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Definition: CORB |
CORBNoun1. An ornament in a building; a corbel. 2. A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corb."
Crosswords: CORB |
| Non-English Usage: "CORB" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (heirloom), Romanian (Raven, rook). |
| "CORB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORB" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CORB": Murphey-corb. | |
| 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 |
band corb lund | 11 |
corb lund | 8 |
corb job | 5 |
corb | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CORB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | en art trommefisk (creaker, croaker, grey weakfish, honnibe croaker, red drum, shi drum, spot, spot croaker, squeteague, weakfish, white flower croaker, yellow drum), almindelig trommefisk (croaker, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Shi-ombervis (croaker, shi drum), ombervis (arctic char, creaker, croaker, grayling, jewfish, maigre, meagre, mountain trout, salmon trout, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum), gewone ombervis (creaker, croaker, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | partarumpukala (croaker, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ombrine commune, ombrine côtière, ombrine, maigre (cold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Umberfisch (creaker, croaker, shi drum), Schattenfisch (creaker, croaker, jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυλοκόπι (croaker, drums, shi drum), δόλεμος (croaker, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ombrina (umbrine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orbcay calafate-de-riscas (croaker, shi drum), calafate de riscas (creaker, croaker, shi drum). (various references) corvinato (creaker, croaker, jewfish, maigre, meagre, shadefish, shade-fish, shi drum), verrugato de piedra (creaker, croaker, shi drum), verrugato común (creaker, croaker, shi drum), verrugato (creaker, croaker, shi drum), berruguete (creaker, croaker, shi drum). (various references) skuggfisk (croaker, shi drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Umbrina cirrhosa, Umbrina cirrosa, Umbrina cirrosa (Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CORB": corban, corbans, corbeil, corbeille, corbeilles, corbeils, corbel, corbeled, corbeling, corbelings, corbelled, corbelling, corbels, corbicula, corbiculae, corbie, corbies, corbina, corbinas, corby. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CORB": antiscorbutic, antiscorbutics, ascorbate, ascorbates, ascorbic, scorbutic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "orb": sorb. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bro, cob, cor, orb, orc, rob, roc. | |
-2 letters: bo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-o-r" | |
+1 letter: boric, brock, bronc, carbo, carob, cobra, corby. | |
+2 letters: bicorn, bicron, borsch, boxcar, broach, broche, brocks, bromic, bronco, broncs, brooch, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, cobber, cobras, comber, corban, corbel, corbie, corymb, crambo, cyborg, recomb, sorbic. | |
+3 letters: abroach, acrobat, aerobic, becrowd, bedrock, bescour, bicolor, bicorne, bicrons, blocker, boraces, boracic, boronic, borscht, botcher, bouncer, boxcars, bracero, bricole, brioche, brocade, brocket, brocoli, bronchi, broncho, broncos, burdock, carabao, carbons, carbora, carboys, caribou, ciboria, clobber, cobbers, cobbier, cobbler, combers, corbans, corbeil, corbels, corbies, corbina, cordoba, corncob, corymbs, cowbird, cowherb, crambos, crowbar, cyborgs, microbe, obscure, pibroch, recombs, rhombic, robotic, rockaby, roebuck, strobic. | |
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