Alder

Definitions: Alder

Alder

Noun

1. Wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc.

2. North temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood.

Date "alder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Alder

Synonym: alder tree (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Alder

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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Alder, a genus of plants (Alnus) belonging to the order Betulaceae, the best-known of which is the common alder (A. glutinosa.) The genus comprises a few species of shrubs or trees, seldom reaching a large size, distributed through the North Temperate zone, and in the New World passing along the Andes southwards to Chile. The British species A. glutinosa is confined to the Old World.

See Magnoliophyta and Fagales

This tree thrives best in moist soils, has a shrubby appearance, and grows under favourable circumstances to a height of 40 or 50 ft. It is characterized by its short-stalked roundish leaves, becoming wedge-shaped at the base and with a slightly toothed margin. When young they are somewhat glutinous, whence the specific name, becoming later a dark olive green. As with other plants growing near water it keeps its leaves longer than do trees in drier situations, and the glossy green foliage lasting after other trees have put on the red or brown of autumn renders it valuable for landscape effect.

The stout cylindrical male catkins are pendulous, reddish in colour and 2 to 4 in. long; the female are smaller, less than an inch in length and reddish-brown in colour, suggesting young fir-cones. When the small winged fruits have been scattered the ripe, woody, blackish cones remain, often lasting through the winter. The alder is readily propagated by seeds, but throws up root-suckers abundantly.

It is important as coppice-wood on marshy ground. The wood is soft, white when first cut and turning to pale red; the knots are beautifully mottled. Under water the wood is very durable, and it is therefore used for piles. The supports of the Rialto at Venice, and many buildings at Amsterdam, are of alder-wood. Furniture is sometimes made from the wood, and it supplies excellent charcoal for gunpowder. The bark is astringent; it is used for tanning and dyeing.

Cultural aspects

Frequently, such as in Brythonic and Norse mythology, the alder is a symbol of resurrection, possibly because the wood turns from white to reddish-purple when cut, similar to human blood. The first humans in Norse mythology were made from ash and alder trees. In Ireland, reverence for the alder tree was so great that cutting one down was a criminal offense. In other places, such as Newfoundland, the alder's medicinal effects were prized; it has been used to treat burns, rheumatism and itching.

Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alder."

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Crosswords: Alder

English words defined with "alder": alder blight, alder buckthorn, alder dogwood, alder fly, alder tree, Aldern, Aller ♦ Black alder ♦ Clethra, common alder ♦ European black alder, Excrescent letter ♦ genus Clethra, gray alder, green alder ♦ hazel alder ♦ mountain alder ♦ Oregon alder ♦ red alder ♦ seaside alder, smooth alder, speckled alder, Sweet pepper bush ♦ White alder, witch alder, woolly alder aphid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alder": Startanic. (references)

Etymologies containing "alder": elm. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Alder" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (age), Norwegian (age).

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Commercial Usage: Alder

Domain	Title
Books	A Roaring in the Wind: Being a History of Alder Gulch, Montana, in Its Great and Its Shameful Days (reference) Alder Gulch (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Alder Gulch and a Rider of the High Mesa (reference) The Alder tree, its roots and branches : a story of the Alders before and beyond Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee (reference) The Biology and Management of Red Alder (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 6 - Piano Works / Demus, Alder, Gilels, Mustonen, Kempff, Barenboim (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Gusdorf Alder Corner-Style Workstation (52804) (reference) Gusdorf Alder L-Shaped Desk (53704) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Bartelt Alder Soap Dish (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Alder

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Photo Album: Alder

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	Lichen and other patterns on an alder tree on the Oregon coast.Credit: America's Coastlines.		Eighteen-inch diameter alder tree.Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Tree where Joseph Donner pitched his tent and perished, Alder Creek, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Alder

"Alder" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 47.52% of the time. "Alder" is used about 141 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 (proper)	47.52%	67	40,952
Noun (singular)	32.62%	46	50,285
Adjective (comparative)	14.89%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.26%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.71%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	141	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Alder

The following table summarizes the usage of "alder" 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
Alder	Last name	1,000	10,131
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Alder

Expressions using "alder": alder blight ♦ alder buckthorn ♦ Alder Creek ♦ alder dogwood ♦ Alder fly ♦ alder grove ♦ alder tree ♦ alder wood ♦ Black alder ♦ common alder ♦ european black alder ♦ gray alder ♦ green alder ♦ grey alder ♦ hazel alder ♦ mountain alder ♦ Oregon alder ♦ red alder ♦ seaside alder ♦ smooth alder ♦ speckled alder ♦ white alder ♦ witch alder ♦ woolly alder aphid. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "alder": alder-bodied, alder-fringed, alder-leaved serviceberry, Alder-liefest, alder-strewn, alder-wood.
	Ending with "alder": birch-hazel-oak-alder.
	Containing "alder": white-alder family.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alder

