Binnacle

Definition: Binnacle

Binnacle

Noun

1. A nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm).

Date "binnacle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Etymology: Binnacle \Bin"na*cle\, noun. [For bittacle, corrupted (perh. by influence of bin) from Portuguese bitacola binnacle, from the Latin expression habitaculum dwelling place, from habitare to dwell. See Habit, and compare to Bittacle.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Binnacle

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Binnacle The case of the mariner's compass, which used to be written bittacle, a corruption of the Portuguese bitacola, French, habitacle, properly an abode. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: Binnacle

English words defined with "binnacle": Bittacle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "binnacle": BINNACLE WORD. (references)

Etymologies containing "binnacle": Habitakle. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Binnacle

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Photo Album: Binnacle

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	View inside the ship's pilothouse, showing speaking tubes and binnacle. Photographed in August 1943, while she was being salvaged in Halavo Bay, Florida Island, near Tulagi. She had been sunk there by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes on 4 May 1942. Note broken helmsman's wheel at left.Credit: NAVY.		Ship's officers on board, at Sitka, Alaska, 1889. Those identified are: Passed Assistant Surgeon Henry B. Fitts (far left): Lieutenant Albon C. Hodgson (3rd from left); Lieutenant Commander Oscar W. Farenholt, Commanding Officer, (center); Ensign Robert E. Coontz (far right). Note very fancy binnacle at left and small Dahlgren howitzer on a pivot-mount at right.Credit: NAVY.
	Victory food from American waters. With the light from the compass binnacle illuminating his face, Captain John Riberia guides Old Glory back to Gloucester port. Decks have been cleared and fish stored in ice until return to port.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Binnacle

"Binnacle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Binnacle" is used about 14 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)	100%	14	93,893

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Binnacle

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
binnacle	23
binnacle control	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Binnacle

Language		Translations for "binnacle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		罗盘箱. (various references)

Farsi		جای قطب نما. (various references)

French		habitacle. (various references)

German		kompasshaus. (various references)

Greek		θήκη πυξίδασ. (various references)

Hungarian		iránytűtartó. (various references)

Indonesian		rumah pedoman, kompas di kapal. (various references)

Italian		chiesuola. (various references)

Manx		thie combaase. (various references)

Pig Latin		innaclebay

Portuguese		caixa de bússola. (various references)

Spanish		bitácora. (various references)

Swedish		nakterhus. (various references)

Turkish		pusula dolabı. (various references)

Ukranian		відвідний канал (deferent, offtake). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Binnacle

Derivations
	Words beginning with "binnacle": binnacles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Binnacle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banacek. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Binnacle"

Words rhyming with "binnacle" (pronounced 'Bin"na*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binocle, Bittacle, Calicle, Canticle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, Demicircle, Denticle, Diverticle, Encircle, Epicycle, Fernticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Immanacle, Incircle, Incle, Interclavicle, Isicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Nucle, Obstacle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Binnacle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: encinal.
	-2 letters: canine, cannel, cannie, encina, inlace.
	-3 letters: alien, aline, anile, benni, binal, blain, cabin, cable, ceiba, clean, cline, elain, ileac, inane, lance, liane, linac, linen, nance.
	-4 letters: able, acne, alec, anil, bail, bale, bane, bani, bean, bice, bile, bine, blae, blin, cain, cane, ceil, cine, clan, elan, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, lean.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: binnacles, incunable.
	+2 letters: blackening, branchline, enunciable, inclinable, incunables.
	+3 letters: blackenings, branchlines, cannibalise, cannibalize, consignable, containable, linebacking, rebalancing.
	+4 letters: bicentennial, cannibalised, cannibalises, cannibalized, cannibalizes, conscionable, inconsolable, inconsumable, indeclinable, linebackings, nonbacterial, sanctionable, tabernacling, unnoticeable.
	+5 letters: bicentennials, brainchildren, companionable, conditionable, incapableness, inconceivable, inconceivably, incontestable, incontestably, influenceable, nonalphabetic, noncompatible, overbalancing, unconceivable, uncontainable.
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