CLOUGH

Definition: CLOUGH

CLOUGH

Noun

1. An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

3. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: CLOUGH

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Height	Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CLOUGH

Specialty definitions using "CLOUGH": Adam Bell ♦ Clym of the Clough ♦ William. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CLOUGH

Domain	Title
References	Clough Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Arthur H. Clough 1819-1861: The Voice of Victorian Sex (Short Lives) (reference) Arthur Hugh Clough (reference) Four Victorian Poets; A Study Of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, With An Introduction On The Course Of Poetry From 1822-1852 (BCL1-PR English Literature) (reference) Poetry and Humour from Cowper to Clough (reference) The collected poems of Wilson Clough (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: CLOUGH

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Past Grand Masters of Dakota I.O.O. F., 1890, at Deadwood, S.D. A.E. Clough, A.E.Nugent, H.J. Rowe, Wm. A. Bently, F.W. Miller, F.S. Emeison. A.G. Smith, R.R. Briggs, Zina Richey, H.J. Rice. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: CLOUGH

Author	Quotation
Arthur Hugh Clough	If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
	Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
	The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
	And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: CLOUGH

"CLOUGH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.02% of the time. "CLOUGH" is used about 309 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 (proper)	77.02%	238	19,410
Noun (singular)	10.03%	31	62,296
Noun (common)	8.41%	26	68,323
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.21%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.32%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	309	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: CLOUGH

The following table summarizes the usage of "CLOUGH" 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
Clough	Last name	4,000	3,405
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: CLOUGH

Country	Name
Australia	Clough Limited
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: CLOUGH

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "CLOUGH": Clough-leeds, clough-like, Clough-parker, clough-style.
	Ending with "CLOUGH": anti-clough.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLOUGH

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
clough	21
sandy clough	14
sandy lynam clough	10
clough harbour	10
clough park state	8
associate clough harbour	8
clough harbor	7
brian clough	6
clough engineering	5
associate clough harbor	3
clough shawn	3
arthur hugh clough	2
clough dorothy	2
charles clough	2
capital clough partner	2
australia clough	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLOUGH

Language		Translations for "CLOUGH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kuldeagglutininsyndrom (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome), gennemstrømningsåbning (clough-arch). (various references)

Dutch		sas (lock, sluice). (various references)

Esperanto		Kloĥo. (various references)

French		conduit d'une écluse (clough-arch), maladie des agglutinines froides (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

German		CLOUGH-RICHTER-Syndrom (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome), Schleusenzuleitung (clough-arch), Kältehämagglutinationskrankheit (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

Greek		σύνδρομο Clough-Richter (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

Italian		condotta di una chiusa (clough-arch), sindrome di Clough-Richter (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

Pig Latin		oughclay

Portuguese		doença das aglutininas frias (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

Spanish		conducto de una esclusa (clough-arch), enfermedad de las aglutininas frías (CLOUGH-RICHTER syndrome). (various references)

Turkish		vadi (Canyon, Combe, Coomb, Coombe, dale, dell, Glen, gorge, kloof, Vale, valley), koyak. (various references)

Vietnamese		thung lũng dốc, khe núi (ravine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CLOUGH

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CLOUGH": cloughs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CLOUGH"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "CLOUGH" (pronounced klou")
2	-l ou"	allow, disallow, Lough, plough, plow.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CLOUGH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-h-l-o-u"
	-1 letter: cough, ghoul, gulch, lough.
	-2 letters: chug, clog, loch, ouch.
	-3 letters: cog, col, gul, hog, hug, log, lug, ugh.
	-4 letters: go, ho, lo, oh, uh.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-h-l-o-u"
	+1 letter: cloughs.
	+3 letters: grouchily, guilloche, slouching.
	+4 letters: glochidium, guilloches, touchingly, unclothing.
	+5 letters: chaulmoogra.
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