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Carrel

Definitions: Carrel

Carrel

Noun

1. 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)

Specialty Definitions: Carrel

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Carrel

Synonyms: carrell (n), cubicle (n), stall (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carrel

English words defined with "Carrel": Alexis Carrelmodifiable. (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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Commercial Usage: Carrel

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) : de la mémoire à l'histoire (reference)

  • Alexis Carrel : l'ouverture de l'homme (reference)

  • Alexis Carrel, la tentation de l'abslu (reference)

  • Carrel, cet inconnu (reference)

  • L'homme, cet inconnu ? : Alexis Carrel, Jean-Marie Le Pen et les chambres à gaz (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Photo Album: Carrel

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Usage Frequency: Carrel

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Carrel

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CarrelLast name40021,000
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Carrel

Expression using "Carrel": alexis Carrel. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Carrel": study-carrel.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carrel

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

  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.

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Modern Translations: Carrel

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

rincón en una biblioteca. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

studiecell (Carrell). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tek kişilik çalışma yeri. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кабіна для наукової праці. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carrel

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Medieval Latin700-1500

carula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carrel

Derivations

Words beginning with "Carrel": carrell, carrells, carrels. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Carrel"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Carrel" (pronounced ka"rul)
5k a" r u lCarol.
4-a" r u lbarrel.
3-r u lamoral, 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.

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Anagrams: Carrel

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Carrel


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

43 61 72 72 65 6C

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)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#101 &#108

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)

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

376784847178

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INDEX

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


  

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