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Definition: EXCLAVE |
EXCLAVENoun1. A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. |
Note: Exclave \Ex*clave"\, noun. [Formed from enclave by substitution of ex- for en-] portion of country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: EXCLAVE |
| Specialty definitions using "EXCLAVE": customs exclave. (references) |
| "EXCLAVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXCLAVE" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "EXCLAVE": customs exclave. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
exclave | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EXCLAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Zollausschluss (customs exclave). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | exclaveay | ||||
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Words beginning with "EXCLAVE": exclaves. (additional references) | |
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"EXCLAVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Echave, esclave, excultavit, sexclone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-v-x" | |
-1 letter: cleave. | |
-2 letters: calve, clave, excel, leave. | |
-3 letters: alec, alee, axel, axle, calx, cave, eave, exec, lace, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, ave, axe, cee, cel, eel, eve, lac, lav, lax, lea, lee, lev, lex, vac, vee, vex. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, ax, el, ex, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-v-x" | |
+1 letter: exclaves. | |
+4 letters: explicative. | |
+5 letters: extractively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 58 43 4C 41 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -.-. .-.. .- ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01011000 01000011 01001100 01000001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E X C L A V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0058 0043 004C 0041 0056 0045 |
| 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)39583746355639 |
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