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Date "NAVY-BLUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | A variable color averaging a grayish purplish blue that is duller and slightly bluer than average delft. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "NAVY-BLUE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NAVY-BLUE" is used about 48 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "NAVY-BLUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | bleu marine (navy blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avy-bluenay marinblå (navy blue). (various references) xanh nước biển. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"NAVY-BLUE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: navyblue. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-n-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: nebula, nebuly, unable. | |
-3 letters: belay, bluey, bunya, leavy, navel, ulnae, unlay, uveal, value, vealy, venal, yulan. | |
-4 letters: able, ably, abye, bale, bane, bean, beau, bevy, blae, blue, elan, envy, lane, lave, lean, leva, levy, lube, luna, lune, luny, nabe, nave, navy, ulan, ulna, ulva, unbe, uvea, vale, vane, veal, vela, vena, yean, yuan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-n-u-v-y" | |
+2 letters: vulnerably. | |
+4 letters: invulnerably, unbelievably. | |
+5 letters: substantively, unequivocably, vulnerability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 56 59 2D 42 4C 55 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000001 01010110 01011001 00101101 01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A V Y - B L U E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 0056 0059 002D 0042 004C 0055 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)483556591536465539 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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