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"BUNKERS" is a plural of: bunker. |
Date "BUNKERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Heavy residual fuel oils used in ships. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | A Maritime term referring to Fuel used aboard the ship. Coal stowage areas aboard a vessel in the past were in bins or bunkers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BUNKERS |
| Specialty definitions using "BUNKERS": Accessorial Charges ♦ bunker coal ♦ car ice-bunker filler, CAR ICER, COAL SAMPLER, coal segregation, COAL-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, commercial energy use-kt of oil equivalent ♦ Deadweight, DEMOLITION SPECIALIST ♦ icer, air conditioning ♦ refrigerator-car icer ♦ SUPERINTENDENT, AMMUNITION STORAGE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BUNKERS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (dugouts). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, bodies kept turning up in the bunkers, and you need air support to play out of the rough. (Edge of Darkness; writing credit: Troy Kennedy-Martin) | |
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 | Engaged in an experimental coaling while under way at sea in 1914. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. The donor, who served as a seaman in South Carolina at the time, comments: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling. Nothing was heard of the test afterwards.". Credit: NAVY. | | Experimental coaling at sea while under way in April 1914. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. Original photo is printed on a postal card, inscribed on the reverse: "This is a picture of us coaling at sea last April. I have put a cross over where I stood. I unhooked bags of coal when they came over. It is raining when this picture was taken. We were out of sight of land off coast of Virginia." The donor, a seaman in South Carolina at the time, comments: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling. Nothing was heard of the test afterwards.". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Giessen eines Bunkers, Zement Träger, bei Lorient. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | North Korea | Also over the last several years, North Korea has moved even more of its rear-echelon troops to hardened bunkers closer to the DMZ. Given the proximity of Seoul to the DMZ (some 25 miles), South Korean and U.S. forces are likely to have little warning of any attack. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BUNKERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.90% of the time. "BUNKERS" is used about 122 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 (plural) | 95.9% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.1% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 122 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BUNKERS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bunkers | Last name | 100 | 87,206 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BUNKERS": coal-bunkers, cross-bunkers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUNKERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | silosystem (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bunkersysteem (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | bloc des accumulateurs, soutes (bunker oils), silos, fuels lourds (bunker oils), fuel de soutes (bunker oils), accus, accumulateurs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bunkeranlage (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system), Beladebunker (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system), Moelleranlage (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιλό αποθήκευσης (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system), σιλό (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system, bunker, dust ark, silo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szenet vesz fel (to coal, to take bunkers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | negli accumulatori sono depositati il minerale,il coke ed i fondenti necessari alla marcia dell'altoforno (coke and fluxes necessary for the functioning of a blast furnace are stocked in bunkers, the ore), la sonda ad ultrasuoni è stato utilizzata per misurare con continuità il livello di riempimento dei sili molto profondi (ultrasonic echo sounding has been used for continuous level measurement in fairly deep bunkers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkersbay bloco de acumuladores (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system), silos (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system). (various references) silos (bin system, bins, blast furnace bin system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BUNKERS": debunkers. (additional references) | |
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"BUNKERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benkert, brunker, Buncer, bunces, bunke, bunkies, buskers, funkers, punkers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUNKERS" (pronounced bu"ngkerz) |
| 5 | -u" ng k er z | clunkers, plunkers, younkers. |
| 4 | -ng k er z | anchors, bankers, bonkers, cankers, conquers, drinkers, freethinkers, rankers, stinkers, tankers, thinkers, Yonkers. |
| 3 | -k er z | acres, askers, attackers, automakers, autoworkers, backers, bakers, Barkers, Bickers, bikers, blockers, bloodsuckers, bookers, breakers, brokers, caretakers, carjackers, carmakers, caseworkers, checkers, clockers, cookers, coworkers, crackers, dockers, dockworkers, dressmakers, drugmakers, fakers, farmworkers, filmmakers, firecrackers, flickers, gawkers, hackers, hawkers, hijackers, hikers, homemakers, hookers, icebreakers, jokers, kickers, knickerbockers, knickers, Lakers, lawbreakers, lawmakers, leakers, linebackers, liquors, lockers, lookers, loudspeakers, makers, markers, massacres, matchmakers, metalworkers, moneymakers, monikers, moviemakers, newsmakers, nonsmokers, oddsmakers, onlookers, pacemakers, packers, parkers, peacemakers, pickers, printmakers, quakers, rackers, rakers, rockers, seekers, shakers, shoemakers, slackers, sleepwalkers, slickers, smokers, sneakers, snickers, speakers, squeakers, stalkers, steelmakers, steelworkers, stickers, stockbrokers, strikebreakers, strikers, suckers, takers, talkers, toolmakers, trackers, traffickers, troublemakers, truckers, vicars, walkers, whiskers, woodpeckers, woodworkers, workers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-k-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bunker, burkes, busker. | |
-2 letters: brens, brusk, bunks, burke, burns, burse, kerbs, kerns, knurs, neuks, nukes, nurse, rebus, rubes, runes, suber. | |
-3 letters: bens, bren, bunk, buns, burn, burs, busk, erns, kens, kerb, kern, knur, kues, kune, nebs, neuk, nubs, nuke, rebs, rube, rubs, rues, rune, runs, ruse, rusk, snub, suer, sunk, sure, ukes, unbe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-k-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: unbrakes. | |
+2 letters: debunkers, superbank. | |
+3 letters: cyberpunks, subnetwork, superbanks. | |
+4 letters: housebroken, rubbernecks, strikebound, subnetworks, turnbuckles, unworkables. | |
+5 letters: bankruptcies. | |
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