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Definition: AXMINSTER |
AXMINSTERNoun1. An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Carpets made by automatic looms. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Axminster's main industry is carpet making, for which the town is world renowned. A true Axminster carpet, made in the town, can be easily identified by the red cotton sewn into the edge of the carpet on the underside.
Axminster is located at 50°47'00" North, 03°00'00" West (50.7833,
-3.0000)1.Geography
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Axminster."
Crosswords: AXMINSTER |
| Specialty definitions using "AXMINSTER": CHAIN REPAIRER ♦ THREADING-MACHINE TENDER. (references) |
| "AXMINSTER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.18% of the time. "AXMINSTER" is used about 39 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) | 87.18% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.82% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AXMINSTER": Axminster carpet. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
axminster | 24 |
axminster kingdom united | 19 |
axminster carpet | 15 |
axminster tool | 6 |
axminster power tool | 5 |
axminster group medical | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-t-x" | |
-1 letter: matrixes, minarets, raiments. | |
-2 letters: anestri, antisex, antsier, etamins, imarets, inmates, maestri, marines, martens, martins, minaret, minster, minters, misrate, nastier, raiment, ratines, remains, remints, retains, retinas, retsina, sarment, seminar, sextain, smarten, smartie, stainer, stearin, tameins, taximen. | |
-3 letters: aimers, airest, airmen, aments, amines, animes, antres, arisen, armets, armies, arsine, astern, axites, estrin, etamin, extras, imaret. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-t-x" | |
+2 letters: externalism. | |
+3 letters: dominatrixes, exterminates, externalisms. | |
+4 letters: exterminators, proximateness. | |
+5 letters: exterminations, reexaminations, transsexualism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 58 4D 49 4E 53 54 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -..- -- .. -. ... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01011000 01001101 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A X M I N S T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0058 004D 0049 004E 0053 0054 0045 0052 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)355847434853543952 |
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