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Crosswords: BACKWASHING |
| Specialty definitions using "BACKWASHING": filter operator, FILTER-PRESS TENDER ♦ Mudballs ♦ purifying-plant operator ♦ water filterer, water purifier, water-control-station engineer, WATER-TREATMENT-PLANT OPERATOR. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Reversing the flow of water back through the filter media to remove entrapped solids. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BACKWASHING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BACKWASHING" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
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 |
backwashing pool | 12 |
backwashing | 7 |
backwashing filter pool | 4 |
backwashing filter | 4 |
backwashing pool swimming | 3 |
backwashing filter sand | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-h-i-k-n-s-w" | |
-2 letters: backswing, wingbacks. | |
-3 letters: abashing, backings, backwash, chainsaw, hawkings, kachinas, whacking, wingback. | |
-4 letters: abasing, awaking, baching, backing, backsaw, bakings, banksia, bashing, basking, bisnaga, cashing, casking, chasing, chawing, gawkish, hacking, hacksaw, hawking, kachina, kwachas, sacking, shaking, shawing, washing. | |
-5 letters: aahing, aching, ashcan, ashing, asking, baaing, baking, banish, bashaw, basing, bhangs, bwanas, cabins, caking, casbah, cashaw, casing. | |
| 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)42 41 43 4B 57 41 53 48 49 4E 47 |
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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)01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010111 01000001 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A C K W A S H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0043 004B 0057 0041 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)3635374557355342434841 |
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