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Definitions: Galena |
GalenaNoun1. Soft blue-gray mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "galena" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Etymology: Galena \Ga*le"na\, noun[Latin galena lead ore, dross that remains after melting lead: compare to the French expression gal[`e]ne sulphide of lead ore, antidote to prison, stillness of the sea, calm, tranquility.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mining | An isometric mineral, 4[PbS] ; cubic cleavage; forms cubes and octahedra, also coarse- or fine-grained masses; sp gr, 7.6; occurs with sphalerite in hydrothermal veins, also in sedimentary rocks as replacement deposits; an important source of lead and silver. Also spelled galenite.Syn:lead sulfide; galenite. See also:blue lead. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Galena is also the name of a mineral, an ore of lead, lead sulfide (PbS) and the state mineral of Wisconsin.
See also: List of minerals
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Galena."
Crosswords: Galena |
| English words defined with "galena": Black-jack ♦ crystal detector ♦ Galenical, Galenite ♦ Lead glance ♦ Mineralizer, Monosulphide ♦ Pseudo-galena, Pyrognostic ♦ Slickensides. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "galena": 21635 ♦ 43021 ♦ 61036, 65656, 66739 ♦ 77547 ♦ 99741 ♦ antimonyglance, argentiferous galena ♦ bing ore, blue lead ore ♦ dense-media separation, dice mineral ♦ false galena, Flintshire process ♦ gray antimony ♦ harrisite, huascolite, Huntington-Heberlein process ♦ knobellite, kuroko ♦ Lyster process ♦ metallic luster ♦ pot ore ♦ richmondite, Rossie furnace ♦ silver lead ore, slime coating, steinmannite ♦ uranium galena ♦ Wuensch process. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "galena": Molybdena ♦ Pseudo-galena. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Galena" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (galena), Portuguese (galenic, leading), Spanish (blue lead, galena). |
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| "Galena" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Galena" is used about 29 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) | 96.55% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
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1. Galena, AK (city, FIPS 27530) 2. Galena, IL (city, FIPS 28300) 3. Galena, IN (CDP, FIPS 26206) 4. Galena, KS (city, FIPS 25100) 5. Galena, MD (town, FIPS 31225) 6. Galena, MO (city, FIPS 26254) 7. Galena, OH (village, FIPS 29148) |
Expressions using "galena": false galena ♦ Galena Park. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "galena": Pseudo-galena. | |
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| 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 |
galena illinois | 1,130 |
galena | 501 |
galena park isd | 147 |
galena hotel | 71 |
galena ill | 63 |
galena alaska | 43 |
galena bed and breakfast | 42 |
galena missouri | 41 |
galena ohio | 39 |
galena park texas | 34 |
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| Language | Translations for "galena"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | galenë. (various references) | |
Arabic | الغالينة كبرتيد الرصاص. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | галенит. (various references) | |
Chinese | 方"矿. (various references) | |
Czech | galenit. (various references) | |
Danish | galena (galenite, lead-glance), blyglans (galenite, lead-glance). (various references) | |
Dutch | galeniet (galenite, lead-glance), zwavellood (galenite, lead-glance), loodglans (galenite, lead-glance). (various references) | |
Finnish | sinkkivälke (blackjack, blende, false galena, jack, mock lead, mock ore, pseudogalena, sphalerite, steel jack, zinc blende). (various references) | |
French | galène (galenite). (various references) | |
German | Bleiglanz (galenite, lead-glance). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλένα, γαληνίτησ, γαληνίτης (blackjack, blende, false galena, jack, mock lead, mock ore, pseudogalena, sphalerite, steel jack, zinc blende). (various references) | |
Hungarian | galenit. (various references) | |
Italian | galena (galenite, lead-glance). (various references) | |
Korean | 방연광. (various references) | |
Manx | galee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alenagay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galinha pintada, galeno (peewit, pewit). (various references) | |
Russian | свинцовый блеск (lead glance). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galica. (various references) | |
Spanish | galena (blue lead). (various references) | |
Swedish | blyglans. (various references) | |
