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ATTLE

Definition: ATTLE

ATTLE

Noun

1. Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Attle \At"tle\, noun. [Compare to Addle mire.]. (references)


Crosswords: ATTLE

English words defined with "ATTLE": Attal. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ATTLE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

attle

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ATTLE

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

Danish

  

mineaffald (burrow, colliery wastes, rubbish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stort (burrow, controlled tipping, depositing earth from cut, deposition, landfill, landfilling, rubbish, spoilbank, stockpile, tipping, waste dump). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sivukivi (bur, burr, burrow, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, gangue, native rock, partition rock, rocky matrix, rubbish, surrounding rocks, wall rock), malmiton kivi (burrow, rubbish), hylkykivi (burrow, rubbish), harme (brood, burrow, gangue, matrix, rocky matrix, rubbish). (various references)

   

French

  

roche stérile, remblai, refus, matière stérile, halde, gangue, décombres, déchets, déblais de mine, éboulis. (various references)

   

German

  

taubes Gestein (burrow, gangue, gangue mineral, rubbish), Gangart (bearing, carriage, gait, Gangue, matrix, pace, stance, walk, way of walking). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκάρτα (burrow, mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, rubbish, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet), στείρο (brood, burrow, gangue, matrix, rocky matrix, rubbish), υλικά ανόρυξης (burrow, rubbish). (various references)

   

Italian

  

roccia sterile (burrow, rubbish), residui (leavings, residue), ganga (band, gang, Gangue). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attleay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

estéreis (burrow, rubbish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tepetate (burrow, rubbish), materias estériles (burrow, rubbish), labores abandonadas (burrow, rubbish), ganga (bargain, gift, giveaway, mullock, pickup, snip), deshechos (broke, burrow, rubbish), blancarte (burrow, rubbish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gråberg (granite), gångart (pace). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ATTLE

Derivations

Words ending with "ATTLE": battle, brattle, cattle, embattle, prattle, prebattle, rattle, sprattle, tattle, twattle, wattle. (additional references)

Words containing "ATTLE": battled, battlefield, battlefields, battlefront, battlefronts, battleground, battlegrounds, battlement, battlemented, battlements, battler, battlers, battles, battleship, battleships, battlewagon, battlewagons, brattled, brattles, cattleman, cattlemen, cattleya, cattleyas, embattled, embattlement, embattlements, embattles, prattled, prattler, prattlers, prattles, rattlebrain, rattlebrained, rattlebrains, rattled, rattler, rattlers, rattles, rattlesnake, rattlesnakes, rattletrap, rattletraps, sprattled, sprattles, tattled, tattler, tattlers, tattles, tattletale, tattletales, twattled. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "ATTLE"

Words rhyming with "ATTLE" (pronounced 'At"tle'): Apostle, Belittle, Berattle, Berstle, Betitle, brittle, Cattle, Chortle, Dartle, Embottle, gristle, gruntle, guttle, Kettle, kirtle, mettle, Mistitle, Mistle, Nurstle, Nustle, Outmantle, Overbattle, Overtitle, Overwrestle, Pintle, Portmantle, Pottle, Ruttle, Satle, skittle, Smartle, Spirtle, Spurtle, Supersubtle, thistle, throstle, tittle, tootle, trestle, Uncastle, ungentle, Unmantle, Unnestle, Whirtle, Whortle, Wrastle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ATTLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: latte.

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

-1 letter: late, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela.

-2 letters: ale, alt, ate, att, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tat, tea, tel, tet.

-3 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

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

+1 letter: battle, cattle, latent, latest, latten, latter, lattes, lyttae, rattle, tablet, talent, tattle, tectal, wattle.

 

+2 letters: abettal, athlete, battled, battler, battles, blatted, blatter, brattle, calotte, chattel, clatter, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, gantlet, gestalt, lactate, latchet, latents, latests, lattens, lattice, layette, mantlet, martlet, matelot, paletot, palette, partlet, peltast, peltate, platted, platter, prattle, rattled, rattler, rattles, saltest, slatted, stalest, starlet, startle, stately, stealth, stylate, tablets, tactile, talents, tallest, tapetal, tartlet, tattled, tattler, tattles, tertial, tetanal, textual, toluate, totable, totaled, tutelar, twattle, wattled, wattles.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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