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SHIMMERED

Definition: SHIMMERED

SHIMMERED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Shimmer

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SHIMMERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Crosswords: SHIMMERED

English words defined with "SHIMMERED": placidlyshimmer. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SHIMMERED

"SHIMMERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 93.88% of the time. "SHIMMERED" is used about 49 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)93.88%4650,285
Lexical Verb (past participle)4.08%2245,945
Noun (proper)2.04%1339,140
                    Total100.00%49N/A

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

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Modern Translations: SHIMMERED

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

German

  

schimmerte (gleamed, glinted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

immeredshay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SHIMMERED

Misspellings

"SHIMMERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schmieder, shamfered, shimera. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SHIMMERED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SHIMMERED" (pronounced shi"merd)
4-i" m er dsimmered.
3-m er darmored, clamored, enamored, hammered, humored, murmured, rumored.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SHIMMERED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-m-m-r-s"

-1 letter: immersed, immeshed, simmered.

-2 letters: dimmers, hemmers, immerse, meshier, misdeem, remised, shimmed, shimmer.

-3 letters: demies, demise, dermis, desire, dimers, dimmer, eiders, emmers, heders, heired, hemmed, hemmer, hiders, immesh, merdes, meshed, mimers, rehems, remise, reside, rimmed, simmer.

-4 letters: deems, deers, deism, demes, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, drees, dries, eider, emirs, emmer, heder, heeds, heirs, hemes, herds.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHIMMERED


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

53 48 49 4D 4D 45 52 45 44

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)

01010011 01001000 01001001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#73 &#77 &#77 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0049 004D 004D 0045 0052 0045 0044

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

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

534243474739523938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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