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Rosette

Definition: Rosette

Rosette

Noun

1. An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor.

2. Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes.

3. A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground).

4. Circular window filled with tracery.

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

"Rosette" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rose".

Date "rosette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Rosette \Ro*sette\, noun. [French expression, diminutive of rose rose. Compare to Roset.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Rosette

DomainDefinition

Computing

Rosette A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. [Details?] (1997-11-26). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Dream Interpretation

To wear or see rosettes on others while in dreams, is significant of frivolous waste of time; though you will experience the thrills of pleasure, they will bring disappointments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Mining

A radially symmetric, sand-filled crystalline aggregate or cluster with a fancied resemblance to a rose; formed in sedimentary rocks by barite,marcasite, or pyrite. See also:petrified rose. (references)

Science

A circular cluster, e.g. of lobes. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Rosette

Synonyms: little potato (n), rose window (n), russet scab (n), stem canker (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rosette

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

Tassel, knot; shoulder knot, apaulette, epaulet, aigulet, frog; star, rosette, bow; feather, plume, pompom, panache, aigrette.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rosette

English words defined with "rosette": awlwortbalsamroot, bog star, butterwortCarlina acaulis, Claytonia virginica, Clypeastroid, cockade, common pitcher plantDraba vernaEaster daisygenlisea, greenhoodhead lettuce, helmet orchid, Hieracium venosum, huntsman's cup, huntsman's cupsLactuca sativa capitata, Lactuca sativa crispa, leaf lettuce, Lewisia cotyledonParnassia palustris, pistia, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoitesrattlesnake weed, Rose knotSarracenia purpurea, shadflower, siskiyou lewisia, stemless carline thistle, stemless daisy, streptocarpus, Subularia aquaticaTownsendia ExscapaVirginia spring beautywater cabbage, water lettuce, water starwort, whitlow grass. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rosette": Rosette Formationstrain rosettetable worker. (references)
Etymologies containing "rosette": Roset. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Rosette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (bow, rosette), German (rose, rosette).

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Modern Usage: Rosette

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The White Rosette (1916)

La Rosette arrosée (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: Rosette

DomainTitle

Books

  • La pierre de Rosette : prâesentation et traduction (reference)

  • Qu'attendent Eugáene Ionesco et Samuel Beckett? et qu'en pensent : Jean Louis Barrault, Jacques Mauclair, Marcel Marâechal, Paul Vernois, Terence Brown, August Grodzicki, Roger Benski, Alvin Epstein, Rosette Lamont, Richard Schechner? (entretiens) (reference)

  • Rosette & the Muddy River (reference)

  • The Rosette Habit (reference)

  • La pierre de Rosette (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

  • Koala Baby 6-piece Crib Set - Rosette (reference)

  • Kaiser Bakeware La Forme Deep Swiss Rosette with Five Stencils & Recipes (reference)

  • Nordic Ware Swedish Rosette Timbale Set (reference)

  • Woodstock International W1250 Rosette Cutterhead (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Rosette

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Rosette

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Shown is a microscopic view of a typical neuroblastoma with rosette formation. Magnified x40. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Water sample rosette. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette with water bottles At the edge of the pack ice Off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

CTD rosette visible in crystal clear waters. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Deploying the Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) and rosette water sampler through the baltic room door of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

CTD rosette being deployed to study water temperature, salinity, and chemical characteristics. Working off the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries.

Deploying a CTD rosette sampler off the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries.

Readying a CTD rosette sampler for deployment. Credit: Fisheries.

CTD rosette work on the starboard bow A-frame of the DELAWARE II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 15. Support frame for four water sampling bottles. This instrument accessory was found in the middle of pieces of scrap iron. It was made in the museum workshop as shown in the accompanying p. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now; photo by Jean Comelli and Jean Cros who worked on prototypes fabricated at the Museum's workshop. It appears to be a forerunner of the modern rosette sample frame..

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Rosette
 

"Gothic arch ruin" by Luis Alves
Commentary: "A gothic arch ruin with rosette in Sintra - Portugal. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Rosette

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Then he went out every day for a week with his rosette.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rosette

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

De La Rosette, J. J. M. C. H., D'Ancona, F. C. H., & Debruyne, F. M. J. (1997). Current status of thermotherapy of the prostate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Rosette

"Rosette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.91% of the time. "Rosette" is used about 109 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)89.91%9833,072
Noun (proper)10.09%11106,044
                    Total100.00%109N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Rosette

The following table summarizes the usage of "rosette" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RosetteFirst name Female1,0004,116
RosetteLast name30028,410
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Rosette

"Rosette" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rose".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Rosette."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
RoselleFemaleFrenchRosa
RosetteFemaleFrenchRosa
RosineFemaleFrenchRosa
RosaFemaleItalianN/A
RosangelaFemaleItalianRosa
RosellaFemaleItalianRosa
RosettaFemaleItalianRosa
RosinaFemaleItalianRosa
RosaFemalePortugueseN/A
RosaFemaleScandinavianN/A
RosaFemaleSpanishN/A
RositaFemaleSpanishRosa
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Rosette

Expressions using "rosette": Rosette Formation rosette graphite. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rosette": rosette-coloured, rosette-like.

