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Maiolica

Definition: Maiolica

Maiolica

Noun

1. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.

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

Synonym: Maiolica

Synonym: majolica (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Maiolica

Non-English Usage: "Maiolica" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (majolica).

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Commercial Usage: Maiolica

DomainTitle

Books

  • Catalogue of Ceramics Vol 1: Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware (reference)

  • Tin-Glazed Earthenware: From Maiolica, Faience and Delftware to the Contemporary (reference)

  • Maiolica : a historical treatise on the glazed and enamelled earthenwares of Italy with marks and monograms : also some notice of the Persian, Damascus, Rhodian, and Hispano-Moresque wares (reference)

  • Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (reference)

  • Surface Decoration for Low-Fire Ceramics: Slips, Terra Sigillata, Underglazes, Glazes, Maiolica, Overglaze Enamels, Decals (Lark Ceramic Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Maiolica

"Maiolica" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maiolica" is used about 23 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%2372,767

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Maiolica

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

maiolica

21

glaze maiolica

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Maiolica

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

Pig Latin

  

aiolicamay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Maiolica

Derivations

Words beginning with "maiolica": maiolicas. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Maiolica

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-m-o"

-2 letters: calami, camail.

-3 letters: aalii, aioli, alamo, amici, cilia, claim, coala, comal, iliac, lamia, malic, milia.

-4 letters: alma, amia, calm, calo, ciao, clam, coal, coil, cola, coma, ilia, laic, lama, lima, limo, loam, loca, loci, mail, mica, milo, moil, mola.

-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, ala, ama, ami, cam, col, lac, lam, mac, mil, moa, moc, mol, oca, oil.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-m-o"
 

+1 letter: maiolicas.

 

+2 letters: simoniacal.

 

+3 letters: acclimation, lacrimation.

 

+4 letters: acclimations, amitotically, bibliomaniac, calumniation, commissarial, disclamation, factionalism, lacrimations, microfilaria, parochialism, simoniacally, timocratical, tragicomical.

 

+5 letters: amplification, antimetabolic, antimicrobial, apomictically, atomistically, axiomatically, bibliomaniacs, biomechanical, calumniations, combinational, combinatorial, comparability, dipsomaniacal, disclamations, factionalisms, idiomatically, machicolation, matriculation, maxillofacial, metafictional, microanalysis, microanalytic, microfilariae, microfilarial, mineralogical, misallocating, misallocation, miscataloging, parochialisms, radiochemical, vocationalism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maiolica


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

4D 61 69 6F 6C 69 63 61

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)

01001101 01100001 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#99 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0069 006F 006C 0069 0063 0061

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

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

4767758178756967

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INDEX

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


  

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