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Drift Net

Definition: Drift Net

Drift Net

Noun

1. A large fishnet supported by floats; it drifts with the current.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Expression: Drift Net

Expression using "drift net": drift net fishing. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drift Net

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

drift net fishing

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drift Net

Language Translations for "drift net"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

плаваща рибарска мрежа (drift). (various references)

   

Danish

  

drivgarnsfiskeri (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

drijfnetvisserij (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ajoverkoilla kalastaminen (drift net fishing, drifting), ajoverkkokalastus (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

French

  

pêche aux filets dérivants (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

German

  

Treibnetzfischerei (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλιεία με παρασυρόμενο δίχτυ (crane, drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vonóháló (drag, dragnet, trawl, trawl-net). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pesca con rete da posta derivante (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

流し網 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ながしあみ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhieen troa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftdray etnay

   

Portuguese

  

pesca com redes de emalhar de deriva (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

plasã de pescuit (fishing net, trammel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дрифтерная сеть (drift-net). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ribarska mreža. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pesca con red de deriva (drift net fishing, drifting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sköta (attend, attend to, attendance, conduct, do one's work, doctor, hold, keep, look after, mind, nurse, operate, serve, take care of, tend, tend to, wield). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

akıntıya bırakılan balık ağı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drift Net

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-n-r-t-t"

-1 letter: fritted, trident.

-2 letters: finder, fitted, fitter, friend, redfin, refind, retint, rident, rifted, tinder, tinted, tinter, titfer, trined.

-3 letters: diner, drift, feint, fetid, fiend, fined, finer, fired, fried, fritt, inert, infer, inter, niter, nitre, refit, teind, tined, tired, titer, titre, trend, tried, trine, trite.

-4 letters: defi, deft, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dite.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-n-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: infiltrated, spendthrift.

 

+4 letters: fainthearted, fractionated, intergrafted, spendthrifts, unstratified.

 

+5 letters: counterfeited, deforestation, differentiate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Drift Net


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 69 66 74      4E 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#78 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0066 0074      004E 0065 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38847572862487186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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