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Definition: Stucco |
StuccoNoun1. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces. Verb1. Decorate with stucco work. 2. Coat with stucco, as of a ceiling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stucco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A partially or fully calcinated gypsum used for instance in gypsum cement and in plasterboard. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum. |
Covering | Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick. |
Veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish; (resin) a; plating, barrel plating, anointing; Verb: enamel; epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment; (grease). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stucco |
| English words defined with "stucco": Ceil ♦ Stuccoed, Stuccoes, Stuccoing, Stuccos, Stuccowork, Stuke ♦ Troweled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stucco": MIXER TENDER, BOARD ♦ plasterer, stucco, PLASTER-MACHINE TENDER ♦ STUCCO MASON, stucco worker, SUPERVISOR, PLASTERING. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stucco": Stock. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stucco" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (plaster, putty, stucco). |
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Screenplays | You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stucco (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) People in stucco houses shouldn't throw quiche (Miami Vice; writing credit: Jan Matterne) | |
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| "Wall_vent" by Jason Smith Commentary: "Vent in stucco wall." |
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Economic History | Bulgaria | Traditionally, Bulgarian buildings are made from unreinforced brick with concrete stucco, or more recently, from steel-reinforced concrete with brick infill. (references) |
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| "Stucco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stucco" is used about 95 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) | 100% | 95 | 33,629 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stucco": stucco work. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stucco": stucco-covered, stucco-faced, stucco-work. | |
Ending with "stucco": marble-stucco, white-stucco. | |
| 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 |
stucco | 1,634 | stucco veneziano | 17 |
stucco repair | 124 | stucco product | 16 |
synthetic stucco | 69 | stucco stone | 16 |
stucco home | 69 | acrylic stucco | 15 |
exterior stucco | 64 | brick or stucco | 14 |
stucco wall | 57 | cost stucco | 14 |
stucco painting | 48 | stucco problem | 14 |
stucco siding | 47 | installation stucco | 13 |
applying stucco | 44 | stucco details | 13 |
stucco application | 43 | manufacturer stucco | 13 |
stucco paint | 42 | stucco supply | 13 |
stucco house | 40 | fs stucco thirty web | 12 |
colors stucco | 36 | stucco fence | 12 |
stucco finish | 30 | construction stucco | 12 |
apply stucco | 27 | stucco design | 12 |
habra la stucco | 24 | stucco texture | 12 |
do it yourself stucco | 21 | ceiling stucco | 12 |
stucco cleaning | 20 | omega stucco | 12 |
stucco contractor | 18 | stucco house plan | 11 |
stucco mix | 17 | stucco trim | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "stucco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stuko (lute, luting, mastic, putty), llaç (mortar, plaster, sop). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفتول, قصارة الرش, زخرف مجصص. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хоросанова мазилка, хоросанова замазка, циментова мазилка, циментова замазка (lute, luting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 灰泥 (Stuccos). (various references) | |
Czech | štukatura (pargeting). (various references) | |
Danish | stuk (plaster of Paris, sculptor's plaster). (various references) | |
Dutch | stuk (act, article, beautiful woman, beauty, brick, broken, certificate, damaged, diploma, document, fragment, lump, out of order, paper, part, Parthian, piece, piece of music, play, share, theatre play), stucgips (burnt gypsum, plaster of Paris), stucadoorgips (plaster of Paris), gips (gypsum, plaster of Paris). (various references) | |
Farsi | گچ کاری کردن , گچ کاری روی بنا, گچ (Chalk, Plaster), اندودگچ وسیمان , باگچ سفیدکردن . (various references) | |
French | stuc. (various references) | |
German | stuck (molding, plaster). (various references) | |
Greek | στόκος (grout, putty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טיח התזה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | stukkó. (various references) | |
Italian | stucco (plaster, putty). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 漆食 (mortar, plaster), 漆喰 (mortar, plaster). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっくい (mortar, plaster). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uccostay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estuque (parget, plaster). (various references) | |
Romanian | stuc (parget). (various references) | |
Russian | штукатурка наружная, штукатурка (daub, parget, pargeting, plaster), штукатурить штукатурка штукатурный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gipsani malter. (various references) | |
Spanish | estuco (plaster). (various references) | |
Swedish | stuck, klä med stuck. (various references) | |
Thai | ปูนฉาบผนัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sıva ile süslemek, sıva ile kaplamak, sıva (coating, compo, Grout, laying, parget, plaster, plaster of paris, rendering, stucco work), dış kaplama (shell). (various references) | |
Turkmen | suwag (stucco plaster). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | штукатурка (daub, parget, plaster, plastering), штукатурити (ceil, daub, parget, plaster). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tường trát vữa xtucô (stucco-work), hình đắp nổi bằng vữa xtucô (stucco-work). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stucco": stuccoed, stuccoer, stuccoers, stuccoes, stuccoing, stuccos, stuccowork, stuccoworks. (additional references) | |
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"Stucco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astucci, Satucc, scucca, stacco, stuca, stuch, stuco, stucor, stux, succom, succot, Tucci. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stucco" (pronounced stu"kō) |
| 3 | -u" k ō | bucko. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: scout. | |
-2 letters: cost, cots, cuts, oust, outs, scot, scut. | |
-3 letters: cos, cot, cut, out, sot, sou, uts. | |
-4 letters: os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: occults, stuccos, succoth. | |
+2 letters: accounts, accustom, acoustic, cockshut, coconuts, conducts, crosscut, occiputs, stuccoed, stuccoer, stuccoes. | |
+3 letters: accouters, accoutres, accustoms, acoustics, cetaceous, checkouts, cockshuts, cocoanuts, conceptus, conjuncts, construct, coruscant, coruscate, crosscuts, occulters, occultism, occultist, occupants, scorbutic, scutcheon, stuccoers, stuccoing, succotash. | |
+4 letters: accusation, accusatory, accustomed, acoustical, backcourts, cartouches, circuitous, cocultures, cocurators, conductors, conspectus, constructs, coproducts, coruscated, coruscates, crosscourt, escutcheon, misconduct, occultisms, occultists, occurrents, outcatches, outcoaches, scoutcraft, scutcheons, stuccowork, subcompact, touchbacks, viscountcy, zucchettos. | |
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