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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Crayola /kray-oh'l*/ n. A super-mini or -micro computer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. Might also be a killer micro. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Crayola is a well-known brand of crayons and other writing and drawing utensils, such as markers, chalk, and colored pencils manufactured by Binney & Smith IncThe brand is practically unknown outside the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, though.
External link
- http://www.crayola.com/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crayola."
Crosswords: CRAYOLA |
| Specialty definitions using "CRAYOLA": crayola books ♦ Orange Book. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |
High Tech |
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| "Crayola Crayons" by John Siebert Commentary: "Box of crayons." |
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| "CRAYOLA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CRAYOLA" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CRAYOLA": crayola books. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CRAYOLA": crayolas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: calory. | |
-2 letters: alary, carol, claro, clary, coala, coaly, coral, craal, royal. | |
-3 letters: acyl, alar, arco, aryl, calo, carl, clay, cloy, coal, cola, coly, cory, lacy, loca, lory, oral, orca, racy, raya. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, arc, car, cay, col, cor, coy, cry, lac, lar, lay, oar, oca, ora, orc, ray, roc, rya, yar. | |
-5 letters: aa, al. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: coalyard, crayolas. | |
+2 letters: coalyards, cyclorama, placatory. | |
+3 letters: acromegaly, apocryphal, comparably, cycloramas, escalatory, myocardial, oracularly, slavocracy, vocabulary. | |
+4 letters: accordantly, acropetally, aerobically, alcyonarian, applicatory, archaeology, artiodactyl, calefactory, calorically, carboxylase, carboxylate, clairvoyant, coplanarity, declamatory, declaratory, ejaculatory, exclamatory, lachrymator, laparoscopy, nonracially, oracularity, organically, parfocality, parochially, plantocracy, prosaically, rapaciously. | |
+5 letters: achlorhydria, acrostically, agranulocyte, alcyonarians, aoristically, apocryphally, aromatically, articulatory, artiodactyls, auscultatory, avariciously, cadaverously, calcareously, carboxylases, carboxylated, carboxylates, clairvoyance, clairvoyants, collaterally, connaturally, constabulary, facilitatory, fractionally, harmonically, incomparably, karyological, lachrymators, microanalyst, narcotically, octahedrally, operatically, oratorically, paranoically, pharmacology, pyromaniacal, romantically, sacerdotally, sardonically, sporadically, thoracically. | |
| 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 52 41 59 4F 4C 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. .- -.--. --- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010010 01000001 01011001 01001111 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R A Y O L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 0041 0059 004F 004C 0041 |
| 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)37523559494635 |
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