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
alder	87	alder plank	7
alder wood	61	jonathan alder	7
alder tree	40	alder arts cabinet craft custom door door door door door door door door door door door door door door door door exterior fire hardware interior iron knotty mesquite old quality tuscany wine wood wood wood wooden work world	6
alder lake	27	alder lake wa	6
alder creek ny	23	alder campground lake	6
alder cabinet	17	alder lake park	6
alder planetarium	16	alder lumber	5
alder creek kayak	14	alder cabinet kitchen	5
alder furniture	13	alder wood cabinet	5
alder creek	13	alder wood furniture	5
alder mt	13	alder white	4
red alder	11	jonathan alder high school	4
alder diels reaction	11	alder cabinet knotty	4
alder door	11	alder kurt	4
alder lake washington	11	alder home	4
alder excellent machine red well	10	alder wood chip	4
alder alfred	9	alder washington	4
alder diels	9	alder cabinet kitchen wood	4
alder herbruck	8	alder barbour	4
alder knotty	7	alder diels retro	3
		alder flats alberta	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alder

Language		Translations for "alder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		elsboom, els. (various references)

Albanian		Verr. (various references)

Arabic		‏جار الماء, ‏شجر حرجي يألف الماء. (various references)

Bulgarian		Елша. (various references)

Chinese		桤木. (various references)

Czech		Olše. (various references)

Danish		el (alder-tree). (various references)

Dutch		els (alder-tree, cobbler's awl), elzeboom. (various references)

Esperanto		alno, alna (alder-, of an alder). (various references)

Finnish		lepät (alder-tree). (various references)

French		aulne (alder-tree). (various references)

Frisian		elzenbeam, elzebeam, els. (various references)

German		Erle (alder-tree). (various references)

Greek		κλήθρα (alder-tree). (various references)

Hungarian		égerfa, éger. (various references)

Italian		ontano (alder-tree). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		榛の木 (black alder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		は�"のき (black alder). (various references)

Manx		farney (aldern). (various references)

Pig Latin		alderay

Portuguese		amieiro (alder-tree). (various references)

Romanian		Anin Negru. (various references)

Russian		Ольха. (various references)

Scottish		fe� rna (alder tree), f� rdadh (alder bark for dyeing black), droman (the alder tree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jova. (various references)

Spanish		Aliso (alder-tree). (various references)

Swedish		Al (Albania, arm language, Republic of Albania). (various references)

Turkish		Akçaağaç (acer, maple, sugar maple), Kızılağaç (Brazil, brazilwood). (various references)

Ukranian		�'ільха. (various references)

Welsh		gwernen (alder tree), gwern (alder grove, meadow, swamp). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Alder

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	alnus, Alnus spp.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Alder

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	LabonteV de egogguzon kata tou oikodespotou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et accipientes murmurabant adversus patrem familias
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða ongunnen hyo murcnian ongeanþanne heorde alder.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And in the takyng grutchiden ayens the hosebonde man, and seiden,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And when they had receaved it they murmured agaynst the good man of the housse
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And when they had received it, they murmured against the master of the house.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Alder

