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Doorhandle

Definition: Doorhandle

Doorhandle

Noun

1. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Doorhandle

Synonym: doorknob (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Doorhandle

"Doorhandle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doorhandle" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

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

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Modern Translation: Doorhandle

Language Translations for "doorhandle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

clenche. (various references)

   

German

  

Türgriff (door handle, doorknob). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kilincs (clench, door handle, handle, latch, pawl, trip). (various references)

   

Manx

  

laue ghorrysh. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

dørklinke. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oorhandleday

   

Spanish

  

picaporte (latch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Doorhandle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-l-n-o-o-r"

-3 letters: adorned, dandler, doodler, drooled, handled, handler, hoarded, hondled, honored, ladrone, lardoon, noodled.

-4 letters: adored, dahoon, daledh, dander, dandle, darned, darnel, dehorn, deodar, dhoora, doodle, dorado, droned, enhalo, hadron, haloed, handed, handle, harden, herald, hodden, holard, holden, holder, hondle, hooded, horded, horned, ladder, ladron, landed, lander, larded, lardon, loaded, loader, loaned, loaner, lorded.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-l-n-o-o-r"
 

+2 letters: endochondral.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Doorhandle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6F 72 68 61 6E 64 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#111 &#114 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006F 0072 0068 0061 006E 0064 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38818184746780707871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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