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Date "BED-ROCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Rock of relatively great thickness and extent in its native location. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bed-rock American slang for one's last shilling. A miner's term, called in England the "stone-head," and in America, the "Bed-rock," the hard basis rock. When miners get to this bed the mine is exhausted. "I'm come down to the bed-rock," i.e. my last dollar. " `No, no!' continued Tennessee's partner, hastily, `Ill play this yer hand alone. I've come down to the bed-rock; it's just this: Tennessee, thar, has played it pretty rough and expensive, like, on a stranger ... Now what's the fair thing? Some would say more, and some would say less. Here's seventeen hundred dollars in coarse gold and a watch- it's about all my pile- and call it square.' "- Bret Harte; Tennessee's Partner. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BED-ROCK |
| Specialty definitions using "BED-ROCK": rock desert ♦ stone desert, superficial geology. (references) |
| "BED-ROCK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BED-ROCK" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BED-ROCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | klippeundergrund (bedrock, ledge), grundfjeld (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bedrock, bur, burr, country rock, enclosing rock, fundamental complex, ledge, main bottom, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), fjeld (bedrock, ledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vast gesteente (bedrock, ledge, main bottom), rotsachtige ondergrond (bedrock, ledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | peruskallio (ground-rock), kallioperä (bedrock, ledge, main bottom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bedrock (bedrock), assise rocheuse (bed rock, bedrock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Felsuntergrund (bedrock, ledge, solid rock), Felsbank (bedrock, ledge), anstehender Fels (bedrock, ledge, solid rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρώμα βράχου (bedrock, ledge), μητρικός βράχος (bedrock, ledge), μητρικό πέτρωμα (bedrock, ledge, main bottom, primary rock, primitive rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | roccia madre (bedrock, ledge), roccia di base (bedrock, ledge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ed-rockbay rocha-mãe (bedrock, ledge), firme (compact, consistent, deep-seated, die-hard, fadeless, fast, firm, fixed, hard, inflexible, iron, non-ductile, resolute, set, settled, sober, solid, stable, steadfast, steady, stern, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tight, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfailing, unfaltering, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), assentada rochosa (bedrock, ledge), "bed-rock". (various references) pãtrunde în miezul lucrurilor (get down to bed-rock). (various references) roca madre (bedrock, ledge), roca firme (bedrock, ledge), lecho rocoso (bedrock, ledge, rock wash, rocky bed, rocky channel). (various references) berggrund (bedrock). (various references) скельна основа, факти, що лежать в основі, корінна порода, основні принципи (outline), базис (base, base line, basis). (various references) nền đá, đá móng nền tảng tìm hiểu đến căn nguyên của sự việc, đá gốc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bedrock. | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r" | |
-1 letter: corked, docker, redock, rocked. | |
-2 letters: bored, brock, broke, coder, coked, cored, credo, decor, dreck, ocker, orbed, robed. | |
-3 letters: beck, bock, bode, bore, bred, cero, code, coed, coke, cord, core, cork, deck, deco, dock, doer, dore, dork, drek, kerb, kore, reck, redo, robe, rock, rode. | |
-4 letters: bed, bod, bro, cob, cod, cor, deb, doc, doe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bedrocks. | |
+2 letters: blockader. | |
+3 letters: blockaders. | |
+4 letters: backcrossed, backdropped, bloodsucker, cinderblock, crookbacked, goldbricked, roadblocked. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, bloodsuckers, checkerboard, cinderblocks, stockbreeder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 44 2D 52 4F 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000100 00101101 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E D - R O C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0044 002D 0052 004F 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639381552493745 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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