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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | 1. Vertical distance from the normal water surface to the top of a confining wall. 2. Vertical distance from the sand surface to the underside of a trough in a sand filter. (references) |
Hydrologic | The vertical distance between the normal maximum level of the water surface in a channel, resrvoir, tank, canal, etc., and the top of the sides of a levee, dam, etc., which is provided so that waves and other movements of the liquid will not overtop the confining structure. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FREEBOARD |
| Specialty definitions using "FREEBOARD": flood surcharge ♦ moulded depth ♦ summer tank ♦ wash strake, waste board. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Signal building and white-wash party Not much freeboard on that boat. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 26 April 1862, providing a general arrangement diagram of the gunboat's interior. Note the extensive provisions for ballasting the ship with water to reduce her freeboard in action. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "FREEBOARD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FREEBOARD" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FREEBOARD": freeboard deck. 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 |
freeboard | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FREEBOARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lartësi mbi ujë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zones de franc-bord (freeboard zones), phénomène se produisant sur le bord franc (freeboard phenomenon, phenomenon occuring in the freeboard), phénomène de grand bord (freeboard phenomenon, phenomenon occuring in the freeboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gátkorona-magasság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 乾舷 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"'" (admonition, cajolery, in other words, leniency and severity, music, reduction, resolution, return to origins, wind and string instruments). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seyr-voayrd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeboardfray надводный борт (free-board). (various references) gaz (depth gauge, sea gauge, wade). (various references) zonas de francobordo (freeboard zones). (various references) fribord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FREEBOARD": freeboards. (additional references) | |
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"FREEBOARD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fredbear, Freebird, fretboard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: forebear. | |
-2 letters: arbored, boarder, broader, forbade, forbear, reboard, rebored. | |
-3 letters: adorer, aerobe, barfed, barred, bearer, before, border, deafer, dearer, feared, fearer, fedora, forbad, reader, reared, rebore, rebred, redear, reread, roared. | |
-4 letters: abode, adobe, adore, afore, arbor, ardeb, ardor, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, board, bored, borer, bread, brede, breed, broad, darer, debar, defer, dobra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: freeboards. | |
+4 letters: nondeferrable. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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