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Definition: BIELD |
BIELDNoun1. A shelter. Same as Beild. Transitive verb1. To shelter. |
Date "BIELD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Note: Bield \Bield\, noun. A shelter. Same as Beild. [Scottish]. (references) |
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| "Lyveden New Bield" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "A folly in northamptonshire. designed by tresham. took the photo in spring 2003." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "BIELD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "BIELD" is used about 7 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) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BIELD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | مسکن گزیدن (Guest, Inhabit, Room), تشجیع کردن (Embolden, Heart, Hearten, Solicit), شیرکردن (Defy, Lionize), شهامت دادن , شجاع شدن , دفاع کردن (Advocate, Defence, Defense). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ieldbay.(various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміливість (audacity, courage, daring, gumption, hardihood, pluck), ховати (conceal, cover, embowel, entomb, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, put away, secrete, shut up, stash, tomb, tuck), захищати (advocate, apologize, assert, bonnet, champion, cover, defend, fight, overshade, overshadow, protect, shelter, shield, stand by, stand up for, stick up for), бути упевненим (be sure, make sure), притулок (accommodation, asylum, chimney, cover, harbour, niche, nook, port, purlieu, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, subterfuge, succor, succour), допомога (abetment, aid, assistance, backing, facilitation, furtherance, help, helping, relief, stipend, succor, succour), давати притулок (accommodate, nestle, refuge, roof). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BIELD": bielded, bielding, bields. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: bide, bile, bled, deil, deli, diel, idle, lied. | |
-2 letters: bed, bel, bid, deb, del, dib, die, eld, led, lei, lib, lid, lie. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, de, ed, el, id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: bailed, belied, bields, bilged, bilked, billed, bindle, birled, boiled, bolide, bridle, dibble, edible, limbed. | |
+2 letters: addible, alibied, audible, baldies, beadily, bedevil, bedlike, bedrail, bellied, bielded, bilobed, bilsted, bindles, bipedal, blinded, blinder, blinked, blipped, blissed, blitzed, bolides, brailed, bridled, bridler, bridles, brindle, broiled, budlike, builded, builder, bullied, bylined, climbed, decibel, dibbled, dibbler, dibbles, disable, dribble, driblet, edibles, hidable, kibbled, libeled, lobbied, nibbled, obliged, piebald, rebuild, ridable, wimbled. | |
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