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Definition: Basketry |
BasketryNoun1. The craft of basket making. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Synonym by domain: basketwork (food & agriculture, european union). |
Crosswords: Basketry |
| English words defined with "basketry": almond willow ♦ black Hollander ♦ common osier ♦ golden willow ♦ hemp willow ♦ osier ♦ Salix alba vitellina, Salix amygdalina, Salix triandra, Salix viminalis, Salix vitellina, Spanish broom, Spartium junceum ♦ velvet osier ♦ weaver's broom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "basketry": DESMONCHUS, DIRECTOR, CRAFT CENTER ♦ MONTANOA LEHMANII, MONTANOA OVALIFOLILA, MONTANOA QUANDRANGULARIS. (references) |
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 | A Class in basketry at Mandane, Cebu, Philippine Islands.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Native basketry.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Worker Rights | Uganda | Male prisoners performed arduous physical labor while female prisoners produced marketable handicrafts such as woven basketry. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Basketry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Basketry" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
basketry | 68 |
basketry supply | 14 |
basketry cane | 11 |
pine needle basketry | 8 |
native american basketry | 4 |
basketry show | 4 |
basketry knotting net | 2 |
basketry gratiot lake | 2 |
basketry cherokee | 2 |
basketry pattern | 2 |
basketry history | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "basketry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shportari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على هيئة سلة, على شكل سلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кошничарство (wicker-work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | košíkářství. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هنردستی(زنبیل بافی). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vannerie (basketware, basket-work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Korbflechten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kosárfonás (basketwork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengayaman kernajang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papago | hoata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asketrybay плетеные изделия (wicker-work). (various references) košarstvo. (various references) cestería (basketwork, wickerwork). (various references) korgflätning. (various references) sepetçilik, sepet işi. (various references) переплітання (basket-work), плетені кошикові вироби (basket-work). (various references) nghề đan rổ rá rổ rá (basket-work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Basketry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhaskara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "basketry" (pronounced ba"skutrē) |
| 5 | -k u t r ē | circuitry, rocketry. |
| 4 | -u t r ē | asymmetry, banditry, bigotry, cabinetry, dissymmetry, gadgetry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, optometry, poetry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, spectrometry, summitry, symmetry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, baptistery, biochemistry, carpentry, chemistry, complementary, country, dentistry, elementary, entry, forestry, gallantry, gantry, gentry, geochemistry, industry, infantry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, pageantry, palmistry, paltry, pantry, pastry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, poultry, reentry, registry, sentry, sultry, tapestry, wintry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: barytes, betrays, streaky. | |
-2 letters: bakers, bakery, barest, baryes, baryte, basket, baster, betray, brakes, breaks, breast, estray, kebars, skater, stayer, strake, streak, tabers, takers, yarest, yerbas. | |
-3 letters: abets, abyes, artsy, asker, aster, baker, bakes, bares, barks, barky, barye, baser, baste, bates, beaks, beaky, bears, beast, beats, betas, braes, brake, braky, brats, brays, break, byres, bytes, eskar, eyras, karst, karts, kbars, kebar, kerbs, kyars, kyats, kytes, rakes, rates, resay, rykes, saber, sabre, saker, sarky, satyr, sayer, skate, stake, stare, stark, steak, stray, taber, tabes, taker, takes, tares, teaks, tears, teary, trays, treks, treys, tyers, tykes, tyres, years, yeast, yerba, yerks. | |
-4 letters: abet, abye, abys, aery, arbs, ares, arks, arse, arts, arty, ates, ayes, bake, bare, bark, bars, base, bask, bast, bate, bats, bays, beak, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, beys, brae, bras, brat, bray, byes, byre, byte, ears, east, easy, eats, eras, erst, etas, eyas, eyra, kabs, kaes, kart, kats, kays, kbar, keas, kerb, keys, kyar, kyat, kyte, rake, rase, rate, rats, rays, rebs, rest, rets, ryas, ryes, ryke, sabe, sake, sark, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, skat, stab, star, stay, stey, stye, syke, tabs, take, tare, tars, task, teak, tear, teas, tray, trek, trey, tsar, tyer, tyes, tyke, tyre, yaks, yare, year, yeas, yerk. | |
-5 letters: abs, aby, arb, are, ark, ars, art, ask, ate, aye, ays, bar, bas, bat, bay, bet, bey, bra, bye, bys, ear, eat, era, ers, eta, kab, kae, kas, kat, kay, kea, key, ras, rat, ray, reb, res, ret, rya, rye, sab, sae, sat, say, sea, ser, set, ska, sky, sty, tab, tae, tar, tas, tea, try, tsk, tye, yak, yar, yea, yes, yet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-k-r-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: keyboardist. | |
+4 letters: keyboardists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 73 6B 65 74 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ... -.- . - .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01101011 01100101 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s k e t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 006B 0065 0074 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667857771868491 |
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