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Definition: Dunkirk |
DunkirkNoun1. A crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there". 2. A city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Dunkirk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonym: DunkirkSynonym: Dunkerque (n). (additional references) |
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It is also the name of some places in the United States of America:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dunkirk."
Crosswords: Dunkirk |
| English words defined with "Dunkirk": Dunkerque. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Figure 4. Biological sample recovery unit for use with Cepede net. Invented by Casimir Cepede at the Wimereux zoological station in 1907. The first test of this instrument was probably near Wimereux (in the vicinity of Dunkirk) at about the time of its invention. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany renounces on her own behalf and on behalf of her nationals in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights, titles or privileges of whatever nature in the submarine cables set out below, or in any portions thereof: Emden-vigo: from the Straits of Dover to off vigo; Emden-Brest: from off Cherbourg to Brest; Emden-Teneriffe: from off Dunkirk to off Teneriffe; Emden-Azores (1): from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; Emden-Azores (2): from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; Azores-New York (1): from Fayal to New York; Azores-New York (2): from Fayal to the longitude of Halifax, Teneriffe-Monrovia: from off Teneriffe to off Monrovia; Monrovia-Lome: from about lat.: 2° 30' N.; long.: 7° 40' W. of Greenwich: to about lat.: 2° 20' N.; long.: 5° 30, W. of Greenwich; and from about lat.: 3° 48' N.; long.:0° 00', to Lome; Lome-Duala: from Lome to Duala; Monrovia-Pernambuco: from off Monrovia to off Pernambuco; Constantinople-Constanza: from Constantinople to Constanza; Yap-Shanghai, Yap-Guam, and Yap-Menado (Celebes): from Yap Island to Shanghai, from Yap Island to Guam Island, and from Yap Island to Menado. (reference) |
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| "Dunkirk" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dunkirk" is used about 172 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% | 172 | 23,722 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Dunkirk, IN (city, FIPS 19054) 2. Dunkirk, MD 3. Dunkirk, NY (city, FIPS 21105) 4. Dunkirk, OH (village, FIPS 22946) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Dunkirk": Dunkirk-boulogne, dunkirk-style. | |
Ending with "Dunkirk": Dover-dunkirk. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Dunkirk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ð"юнкерк. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 敦刻å°"å…‹. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | PÅ™Ãstav Ve Francii. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Duinkerken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Dunkerko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Dunkerque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Î"ουγκÎÏκη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Dunkerque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ë©ì¼€ë¥´í¬. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkirkday Dunquerque. (various references) Ð"юнкерк. (various references) dankerk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-k-k-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: drink, drunk, kukri. | |
-3 letters: dink, dirk, dunk, durn, kind, kink, kirk, kirn, knur, nurd, rind, rink, ruin. | |
-4 letters: din, dui, dun, ink, irk, kid, kin, kir, rid, rin, run, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: id, in, nu, un. | |
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