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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Strata containing seams of coal that are not of a workable thickness. In metal mining, ground that does not contain ore.See also:dead bed. (references) |
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Crosswords: BARREN GROUND |
| Specialty definitions using "BARREN GROUND": churn shot drill, classical washout ♦ fault shift ♦ pull drift. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir Arthur Helps | Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Gonzalo: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing. |
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Expressions using "BARREN GROUND": Barren Ground bear ♦ Barren Ground caribou. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
barren ground caribou | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-n-n-o-r-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: roadrunner. | |
-4 letters: androgen, arboured, grandeur, grounder, reground, unbarred, underran. | |
-5 letters: adorner, aground, arbored, bandore, baronne, begorra, begroan, boarder, bondage, bordure, bounden, bounder, brander, branned, branner, broaden, broader, burgeon, dogbane, dungeon, dunnage, gnarred, grander, groaned, groaner, guarder, guerdon, gurnard, nondrug, readorn, reboard, rebound, rondeau, rondure, rounder, unboned, undergo, unrobed, urbaner. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 52 45 4E 47 52 4F 55 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R R E N   G R O U N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0052 0045 004E 0047 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635525239482415249554838 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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