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One-liner

Definition: One-liner

One-liner

Noun

1. A one-line joke.

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


Crosswords: One-liner

Specialty definitions using "one-liner": one-liner wars ♦ proglet. (references)

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Commercial Usage: One-liner

DomainTitle

Books

  • 2000 Sure Fire Jokes for Speakers: The Encyclopedia of One-Liner Comedy (reference)

  • The Encyclopedia of One-Liner Comedy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: One-liner

"One-liner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "One-liner" is used about 15 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)86.67%1397,576
Adjective (general or positive)13.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%15N/A

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

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Modern Translations: One-liner

Language Translations for "one-liner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

一'线员. (various references)

   

German

  

witzige bemerkung (quip, witticism). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

하나 강 . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

one-lineray

   

Russian 

  

шутка (banter, farce, fun, jape, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, legpull, pleasantry, raillery, sport, trick, witticism), острота (acridity, acridness, acuity, acuteness, bon mot, fineness, funnies, joke, mot, pepper, pepperiness, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, quip, sharpness, trenchancy, wisecrack, witticism). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

observación sucinta, chiste breve. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คำพู"ตลกสั้นๆ. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate), односторонній (non-reversible, one sided, one-legged, unilateral), однобічний (one sided, one way, one-legged). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: One-liner

Misspellings

"One-liner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Noelyne. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: One-liner

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r"

-1 letter: eloiner, leonine.

-2 letters: lierne, neroli, oleine, online, reline, ronnel.

-3 letters: eloin, enrol, inner, irone, leone, linen, liner, loner, nerol, oiler, olein, oriel, renin, reoil.

-4 letters: enol, erne, inro, iron, leer, leno, lien, lier, line, linn, lino, lion, lire, loin, lone, lore, lorn, nene, neon, nine, noel, noil, noir, none, nori, orle, reel, rein, riel.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: innersole.

 

+2 letters: innersoles, tenderloin.

 

+3 letters: crenelation, ensorceling, intolerance, legionnaire, nonbeliever, nondelivery, nonelectric, nonliterate, nonrelative, overlending, reenrolling, tenderloins.

 

+4 letters: antielectron, conferential, conventicler, crenelations, crenellation, ensorcelling, generational, inclinometer, incoherently, interinvolve, internucleon, intolerances, isoprenaline, legionnaires, neutrinoless, nonbelievers, noncelebrity, nonelectrics, nonliterates, nonrelatives, overcleaning, overlearning, prednisolone, sloganeering, unreconciled, volunteering.

 

+5 letters: antielectrons, antipersonnel, containerless, conventiclers, convertiplane, crenellations, domineeringly, environmental, fellmongering, inclinometers, inconvertible, inflorescence, interelectron, interinvolved, interinvolves, interneuronal, interpersonal, interregional, interrelation, isoprenalines, lingonberries, milliroentgen, nonallergenic, nondeliberate, nondeliveries, nonelectrical, nonelectronic, nonfilterable, nonperishable, nonrefillable, nonreflecting, nonretractile, nonreversible, noradrenaline, nucleoprotein, outgeneraling, overindulgent, overweeningly, prednisolones, reconcilement, renationalize, selenocentric, sensorineural, septentrional.

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

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Alternative Orthography: One-liner


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

4F 6E 65 2D 6C 69 6E 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#101 &#45 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E 0065 002D 006C 0069 006E 0065 0072

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

498071157875807184

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INDEX

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


  

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