Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

GURT

Definition: GURT

GURT

Noun

1. A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"GURT" is a common misspelling or typo for: curt, girt, girth, got, grunt, guru, gust, gut.


Crosswords: GURT

Non-English Usage: "GURT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (belt, girder, girdle, girth, strap), Scottish (fierceness), Turkmen (wolf, worm).

Top     

Modern Usage: GURT

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I used that once in 9th Grade on Lisa Gurt. They say on quiet days you can still hear her crying! (What I Like About You; writing credit: Kirker Butler; Wil Calhoun)

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GURT

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

gurt

10

go gurt

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: GURT

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

French

  

technique génétique visant à limiter l'usage d'une substance. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urtgay

   

Spanish

  

TRUG (genetic use restriction technique), tecnología de restricción de uso genético (genetic use restriction technique). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations: GURT

Derivations

Words ending with "GURT": yogurt. (additional references)

Words containing "GURT": yogurts. (additional references)

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

Top     

Anagrams: GURT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trug.

Words within the letters "g-r-t-u"

-1 letter: gut, rug, rut, tug.

-2 letters: ut.

 Words containing the letters "g-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: grout, grunt, trugs.

 

+2 letters: grouts, grouty, grunts, grutch, guitar, gurnet, gutter, ragout, rotgut, rugate, strung, tergum, tragus, trough, trudge, truing, tugger, tugrik, turgid, turgor, ungirt, upgirt, urgent, yogurt.

 

+3 letters: brought, bruting, burgout, draught, drought, drugget, dustrag, foregut, fraught, gaunter, gauntry, gesture, gourmet, goutier, grayout, grouted, grouter, grummet, grunted, grunter, gruntle, grutten, guitars, gumtree, gurglet, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, gutters, guttery, guttier, guttler, hurting, liturgy, mugwort, outbrag, outdrag, outgrew, outgrin, outgrow, outrage, outrang, outring, outrung, ragouts, rotguts, routing, rusting, rutting, tegular, theurgy, through, tougher, touring, troughs, trucing, trudged, trudgen, trudger, trudges, trueing, tuggers, tughrik, tugriks, turfing, turgent, turgite, turgors, turning, upright, wrought, yoghurt, yogurts.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: GURT


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

47 55 52 54

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

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

=

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 01010101 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0052 0054

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

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

41555254

Top     

Non-English Dictionaries with "GURT"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, francés

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, inglés
 


INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.