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Date "GUAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
"GUAGE" is a common misspelling or typo for: gage, gauge, gauged. |
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Slang | Made-up. Source: A deragatory comment made-up by the group as an alternative the popular term: "M.I.L.F." meaning - Mom I'd Like to F--K. Definition: A teacher or school faculty member is attractive. Context: The word is said when addressing an attractive female without her knowing she is being sexually commented upon. Social Source: The Stormin' Mormon's. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crosswords: GUAGE |
| English words defined with "GUAGE": Gibstaff. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Formosan Subterranean soldier termites (darker heads and mandibles) and worker termites in test tubes. The white disks at the bottom of the tubes contain different insecticides to guage their tolerance level. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "GUAGE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "GUAGE" is used about 7 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GUAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | δείκτης βενζίνης (petrol guage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | towsheyder tidee (tide guage), towsheyder railley (track guage), towshan ushtey (water guage), towshan pedryl (petrol guage), meih daa-virragh (mortise guage), arreyder ooill (oil guage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uagegay манометр (air gauge, air-gauge, manometer, pressure gauge, pressure guage, pressure-gauge, steam gauge, steam-gauge), бензонометр (fuel guage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GUAGE": language, metalanguage, nonlanguage, paralanguage, protolanguage, slanguage, sublanguage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GUAGE": languages, metalanguages, nonlanguages, paralanguages, protolanguages, slanguages, sublanguages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gauge. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-u" | |
-1 letter: ague, gage. | |
-2 letters: age, eau, egg, gae, gag. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-u" | |
+1 letter: gangue, gauged, gauger, gauges. | |
+2 letters: burgage, gangues, garigue, gaugers, luggage, regauge. | |
+3 letters: burgages, garigues, huggable, language, leaguing, luggages, meshugga, misgauge, puggaree, quaggier, regauged, regauges, roughage, unageing, untagged. | |
+4 letters: demagogue, languages, meshuggah, misgauged, misgauges, pedagogue, puggarees, quaggiest, rearguing, regauging, roughages, slanguage, synagogue. | |
+5 letters: augmenting, budgerigar, degaussing, demagogued, demagogues, desugaring, gangbuster, gangrenous, gauffering, gregarious, juggernaut, leaguering, mystagogue, outbragged, outdragged, pedagogues, redarguing, regulating, sialagogue, slanguages, synagogues. | |
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