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Pili in Hawaiian means "to bind" and is the name of a native grass (Heteropogon contortus) used to thatch structures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pili."
"PILI" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pillar", "Mary of the Pillar". |
Date "PILI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"PILI" is a common misspelling or typo for: pail, pale, pilaf, pile, piled, piles, piling, pill, pole. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Filament | Noun: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein; hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula, venule. |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PILI |
| Specialty definitions using "PILI": F Factor, Fimbriae, Bacterial ♦ hair shaft ♦ Pili, Sex ♦ RNA Phages. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PILI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bit, garment, hair, hair shirt, javelin, pestle, pike, pounding tool, throwing spear, whit), Romanian (file, found), Swahili (second, two). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PILI" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PILI" is used about 2 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 (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PILI" 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 |
| Pili | Last name | 300 | 25,222 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "PILI" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pillar", "Mary of the Pillar". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "PILI." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Pilar | Female | Spanish | N/A |
| Pili | Female | Spanish | Pilar |
| 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 |
pili pili | 12 |
pili | 9 |
nut pili | 6 |
hthttpvadest pili rahvakalendri t | 5 |
chicago pili pili | 4 |
carrera pili | 3 |
arrector muscle pili | 3 |
de la pili rioja | 3 |
multigemini pili | 2 |
pili pili restaurant | 2 |
arrector pili | 2 |
chicago pili pili restaurant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PILI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | haar (hair, hairs, pilus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pilus (hair, hairs, pilus), haar (hair, hair of the head, hairs, her, his, its, she, their), capilli (hair, hairs, pilus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | poils (pile), système pileux (pilus), cheveux (pilus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pilus (fimbria, hair, hairs, pilus), Haar (hair, hairs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαλλιά (hair), τρίχα (bristle, hair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pelo (coat, fur, hair, pile), peli (hairs), capello (hair), capelli (hair, hairs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilipay pêlos (bristle), sistema piloso (hair, hairs, pilus), sistema capilar (hair, hairs, pilus), cabelos (hairs). (various references) pilus (hair, hairs, pilus), pelo (coat, hair, head of hair, locks, pile), cabellos (locks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 41 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean de kata proswpon madhsh h kefalh autou anafalantoV estin kaqaroV estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et si a fronte ceciderint pili recalvaster et mundus est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He is bihynde ballid, and clene; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Yf his heer fall before in his foreheade, then he is foreheadbalde and cleane. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 41 |
| Cebuano | Ug kong ang buhok dapit sa iyang agtang mangalarot, upawon siya sa atubangan, apan siya mahinlo. |
| Chinese | 他 前 若 掉 了 髮 、 他 不 過 是 門 禿 、 還 是 " 淨 。 |
| Croatian | Ako mu sprijeda opadne kosa s glave, oæelavio je na èelu, ali je èist. |
| Danish | Og hvis han bliver skaldet ved Panden og Tindingerne, så er han kun pandeskaldet; han er ren. |
| Dutch | En zo van de zijde zijns aangezichts het haar van zijn hoofd zal uitgevallen zijn, hij is bles, hij is rein. |
| Finnish | Ja jos hiukset lähtevät päästä, ohimoista, on hän otsakalju; hän on puhdas. |
| French | S`il a la tête dépouillée de cheveux du côté de la face, c`est un chauve par-devant: il est pur. |
| German | Fallen sie ihm vorn am Haupt aus und wird eine Glatze, so ist er rein. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan jikalau gugur rambutnya pada sebelah dahinya, botak jua ia, maka sucilah adanya. |
| Italian | Se i capelli gli sono caduti dal lato della fronte, è calvo davanti, ma è mondo. |
| Maori | Me te tangata hoki kua horo nga huruhuru o te wahi o tona matenga whaka tona mata, he rae pakira ia; kahore ona poke. |
| Norwegian | og når han mister håret fremme på hodet, så han blir fleinskallet, da er han ren. |
| Portuguese | E, se a frente da sua cabeça se pelar, ele é meio calvo; contudo é limpo. |
| Rumanian | Dacq i -a cqzut pqrul de pe cap numai kn partea dinainte, este plewuv kn partea dinainte: este curat. |
| Spanish | Si pierde el cabello en la parte delantera de la cabeza, es calvo por delante, pero puro. |
| Swedish | Och om håret utan vidare faller av på främre delen av huvudet, så är det vanlig framskallighet; han är ren. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PILI": piliform, piling, pilings, pilis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PILI": compiling, epilimnion, epilimnions, papilionaceous, recompiling, spilikin, spilikins, spiling, spilings, stockpiling, unpiling, uppiling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-p" | |
-1 letter: lip. | |
-2 letters: li, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-p" | |
+1 letter: lipid, lipin, pilei, pilis. | |
+2 letters: fillip, huipil, inclip, limpid, lipide, lipids, lipins, lipoid, piling, pistil. | |
+3 letters: apiculi, aplitic, cipolin, diploic, diploid, fillips, hiplike, hipline, huipils, imperil, implied, implies, inclips, lapilli, limping, limpkin, lipides, lipidic, liplike, lipoids, lippier, lipping, lisping, nauplii, nippily, pelitic, penicil, picolin, piglike, pignoli, pigtail, pilgrim, pilings, pilling, pillion, pinitol, pintail, pistils, pithily, pitiful, pliskie, politic, privily, pulvini, shilpit, sliping, spicily, spikily, spiling, splenii, tilapia, tipsily, tripoli, wispily. | |
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