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Definition: Embouchure |
EmbouchureNoun1. The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "embouchure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Embouchure \Em`bou`chure"\, noun. [French expression, from emboucher to put to the mouth; prefix em- (L. in) bouche the mouth. Compare to Embouge, Debouch.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EmbouchureSynonym: mouthpiece (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opening | Outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Embouchure |
| Non-English Usage: "Embouchure" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (embouchure, mouth, mouthpiece, outlet, scoop). |
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Movie/TV Titles | L' Embouchure (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 8. Baie Fortescue. Ilot de la Baie St. Nicolas. Embouchure de la Riviere Gennes. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
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| "Embouchure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Embouchure" is used about 3 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
embouchure | 18 |
embouchure trumpet | 14 |
embouchure flute | 2 |
clarinet embouchure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "embouchure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hyrje në luginë, grykëderdhje lumi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصب النهر (estuary, inflow, influx), وضع الشفتين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | устие (debouchment, entry, issue, mouth, orifice, outfall, outflow, throat), мундщук (cannon bit, lip, mouthpiece, neck, nozzle, snout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ústí (estuary, mouth, muzzle, nose, orifice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | embouchure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στόμιο όργανου, εκβολέσ ποταμού (outfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | torkolat (chop, debouchment, estuary, Firth, issue, jaw, jaws, Lough, mouth, outfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | beealag (mouthpiece, port). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | embouchureay вход (adit, admission, admittance, admittances, approach, doorway, entrance, entry, gateway, ingoing, ingress, login, mouth, passage), мундштук (cigarette holder, cigarette-holder, jet, mouthpiece, neck, snout). (various references) ušće (confluence, estuary, mouth). (various references) nehir ağzı (estuary, inflow, influx, outfall), ağız kısmı, ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, trap, vent, ventage), çalgıyı ağıza yerleştirme şekli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bucca. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "embouchure": embouchures. (additional references) | |
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"Embouchure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debouchure, embochure, embuchure, Moucure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h-m-o-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: bouchee. | |
-4 letters: become, breech, broche, cheero, cherub, chrome, cohere, comber, cumber, echoer, embrue, euchre, hombre, humour, recomb, reecho, rouche. | |
-5 letters: beech, berme, boche, brome, brume, cheer, chemo, chore, combe, comer, creme, crumb, cuber, ember, homer, humor, mohur, mouch, mucor, mucro, ocher, ochre, omber, ombre, rebec, rehem, rheum, rhomb, rhumb, ruche, umber. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-h-m-o-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: embouchures. | |
| 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)45 6D 62 6F 75 63 68 75 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- -... --- ..- -.-. .... ..- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100010 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m b o u c h u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0062 006F 0075 0063 0068 0075 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39796881876974878471 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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