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Definitions: CALCAR |
CALCARNoun1. A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. 2. A spur, or spurlike prominence. 3. A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. 4. A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. 5. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. |
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Health | A projecting portion of bone. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repute | Above all Greek above all Roman fame ; - cineri gloria sera est; "great is the glory for the strife is hard "; honor virtutis praemium; immensum gloria calcar habet; " the glory dies not and the grief is past "; vivit post funera virtus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CALCAR |
| English words defined with "CALCAR": Calcaria, Calcarine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CALCAR": calcar avis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CALCAR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (spur), Portuguese (crush, pound, press, pump, ram, repress, trample, trample on, tread, tread on), Romanian (chalk), Spanish (trace). |
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Expressions using "CALCAR": calcar avis ♦ immensum gloria calcar habet. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
calcar | 2 |
calcar diseños para | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "CALCAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | spore (inking, spore, spores, spur, stake). (various references) | |
Dutch | calcar (spur), spoor (imprint, line, print, rail, railroad, railtrack, railway, spur, stake, trace, track, tracking, trail). (various references) | |
French | éperon (carina). (various references) | |
German | Sporn (ram, spur, stake, tail skid, tail wheel, trail spade, zope). (various references) | |
Greek | πτηναίον πλήκτρον της πλαγίας κοιλίας (calcar avis), εκκόλπωμα ουρητήρα (ureteral calcar). (various references) | |
Hungarian | porzsoló medence, pörkölőkemence, mészszerű, mészégető kemence, frittelő medence, égetőkemence (kiln). (various references) | |
Italian | sporgenza (bulge, fasciation, jag, jut, overhang, projection, prominence, prominency, protrusion, protuberance, shoulder, snag, spur), sperone (buttress, heel, spur, stake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alcarcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | divertículo ureteral (ureteral calcar). (various references) | |
Spanish | calcariavis (calcar avis), calcar ureteral (ureteral calcar), hipocampo menor (calcar avis), espolón de Morand (calcar avis), divertΑculo ureteral (ureteral calcar). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CALCAR": calcareous, calcareously, calcaria, calcars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-l-r" | |
-1 letter: craal. | |
-2 letters: alar, caca, carl. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, arc, car, lac, lar. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, ar, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-l-r" | |
+1 letter: accrual, calcars, caracal, caracol, caracul. | |
+2 letters: accruals, acicular, calcaria, calcspar, caracals, caracole, caracols, caraculs, charcoal, farcical, saccular. | |
+3 letters: acclaimer, accruable, archducal, calcspars, canicular, caracoled, caracoles, carbachol, carvacrol, cercarial, charcoals, clearance, cyclorama, practical. | |
+4 letters: acaricidal, accelerant, accelerate, acclaimers, accurately, acrostical, anarchical, arctically, articulacy, calcareous, calculator, caracoling, caracolled, carbachols, carvacrols, cascarilla, charcoaled, cladoceran, clavicular, clearances, crawlspace, cycloramas, farcically, fascicular, macroscale, nonaccrual, practicals, sacroiliac, slavocracy. | |
+5 letters: accelerando, accelerants, accelerated, accelerates, accelerator, accessorial, accordantly, acculturate, accumulator, acerbically, acromegalic, archaically, archangelic, autarchical, calculators, calefactory, calendrical, calorically, canalicular, caprolactam, caracolling, carbuncular, caricatural, cascarillas, categorical, chancroidal, charcoaling, cicatricial, cladocerans, clapperclaw, contractual, crackleware, crawlspaces, diacritical, farcicality, impractical, macroscales, malpractice, monarchical, parallactic, plantocracy, practicable, practicably, practically, racialistic, recalculate, sacrificial, sacroiliacs, spectacular, unpractical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4C 43 41 52 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000011 01000001 01001100 01000011 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A L C A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004C 0043 0041 0052 |
| 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)373546373552 |
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