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Definition: Clydesdale |
ClydesdaleNoun1. Heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Clydesdale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
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Slang | Adj. Source: Clydedales are certain type of horses that are very large, but beautiful. Definition: A tall, but very good-looking girl. Context: The word is used in situations to describe a very tall, but pretty girl. Social Source: Ebonic using persons. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Clydesdale |
| English words defined with "Clydesdale": Clydesdale terrier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Clydesdale": Clydesdale Horses ♦ Shire Horses. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yeah! Clydesdale! (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
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| "Clydesdale" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clydesdale" is used about 93 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) | 100% | 93 | 34,067 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Clydesdale": Clydesdale terrier. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Clydesdale": clydesdale-type. | |
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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. |
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"Clydesdale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clydesale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Clydesdale" (pronounced 'Clydes"dale'): Pardale. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-s-y" | |
-2 letters: cadelles. | |
-3 letters: allseed, cadelle, decades, decayed, delayed, deleads, scalded. | |
-4 letters: addles, allees, alleys, called, ceased, cellae, celled, clades, clayed, dalles, deadly, decade, decals, decays, delays, delead, ladled, ladles, leaded, leased, lycees, saddle, scaled, sealed, slayed, yelled. | |
-5 letters: acyls, addle, aedes, alecs, allee, alley, caddy, cades, calls, cased, cease, ceded, cedes, cella, cells, clade, clads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-s-y" | |
+5 letters: glyceraldehydes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 79 64 65 73 64 61 6C 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. -.--. -.. . ... -.. .- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01111001 01100100 01100101 01110011 01100100 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l y d e s d a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0079 0064 0065 0073 0064 0061 006C 0065 |
| 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)37789170718570677871 |
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