Noun: serial
| Singular | serial |
| Plural | serials |
Sample Sentences
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Go to these sites for serials, cracks and keygens.
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The practice, especially among members of shield serials, of 'whooping like cowboys and indians' and beating of truncheons on riot shields must cease as this tends to frighten and intimidate rioters. [1992, James Donald, Ali Rattansi, Race, Culture and Difference, page 66:]
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The serials worked in pairs, one with long shields and one with short shields. [2013, Tony Moore, Policing Notting Hill: Fifty Years of Turbulence, page 324:]
Nouns inflected like serial
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below. See: Latin Nouns '
seriālis', Italian Nouns '
seriale'.
Verbs referencing "serial"
Romanian Nouns
serial, Ukrainian Nouns
серіал.