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Definition: Iron Age |
Iron AgeNoun1. (archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons. 2. (classical mythology) the last and worst age of the world. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Iron Age n. In the history of computing, 1961-1971 -- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when ferrite-core dinosaurs ruled the earth. The Iron Age began, ironically enough, with the delivery of the first minicomputer (the PDP-1) and ended with the introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also Stone Age; compare elder days. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Iron Age The era between the death of Charlemagne and the close of the Carlovingian dynasty is so called from its almost ceaseless wars. It is sometimes called the leaden age for its worthlessness, and the dark age for its barrenness of learned men. Iron Age. The age of cruelty and hard-heartedness. When Hubert tells Prince Arthur he must burn his eyes out, the young prince replies, "Ah, none but in this iron age would do it." (Shakespeare: King John, iv. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term Iron Age refers to the period in a civilisation's development at which time iron working was the most sophisticated form of metalworking achieved. Though well made bronze tools far surpass iron tools as far as hardness and utility are concerned the abundance of iron ore sources made iron cheap and contributed greatly to its adoption as the most common metalurgical process. The Iron Age is part of the Three-age system for prehistoric societies.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction; (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune. |
Pain | Hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond; (adversity); peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to"; (evil); miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all". |
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Crosswords: Iron Age |
| English words defined with "Iron Age": Diabase ♦ Golden Age. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Iron Age": Ages ♦ chad box ♦ Deaths-man ♦ Kaliyuga, kremvax ♦ skarn. (references) |
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Economic History | Ireland | The Iron Age arrived abruptly in the fourth century BC with the invasion of the Celts, a tall, energetic people who had spread across Europe and Great Britain in the preceding centuries. (references) |
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Expression using "Iron Age": the iron age. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
iron age | 125 |
iron age shoes | 67 |
iron age corp | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "Iron Age"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصر الحديد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | желязната епоха, железният век. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rautakausi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vaskorszak, vaskor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鉄器時代 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | てっきじ い. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Yn Eash Yiarn (The Iron Age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ironay ageay järnåldern (the iron age). (various references) ยุคเหล็ก (ยุคที่มนุษย์รู้จักใช้เหล็กทำเครื่องมือและอาวุธ). (various references) demir çağı. (various references) thời kỳ đ" sắt thời kỳ t n bạo, thời đại áp bức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: earing, eringo, gainer, ignore, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, origan, reagin, regain, regina, region. | |
-2 letters: agone, anger, argon, garni, genoa, genro, giron, goner, gonia, grain, groan, groin, irone, noria, orang, organ, range, regna, reign, renig. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, ager, agin, agio, agon, airn, earn, ergo, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, giro, gnar, goer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: geraniol, orangier, organdie, organise, organize, regional. | |
+2 letters: aborigine, aragonite, aureoling, dogearing, enamoring, geraniols, gheraoing, girandole, grandiose, ignorable, ignorance, jargonize, legionary, morganite, neuroglia, omnirange, operating, orangerie, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine, originate, overawing, reasoning, reavowing, recoaling, recoinage, regionals, reloading, reloaning, resoaking. | |
+3 letters: aborigines, aggression, agrimonies, agronomies, androgenic, angiosperm, aragonites, archegonia, begroaning, belaboring, broadening, carcinogen, cariogenic, cinemagoer, coarsening, cocreating, corelating, corrigenda, decorating, denigrator, derogating, derogation, designator, embargoing, emigration, enamouring, ergotamine, forbearing, forearming, foredating, garrisoned, generation, girandoles, gormandise, gormandize, gramineous, hoarsening, iatrogenic, ignorances, integrator, interorgan, invigorate, jargonized, jargonizes, jeoparding, longhaired, mineralogy, moderating, morganites, negotiator, neuroglial, neuroglias, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, omniranges, operagoing, orangeries, organisers, organizers, organzines, originated, originates, outearning, outhearing, outreading, outwearing, overacting, overbaking, overdaring, overeating, overhating, overlading, overlaying, overpaying, overrating, oversaving, overtaking, overtaxing, perorating, presoaking, radiogenic, readopting, readorning, rearousing, reasonings, reboarding, recoinages, refloating, regionally, regulation, relegation, relocating, renovating, reorganize, resonating, rosemaling, saprogenic, seignorage, seignorial, tolerating, urogenital. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 72 6F 6E 41 67 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110010 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I r o n   A g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0072 006F 006E 0041 0067 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438481802357371 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabialainen, arab, Arabish, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulgarialainen, bolgár, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, suomi, suomalainen, finn, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, tiếng Phần-lan |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, unkarilainen, magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, japanilainen, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, japanilainen, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, från ön man, man adası, man dili |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, ruotsalainen, svéd, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", Soolynish, Soolynagh, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thaimaalainen, たい", thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turkkilainen, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamilainen, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, englantia, englantilainen, angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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