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Damascened

Definition: Damascened

Damascened

Adjective

1. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword".

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

Date "damascened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Synonym: Damascened

Synonym: damascene (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Damascened

English words defined with "damascened": Biddery waredamascene. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Damascened

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Usage Frequency: Damascened

"Damascened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Damascened" is used about 6 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

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

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Expression: Damascened

Expression using "damascened": damascened blades. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Damascened

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

German

  

damaszenerklingen (damascened blades). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amascenedday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Damascened

Misspellings

"Damascened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: damascena. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Damascened

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-m-n-s"

-1 letter: damascene.

-2 letters: academes, ascended, maenades.

-3 letters: academe, amended, amesace, anadems, deadens, decades, decanes, demands, demeans, descend, encased, maddens, maenads, menaced, menaces, scended, seedman.

-4 letters: adeems, amends, anadem, ascend, ceased, censed, damans, damned, danced, dances, deaden, deaned, decade, decane, dedans, demand, demean, desand, desman, edemas, emends, encase, enemas, madden, maenad, menace, menads, mended, mensae, mensed, sadden, sanded, seaman, seamed, seamen, seance, sended, seneca.

-5 letters: acmes, acned, acnes, adeem, adman, admen, aedes, amend, amens, ansae, cades, camas, cames, caned, canes, cased, cease, ceded, cedes, cense, daces, dadas, daman, dames, damns, dance, deads, deans, deeds, deems, demes, denes, dense, eased, edema, emend, ended, enema, maced, maces, manas, maned, manes, manse, meads, means, meeds, menad, mends, mensa, mense, mesne, nadas, named, names, needs, neems, nemas, saned, scena, scend, scene, sedan, semen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Damascened


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

44 61 6D 61 73 63 65 6E 65 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)

01000100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#115 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 006D 0061 0073 0063 0065 006E 0065 0064

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

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

38677967856971807170

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INDEX

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


  

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