Thai | แร่ตะกั่วสีน้ำเงิน เทา หรือ"ำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | galen, kükürtlü kurşun. (various references) | |
Ukranian | галеніт. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "galena": galenas. (additional references) | |
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"Galena" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aalenian, agalevn, Alena, Alzenau, Ballena, Falana, Falkenna, Gaalen, gacela, Gadenne, Gaean, Gaeia, galaga, galan, Galanta, galeae, Galega, galen, galent, Galera, galeta, Galeva, galia, Galica, galin, gallanga, gallean, gallen, Gallenkamp, Gallini, galno, Galuna, Gamlen, garlen, Gaventa, Gaylani, Gaylen, geena, Geleen, gelen, gellen, Ghalata, Gilera, gilian, gillean, Gillener, Gilsenan, Gilzean, Glenapp, glenmac, golen, gralen, Guelma, gulunay, ogadeni. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "galena" (pronounced gulē"nu) |
| 5 | -u l ē" n u | Salina. |
| 3 | -ē" n u | arena, ballerina, cantina, catena, concertina, Farina, hyena, Marina, Mina, patina, Pina, Regina, subpoena, vena, verbena, Vina. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anlage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-n" | |
-1 letter: alane, alang, algae, angel, angle, galea, glean, lagan. | |
-2 letters: alae, alan, alga, anal, anga, egal, elan, gaen, gala, gale, gane, glen, lane, lang, lean. | |
-3 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, ana, ane, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, lag, lea, leg, nae, nag. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-n" | |
+1 letter: anlagen, anlages, galenas, gamelan, lasagne. | |
+2 letters: agential, alginate, alienage, analogue, angelica, angulate, argental, gainable, gamelans, geranial, gnawable, hangable, lagnappe, langrage, language, lasagnes, magdalen, phalange, seladang. | |
+3 letters: alginates, alienages, allegiant, analgesia, analgesic, analgetic, analogies, analogize, analogues, angelical, angelicas, angulated, angulates, annealing, antiglare, appealing, archangel, engarland, flagrance, galantine, galenical, galingale, gallamine, gallanted, gallonage, galvanise, galvanize, garlanded, genitalia, geranials, gleanable, grantable, granulate, hexagonal, laagering, lagnappes, lagniappe, langrages, languages, laryngeal, magdalene, magdalens, malaguena, navigable, neuralgia, phalanger, phalanges, rangeland, seladangs, slanguage. | |
+4 letters: agendaless, alienating, allegation, allegiance, analgesias, analgesics, analgetics, analogized, analogizes, antiplague, appareling, archangels, assignable, blancmange, carmagnole, changeable, changeably, emalangeni, engarlands, escalading, escalating, evaluating, flagellant, flagrances, fragmental, galantines, galavanted, galenicals, galingales, galivanted, gallamines, gallonages, galvanised, galvanises, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, granulated, granulates, halogenate, heptagonal, imaginable, inarguable, lacerating, lagniappes, langlaufer, laryngeals, lateraling, laureating, magdalenes, malaguenas, malignance, manageable, manageably, managerial, martingale, megafaunal, negational, neuralgias, palavering, pentagonal, phalangeal, phalangers, pharyngeal, plasmagene, plateauing, quadrangle, rangelands, reavailing, slanguages, tangential, tetragonal, unarguable, zabaglione. | |
+5 letters: acetylating, agglutinate, allegations, allegiances, alleviating, alloantigen, alphabeting, altercating, alternating, angelically, antiplagues, apparelling, appealingly, archangelic, archegonial, battlewagon, berascaling, blancmanges, cakewalking, calendaring, carmagnoles, cavaliering, collagenase, defalcating, devaluating, diagnosable, diagonalize, egalitarian, egomaniacal, ejaculating, elaborating, engarlanded, enigmatical, enlargeable, equiangular, evangelical, farthingale, flagellants, flagrancies, gallantries, gallivanted, galvanizers, gestational, glutaminase, gradualness, halogenated, halogenates, hexagonally, laggardness, langlaufers, lateralling, lawbreaking, malignances, maltreating, marginalize, martingales, megalomania, megalomanic, nonlanguage, organizable, panegyrical, paralleling, pentagonals, plantigrade, plasmagenes, platemaking, quadrangles, racewalking, reanalyzing, reassailing, rebalancing, rectangular, retaliating, revaluating, sandglasses, selaginella, stalemating, strangulate, sublanguage, talebearing, triangulate, unappealing, uncataloged, ungraspable, zabagliones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 65 6E 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-.. . -. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l e n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 0065 006E 0061 |
| 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)416778718067 |
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