Ending with "rosette": grass-rosette, Jules-rosette.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rosette

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rosette

62

rosette irons

3

rosette block

18

cooking rosette

3

rosette cutter

16

rosette trim window

3

block glass rosette

16

lapel rosette

2

rosette ribbon

10

pull rosette

2

rosette iron

10

pattern rosette

2

nebula rosette

8

rosette award ribbon

2

disease rose rosette

7

rosette le noire

2

rose rosette

7

applique carving rosette

2

recipe rosette

6

guitar rosette

2

rosette wood

6

rosette stone

2

de pierre rosette

4

marius rosette

2

cookie iron rosette

4

rivet rosette

2

record rosette

3

rosette cookie

2

rosette trim

3

legno per rosette tenda

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

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Modern Translation: Rosette

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

Albanian

  

rozetë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نجيمة (starlet), ‏وردة (rosace), ‏الوردية, ‏شىء على شكل وردة (rose), ‏شارة (badge, crest, disc, ensign, insignia, logo, nameplate, signpost). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

розетка (favour, patera, riffle, rosace, rose). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

玫瑰华饰. (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozeta, rùžice (rose). (various references)

   

Danish

  

rosette, roset. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rozet, rosette. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ruusuke (bow), rusetti. (various references)

   

French

  

rosette, rosace (rosace). (various references)

   

German

  

Rosette (rose). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κονκάρδα (badge, cockade), ροζέτα (knurling, knurls), ροζέττα (may twig), ροδοειδέσ κόσμημα, διακριτικό διάσημο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תוברה, שושן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rozetta (rose). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rosone (rose window), coccarda (cockade). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

花結び , 花紋板 , ロシア文字 (lock, locker, locker room, lock-file, Lockheed, locking, lockout, logic, logic analyzer, logic programming, logical, logistics, loss, loss leader, loss of time, lost, lost ball, Lost Generation, lost time, rhodium, Rochester, rock, rock fiber, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock wool, rock-climbing, rocking, rocking chair, rockoon, rose, Rosetta Stone, Rossignol, roster, Russian character). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ロゼット , かもんばん, はなむすび. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

근엽. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cront rybbanagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osetteray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

roseta (favor, favour, rosace, rose), rosácea (rosace). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rozetã (bow, catherine wheel, rosace, rose). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

розочка, розетка (nozzle, rosace). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ruža (rose), rozeta (rosace, rose). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

roseton, rosetón (rose window), roseta, escarapela (brawl, cockade). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rosett (bow, knot, rose, tie). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ลายดอกกุหลาบ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rozet (badge, pin). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розетка, трояндочка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rosette

Derivations

Words beginning with "rosette": rosettes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rosette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bozetti, bozzetti, Brodetto, Brossette, Dossetter, grisette, Grossetti, Hosetti, moussette, Nosette, Pousette, poussette, Racette, Ravette, Rizzetto, roaset, Rodset, roest, Rosati, Rosato, roseta, rosete, rosett, rosetti, rosetto, rosettta, rosit, rosotto, rossetti, Rotset, Rovetta, Roxette. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Rosette"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rosette" (pronounced ruse"t)
4-u s e" tanisette, beset, cassette.
3-s e" toffset, preset, reset, set, unset, upset.

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

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Anagrams: Rosette

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: otters, retest, rottes, setter, stereo, street, tester, tortes, toters.

-2 letters: erose, ester, otter, reest, reset, roset, rotes, rotte, steer, stere, store, terse, tores, torse, torte, torts, toter, totes, trees, trets, trots.

-3 letters: eros, erst, ores, orts, rees, rest, rete, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, seer, sere, sett, sore, sort, stet, tees, test, tets.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: outsteer, proettes, remotest, rosettes, tetrodes, treetops.

 

+2 letters: beetroots, contester, corvettes, cotrustee, detectors, dotterels, entrepots, extorters, foretaste, lotteries, operettas, outsteers, overstate, poetaster, potterers, potteries, protested, protester, rebottles, respotted, retorters, roomettes, rottenest, roulettes, soubrette, teleports, tenorites, thermoset, tolerates, totterers, toweriest, trecentos.

 

+3 letters: atmometers, betrotheds, bonesetter, briolettes, brochettes, contesters, correctest, corselette, cotrustees, cotterless, courgettes, croquettes, ectotherms, entrecotes, extroverts, foretasted, foretastes, forgetters, georgettes, heatstroke, heterocyst, lorgnettes, majorettes, meteorites, nethermost, octameters, operettist, orientates, outsteered, outwrestle, overstated, overstates, overtreats, pirouettes, poetasters, potometers, protesters, protostele, rectorates, resolutest, retentions, retrospect, rotameters, rottenness, sermonette, soubrettes, stenotherm, stepmother, stereotype, stereotypy, teratogens, tetraspore, tetroxides, thermosets, toadeaters, toiletries, tonometers, tormenters, trematodes, tremolites, tutoresses, voltmeters.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Names: Derived from
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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