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Definition: Bleachers |
BleachersNoun1. An outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bleachers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Crosswords: Bleachers |
| Specialty definitions using "bleachers": SUPERVISOR, PULP PLANT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The other day I was so desperate for a beer that I snuck in the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Bleachers (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "The bleachers" carnival week--Needles, Cal. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Bleachers, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crowds of people. Crowd sitting in bleachers at Griffith Stadium. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | World Series of 1933, Washington, D.C. People in bleachers I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Temporary left field bleachers and the only housetops afording [sic] a view of the grounds. World Series second game. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boston, American League base ball grounds, players and bleachers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East end bleachers at "The Round-Up", Pendleton, Ore., 1911. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Spectators at an Event" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "Four people silouetted by the sunset watch a tractor pull on bleachers. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Bleachers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bleachers" is used about 12 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 (plural) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "bleachers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkallë në stadium. (various references) | |
Chinese | 漂白剂 (Whitener). (various references) | |
French | gradins de stade. (various references) | |
German | unüberdachte zuschauertribüne. (various references) | |
Greek | άστεγα καθίσματα θεατών σε αγώνα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyílt tribün, nyílt lelátó, fedetlen tribün, fedetlen lelátó. (various references) | |
Italian | candeggiatori. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 観覧席 (grandstand, seat, stands), ブランド商品 (bleach, blizzard, brand items, brand new, breathing, bridge, brief, briefcase, brioche, Brisbane, Britannia, tin plate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブリーチャーズ , かんらんせき (grandstand, olivine, peridot, seat, stands). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eachersblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arquibancada (grandstand, stand, terrace). (various references) | |
Romanian | albire (blanching, bleach, bleaching, greying, grizzling, whitening). (various references) | |
Spanish | graderío (shelf, terraces). (various references) | |
Turkish | açık tribün (bleacher). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Bleachers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beacher, beechers, bleache, bleecher, bleechers, bleucher, pleachers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bleachers" (pronounced blē"kherz) |
| 4 | -ē" kh er z | creatures, features, preachers, teachers. |
| 3 | -kh er z | adventures, architectures, conjectures, benchers, butchers, captures, caricatures, catchers, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, fixtures, forfeitures, fractures, futures, gestures, indentures, infrastructures, junctures, launchers, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, miniatures, misadventures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pictures, pinchers, pitchers, poachers, postures, punctures, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, restructures, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, switchers, temperatures, textures, tinctures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: belchers, bleacher, bleaches, breaches, leachers. | |
-2 letters: beaches, belcher, belches, braches, cereals, clasher, healers, herbals, larches, leacher, leaches, lechers, reaches, relaces, rescale, sclerae. | |
-3 letters: abeles, arches, ashler, baches, balers, basher, blares, bleach, blears, braces, brachs, breach, breech, cabers, cables, carles, celebs, cereal, chares, chaser, cheers, chelae, chelas, clears, crease, creels, creesh, eschar, haeres, halers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: searchable. | |
+2 letters: bellyachers, cherishable, stretchable. | |
+3 letters: bleacherites, leatherbacks, overbleaches, researchable, rhabdocoeles, unsearchable. | |
+4 letters: bachelorettes, breechloaders, dischargeable. | |
+5 letters: charitableness. | |
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