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Definition: IRONBOUND |
IRONBOUNDAdjective1. Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions. 2. Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast. |
Date "IRONBOUND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Land | Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon. |
Pitfall | Noun: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: IRONBOUND |
| English words defined with "IRONBOUND": Top-block. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ironbound (1994) | |
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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 |
ironbound | 24 |
ironbound newark | 6 |
bank ironbound | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IRONBOUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | do-lhoobit, creggagh (cragged, rocky). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ironbounday obeveklig (as hard as nails, flatfooted, immovable, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, relentless, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting), klippig (craggy, rocky), järnbeslagen, hård (adamant, austere, backbreaking, concrete, grim, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, keen, obdurate, robust, severe, stern, tenacious, tight, tough, unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: boudoir, bourdon, bridoon, inbound. | |
-3 letters: bunion, diuron, durion, inborn, indoor, ronion, unbind, unborn. | |
-4 letters: boron, bound, bourn, brood, bruin, burin, dobro, donor, inurn, odour, onion, robin, rondo, round, unbid, union. | |
-5 letters: bind, bird, bond, boon, boor, born, brin, brio, broo, bund, bunn, burd, burn, door, dour, drib, drub, durn, duro, inro, iron, nodi, noir. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-u" | |
+4 letters: outrebounding, subordination. | |
+5 letters: subordinations. | |
| 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)49 52 4F 4E 42 4F 55 4E 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. --- -. -... --- ..- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I R O N B O U N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0052 004F 004E 0042 004F 0055 004E 0044 |
| 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)435249483649554838 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, från ön man |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Soolynish, Soolynagh, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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