HAND-BOOK

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hand-book Spelman says that King Alfred used to carry in his bosom memorandum leaves, in which he made observations, and took so much pleasure therein that he called it his hand-book, because it was always in his hand. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: HAND-BOOK

Domain	Title
Books	The Right Foot Guide to Indiana University: The Independent Hand-Book for the Bloomington Campus (reference) Coach-Makers' Illustrated Hand-Book, 1875: Containing Complete Instructions in All the Different Braches of Carriage Building (reference) The 1865 Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers: As Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States Being a Hand-Book for the Rank and File of the Army (reference) The centennial guide to New York City and its environs : a complete guide and hand-book of useful information, collected from the latest reliable sources (reference) Ronayne's Hand-Book of Freemasonry With Appendix Revised, Enlarged Complete - 1917: With Appendix, Revised, Enlarged, Complete (1917) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: HAND-BOOK

"HAND-BOOK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "HAND-BOOK" is used about 4 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)

Anagrams: HAND-BOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: handbook.
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-k-n-o-o"
	-2 letters: dahoon.
	-3 letters: aboon, adobo, honda, hooka.
	-4 letters: ankh, band, bank, bond, bonk, book, boon, dank, dhak, dona, hand, hank, hobo, honk, hood, hook, kaon, khan, knob, koan, kobo, nook.
	-5 letters: abo, ado, and, bad, bah, ban, boa, bod, boo, dab, dah, dak, don, had, hao, hob, hod, hon, kab, koa, kob, nab, nah, nob.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-h-k-n-o-o"
	+1 letter: handbooks.
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Alternative Orthography: HAND-BOOK

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

48 41 4E 44 2D 42 4F 4F 4B

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

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

01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00101101 01000010 01001111 01001111 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#45 &#66 &#79 &#79 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004E 0044 002D 0042 004F 004F 004B

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

HAND-BOOK

Specialty Definition: HAND-BOOK

Literature

Commercial Usage: HAND-BOOK

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