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Date "HORSE-POWER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Horse-power A measure of force. Watt estimated the "force" of a London dray-horse, working eight hours a day, at 33,000 foot-pounds (q.v.) per minute. In calculating the horse-power of a steam-engine the following is the formula: - Times A times L times N33,000 deduct 10 for friction. P, pressure (in lbs.) per sq. inch on the piston. A, area (in inches) of the piston. L, length (in feet) of the stroke. N, number of strokes per minute. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HORSE-POWER |
| Specialty definitions using "HORSE-POWER": TEST TECHNICIAN. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Haul-seine fishing for menhaden at Long Island, 1790 to 1850 Hauling the seine on the beach by horse-power From sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Lajas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). A one horse-power crane for loading sugar cane. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | BP ethyl anti-knock controls horse-power. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "HORSE-POWER" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "HORSE-POWER" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "HORSE-POWER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lille kondenseringsaggregat (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hevosvoima (draught unit, horse power, traction unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | groupe frigorifique faible puissance (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kleinkaelte-Verfluessigungssatz (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυκτικό συγκρότημα χαμηλής ισχύος (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gruppo compressore-condensatore di piccola capacit (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 馬力 (h.p.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ばりき (h.p.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orse-powerhay grupo frigorífico de fraca potência (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) лошадиная сила (horsepower). (various references) hästkrafter, hästkraft (horse power, horsepower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: horsepower. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-o-o-p-r-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: oosphere, repowers, showerer, whoopees, whoopers. | |
-3 letters: hoopers, operose, preshow, reposer, repower, swooper, whoopee, whooper. | |
-4 letters: ephors, heroes, herpes, hewers, hooper, hopers, poorer, porose, posher, powers, proser, prower, repose, repros, rerose, reshoe, reshow, rooser, ropers, rowers, shewer, shower, sorrow, spewer, sphere, wheeps, wheres, whoops, whores, wooers, worser. | |
-5 letters: ephor, erose, ewers, heres, heros, hewer, hoers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-o-o-p-r-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: horsepowers. | |
+3 letters: weatherproofs. | |
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