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Definitions: NIELLO |
NIELLONoun1. 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. |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "NIELLO": niello-inlaid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 nielo, sobrinha (niece). (various references) работа чернью по серебру, изделие с чернью. (various references) nielo. (various references) niel. (various references) niello (nielli). (various references) เครื่องถม (nielli). (various references) чорніння, чернь на металі, воронування, виріб з черню. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NIELLO": nielloed, nielloing, niellos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 45 4C 4C 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. . .-.. .-.. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001001 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I E L L O |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)484339464649 |
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