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Definitions: Exmoor |
ExmoorNoun1. Horned sheep of Devon; valued for mutton. 2. Stocky breed of pony with a fawn-colored nose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Exmoor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Note: Exmoor \Ex"moor\, noun. [From Exmoor, district in Somersetshire and Devonshire.]. (Websters 1913) |
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| "Exmoor" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Exmoor" is used about 30 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) | 70% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
exmoor | 31 | country exmoor hotel house | 3 |
bed and breakfast exmoor | 24 | exmoor holiday walking | 3 |
exmoor pony | 17 | exmoor hotel luxury small | 3 |
b b exmoor | 9 | break exmoor short | 3 |
exmoor country club | 8 | exmoor hotel quality | 3 |
exmoor national park | 7 | break exmoor weekend | 3 |
exmoor hotel | 7 | exmoor hotel quiet | 3 |
exmoor accommodation | 7 | exmoor kennel | 2 |
accommodation exmoor holiday | 6 | exmoor minehead | 2 |
catering exmoor self | 5 | accommodation exmoor lodge shoot | 2 |
accommodation catering exmoor self | 5 | accommodation exmoor restaurant | 2 |
coastal exmoor holiday | 4 | catering exmoor holiday self | 2 |
accommodation exmoor minehead | 4 | exmoor organization pony | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Words rhyming with "Exmoor" (pronounced 'Ex"moor'): Blackmoor. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-o-r-x" | |
-1 letter: romeo. | |
-2 letters: moor, more, omer, room. | |
-3 letters: moo, mor, ore, oxo, rem, rex, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: em, er, ex, me, mo, oe, om, or, ox, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-o-r-x" | |
+3 letters: loxodrome. | |
+4 letters: loxodromes, mesothorax, peroxisome, protoxylem. | |
+5 letters: axonometric, coxcombries, overcomplex, peroxisomal, peroxisomes, protoxylems, thromboxane. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 6D 6F 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -- --- --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01101101 01101111 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x m o o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 006D 006F 006F 0072 |
| 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)399079818184 |
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