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Brahmaputra

Definition: Brahmaputra

Brahmaputra

Noun

1. An Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Brahmaputra

Synonym: Brahmaputra River (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Brahmaputra

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Brahmaputra is a River of Asia.

It rises in western Tibet, in China and flow into the sea in the Bay of Bengal. It flows through Assam, India and Bangladesh.

See also: Geography of China

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brahmaputra."

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Crosswords: Brahmaputra

English words defined with "Brahmaputra": Brahmaputra River. (references)

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Modern Usage: Brahmaputra

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Along the Brahmaputra (1981)

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

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Commercial Usage: Brahmaputra

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Brahmaputra

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Thatched huts of fishing village at the junction of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra Rivers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Junction of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Village with thatched huts near junction of Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Captain, pilot and wheelman posed on deck of Brahmaputra river steamer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fishing boats at junction of the Ganges and Brahmaputra. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boats at Goalanda [sic], the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway at the junction of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Brahmaputra

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Economic History

Bangladesh

Formed by a deltaic plain at the confluence of the Ganges (Padma), Brahmaputra (Jamuna), and Meghna Rivers and their tributaries, Bangladesh's alluvial soil is highly fertile, but vulnerable to flood and drought. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Brahmaputra

"Brahmaputra" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Brahmaputra" is used about 6 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)100%6143,867

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

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Expressions: Brahmaputra

Expression using "Brahmaputra": brahmaputra River. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Containing "Brahmaputra": Ganges-brahmaputra-meghna.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Brahmaputra

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

brahmaputra

7

brahmaputra river

6

brahmaputra map river

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

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Anagrams: Brahmaputra

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-h-m-p-r-r-t-u"

-4 letters: patamar, rampart, tamarau, tambura.

-5 letters: abrupt, brahma, murrha, parura, prutah, rhumba, tambur, tarama, trauma.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Brahmaputra


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

42 72 61 68 6D 61 70 75 74 72 61

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

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

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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 01110010 01100001 01101000 01101101 01100001 01110000 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#104 &#109 &#97 &#112 &#117 &#116 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 0068 006D 0061 0070 0075 0074 0072 0061

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

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

3684677479678287868467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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