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Definitions: Calk |
CalkNoun1. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping. Verb1. Provide with calks; "calk horse shoes". 2. Seal with caulking; "caulk the window". 3. Injure with a calk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "calk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. To drive tarred oakum into the seams between planks and fill with pitch b. Limestone or chalk; also spelled caulk c. A variety of barite d. To peen and draw metal toward and around a diamond being hand-wet in a malleable-steel bit blank. Also called peen. Syn:peelere. To wick. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Transfer a drawing, etc. , from a tracing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CalkSynonyms: calkin (n), caulk (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Restoration | Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Calk |
| English words defined with "calk": Calked, Calker, Calking, Chinse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "calk": Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "calk" 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 |
| Calk | Last name | 170 | 41,186 |
| 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 |
calk | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "calk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zë (bar, begin, block out, catch, caulk, clog, close, engage, find, handle, have, hold, knead, occupy, part, plug up, seize, shut out, sound, take, tie up, voice), vë gozhdë, stukoj (caulk, putty), paftë (plate), mbyll (bung, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), kopjoj (copy, crib, duplicate, facsimile, imitate, pattern, replicate, transcribe, transfer, write out), këpucë me gozhdë, gozhdë me kokë (hobnail). (various references) | |
Arabic | مانعة الإنزلاق (creeper), سد الشقوق (chink), سد بشكل عام, جلفط, الجزء الناتئ من نعل الفرس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уплътнявам (firm, lute, obturate), шип (barb, ferrule, journal, nib, prick, prickle, rough, spine, spur, thorn), копирам (copy, imitate, trace), гвоздей (nail), габър (hornbeam), издаден ръб на подкова. (various references) | |
Chinese | 尖" (Calked, Calking). (various references) | |
Czech | ozub (barb, cog). (various references) | |
Danish | kalkere (trace). (various references) | |
Dutch | kalfateren (caulk), kalefateren (caulk), breeuwen (calking, caulk, caulking). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kalfatri (caulk). (various references) | |
Farsi | محاسبه کردن , مسدودکردن (Bar, Bloc, Block, Choke, Clog, Close, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Preclude, Scotch), نعل زدن , چرت زدن (Catnap, Nap, Slumber, Snooze), کپیه کردن (Copy, Imitate), زیرپوش سازی کردن , بتونه کاری کردن (Prime), بانعل یالگداسب مجروح شدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | hokki (calkin, spike). (various references) | |
French | décalquer (to take a carbon copy). (various references) | |
German | umdrucken, stollen (adit, cleat, fruit cake, fruit loaf, gallery, mineworkings, stollen, stud, tread bar, tunnel, tyre tread), nagel (hobnail, nail, peg, pin, Spike, stud, tack), mit stollen versehen, mit nägeln beschlagen (studded), kalfatern (calking, caulk, caulking), durchpausen (to take a carbon copy, to trace, trace). (various references) | |
Greek | καλαφατίζω (caulk). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégpatkót felver, jégpatkó, becsomagol vízhatlan ponyvába. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tapal kuda, mendempul. (various references) | |
Italian | calafatare (caulk), decalcare (to take a carbon copy, to trace). (various references) | |
Manx | calkin, calkey (stop up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alkcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | decalcar (pound, trace, transfer). (various references) | |
Romanian | cui de potcoavã (calkin), crampon (crampon, dog, holdfast, hook, Spike, staple, stud), calchia (copy), caia (calkin, hob, hobnail, horseshoe nail), cãlãfãtui (caulk), etanşa (joint). (various references) | |
Russian | конопатить (caulk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | staviti blokej, blokej (cleat). (various references) | |
Spanish | calafateo (calking, caulk, caulking), calafatear (caulk, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up, pay, pitch, to calk, to caulk). (various references) | |
Swedish | osläkt kalk, kalkera (trace), brodda, brodd (calkin, crampon, germ, rough, Spike, sprout). (various references) | |
Turkish | kayar (calkin, planing), kalafat etmek (calkin, caulk, grave), buzmıhı (calkin). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шип (barb, bur, buzz, nib, prick, prickle, tenon), копіювати (copy, replicate, trace), калькувати, негашене вапно (burnt lime, quicklime), набивати підківки, підкувати на шипах, підкувати (prick), підківка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calk": calked, calker, calkers, calkin, calking, calkins, calks. (additional references) | |
