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Specialty Definition: Flush toilet

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A flush toilet or water closet is a toilet that disposes of the waste products by using water to sweep them away down a drainpipe. The water is also used as a hygenic barrier between the drainpipe and the user.

It is widely held that Alexander Cumming was the true inventor of the modern flush toilet.

Some legends misattribute the invention to Thomas Crapper.

And yet, the ancient Cretans already had perfectly functional flushing toilets circa 2000 B.C.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flush toilet."

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Football World Cup

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The World Cup is the most important competition in international football (soccer). Organised by FIFA, the sport's governing body, the World Cup finals tournament is the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, bigger than the Olympic Games.

The finals tournament is held every four years, but the World Cup competition itself takes place over a two year period. Over 160 national teams compete in regional qualifying tournaments for a place in the finals. The finals tournament now involves 32 national teams (increased from 24 in 1998) competing over a 4 week period in a previously nominated host nation. A recent innovation has allowed more than one country to act as joint hosts.

In 1970, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the Jules Rimet trophy. A new trophy was then designed. Argentina, Germany (both times as West Germany), and Brazil have all won the second trophy twice. However, the current trophy will not be retired until the name plaque has been entirely filled with the names of winning nations. This will not happen until 2038.

Brazil, by a clear margin, are the most successful World Cup team overall, having won the tournament five times in total and finished as runners-up twice. Germany, three-time winners (as West Germany) and four-time runners-up (three times as West Germany), are next, while Italy have also won three trophies. Argentina and Uruguay are both two-time World Champions, although Uruguay's two successes came rather a long time ago, in the early years of the tournament.

The first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay and ran from July 13- 30, 1930.

The next World Cup finals will be held in Germany, in 2006.
Football World Cup Tournaments
Year Host Winner Runner up Score 3rd Place 4th Place Score
1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina 4-2 USA & Yugoslavia -----none----- n/a
1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia 2-1(aet) Germany Austria 3-2
1938 France Italy Hungary 4-2 Brazil Sweden 4-2
1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil n/a1 Sweden Spain n/a
1954 Switzerland West Germany Hungary 3-2 Austria Uruguay 3-1
1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden 5-2 France West Germany 6-3
1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia 3-1 Chile Yugoslavia 1-0
1966 England England West Germany 4-2(aet) Portugal USSR 2-1
1970 Mexico Brazil Italy 4-1 Germany Uruguay 1-0
1974 West Germany West Germany Netherlands 2-1 Poland Brazil 1-0
1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands 3-1(aet) Brazil Italy 2-1
1982 Spain Italy West Germany 3-1 Poland France 3-2
1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany 3-2(aet) France Belgium 4-2(aet)
1990 Italy West Germany Argentina 1-0 Italy England 2-1
1994 United States Brazil Italy 0-0(pen 3-2) Sweden Bulgaria 4-0
1998 France France Brazil 3-0 Croatia Netherlands 2-1
2002 S. Korea & Japan Brazil Germany 2-0 Turkey South Korea 3-2
2006 Germany            
2010 Africa2            
* aet: after extra time; pen: result decided by penalties. In 1950 there was no final or third place play off.

1 There was no official World Cup final match in 1950, however Uruguay's 2-1 defeat of Brazil put them ahead on points and ensured that they won the tournament.
2 For the 2010 World Cup; FIFA are only accepting bids from African nations. So far Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia have shown an interest in hosting the competition.

See also: FIFA Women's World Cup

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Football World Cup."

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List of people by name: Wa-Wc

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Wa-Wc - Wd - We-Wg - Wh - Wi - Wj-Wn - Wo-Wq - Wr-Wt - Wu - Wv-Wz

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: WC

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

WC

DanishToiletPersonal Care & Hotels, Medicine

WC

EnglishWater cooledN/A

WC

FinnishKäymäläTransportation

WC

ItalianConcentratore di collegamentiElectrical Engineering

WC

SpanishAseosGeneral

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: WC

English words defined with "WC": occupied. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WC": input/output redirection. (references)
Non-English Usage: "WC" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (closet, rest room, washroom), Dutch (water-closet), Finnish (toilet), French (toilet), German (wc), Hungarian (lavatory, rest room, toilet, water closet), Norwegian (toilet), Serbo-Croatian (bathroom, water closet), Swedish (water-closet).

