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Definition: Rosette |
RosetteNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Rosette |
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. | |
Synonyms: RosetteSynonyms: little potato (n), rose window (n), russet scab (n), stem canker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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Movie/TV Titles | The White Rosette (1916) La Rosette arrosée (1976) | |
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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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| "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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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then he went out every day for a week with his rosette. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.91% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.09% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rosette | First name Female | 1,000 | 4,116 |
| Rosette | Last name | 300 | 28,410 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Rosette" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rose". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Rosette." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Roselle | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosette | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosine | Female | French | Rosa |
| Rosa | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Rosangela | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosella | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosetta | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosina | Female | Italian | Rosa |
| Rosa | Female | Portuguese | N/A |
| Rosa | Female | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Rosa | Female | Spanish | N/A |
| Rosita | Female | Spanish | Rosa |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rosette": rosettes. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rosette" (pronounced ruse"t) |
| 4 | -u s e" t | anisette, beset, cassette. |
| 3 | -s e" t | offset, preset, reset, set, unset, upset. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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