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Bellyband

Definitions: Bellyband

Bellyband

Noun

1. A cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed).

2. A strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bellyband" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

 

Crosswords: Bellyband

English words defined with "bellyband": Choke-strap. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bellyband

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bellyband

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bellyband

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

French

  

sous-ventrière (belly band, belly belt, belly girth). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

emban (breastband, sash, waistband). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

胴巻き (money belt), 腹"て , 腹帯 (maternity belt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふくたい (maternity belt), どうまき (money belt), はらおび (maternity belt), はらあて. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellybandbay

   

Russian 

  

подпруга (cinch, girth, saddle-girth, surcingle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

barriguera (belly band, belly belt, belly girth, surcingle), faja para los niños. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bellyband

Derivations

Words beginning with "bellyband": bellybands. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bellyband" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballyhane, Ballyuan, Bulyanda. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Bellyband

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-l-n-y"

-2 letters: blandly.

-3 letters: adenyl, baldly, balled, belady, benday, dabble, dyable, lanely, leanly, nabbed.

-4 letters: abbey, alley, babel, badly, baldy, baled, bally, bandy, baned, bayed, beady, belay, belly, bendy, blade, bland, blend, dally, delay, delly, dynel, eland, label, laden, ladle, layed, leady, naled, nelly.

-5 letters: abbe, abed, able, ably, abye, ally, babe, baby, bade, bald, bale.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-l-n-y"
 

+1 letter: bellybands.

 

+3 letters: landlubberly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bellyband


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

42 65 6C 6C 79 62 61 6E 64

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)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#121 &#98 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C 0079 0062 0061 006E 0064

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

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

367178789168678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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