Capitol Hill

  

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Capitol Hill

Definition: Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill

Noun

1. A hill in Washington, D.C., where the capitol building sits and Congress meets; "they are debating the budget today on Capital Hill".

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

 

Synonym: Capitol Hill

Synonym: the Hill (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Capitol Hill

English words defined with "Capitol Hill": the Hill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Capitol Hill": City of the Seven Hills. (references)

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Modern Usage: Capitol Hill

DomainUsage

Screenplays

That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill. (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski)

Movie/TV Titles

The Capitol Hill Girls (1977)

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

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Commercial Usage: Capitol Hill

DomainTitle

Books

  • Consumer Politics: Protecting Public Interests on Capitol Hill (Contributions in Political Science) (reference)

  • In Contempt of Congress: Postwar Press Coverage on Capitol Hill (Praeger Series in Political Communication) (reference)

  • The WetFeet Insider Guide to Jobs on Capitol Hill [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

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Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Capitol Hill

Photos:
Capitol Hill

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Photo Album: Capitol Hill

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Capitol Hill scalping party.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ed, Cliff says you may be the superb Secretary of the Senate on Capitol Hill but you're simply a swell Santa Claus to him!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Those Capitol Hill boys seem to forget this is a peace proposal / Berryman.Credit: Library of Congress.

A new hot line from the White House to Capitol Hill.Credit: Library of Congress.

Aerial view, including rest of Capitol Hill and Union Station.Credit: Library of Congress.

Historic Capitol hill, Montgomery, Ala.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Spoken Usage: Capitol Hill

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

Bob, alas, you did not go for our bait to get into a new fight with David Obey, but I think the tension between Mitch Daniels and the appropriators on Capitol Hill is inherent, it's going to continue, and it's because of those big tax cuts.

Robert Novak

But Dr. Lindsey, let's be candid. There are people on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, in Congress, who have taken this war as an opportunity to really open the floodgates on spending, raising appropriations far above your proposal.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capitol Hill

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

capitol hill

103

capitol hill job

33

capitol hill suite

31

hyatt regency capitol hill

24

blue capitol hill

9

capitol hill high school

7

capitol hill schneiders

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Capitol Hill

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

ε›½δΌšθ­°δΊ‹ε ‚ (National Diet). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

γ"γ£γ‹γ„γŽγ˜γ©γ† (National Diet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apitolcay illhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Capitol Hill

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Gracula religiosa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Capitol Hill

Misspellings

"Capitol Hill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capiol hill. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Capitol Hill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-l-l-o-p-t"

-2 letters: political.

-3 letters: hoplitic, pollical.

-4 letters: aphotic, aplitic, capitol, challot, coalpit, hilltop, lapilli, lochial, ophitic, optical, phallic, politic, potlach, thallic, thiolic, topical.

-5 letters: atopic, caliph, chalot, chilli, chital, cholla, citola, coital, hallot, haptic, hilloa, italic, litchi, lithia, lithic, lochia, phalli, phatic, photic, plical, tallol, thalli.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-l-l-o-p-t"
 

+5 letters: lithographically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Capitol Hill


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

43 61 70 69 74 6F 6C      48 69 6C 6C

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

    

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

01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01101111 01101100 00100000 01001000 01101001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#116 &#111 &#108 &#32 &#72 &#105 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 006F 006C      0048 0069 006C 006C

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

37678275868178242757878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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