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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The act of cleansing the hands with water or other liquid, with or without the inclusion of soap or other detergent, for the purpose of removing soil or microorganisms. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HANDWASHING |
| Specialty definitions using "HANDWASHING": Toilet Facilities. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Public Health - Yugoslavia.] : [Three women handwashing clothes at an outside basin.] / attributed to Dr. Andrija Stampar. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This happens when basic hygiene and handwashing habits are inadequate. (references) | |
This may happen when basic hygiene and handwashing habits are inadequate. (references) | ||
Handwashing is the simplest and most effective way to keep from getting rhinovirus colds. (references) | ||
Travel | Turkey | Neither do the accepted practices of frequent soapy handwashing or covering of the mouth when coughing or sneezing and then washing hands. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HANDWASHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "HANDWASHING" is used about 5 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 (-ing form) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-h-h-i-n-n-s-w" | |
-3 letters: anhingas, shanghai, wanigans. | |
-4 letters: anginas, anhinga, awnings, dashing, dawning, handing, handsaw, hashing, sanding, shading, shawing, snawing, wangans, wanigan, washing, whidahs. | |
-5 letters: aahing, angina, ashing, awning, danish, dawing, diwans, hading, haniwa, hawing, naiads, sandhi, saning, sawing, wading, wangan, waning, whangs, whidah, wigans. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4E 44 57 41 53 48 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.. .--. .- ... .... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 01010111 01000001 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A N D W A S H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004E 0044 0057 0041 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235483857355342434841 |
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