Language	Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 11
Cebuano	Ug sa ilang pagdawat niini, sila nanagbagotbot batok sa pangulo sa panimalay,
Chinese	他們得了、就埋怨家主說、
Croatian	A kad primiše, poèeše mrmljati protiv domaæina:
Danish	Men da de fik den, knurrede de imod Husbonden og sagde:
Dutch	En dien ontvangen hebbende, murmureerden zij tegen den heer des huizes,
Finnish	Kun he sen saivat, napisivat he perheen isäntää vastaan
French	En le recevant, ils murmurèrent contre le maître de la maison,
German	Und da sie den empfingen, murrten sie wider den Hausvater
Haitian Creole	Lè yo resevwa lajan an, yo tonbe bougonnen sou do mèt jaden an.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Waktu menerima uang itu, mereka menggerutu terhadap pemilik kebun:
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Setelah diterimanya, maka bersungut-sungutlah mereka itu kepada tuan rumah itu,
Korean	받 은 후 집 주 인 을 원 망 하 여 가 로 되
Manx Gaelic	As tra v'ad er ghoaill eh, ren ad tallagh noi yn er-thie.
Maori	A, no ka riro i a ratou, ka amuamu ki taua rangatira whare,
Norwegian	Men da de fikk den, knurret de mot husbonden og sa:
Portuguese	E ao recebê-lo, murmuravam contra o proprietário, dizendo:
Rumanian	Dupqce au primit banii, ckrteau kmpotriva gospodarului,
Russian	Й, � ПМХЮЙЧ, УФБМЙ ТП� ФБФШ ОБ ИПЪСЙОБ �"ПНБ
Shuar	Achikiar nérenniun itiurchat Enentáimturarmai.
Spanish	Al recibirlo, murmuraban contra el dueño del campo,
Swahili	Wakazipokea fedha zao, wakaanza kumnung`unikia yule bwana.
Swedish	När de så fingo, knorrade de mot husbonden.
Uma	Kampohilo-ra gaji' -ra tohe'e, ngkunuti-ramo mpongkunutii pue' bonea, ra'uli':
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Derivations & Misspellings: Alder

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alder": alderflies, alderfly, alderman, aldermanic, aldermen, alders, alderwoman, alderwomen. (additional references)
	Words ending with "alder": balder. (additional references)
	Words containing "alder": balderdash, balderdashes, caldera, calderas, falderal, falderals, falderol, falderols. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adef, ader, adir, Agdere, Alber, aldar, alday, alde, aldea, Aldec, aldo, alear, aled, alede, aleds, aleer, aler, Alero, alher, Alidoro, alier, Allder, Allexr, Allred, Almer, Alnemri, alner, Alper, alred, alver, ardeer, arder, audre, daladier, Hawlader, Kaldex, Kalodirr, ladar, ladeer, lader, lador, Lledr, Nadler, ulder, Uludere, Valdeir. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alder"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alder" (pronounced ô"lder)
4	ô" l d er	balder.
3	-l d er	beholder, bewilder, bolder, bondholder, boulder, builder, cardholder, colder, elder, fielder, folder, freeholder, Gelder, Gilder, Golder, guilder, Holder, householder, infielder, landholder, melder, milder, molder, moulder, officeholder, older, outfielder, polder, policyholder, shareholder, shipbuilder, shoulder, smolder, stakeholder, stockholder, titleholder, welder, wilder.
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Anagrams: Alder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lader.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-r"
	-1 letter: dale, dare, deal, dear, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, rale, read, real.
	-2 letters: ale, are, dal, del, ear, eld, era, lad, lar, lea, led, rad, red.
	-3 letters: ad, ae, al, ar, de, ed, el, er, la, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-r"
	+1 letter: alders, argled, ariled, aulder, balder, blared, cradle, credal, darkle, darnel, dartle, dealer, dearly, derail, dermal, dialer, fardel, flared, glared, herald, ladder, laders, ladler, laired, lander, larded, larder, larked, lauder, leader, loader, marled, medlar, ordeal, parled, pedlar, raddle, railed, reclad, redial, relaid, reload.
	+2 letters: adrenal, alarmed, alerted, allured, already, altered, bedrail, bladder, blander, bleared, brailed, brawled, caldera, candler, caroled, cleared, craaled, cradled, cradler, cradles, crawled, creedal, dabbler, dallier, dandler, dangler, dareful, dariole, darkled, darkles, darnels, dartled, dartles, dawdler, dazzler, dealers, declare, decrial, delator, delayer, deliria, derails, dextral, dialers, dialler, dilater, drabble, draggle, drawled, drawler, dryable, durable, earldom, emerald, fardels, federal, garbled, gargled, gladder, gladier, glaired, gnarled, halberd, handler, heralds, kraaled, labored, ladders, ladlers, ladrone, lagered, landers, landler, larders, lardier, laterad, lauders, launder, layered, leaders, leadier, learned, leeward, leopard, leotard, loaders, lurdane, lyrated, mandrel, marbled, medlars, ordeals, paddler, paroled, pearled, pedlars, pedlary, pleader, predial, rabbled, raddled, raddles, radiale, radicel, radicle, radulae, raffled, rallied, ralphed, rambled, rankled, rassled, rattled, raveled, readily, redials, redtail, regaled, relaced, related, relaxed, relayed, reloads, replead, ridable, rivaled, roulade, ruderal, saddler, slander, snarled, trailed, trawled, treadle, uredial, waddler, warbled, warsled.
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