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Definitions: Wale |
WaleNoun1. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions. 2. Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Building & Civil Engineering | The words -- and maler are synonymous describing a horizontal supporting timber outside the studs. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The horizontal timbers placed on the face of the plank supporting the walls of an excavation in order to hold them together, and kept in place by struts running from wall to wall. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A horizontal row of stitches knitted across the width of the fabric is a course, and a vertical row of stitches knitted on the same needle is a --. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A column of loops along the length of the fabric. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: WaleSynonyms: strake (n), weal (n), welt (n), wheal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wale |
| English words defined with "wale": garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake, gun rest, gunnel, gunwale ♦ narrow wale ♦ Wale knot, Waling, Wall knot, Whala, wide wale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wale": courses per unit length ♦ links-links knitting ♦ purl knitting ♦ single knitted atlas fabric, single knitted vandyke fabric ♦ warp-knitted tulle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wale": gunwale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Wale" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (whales). |
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Screenplays | So which one is it where the chicks wale on eachother? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki (1984) | |
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 | Plague in 1665. / S. Wale del. W. Sherlock Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | View of the manner of burying the dead Bodies At Holy-well mount during the dreadful PLAGUE in 1665 / Wale delin. Grignion Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Wale" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Wale" is used about 14 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 (proper) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wale" 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 |
| Wale | Last name | 170 | 53,510 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "wale": narrow wale ♦ Wale knot ♦ wide wale. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
wale | 47 |
wale adeyemi | 20 |
wale apparatus | 11 |
killer wale | 7 |
blue wale | 5 |
bandoneon mark wale | 4 |
wale watching | 3 |
sperm wale | 3 |
rider wale | 3 |
dada wale | 2 |
save wale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, weal), Blanë Kamzhiku (weal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضلع رابط في مركب, الحبار أثر الضرب بالسياط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Оставам Белези, Белег (Mark), Изпъкнала Ивица, ъб (Marge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Pruh (band, bar, bicycle lane, streak, strip, stripe, weal), Jizva (Mark, scar, Scaur, seam, stigma), leh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tvaertoemmer (ranger, waler, waling, waling timber), maskerække (course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stekenstaaf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | silmukkavako, poikkipuu (crossbar, cross-bar, cross-piece, rail, ranger, round, rung, waler, waling timber), jäykistin (ranger, waler, waling timber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Zébrure, traverse de répartition (waler, waling timber), rangée de mailles, raidisseur (waler), Marque De Coup, colonne de mailles, colonne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Riegel (bar, bolt, cake, catch, cross beam, horizontal girder, latch, lintel, lock, mullion, plunger, ranger, shot pin, spring plunger, stop pin, strap, stud, tab, transverse girder, waler, waling timber), Maschestäbchen, Maschenreihe (course), Leitbohle (ranger, waler, waling timber), Laengstraverse (ranger, waler, waling timber), Holm (arbor, capping, cross beam, handlebar, longeron, ranger, spar, stilt, waler, waling, waling timber), Bandbalken (ranger, waler, waling timber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύυλιά, στήλη (chock, Column, flip-chip pillar, pedestal, pier, pile, pillar, stanchion, stele, supporting column, tower), διαδοκίδες διανομής (ranger, waler, waling timber), ίχνοσ όαστιγώσεωσ, Ράβδωση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Borda (corrugation, costal, rib, stem, stretcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sbadacchiature (ranger, waler, waling timber), fila di maglie (course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aleway Vergão (weal, welt), longarinas (ranger, waler, waling timber), Cordão (astragal, câblé, cabled yarn, chorda, continuous strand, cord, cordon, fillet, lace, ply, primary strand, puffed portion, raised portion, rib, ribbon, rope, shoe lace, strand, string, tendon, tie, twine), coluna (circular column, column, cutter column, disc leg, disc standard, disc support, frame, header, leg, leg assembly, pedestal, pillar, post, round column, shore, spine, stand, standard, stay, stoop, strut, toolstalk, tower), Avergoar. (various references) Полоса (Lane), 'ельс, убчик. (various references) prugasta modrica, porub (facing, hem, seam, thrum, welt), građa (build, material, staple, structure, stuff, substance). (various references) larguero de entibación (ranger, waler, waling timber), contrato flexible, columna (Col, column, pillar, post, standard, strut, tower). (various references) maskstolpe, maskstav, hammarband (ranger, waler, waling timber). (various references) Pervaz (cincture, cornice, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, reveal, rib, ribbon, shelf, sill, wheal), Kenar (border, brim, brink, brow, edge, flange, hem, lip, Marge, margin, rim, side, skirt, skirting, verge, wheal), Kırbaç Ýzi, Ýz (Mark, Ray), Çizgi (Mark). (various references) Перебирати, Ткати ' убчик, 'ельс, 'ибір, 'ибирати, Шмагати, Смуга, убчик, убець. (various references) gwrym (seam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wale": waled, waler, walers, wales. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wale": gunwale, pinwale, swale. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wale": gunwales, pinwales, swales. (additional references) | |
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"Wale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aale, Awale, Awaleh, Awali, awel, dwile, ewale, Mwale, mwali, Twala, twale, waal, wabe, wable, wace, wacle, wadle, wael, wafe, waile, wailea, waileo, waje, wal, wala, walad, waled, walet, walid, walin, walle, wallen, walley, wallo, walo, waloe, walp, Walu, walue, walz, walzer, wame, wape, waxle, waye, wayle, waze, weale, weile, wele, welee, Welega, welle, welo, werle, Wible, wiel, Wiele, wilen, wilge, wilie, wille, Wle, Wlo, woel, wola, wole, woule, wral, wrale, wulle, wyle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wale" (pronounced wā"l) |
| 3 | w ā" l | quail, quale, wail, whale. |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, impale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, stale, surveil, tail, tale, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-w" | |
-1 letter: ale, awe, awl, law, lea, wae. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, aw, el, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-w" | |
+1 letter: lawed, swale, waled, waler, wales, weald, weals, whale, wheal. | |
+2 letters: awhile, awless, bawled, bawler, bewail, blawed, byelaw, clawed, clawer, dawdle, declaw, dewlap, flawed, knawel, lawine, lawmen, lawyer, leeway, prelaw, swales, wabble, waddle, wadmel, waeful, waffle, waggle, wailed, wailer, walers, walies, walked, walker, walled, wallet, wallie, wamble, wandle, wangle, warble, warsle, wattle, wauled, wawled, weakly, wealds, wealth, weasel, whaled, whaler, whales, wheals, yawled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57677871 |
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