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"VOLUTES" is a plural of: volute. |
Date "VOLUTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Curved vanes or projections placed on(i)the inner sloping surface of the funnel of the siphon(internal volutes)or(ii)on the outside vertical pipe near its tip to induce spiral motion to the water entering the vertical pipe(barrel). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: VOLUTES |
| English words defined with "VOLUTES": Cauliculus ♦ Rhachiglossa. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Unidentified Ionic capital with angled volutes framing an acanthus leaf. Perspective sketch study. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "VOLUTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VOLUTES" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
pump volutes | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VOLUTES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 爱奥尼亚柱型 (Volute, Voluted). (various references) | |
Korean | 벌류트 (Volute). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olutesvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "VOLUTES": convolutes, evolutes, involutes. (additional references) | |
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"VOLUTES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: volate, volite, voltas, voltes, voltex, volupte, volure, voluted, volutta, voulez, voults. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: ovules, solute, tousle, voltes, volute. | |
-2 letters: lotus, louse, louts, loves, lutes, ousel, ovule, solve, stole, stove, telos, toles, tolus, touse, tules, voles, volte, volts, votes. | |
-3 letters: lest, lets, levo, lose, lost, lots, lout, love, lues, lust, lute, luvs, oles, oust, outs, sloe, slot, slue, sole, soul, suet, tels, toes, tole, tolu, tule, vest. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-s-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: evolutes, outlives, outloves, ovulates, veloutes. | |
+2 letters: involutes, outlivers, outvalues, trueloves. | |
+3 letters: absolutive, autoclaves, consultive, convolutes, covetously, evaluators, evolutions, oversubtle, volumeters, volunteers. | |
+4 letters: conventuals, copulatives, declivitous, devolutions, eluviations, evaluations, novaculites, obtrusively, outdelivers, revolutions, sporulative, travelogues, turtledoves, unloveliest, venturously, vexatiously, voluntaries. | |
+5 letters: cocultivates, coevolutions, consultative, countervails, devaluations, evolutionism, evolutionist, overutilizes, protrusively, revaluations, superovulate, ultraviolets, vesiculation, volubilities, volunteerism, voluptuaries. | |
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