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Commercial Usage: WC

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: WC

Computer Images:
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Non-Fiction Usage: WC

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Levine WC, Griffin PM, Gulf Coast Vibrio Working Group. (references)

Afzalpurkar RG, Shiller LR, Little KH, Santangelo WC, Fortran JS. The self-limited nature of chronic idiopathic diarrhea. (references)

Moran JS, Aral SO, Jenkins WC, Peterman TA, Alexander ER. 1989. The impact of sexually transmitted diseases on minority populations in the United States. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: WC

"WC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WC" is used about 228 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%22819,909

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

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Expression: WC

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "WC": wc-squad.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WC

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wc

616

bradley wc

7

wc field

52

wc dc58

6

lyrics wc

26

wc dc52

6

fldfs.com wc

20

field quote wc

6

miller wc

17

festival handy wc

6

wc handy

13

50 driver telemax wc

6

allis chalmers wc

11

voyeur wc

5

experience wc

10

50 telemax wc

5

street wc

10

canon wc dc58

5

wc e80

10

nikon wc e80

5

wc e63

9

wc e68

5

galaxy wc

9

101 evercool wc

5

spy wc

8

sex wc

5

lyrics street wc

8

bell.ca jg wc

5

wc wood

8

56 dodge wc

5

dodge wc

8

becken wc

5

dc58n wc

7

wc the maad circle

5

rapper wc

7

watercolors wc

5

sign wc

7

50 cam telemax wc web

4

ghetto heisman wc

7

canon wc dc58n

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WC

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

Danish

  

anvendes et tryk paa ca 200 mm VS opstaar der laminar stroemning, hvorved en tynd luftstraale gennemloeber kammerets frie rum og frembringer et tryksignal ved dens udtraedelse (applying an operating pressure of some 200 millimetres WC produces a laminar flow which can bridge over the free space in the chamber in the form of a laminar jet and which produces at the output a pressure signal). (various references)

   

French

  

commodes. (various references)

   

German

  

wc (head, toilet, water closet). (various references)

   

Italian

  

senza spese, gabinetto (cabinet, closet, lab, laboratory, lavatory, loo, office, privy, restroom, study, toilet, washroom, water closet), abbigliatura (lavatory, toilet). (various references)

   

Manx

  

premmee (earth closet, lavatory, loo, privy, public convenience, toilet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

wcay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

уборная (chic sale, closet, convenience, dressing room, lavatory, make-up room, necessary, privy, retiring room, retiring-room, washroom, water closet, water-closet, WC =water-closet), туалет (ensemble, lavatory, rest room, toilet, toilets, toilette, washroom, wash-room, water closet, WC =water-closet), ватерклозет (water closet, WC =water-closet). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

excusado (lavatory, toilet, w.c.). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

туалет (cloak-room, lavatory, loo, toilet, toilette, water closet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WC

Derivations

Words containing "WC": bawcock, bawcocks, chowchow, chowchows, cowcatcher, cowcatchers, crewcut, crewcuts, dewclaw, dewclaws, flowchart, flowcharting, flowchartings, flowcharts, narrowcasting, narrowcastings, newcomer, newcomers, pillowcase, pillowcases, showcase, showcased, showcases, showcasing, snowcap, snowcapped, snowcaps, sowcar, sowcars. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-w"
 

+1 letter: caw, cow, cwm.

 

+2 letters: caws, chaw, chew, chow, claw, clew, cowl, cows, cowy, craw, crew, crow, cwms, scow, wack, wich, wick, wych.

 

+3 letters: cahow, cawed, chaws, chews, chewy, chows, claws, clews, clown, cowed, cower, cowls, cowry, crawl, craws, crews, crowd, crown, crows, crwth, macaw, schwa, scowl, scows, screw, twice, wacke, wacko, wacks, wacky, watch, wecht, welch, wench, whack, which, wicks, wilco, wince, winch, witch, wrack, wreck, wrick.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Non-fiction 		5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern 		9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams 		13. Bibliography


  

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