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APEXES

Definition: APEXES

APEXES

Plural

1. Of Apex

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: APEXES

English words defined with "APEXES": Carbon light. (references)
Specialty definitions using "APEXES": combed structurepolygonal overhead contact line, polygonal overhead contact systemvertical overhead contact line, vertical overhead contact system. (references)
Etymologies containing "APEXES": Apex. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: APEXES

AuthorQuotation

Henry David Thoreau

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: APEXES

"APEXES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "APEXES" is used about 4 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
Noun (plural)100%4175,879

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

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Modern Translations: APEXES

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

Spanish

  

pl. de apex (apices). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: APEXES

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

apex. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: APEXES

Misspellings

"APEXES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aexe, Alexseva, Alexsey, apages, apees, apeese, apexa, Apxs, pexes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: APEXES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-p-s-x"

-1 letter: paxes, pease.

-2 letters: apes, apex, apse, axes, ease, exes, pase, peas, pees, seep, spae.

-3 letters: ape, asp, axe, pas, pax, pea, pee, pes, sae, sap, sax, sea, see, sex, spa.

-4 letters: ae, as, ax, es, ex, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-p-s-x"
 

+1 letter: expanse.

 

+2 letters: examples, expanses, expiates, poleaxes.

 

+3 letters: apteryxes, epistaxes, epitaxies, exemplars, expanders, expansive, spandexes.

 

+4 letters: amplexuses, apoplexies, appendixes, epicalyxes, exasperate, exculpates, expansible, expatiates, expectants, explainers, explicates, expressage, expressman, expressway, expurgates, extirpates, hexapodies, peroxidase, quadplexes, supertaxes, toxaphenes.

 

+5 letters: cataplexies, cephalexins, exasperated, exasperates, expansively, expatriates, expectances, expendables, expostulate, expressages, expressways, hypersexual, overexpands, peroxidases.

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

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Alternative Orthography: APEXES


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

41 50 45 58 45 53

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

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

=

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 01010000 01000101 01011000 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#69 &#88 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0045 0058 0045 0053

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

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

355039583953

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Non-English Dictionaries with "APEXES"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespañol

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationinglés
 


INDEX

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


  

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