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Definition: ANKER |
ANKERNoun1. A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons. |
Date "ANKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Anker \An"ker\, noun. [from Dutch expression anker: compare to late Latin anceria, ancheria.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ANKER |
| Non-English Usage: "ANKER" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (anchor), Albanian (Anker), Danish (anchor), Dutch (anchor, anker, armature, brace, cramp-iron), German (anchor, armature, grapnel, guy), Papiamen (anchor). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | In volle zee Voor anker (1959) Herz geht vor Anker (1940) Zum goldenen Anker (1931) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hesper appearing to Columbus in prison / drawn by Smirke : engraved by Anker Smith. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ANKER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANKER" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ANKER" 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 |
| Anker | Last name | 1,000 | 18,833 |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
anker | 40 | anker machine sewing | 3 |
conrad anker | 10 | anita anker | 3 |
albert anker | 8 | anker energy | 3 |
anker hotel | 6 | anker logo | 3 |
anker eli | 4 | anker holth | 2 |
anker publishing | 4 | anker ross | 2 |
anker bank | 4 | anker meister | 2 |
anker jensen | 3 | ads anker | 2 |
anker carsten | 3 | anker coal | 2 |
anker anna | 3 | 850 anker e | 2 |
anker hotel oslo | 3 | anker bv | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ANKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Anker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Анкър. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | anker (anchor, armature, brace, cramp-iron), <inhoudsmaat>. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Ankeres Hordó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ankeray Medida Antiga De Vinho. (various references) Анкер. (various references) buideal (a bottle, bottle, cask). (various references) Thụy điển, Ho lan, Đan mạch, 8625 lít ở Anh cổ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ANKER": ankerite, ankerites. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ANKER": banker, blanker, canker, cranker, danker, flanker, franker, hanker, lanker, ranker, spanker, supertanker, swanker, tanker, thanker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ANKER": bankerly, bankers, cankered, cankering, cankerous, cankers, cankerworm, cankerworms, cantankerous, cantankerously, cantankerousness, cantankerousnesses, flankers, frankers, hankered, hankerer, hankerers, hankering, hankers, mountebankeries, mountebankery, rankers, spankers, supertankers, tankers, thankers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ANKER" (pronounced 'An"ker'): broker, Cadilesker, Croker, hanker, Hunker, Junker, Oker, Saker, trekker, Tunker, Yonker, Younker. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: earn, kane, karn, kern, knar, nark, near, rake, rank. | |
-2 letters: ane, are, ark, ear, era, ern, kae, kea, ken, nae, ran. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, ka, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: banker, canker, danker, darken, hanker, harken, kraken, lanker, narked, ranked, ranker, rankle, tanker. | |
+2 letters: bankers, blanker, bracken, cankers, cranked, cranker, crankle, darkens, flanker, franked, franker, hankers, harkens, hearken, keratin, klavern, knacker, knapper, knarred, knavery, kneader, krakens, lankier, nakeder, pranked, ramekin, rankers, rankest, rankled, rankles, ranpike, retaken, rewaken, snakier, sneaker, spanker, swanker, tankers, thanker, unbrake, unmaker, unraked, wakener. | |
| 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)41 4E 4B 45 52 |
| 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)01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A N K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004E 004B 0045 0052 |
| 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)3548453952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Russies, Rus, الروسية, روسي, اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian; Skots, skocez, шотландски, 苏 兰, skotský, Schots, skotskur, skotlantilainen, écossais, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, skozur, scozzese, 스"틀랜", Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, escocés, skotsk, iskoçyalı, шотланський, шотландці, шотландський діалект, for Scottish; Vietnamees, vietnamez, vietnamisht, виетнамски език, виетнамски, Vietnamis, 越南語 , 越南 , 越南语, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamec, vietnamština, vietnameser, vjetmanskt, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, Fjetnameesk, vietnamese, vietnamesisch, Vietnamesin, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", 트남, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnam, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt, for Vietnamese; 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