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Definitions: HEUGH |
HEUGHNoun1. A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. 2. A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. |
Date "HEUGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Note: Heugh \Heugh\, noun. [Compare to Hogh.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. Scot. A place where coal or other mineral is worked; a pit or shaft. Also spelled heuch. b. The steep face of a quarry or other excavation. c. A glen with rugged sides; a crag. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HEUGH |
| Specialty definitions using "HEUGH": Owl was a Baker's Daughter. (references) |
| "HEUGH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "HEUGH" 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) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HEUGH": heughs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HEUGH": sheugh. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HEUGH": sheughs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "eugh": Eugh. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-u" | |
-1 letter: huge. | |
-2 letters: heh, hue, hug, huh, ugh. | |
-3 letters: eh, he, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-u" | |
+1 letter: heughs, sheugh. | |
+2 letters: sheughs. | |
+3 letters: meshugah, roughhew. | |
+4 letters: bethought, hagbushes, haughtier, meshuggah, methought, rethought, roughhewn, roughhews. | |
+5 letters: churchgoer, haughtiest, hiccoughed, horselaugh, lighthouse, roughhewed, roughhouse, thorougher. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 55 47 48 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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 01000101 01010101 01000111 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E U G H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0055 0047 0048 |
| 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)4239554142 |
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