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Definition: Breadline |
BreadlineNoun1. A queue of people waiting for free food. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BreadlineSynonym: bread line (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Breadline |
| Specialty definitions using "breadline": poverty passport. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Behind the Breadline (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Breadline job feeds poet who scanned $800,000. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Breadline at McCauley Water Street Mission under Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Breadline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Breadline" is used about 23 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 (singular) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
breadline | 7 |
breadline theater | 3 |
people century breadline | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "breadline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sorban állás élelmiszerért (bread-line), kenyérért sorban állók sora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadlinebray cola para recibir alimentos gratuitamente. (various references) ระ"ับรายไ"้ของคนที่จนมาก. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "breadline": breadlines. (additional references) | |
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"Breadline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baraldini, Barcaldine, Braendlin, breadwin, Broadline. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: bilander, deniable, linebred, renailed, rendible, rideable. | |
-2 letters: aliened, aliener, beadier, bedrail, berline, blander, bleared, blender, blinder, brailed, brained, brindle, delaine, enabled, enabler, inbreed, leadier, learned, reblend, redline, relined, ridable. | |
-3 letters: abider, aedile, aedine, aeried, aldrin, alined, aliner, aneled, ariled, bailed, bailee, bailer, balder, baleen, bander, beadle, beaned, beanie, belied, belier, bender, berlin, binder. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: breadlines. | |
+2 letters: discernable, lamebrained, undesirable, unliberated. | |
+3 letters: banderillero, considerable, deliberating, deliberation, determinable, determinably, imponderable, ineradicable, unbridgeable, undesirables, unverbalized. | |
+4 letters: admirableness, banderilleros, candleberries, considerables, deliberations, desirableness, imponderables, indescribable, nondeliberate, rattlebrained, undeliverable, undescribable, unpredictable. | |
+5 letters: creditableness, deliberateness, denumerability, differentiable, formidableness, inconsiderable, indecipherable, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminably, indiscoverable, rediscountable, republicanized, undecipherable, undeterminable, undiscoverable, unpredictables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 65 61 64 6C 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. . .- -.. .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r e a d l i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0065 0061 0064 006C 0069 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368471677078758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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