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Definitions: Carrel |
CarrelNoun1. French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944). 2. Small individual study area in a library. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Carrel" was first used: 1810. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Cabines non fermées ou l'étudiant va travailler seul. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A small enclosure or alcove designed for individual study or reading in the stack room of a library - called also cubicle stall. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CarrelSynonyms: carrell (n), cubicle (n), stall (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carrel |
| English words defined with "Carrel": Alexis Carrel ♦ modifiable. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Carrel" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (carrel). |
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High Tech |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Audio-visual carrel.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Docteur Alexis Carrel.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [Julian Carrel Gant].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Carrel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carrel" is used about 13 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 (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Carrel" 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 |
| Carrel | Last name | 400 | 21,000 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Carrel": alexis Carrel. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Carrel": study-carrel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
carrel | 79 |
library carrel | 20 |
carrel alexis | 14 |
computer carrel | 11 |
study carrel | 9 |
smith carrel | 7 |
carrel technology | 6 |
carrel lab | 6 |
carrel rudi | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Carrel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qoshk (kiosk, stall), kthinë (alcove, scullery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقصورة بين رفوف الكتب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | studiecelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doorstroomapparaat van Carrel-Lindbergh (Carrel-Lindbergh perfusion apparatus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carrel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | arbeitsplatz (chair, employment, job, place of employment, place of work, position, shop, work station, working place, workplace, workspace, workstation), arbeitsnische (arch, pot opening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσκευή Carrel-Lindbergh (Carrel-Lindbergh perfusion apparatus), αντλία Carrel-Lindbergh (Carrel-Lindbergh perfusion apparatus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kutatószoba (brains room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sezione (appanage, branch, compartment, cross section, department, division, generating unit, part, section, transverse section). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrelcay compartimento (bay, box stall, branch, cage, cell, compartment, coupé, cubicle, magazine, pigeonhole, pocket, recess, salt pan, section, speciality, trap), recanto (corner, den, noon, quiet place). (various references) rincón en una biblioteca. (various references) studiecell (Carrell). (various references) tek kişilik çalışma yeri. (various references) кабіна для наукової праці. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | carula. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Carrel": carrell, carrells, carrels. (additional references) | |
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"Carrel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cabriel, cardel, carera, caril, carnel, carpral, Carrad, Carraz, carre, carrea, carree, carrell, carrem, carrer, Carril, carroll, Cemrel, Cerrej, correl, Corrielo, crell, crre, Currell, farrel, Gartrell, harrel, jarrel, Kardelj, Karweil, parrel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Carrel" (pronounced ka"rul) |
| 5 | k a" r u l | Carol. |
| 4 | -a" r u l | barrel. |
| 3 | -r u l | amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, Beryl, boral, Carle, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-r-r" | |
-1 letter: carer, carle, clear, lacer, racer. | |
-2 letters: acre, alec, care, carl, carr, earl, lace, lear, race, rale, rare, real, rear. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, car, cel, ear, era, err, lac, lar, lea, rec. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-r-r" | |
+1 letter: caroler, carrell, carrels, clearer, cradler, crawler. | |
+2 letters: carolers, caroller, carrells, carriole, cellarer, cerebral, clamorer, clearers, cradlers, crawlers, crawlier, declarer, larcener, preclear, recaller, replacer, scrawler. | |
+3 letters: barcarole, carollers, carpooler, carrioles, carrousel, cellarers, centraler, cercarial, cerebrals, clamberer, clamorers, clarifier, clatterer, conferral, corporeal, corralled, correlate, cracklier, craterlet, creatural, curlpaper, curtailer, declarers, erratical, lacquerer, larceners, mercurial, opercular, overclear, preclears, recallers, rectorial, relacquer, replacers, reticular, scrabbler, scrambler, scrawlers, scrawlier, trochlear, unclearer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 72 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .-. . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r r e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0072 0065 006C |
| 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)376784847178 |
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