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GRASSMARKET

Date "GRASSMARKET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Specialty Definition: GRASSMARKET

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Literature

Grassmarket At one time the place of execution in Edinburgh.
"I like nane o' your sermons that end in a psalm at the Grassmarket." - Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: GRASSMARKET

"GRASSMARKET" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRASSMARKET" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GRASSMARKET

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

edinburgh grassmarket

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GRASSMARKET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-k-m-r-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: megastars.

-3 letters: armrests, earmarks, gastreas, massager, megastar, seamarks, starkers.

-4 letters: amasser, armrest, arrases, arrests, earmark, erratas, garrets, garters, gaskets, gasters, gastrea, graters, karates, kraters, markers, markets, maskegs, maskers, massage, masters, matrass, rasters, regmata, remarks, seamark, skaters, smarter, stagers, starers, starker, strakes, streaks, streams, teargas.

-5 letters: agates, armers, armets, arrest, askers, assert, asters, errata, eskars.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRASSMARKET


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

47 52 41 53 53 4D 41 52 4B 45 54

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)

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

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

01000111 01010010 01000001 01010011 01010011 01001101 01000001 01010010 01001011 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#77 &#65 &#82 &#75 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0041 0053 0053 004D 0041 0052 004B 0045 0054

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

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

4152355353473552453954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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