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Date "CORNSTALKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cornstalks In Australia and the United States, youths of colonial birth are so called from being generally both taller and more slender than their parents. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The only feed available for many cattle are the dried and grasshopper-chewed cornstalks. Near Carson, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The cornstalks looked golden. |
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| "CORNSTALKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORNSTALKS" 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 (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
cornstalks | 3 |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CORNSTALKS" (pronounced kô"rnstô'ks) |
| 3 | -ô' k s | sidewalks, tomahawks, toolbox. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-k-l-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cornstalk, crosstalk. | |
-3 letters: cantors, cartons, castors, contras, costars, cratons, santols, scrotal, skatols. | |
-4 letters: acorns, across, actors, arsons, ascots, assort, cansos, cantor, cantos, carols, carton, castor, clanks, claros, clasts, cloaks, clonks, coasts, contra, corals, costal, costar, cotans, cranks, craton, croaks, kaross, karsts, korats, lorans, narcos, octans, racons, roasts, salons, santol, santos, scants, scarts, scorns. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 52 4E 53 54 41 4C 4B 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .-. -. ... - .- .-.. -.- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O R N S T A L K S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0052 004E 0053 0054 0041 004C 004B 0053 |
| 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)37495248535435464553 |
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