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Definitions: Aery |
AeryAdjective1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms". Noun1. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle). 2. Any habitation at a high altitude. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AerySynonyms: aerial (adj), aeriform (adj), airy (adj), ethereal (adj), aerie (n), eyrie (n), eyry (n). (additional references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "aery" 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 |
| Aery | Last name | 130 | 66,147 |
| 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 |
aery | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kala (acropolis, aerie, Castle, citadel, Fort, fortress, hold, presidio, stronghold, tower), kështjellë (aerie, Castle, stronghold, tower), fole (aerie, chase, mortise, nest, nidus, pad, socket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гнездо на хищна птица (aerie), орлово гнездо (aerie, eyrie), люпило на хищна птица (aerie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 둥지 (Aerie, Eyrie, Eyries, NEST). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aeryay aéreo (aerial, airy, etherial, irresponsive, overground, overhead, vague), etéreo (aerial, airy, ethereal, etherial, overground). (various references) aerian (aerial, aeriform, airy, breezy, ethereal, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, hazy, skyey, thin, unsubstantial), vaporos (airy, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, steamy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), imaterial (aeriform, ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual, unsubstantial). (various references) выводок хищной птицы (aerie), выводок (aerie, brood, clutch, hatch, litter, nest). (various references) kuća visoko u brdima, gnezdo orla. (various references) aguilera (aerie, eyrie), nidada (aerie, brood, nest, sitting). (various references) rovfågels näste (aerie, eyrie), rovfågels kull (aerie), örnbo (aerie, eyrie). (various references) неземний (ambrosial, celestial, heavenly, sky-born, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly, unworldly), ефірний (aerial, airy, ethereal, etheric), повітряний (aerial, air, air raid, airy, overhead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "aery": faery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eyra, yare, year. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-y" | |
-1 letter: are, aye, ear, era, ray, rya, rye, yar, yea. | |
-2 letters: ae, ar, ay, er, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-y" | |
+1 letter: apery, barye, deary, deray, early, eyras, faery, gayer, hayer, layer, leary, payer, rayed, ready, relay, repay, resay, sayer, teary, weary, yager, yarer, yearn, years, yerba. | |
+2 letters: aerify, aerily, ambery, anergy, argyle, artery, aweary, azerty, bakery, barely, barley, baryes, baryte, betray, bewray, bleary, brayed, brayer, bready, carney, creaky, creamy, creasy, darkey, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drapey, drayed, dreamy, dreary, earthy, eatery, elytra, estray, eyebar, fakery, flayer, frayed, freaky, garvey, grapey, grayed, grayer, greasy, gyrase, gyrate, hayers, hearty, hydrae, japery, jarvey, lawyer, layers, lyrate, napery, nearby, nearly, papery, parley, payers, pearly, player, prayed, prayer, prepay, rallye, rarefy, rarely, really, realty, redbay, relays, repays, replay, resays, sawyer, sayers, scarey, senary, slayer, smeary, stayer, swayer, treaty, wafery, watery, wavery, yabber, yagers, yakker, yammer, yapper, yarded, yarely, yarest, yarned, yarner, yatter, yauper, yawner, yawper, yearly, yearns, yerbas. | |
+3 letters: abhenry, agentry, alertly, allayer, allergy, already, angerly, annoyer, anorexy, anymore, apteryx, apyrase, archery, ardency, areally, areaway, argyles, arrayed, arrayer, assayer, barleys, barytes, battery, beanery, beeyard, beggary, betrays, beweary, bewrays, bilayer, blarney, bravely, bravery, brayers, breathy, caloyer, cannery, carneys, cattery, cautery, charley, clayier, clearly, daresay, darkeys, dasyure, daubery, daymare, deanery, decayer, defrays, delayer, dietary, dramedy, drapery, drayage, draymen, dryable, dryades, eagerly, earthly, eparchy, errancy, essayer, estrays, estuary, exarchy, eyebars, eyewear, feodary, feudary, flayers, forayed, forayer, forebay, freeway, gallery, gargety, garveys, gaudery, grapery, gravely, grayest, greatly, greylag, gyrases, gyrated, gyrates, hayride, haywire, hearsay, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, hyraces, hyraxes, imagery, inlayer, irately, jaggery, jarveys, jaspery, kayaker, kerygma, keycard, knavery, lamprey, larceny, largely, lathery, lawyers, layered, layover, loyaler, lyrated, mastery, mattery, midyear, nectary, orangey, overlay, overpay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, partyer, peartly, peccary, pedlary, pessary, peytral, players, plenary, prayers, preachy, prelacy, prepays, pteryla, pyrexia, quavery, raceway, rackety, raggedy, rallyes, ravelly, rayless, raylike, readily, reality, reapply, recarry, redbays, regally, relayed, remarry, replays, respray, retiary, reynard, ropeway, rosebay, sawyers, screaky, sealery, sectary, slavery, slayers, sparely, sprayed, sprayer, stayers, strayed, strayer, streaky, streamy, swayers, synurae, tannery, tearily, ternary, therapy, thready, tracery, tragedy, trawley, treacly, typebar, unready, unweary, variety, virelay, voyager, waggery, wastery, wearily, wireway, wreathy, yabbers, yachter, yakkers, yammers, yappers, yardage, yardmen, yarners, yatters, yaupers, yawners, yawpers, yearend, yearned, yearner, zedoary. | |
+4 letters: abhenrys, acerbity, acrylate, actressy, adultery, aerially, aerodyne, aerology, aeronomy, affrayed, affrayer, alderfly, aleatory, allayers, allegory, analyser, analyzer, ancestry, aneurysm, annoyers, anywhere, apyrases, apyretic, ardently, areaways, areology, aroynted, arrayers, asperity, assayers, attorney, aversely, ayurveda, badgerly, bankerly, barberry, barrenly, barretry, barytone, basketry, bayadeer, bayadere, bayberry, bearably, beeyards, beggarly, bestiary, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, bewrayed, bewrayer, bilayers, biyearly, bladdery, blarneys, blearily, boneyard, brazenly, breviary, butyrate, cajolery, caloyers, calypter, carboyed, category, catenary, centaury, chancery, charleys, chattery, cinerary, clattery, claymore, clayware, coarsely, cometary, copyread, cravenly, crayoned, creakily, creamery, creamily, cyclecar, cymbaler, cytaster, dairymen, dapperly, dasyures, daybreak, daydream, daymares, deaconry, decayers, decenary, deeryard, defrayal, defrayed, defrayer, delayers, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, drayages, dreamily, drearily, driveway, earthily, easterly, emissary, empyreal, empyrean, enactory, endarchy, entreaty, entryway, errantly, errantry, erythema, essayers, estrayed, euphrasy, eurybath, everyday, everyman, everyway, eyewater, farriery, fatherly, feathery, federacy, feracity, ferryman, fireclay, flackery, flattery, flypaper, forayers, forebays, forelady, foreplay, forestay, foreyard, freakily, freeways, funerary, gadgetry, garganey, gargoyle, glaziery, gramarye, gramercy, gravelly, grayness, greasily, greenway, greylags, hagberry, hatchery, haymaker, hayrides, haywires, hearsays, heartily, heathery, heraldry, hereaway, hexarchy, hoarsely, hoorayed, hurrayed, hydrases, hydrated, hydrates, hysteria, inlayers, interlay, jagghery, jeopardy, jerrycan, kaleyard, kayakers, kerygmas, keyboard, keycards, knackery, lamasery, lampreys, larynges, larynxes, latterly, lawyered, lawyerly, layerage, layering, layovers, leathery, lethargy, linearly, literacy, literary, lyrately, malarkey, mannerly, markedly, martyred, maryjane, masterly, maturely, maumetry, mayoress, meagerly, meagrely, midyears, mislayer, monetary, nabobery, naysayer, neurally, numeracy, numerary, operably, orangery, ornately, outweary, overeasy, overlays, overmany, overpays, overplay, overstay, overwary, palfreys, paperboy, papyrine, paralyse, paralyze, parlayed, parleyed, parleyer, parsleys, partyers, passerby, paygrade, pedantry, peytrals, plastery, playgoer, playwear, psaltery, pterygia, pterylae, pyoderma, pyorrhea, pyranose, pyrexial, pyrexias, pyruvate, quackery, raceways, raggedly, raillery, ramosely, rateably, readably, readerly, readying, rectally, regality, regnancy, relaying, reliably, repacify, repandly, repaying, replayed, resaying, resprays, retrally, reynards, rockabye, ropeways, rosebays, rosemary, routeway, ryegrass, sacredly, saddlery, savagery, scarcely, seminary, serially, slabbery, sparsely, spermary, sprayers, squarely, staggery, sternway, strategy, strayers, styraxes, superlay, swannery, sybarite, sycamore, synergia, tapestry, taxpayer, teaberry, tearaway, tenantry, terabyte, teriyaki, tertiary, textuary, thearchy, trachyte, travesty, trawleys, treasury, tutelary, typebars, tyramine, underlay, underpay, underway, unreally, urbanely, valkyrie, variedly, varletry, veracity, verbally, verdancy, vernally, vespiary, vestiary, vicenary, vinegary, vineyard, virelays, voyagers, voyageur, walkyrie, wardenry, waterily, waterway, waxberry, wayfarer, waylayer, weaponry, wearying, wireways, yabbered, yachters, yahrzeit, yammered, yammerer, yardages, yarmelke, yarmulke, yattered, yawmeter, yearbook, yearends, yearlies, yearling, yearlong, yearners, yearning, yeasayer, yeastier, yeomanry, ytterbia, zealotry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 65 72 79 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 0072 0079 |
| 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)35718491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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