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CONVEYERS

"CONVEYERS" is a plural of: conveyer.

Date "CONVEYERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Specialty Definition: CONVEYERS

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Literature

Conveyers Thieves. (See above.)
"Bolingbroke. `Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower.'
Rich. II. `O, good! "Convey." Conveyers are ye all,
That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.' "
Shakespeare: Richard II., iv. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Photo Album: CONVEYERS

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Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. A drilling operation on the noses of artillery shells is performed with speed and efficiency in a converted Midwest auto plant. Continuous conveyers feed the shells to the operators to ensure steady production. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rice being elevated to second floor by means of conveyers. Rice mill, Abbeville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: CONVEYERS

"CONVEYERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONVEYERS" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Misspellings: CONVEYERS

Misspellings

"CONVEYERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Convairs. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CONVEYERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reconveys.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-s-v-y"

-1 letter: conserve, converse, conveyer, reconvey.

-2 letters: conveys, corvees, encores, necrose, scenery.

-3 letters: censer, censor, coneys, convey, corvee, corves, covens, covers, coveys, crones, encore, envoys, nerves, recons, screen, secern, soever, venery, venose.

-4 letters: cense, ceres, ceros, cones, coney, cores, corns, corny, corse, cosey, coven, cover, coves, covey, coyer, crone, crony, envoy, ernes, erose, evens, every, eyers.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-s-v-y"
 

+1 letter: conversely.

 

+2 letters: conveyorise.

 

+3 letters: conveyancers, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorizes.

 

+4 letters: reconveyances.

 

+5 letters: conservatively, cryopreserving.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CONVEYERS


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

43 4F 4E 56 45 59 45 52 53

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010110 01000101 01011001 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#86 &#69 &#89 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0056 0045 0059 0045 0052 0053

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

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

374948563959395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Usage Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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