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BRACK

Definitions: BRACK

BRACK

Noun

1. Salt or brackish water.

2. An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"BRACK" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the town of Bracca".

Date "BRACK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Crosswords: BRACK

Etymologies containing "BRACK": Brackish. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BRACK" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (bracket, brindle).

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Modern Usage: BRACK

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Brack Report (1982)

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

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Commercial Usage: BRACK

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: BRACK

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Staff Sgt. Steven Brack adjusts the nose landing gear door on a C-130 Hercules.

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

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Use in Literature: BRACK

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This point of the quai is very near the house brought from Moret to Paris in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and called the house of Francis I.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: BRACK

"BRACK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BRACK" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BRACK

The following table summarizes the usage of "BRACK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BrackLast name1,0009,597
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: BRACK

"BRACK" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the town of Bracca".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "BRACK."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
BrackMaleEnglishBraxton
BraxtonMaleEnglishN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRACK

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

brack

20

kenny brack

10

brack coffee

7

antonio brack egg

7

brack coffe

6

brack electronics

5

arcade brack coffee

4

brack john

4

brack brick

3

brack suzy

3

brack dance

3

brack show

3

arcade brack coffe

3

brack chevrolet rowe

3

brack dancing

3

brack hattler pittsburgh professor

2

brack indycar kenny

2

brack spring

2

brack irl kenny

2

brack kenny subwoofers

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BRACK

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

Danish

  

kvalitetsklasse (grade). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

laatuluokka (grade). (various references)

   

French

  

classe normalisée, classe, choix. (various references)

   

German

  

Klasse (bonzer, bracket, category, class, classy, cracking, denomination, form, grade, great, jim-dandy, league, neat, rate, rating, smashing, terrific, tremendous, wild). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

selejt (production losses, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, scrap, shorts, spoilage, waste, waste matter, wastrel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scelta (alternative, bet, choice, cull, election, option, pick, picking, selection), assortimento (assortment, assortment of goods, choice, combination, range, selection, set, stock). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackbray

   

Portuguese

  

falha (absence, blister, break, defect, fail, failure, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, Miss, muff, rift, rub, shortcoming), deficiência (badness, deficiency, deficit, failing, liable, malformation, shortcoming, vice, want), classe (breed, calling, caste, class, genus, grade, group, kind, predicant, race, range, rank, rate, schoolroom, sort, standard, state, stripe), categoria (category, chop, class, grade, head, predicament, rank, status). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clase (breeding, class, denomination, description, form, grade, kind, lecture, lesson, manner, nature, order, period, quality, school, schoolroom, set, sort, tone), categoría (category, class, denomination, flatness, grade, order, position, rank, ranking, set). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

бракувати товари, брак (dearth, defect, deficiency, discard [tech.], reject, spoilage, waster), дефект (damage, defect, demerit, fault, flaw). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BRACK

Derivations

Words beginning with "BRACK": bracken, brackens, bracket, bracketed, bracketing, brackets, brackish, brackishness, brackishnesses. (additional references)

Words containing "BRACK": unbracketed. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BRACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-r"

-1 letter: back, bark, carb, cark, crab, kbar, rack.

-2 letters: arb, arc, ark, bar, bra, cab, car, kab.

-3 letters: ab, ar, ba, ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-r"
 

+1 letter: backer, buckra.

 

+2 letters: backers, barrack, blacker, bracken, bracket, buckram, buckras, rockaby, runback.

 

+3 letters: backdoor, backdrop, backfire, backrest, backroom, backrush, backward, backwrap, backyard, baldrick, bankcard, bareback, barracks, bookrack, brackens, brackets, brackish, brickbat, brockage, buckaroo, buckayro, buckrams, drawback, fireback, grayback, hardback, rockabye, rollback, roorback, runbacks.

 

+4 letters: amberjack, backbiter, backboard, backcourt, backcross, backdrops, backdropt, backfired, backfires, backrests, backrooms, backsword, backtrack, backwards, backwater, backwraps, backyards, baldricks, bankcards, barracked, barracker, benchmark, blackbird, blackener, blockader, bookracks, bracketed, brainsick, breakneck, brickbats, brickyard, brockages, brushback, buckaroos, buckayros, buckboard, buckramed, canebrake, carryback, corkboard, crabstick, crackback, crookback, drawbacks, duckboard, firebacks, graybacks, greenback, hackberry, hardbacks, horseback, kickboard, packboard, paperback, parbuckle, razorback, roadblock, rockabies, rockabyes, rollbacks, roorbacks, rudbeckia, scrapbook, tackboard, thornback, throwback, trackball, waterbuck.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BRACK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 41 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .-    -.-.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0041 0043 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3652353745

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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乌克兰, for Ukranian;