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NIELLO

Definitions: NIELLO

NIELLO

Noun

1. An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

2. A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.

3. The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.

4. A metallic alloy of a deep black color.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Crosswords: NIELLO

English words defined with "NIELLO": Niellist. (references)
Non-English Usage: "NIELLO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (niello), Swedish (nielli, niello).

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Commercial Usage: NIELLO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Russische Goldschmiedekunst : 17.-19. Jahrhundert : Silber, Email, Niello, Golddosen, Schmuck (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: NIELLO

Illustrations:
NIELLO

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Usage Frequency: NIELLO

"NIELLO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NIELLO" is used about 16 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 (singular)100%1687,710

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

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Expression: NIELLO

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "NIELLO": niello-inlaid.

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

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Modern Translations: NIELLO

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

Hungarian

  

niellómunka, nielló, fémszulfidos fémfesték, fémszulfidbetétes díszítőmunka, fémszulfidbetétes (nielloed), fémszulfidbetét. (various references)

   

Italian

  

niello, niellatura. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iellonay

   

Portuguese

  

nielo, sobrinha (niece). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

работа чернью по серебру, изделие с чернью. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nielo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

niel. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

niello (nielli). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เครื่องถม (nielli). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

чорніння, чернь на металі, воронування, виріб з черню. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NIELLO

Derivations

Words beginning with "NIELLO": nielloed, nielloing, niellos. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: NIELLO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-n-o"

-1 letter: eloin, olein.

-2 letters: enol, leno, lien, line, lino, lion, loin, lone, nill, noel, noil.

-3 letters: ell, eon, ill, ion, lei, lie, lin, nil, oil, ole, one.

-4 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-n-o"
 

+1 letter: hellion, niellos.

 

+2 letters: hellions, helloing, lanoline, lifelong, linoleum, lionlike, livelong, lobeline, lonelier, lonelily, longline, luteolin, monellin, nielloed, nucleoli, plotline.

 

+3 letters: allogenic, andouille, bellowing, bloodline, bowelling, celloidin, collegian, colleting, collinear, collinses, coralline, covelline, decillion, dowelling, emollient, enrolling, extolling, fellation, fellowing, halocline, hollering, hovelling, insoluble, jolliness, lanolines, linoleate, linoleums, lobelines, loneliest, longlines, lowliness, luteolins, medaillon, medallion, mellowing, millstone, misenroll, modelling, monellins, mullioned, nielloing, nonlineal, plotlines, pointelle, pollening, pollinate, rebellion, repolling, rerolling, rowelling, silkoline, towelling, violently, volleying, yellowfin, yellowing, yodelling.

 

+4 letters: allegation, allogeneic, andouilles, bidonville, bloodlines, cannelloni, celloidins, centillion, citronella, collecting, collection, collegians, compelling, corallines, corbelling, cordelling, covellines, decillions, delusional, downhiller, ebullition, emollients, enological, euglobulin, fellations, feuilleton, grovelling, guillotine, haloclines, hostelling, houselling, indolently, inscrolled, insolently, insolubles, insolvable, interlocal, inviolable, involvedly, linoleates, loneliness, lordliness, loveliness, medaillons, medallions, millstones, misenrolls, morselling, neoliberal, neuroglial, nonallelic, nonlexical, nonliteral, orientally, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, pointelles, pollenizer, pollenosis, pollinated, pollinates, pollinizer, pollinoses, polylysine, polyolefin, pommelling, potentilla, propelling, rebellions, regionally, relational, ritornelli, ritornello, septillion, sextillion, shovelling, silkolines, slovenlier, solenoidal, tortellini, towellings, trolleying, trowelling, unlovelier, vermillion, woolliness, yellowfins.

 

+5 letters: allantoides, allegations, alleviation, alloantigen, appellation, bidonvilles, billionaire, blindfolded, bookselling, carillonned, centillions, citronellal, citronellas, citronellol, clothesline, collections, colonelcies, colonialize, congenially, cordilleran, counselling, cupellation, cycloolefin, decollating, decollation, demonically, deploringly, dollishness, downhillers, ebullitions, embowelling, emotionally, endothelial, enscrolling, equipollent, erosionally, escalloping, euglobulins, feloniously, feuilletons, foretelling, grovelingly, guillotined, guillotines, hedonically, hollandaise, intolerable, intolerably, inviolately, jollinesses, labiodental, lamellicorn, legislation, lichenology, limnologies, logicalness, lowlinesses, melancholia, melancholic, millionaire, millisecond, misenrolled, neocolonial, neoliberals, noiselessly, nonallergic, nonclerical, nonmetallic, nonvolatile, nucleophile, oneirically, outduelling, outspelling, overbilling, overcalling, overfilling, overkilling, overselling, penological, planetoidal, pointlessly, pollenizers, pollinizers, polylysines, polyolefins, potentially, potentillas, precolonial, punchinello, reallotting, reenrolling, remodelling, revoltingly, ritornellos, sectionally, semitonally, sensorially, septillions, sextillions, slovenliest, tonetically, tortellinis, undecillion, unlocalized, unloveliest, unsoldierly, vermillions, violoncelli, violoncello, wholesaling, worldliness, zillionaire.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NIELLO


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

4E 49 45 4C 4C 4F

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)

-.    ..    .    .-..    .-..    ---

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

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

01001110 01001001 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0045 004C 004C 004F

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

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

484339464649

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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