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GAMBIER

Definitions: GAMBIER

GAMBIER

Noun

1. Catechu.

2. The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GAMBIER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Crosswords: GAMBIER

English words defined with "GAMBIER": Gambier IslandsTerra Japonica. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GAMBIER": 43022latigo leather. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GAMBIER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (gambian).

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Commercial Usage: GAMBIER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Historic Mount Gambier (reference)

  • Mount Gambier District pictorial, 1854-1947 (reference)

  • Paratransit : changing perceptions of public transport : proceedings of a workshop held in Mount Gambier, 20-23 February 1979 (reference)

  • The Escort Carrier Gambier Bay (Anatomy of the Ship) (reference)

  • The hydrogeology of the Mount Gambier area (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Cities: GAMBIER


1. Gambier, OH (village, FIPS 29246)
Location: 40.37629 N, 82.39488 W
Population (1990): 2073 (293 housing units)
Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 43022
Country: USA

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Expression: GAMBIER

Expression using "GAMBIER": Gambier Islands. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GAMBIER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gambier ohio

157

gambier island

15

mount gambier

13

gambier

8

mt gambier

7

karine gambier

7

gambier island map

5

extract gambier

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GAMBIER

Language Translations for "GAMBIER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gambierekstrakt (gambier extract), gambier-catechu (gambier extract). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gele catechu (gambier extract), gambir-catechu (gambier extract), gambir (Bengal gambir, gambier extract, gambir), yellow cutch terra japonica (gambier extract), onechte cutch (gambier extract), onechte catechu (gambier extract). (various references)

   

French

  

extrait de gambier (gambier extract), cachou-gambier (gambier extract). (various references)

   

German

  

Gambir-Katechu (gambier extract). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κασσού γαμβρίας (gambier extract), εκχύλισμα συνκάριας (gambier extract), εκχύλισμα της γαμβίριας (gambier extract). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gambir. (various references)

   

Italian

  

estratto di gambir (gambier extract), catecù-gambier (gambier extract). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ambiergay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

extracto de gambir (gambier extract), extracto de cachú gambir (gambier extract). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boya pekiştirici sakız. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: GAMBIER

Derivations

Words beginning with "GAMBIER": gambiers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"GAMBIER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fambare, Gabarek, gambare, gambei, gambie, gambiers, gambir, nambiar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GAMBIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-m-r"

-1 letter: barmie, begrim, bregma, gambir, gamier, imager, maigre, mirage.

-2 letters: aimer, amber, barge, bream, embar, gambe, gamer, giber, grime, image, marge, mbira, ramie, regma.

-3 letters: abri, ager, amie, amir, bare, barm, beam, bear, bema, berg, berm, bier, bima, brae, brag, brie, brig, brim, emir, gamb, game, garb, gear, germ, gibe, grab, gram, grim, iamb, mabe, mage, magi, mair, mare, mire, rage, ragi, rami, ream, rime.

-4 letters: age, aim, air, ami, arb, are, arm, bag, bam, bar, beg, big, bra, ear, era, erg, gab, gae, gam, gar, gem, gib, gie, ire, mae, mag, mar, meg, mib, mig, mir, rag, ram, reb, reg, rei, rem, ria, rib, rig, rim.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ag, ai, am, ar, ba, be, bi, em, er, ma, me, mi, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-m-r"
 

+1 letter: breaming, gambiers.

 

+2 letters: ambergris, cambering, embarking, embarring, embracing.

 

+3 letters: abridgment, becharming, besmearing, beswarming, chambering, clambering, embargoing, seaborgium.

 

+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, ambergrises, beclamoring, beglamoring, drumbeating, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, marbleising, marbleizing, reembarking, seaborgiums, umbrellaing.

 

+5 letters: abridgements, beglamouring, benchmarking, boomeranging, descrambling, diagrammable, disembarking, drumbeatings, embarrassing, greenbackism, marriageable, reassembling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GAMBIER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 41 4D 42 49 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    --    -...    ..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000001 01001101 01000010 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#77 &#66 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 004D 0042 0049 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41354736433952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Cities
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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