apsidal

Apsidal

Adjective

1. Of or relating an apse.

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

Date "apsidal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)


Crosswords: Apsidal

English words defined with "apsidal": Retrochoir. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Apsidal

"Apsidal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Apsidal" is used about 42 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%4252,864

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

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Expression: Apsidal

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "apsidal": apsidal-ended.

Ending with "apsidal": tri-apsidal.

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

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Modern Translation: Apsidal

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

Danish

  

apsisfremdrift (apsidal propulsion), fremdrift i toppunkt (apsidal propulsion). (various references)

   

French

  

ligne absidialle (apsidal line). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αψιδική προώθηση (apsidal propulsion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

absidato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apsidalay

   

Portuguese

  

propulsor de ápside (apsidal propulsion). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

absidal. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Apsidal

Derivations

Words ending with "apsidal": capsidal. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Apsidal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absidal, Apidae, Apoidea, Apsewac, Askival, Pasewalk, Pasikale. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Apsidal"

Words rhyming with "apsidal" (pronounced 'Ap"si*dal'): Abdal, Acnodal, Antipodal, Bactericidal, Barmecidal, Bicaudal, Bipedal, Bipyramidal, Cantharidal, Caudal, Chordal, Crunodal, Cuspidal, Dal, Dasypaedal, Decadal, Decempedal, feudal, Fratricidal, Furibundal, germicidal, homicidal, Loculicidal, Macropodal, Marginicidal, Matricidal, modal, Notochordal, Ooidal, Ordal, Paludal, Parachordal, Parricidal, Patricidal, Perichordal, Prebendal, Predal, Prochordal, Pudendal, Quadrupedal, Regicidal, scandal, Semipedal, Septicidal, Subcaudal, Subnotochordal, suicidal, Suprapedal, Tindal, Tyrannicidal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Apsidal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-s"

-1 letter: dalasi, palais, plaids, salpid.

-2 letters: alias, dials, lapis, padis, pails, paisa, plaid, salad, salpa, sapid, spail.

-3 letters: aals, aids, ails, alas, alps, dais, dals, daps, dial, dips, lads, laid, laps, lids, lipa, lips, lisp, padi, pads, paid, pail, pals, pial, pias, sadi, said, sail, salp, sial, sild, slap, slid, slip.

-4 letters: aal, aas, ads.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-s"
 

+1 letter: capsidal, paladins, palisade.

 

+2 letters: asclepiad, dysplasia, lapidates, paillards, palisaded, palisades, paradisal, plasmodia, sapodilla, stapedial.

 

+3 letters: antipodals, asclepiads, diaphyseal, diaphysial, dysplasias, lapidaries, palisading, palladiums, paradisial, plastidial, sailplaned, sapodillas.

 

+4 letters: anadiploses, anadiplosis, capitalised, dilapidates, disapproval, disparately, displayable, landscaping, landscapist, paraboloids, paradiddles, paradisical, plagiarised, rhapsodical.

 

+5 letters: cardinalship, cyclopaedias, diaphanously, disapprovals, displaceable, landscapists, paradisaical, paradisiacal, paramedicals, plantigrades, postprandial, semipalmated, sporadically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Apsidal


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

41 70 73 69 64 61 6C

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)

01000001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#112 &#115 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 0073 0069 0064 0061 006C

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

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

35828575706778

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Apsidal"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, Ιταλός, italiano

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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