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PRONUNCIATION OF THWARTWISE

thwartwise  [ˈθwɔːtˌwaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THWARTWISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thwartwise is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THWARTWISE


clockwise
ˈklɒkˌwaɪz
contrariwise
ˈkɒntrərɪˌwaɪz
counterclockwise
ˌkaʊntəˈklɒkˌwaɪz
dropwise
ˈdrɒpˌwaɪz
endwise
ˈendˌwaɪz
flatwise
ˈflætˌwaɪz
guestwise
ˈɡestˌwaɪz
leastwise
ˈliːstˌwaɪz
lengthwise
ˈlɛŋθˌwaɪz
likewise
ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz
otherwise
ˈʌðəˌwaɪz
pairwise
ˈpɛəˌwaɪz
piecewise
ˈpiːsˌwaɪz
profitwise
ˈprɒfɪtˌwaɪz
slantwise
ˈslɑːntˌwaɪz
stepwise
ˈstɛpˌwaɪz
streetwise
ˈstriːtˌwaɪz
sunwise
ˈsʌnˌwaɪz
tentwise
ˈtɛntˌwaɪz
weftwise
ˈweftˌwaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THWARTWISE

thwack
thwacker
thwaite
thwart
thwartedly
thwarter
thwartingly
thwartly
thwartship
thwartways
THX
thy
Thyestean
Thyestes
Thyestian
thyine
thylacine
thylakoid
thyme
thymectomies

WORDS THAT END LIKE THWARTWISE

anticlockwise
anywise
be wise
bendwise
coastwise
cornerwise
crosswise
edgewise
elsewise
longwise
nowise
palewise
penny-wise
suchwise
taxwise
unwise
weather-wise
widthwise
wise
worldly-wise

Synonyms and antonyms of thwartwise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «thwartwise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THWARTWISE

Find out the translation of thwartwise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of thwartwise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thwartwise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

thwartwise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

thwartwise
570 millions of speakers

English

thwartwise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

thwartwise
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

thwartwise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

thwartwise
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

thwartwise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

thwartwise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

thwartwise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggagalkannya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

thwartwise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

thwartwise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

thwartwise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Thwartwise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thwartwise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

thwartwise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Thwartwise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

thwartwise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

thwartwise
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

thwartwise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

thwartwise
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

thwartwise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

thwartwise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

thwartwise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

thwartwise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

thwartwise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thwartwise

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THWARTWISE»

The term «thwartwise» is normally little used and occupies the 128.255 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of thwartwise
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THWARTWISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «thwartwise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «thwartwise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thwartwise

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THWARTWISE»

Discover the use of thwartwise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thwartwise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Canadian Patent Office Record
... value is of a predetermined amount, and measuring the effective magnetic field in said compartment in a thwartwise plane and adjusting a second local magnetic field until the latter measured value is of a second predetermined amount. 3.
Canada. Patent Office, 1951
2
The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights ...
... field in the compartment in the magnetic meridian, adjusting a local magnetic field until the measured value is of a predetermined amount, and measuring the effective magnetic field in said compartment in a thwartwise plane and adjusting a ...
‎1951
3
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' and 'Isn't That Just Like ...
... the waistcoat hasa little way ofhitching along up his midriff inch by inch until finally it has accordionpleated itself in overlapping folds thwartwise of his tummy, coyly exposing aninch or soof clandestine shirtfront. It requires great willpower on  ...
Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, 2014
4
Something Red: A Novel
A spacious counter ran thwartwise immediately inside the door, barring entrance to the rest ofthe long room. The pantry took up a good part ofthe storehouse. One of Osbert's elder retainers served as pantler, with two of the younger housecarls ...
Douglas Nicholas, 2013
5
The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the ...
At the end of the hall anigh the Man's-door was the dais, and a table thereon set thwartwise of the hall, and in front of the dais was the noblest and greatest of the hearths, (but of the others one was in the very midmost, and another in the ...
William Morris, 2012
6
The House of the Wolfings
At the end of the hall anigh the Man's-door was the dais, and a table thereon set thwartwise of the hall; and in front of the dais was the noblest and greatest of the hearths; (but of the others one was in the very midmost, and another in the ...
7
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
... set thwartwise with stones. On either side, a foam of flowers, wild and delicate and rank. Deep hedgerows. Thrawn trees, shock-headed, throwing roots across her path. At a stile, she looked back. Oh. It pierced her heart with green, this world  ...
Greer Gilman, 2013
8
Phantasmagoria - Tall and Short Tales
... oddly, unintelligibly by these friends at respective farewells when I turned my head and gazed at each of them with one penetrant, glowing eye and tested the thwartwise, thrusting distance of my middle-aged tongue in a warm, surrealist kiss.
P. S. Lutz
9
The Ivory Trail
It was Kazimoto who chose the least disheartened of the gang, beat them and stung them into liveliness, and set them to bailing. There was a trough running thwartwise of the ship into which the water had to be lifted from the midship well.
Talbot Mundy, 2007
10
The Chasch
The three hunched forward over their table, hats pulled thwartwise across their yellow faces. The common-room began to empty. Reith took Ylin-Ylan the Beauty Flower to a cubicle beside his room. “Bolt your door,” he told her. “Do not come ...
Jack Vance

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THWARTWISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thwartwise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Monterey officials applaud conference center remodel plans.
Jesus fun was not believing of Himself as He was perishing on the thwartwise. The infinites to make fun palaces are already in that location, often standing ... «Monterey County Weekly, Mar 14»
2
SeaWind Elementary fifth-grader wins Martin County Spelling Bee
Then Varun had a match point in round 15, but he couldn't come up with "thwartwise." "It was kind of suspenseful," Varun said. "I didn't know if (Shantanu) would ... «Stuart News, Feb 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Thwartwise [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/thwartwise>. Apr 2024 ».
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