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Definition: CUL-DE-SAC |
CUL-DE-SACNoun1. Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end. 2. A position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. 3. A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. |
Date "CUL-DE-SAC" was first used: 1738. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | A road with one end blocked off. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When progressing along a road, if there is a point at which there is no way out except the way one came in, then at the point, one is facing into a cul-de-sac.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cul-de-sac."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Closure | Noun: closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up; Verb: obstruction; (hindrance); embolus; contraction; infarction; constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation, imperviousness; Adjective: impermeability; stopper. |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CUL-DE-SAC |
| English words defined with "CUL-DE-SAC": Blind alley ♦ Culs-de-sac. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CUL-DE-SAC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (dead end). |
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Health | For staging purposes, when a patient appears to have early disease, biopsies should be taken from the pelvic side walls, cul-de-sac, and paracolic gutters. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CUL-DE-SAC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CUL-DE-SAC" is used about 129 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 (singular) | 100% | 129 | 28,132 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Culdesac, ID (city, FIPS 19900) |
| Language | Translations for "CUL-DE-SAC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lukket vej (dead end), lukket gade (dead end), blind vej (cul de sac, dead end). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doodlopende weg (blind alley), doodlopende straat (dead end, dead-end street, impasse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sakvojo (blind alley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | umpikuja (blind alley, deadlock, impasse), umpikatu (dead end). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | impasse (cul de sac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sackgasse (blind alley, cul de sac, dead end, dead-end street, impasse, stalemate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αδιέξοδο (blind alley, cul de sac, dead end, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate), διείσδυση (infiltration, penetration, permeation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsákutca (blind alley, blind gut, cul de sac, dead end, impasse, logjam, mews, no through road, stand-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vicolo cieco (cul de sac, dead-end street). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 盲管 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | もうか" (capillary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bollagh kyagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | blindvei (blind alley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ul-de-saccay situação sem solução, situação difícil (difficult situation, pickle, problem, quandary), rua sem saída (dead-end street), betesga (dead end). (various references) тупиковая станция (cul-de-sac station). (various references) camino sin salida (blind alley), callejón sin salida (blind alley, bottleneck, cul de sac, dead end, impasse), calle sin salida (cul de sac, dead end), calle ciega (cul de sac, dead end). (various references) återvändsgränd (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end, impasse, no go), återvändsgata (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end, no go). (various references) phố cụt, ngõ cụt bước đường cùng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | culus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: accused, caudles, cedulas, saccule. | |
-2 letters: accuse, calces, caudle, caulds, caules, caused, cedula, clades, clause, decals, sauced, scaled. | |
-3 letters: alecs, cades, cased, cauld, cauls, cause, cecal, clade, clads, clued, clues, cusec, daces, dales, deals, decal, duals, ducal, duces, duels, dulse, laced, laces, lades, lased, lauds, leads, leuds, luces, ludes, sauce, scald, scale, slued. | |
-4 letters: aced. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-l-s-u" | |
+2 letters: accursedly, cloudscape, sacculated. | |
+3 letters: cloudscapes, uncoalesced. | |
+4 letters: chuckleheads, circularised, fasciculated, nucleocapsid. | |
+5 letters: miscalculated, nucleocapsids, pseudoclassic. | |
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