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KNAB

Definitions: KNAB

KNAB

Transitive verb

1. To nab. See Nab, v. t.

2. To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "KNAB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Knab \Knab\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Knabbed; present participle verb or noun Knabbing.]. (Websters 1913)

"KNAB" is a common misspelling or typo for: Knag, Knap, Knar, Knob, Knobs, Nab.


Crosswords: KNAB

English words defined with "KNAB": Knabbed, Knabbing. (references)
Etymologies containing "KNAB": Knabble. (references)

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Commercial Usage: KNAB

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: KNAB

The following table summarizes the usage of "KNAB" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KnabLast name30028,795
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KNAB

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

knab

9

knab utah

5

christy knab

4

brian knab

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: KNAB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bank.

Words within the letters "a-b-k-n"

-1 letter: ban, kab, nab.

-2 letters: ab, an, ba, ka, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-k-n"
 

+1 letter: banks, blank, brank.

 

+2 letters: baking, banked, banker, blanks, branks, embank, kanban.

 

+3 letters: backing, bakings, balking, bangkok, bankers, banking, banksia, bannock, barking, basking, beatnik, betaken, bethank, blacken, blanked, blanker, blanket, blankly, bookman, bracken, braking, bunraku, cutbank, embanks, finback, ikebana, kanbans, lambkin, nonbank, runback, sunback, tanbark, unbaked, unbrake.

 

+4 letters: backbend, backbone, backhand, backings, backland, backspin, balkline, bangkoks, bankable, bankbook, bankcard, bankerly, bankings, banknote, bankroll, bankrupt, banksias, bankside, bannocks, barnlike, baudekin, baulking, beanlike, bearskin, beatniks, bedarken, beraking, betaking, bethanks, blackens, blackfin, blacking, blankest, blankets, blanking, blinkard, brackens, brakeman, brakemen, breaking, buckbean, bunkmate, bunrakus, claybank, cutbanks, databank, embanked, finbacks, handbook, ikebanas, ironbark, knowable, lambkins, lambskin, linkable, neckband, ninebark, nonbanks, nonblack, ringbark, runbacks, sandbank, sinkable, snakebit, snapback, snowbank, stopbank, sunbaked, tanbarks, unbacked, unbraked, unbrakes, wingback.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: KNAB


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

4B 4E 41 42

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    -.    .-    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001011 01001110 01000001 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#78 &#65 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 004E 0041 0042

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

45483536

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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