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"Calk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aclk, cak, Cakle, calcu, calo, Celik, Clac, clak, clec, cxl, Dalk, jalk, kalc, Kalk, Kelk, Klak, valk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "calk" (pronounced kô"k) |
| 2 | -ô" k | balk, gawk, hawk, squawk, stalk, talk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lack. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-k-l" | |
-1 letter: lac. | |
-2 letters: al, ka, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-k-l" | |
+1 letter: alack, black, calks, caulk, chalk, clack, clank, cloak, flack, lacks, plack, slack. | |
+2 letters: blacks, cackle, calked, calker, calkin, caulks, chalks, chalky, clacks, clanks, cloaks, flacks, hackle, hackly, jackal, klatch, lacked, lacker, lackey, mackle, packly, placks, rackle, slacks, tackle, talcky. | |
+3 letters: alkalic, alkylic, armlock, backlit, backlog, bechalk, becloak, blacked, blacken, blacker, blackly, cackled, cackler, cackles, calkers, calking, calkins, calpack, catlike, catwalk, caulked, caulker, chalked, clacked, clacker, clanked, clarkia, cloaked, crackle, crackly, crankle, crankly, daglock, earlock, flacked, grackle, hackled, hackler, hackles, halakic, jackals, jackleg, klatsch, kolache, kolacky, lackers, lackeys, lacking, lavrock, lockage, lockjaw, lockram, mackled, mackles, oarlock, padlock, placket, pollack, rackful, sackful, saclike, shackle, skaldic, slacked, slacken, slacker, slackly, spackle, tackily, tackled, tackler, tackles, talcked, uncloak, wackily, warlock. | |
+4 letters: antilock, armlocks, backfill, backflow, backhaul, backland, backlash, backless, backlist, backlogs, backslap, backslid, backtalk, baldrick, bechalks, becloaks, blackboy, blackcap, blackens, blackest, blackfin, blackfly, blackgum, blacking, blackish, blackleg, blackout, blacktop, blockade, blockage, blowback, bluejack, bucktail, cacklers, cackling, cakewalk, calflike, calfskin, callback, calpacks, catwalks, caulkers, caulking, cavelike, chalkier, chalking, charlock, clackers, clacking, clambake, clanking, clarkias, clawlike, claybank, claylike, cloaking, coalsack, cocktail, cookable, crackled, crackles, cracknel, crankily, crankled, crankles, creakily, croakily, daglocks, deadlock, dockland, ducktail, duckwalk, earlocks, fallback, flackery, flacking, flapjack, fullback, garlicky, gavelock, grackles, hacklers, hacklier, hackling, hairlock, halfback, havelock, headlock, holdback, jacklegs, jackroll, kaolinic, kickable, kickball, klatches, kreplach, lacelike, lacework, lackaday, lackered, lackeyed, latchkey, laverock, lavrocks, lockable, lockages, lockjaws, lockrams, mackerel, mackling, millcake, mockable, necklace, nonblack, oarlocks, packable, padlocks, pickadil, plackets, playback, plowback, pollacks, pullback, rackfuls, retackle, rockfall, rollback, sackfuls, sacklike, sacksful, scablike, shackled, shackler, shackles, shellack, skullcap, slackens, slackers, slackest, slacking, slapjack, slotback, spackled, spackles, tacklers, tackless, tackling, tailback, talcking, uncloaks, warlocks, woolpack, woolsack, wrackful. | |
+5 letters: alkalotic, ankylotic, antiblack, applejack, backblock, backcloth, backfield, backfills, backflows, backhauls, backlands, backlight, backlists, backpedal, backslaps, backslash, backslide, backtalks, bailiwick, baldricks, bechalked, becloaked, blackball, blackbird, blackbody, blackboys, blackcaps, blackcock, blackened, blackener, blackface, blackfins, blackfish, blackgums, blackhead, blackings, blackjack, blackland, blacklead, blacklegs, blacklist, blackmail, blackness, blackouts, blackpoll, blacktail, blacktops, blackwood, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockages, blockhead, blowbacks, bluejacks, bootblack, bucktails, buckyball, cakewalks, calfskins, callbacks, camelback, caulkings, chalkiest, charlocks, checkable, clambakes, claybanks, cloakroom, coalsacks, cockatiel, cocktails, cornstalk, cracklier, crackling, cracknels, crankling, crosstalk, crosswalk, deadlocks, docklands, dreadlock, ducktails, duckwalks, fallbacks, flagstick, flapjacks, flashback, fullbacks, garlicked, gavelocks, hackliest, hairlocks, halfbacks, havelocks, headlocks, holdbacks, jacklight, jackrolls, jacksmelt, kalanchoe, kickballs, klatsches, laceworks, lackering, lackeying, lampblack, latchkeys, laverocks, leaseback, mackerels, mahlstick, marchlike, matchlock, maulstick, millcakes, necklaces, nonblacks, padlocked, parbuckle, pickadils, placekick, plasticky, playbacks, plowbacks, pullbacks, quillback, rackingly, retackled, retackles, roadblock, rockfalls, rollbacks, sackcloth, scalelike, shacklers, shackling, shashlick, shellacks, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, sicklemia, skeptical, skullcaps, slackened, slackness, slapjacks, slapstick, slotbacks, solonchak, spacewalk, spackling, stackable, stickball, tacklings, tailbacks, trackball, trackless, truckload, uncloaked, unshackle, whaleback, woolpacks, woolsacks, workplace. | |
| 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)43 61 6C 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006B |
| 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)37677877 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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