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KNOCKINGS

Definition: KNOCKINGS

KNOCKINGS

Noun plural

1. Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "KNOCKINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)


Synonyms: KNOCKINGS

Synonyms by domain: knocking (mechanical engineeringmining, meteorology & standardschemical industry), pinking.

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Usage Frequency: KNOCKINGS

"KNOCKINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KNOCKINGS" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Misspellings: KNOCKINGS

Misspellings

"KNOCKINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: knocing, Knockagh, Knockrin, Koskinos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: KNOCKINGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-k-n-n-o-s"

-1 letter: knocking.

-2 letters: conking, consign, konking, nocking, socking.

-3 letters: coigns, coking, coning, conins, cosign, incogs, knocks, nosing.

-4 letters: cions, coign, coins, conin, conks, conns, ginks, icons, ikons, incog, kicks, kings, kinks, kinos, kiosk, knock, konks, nicks, nocks, oinks, scion, sicko, skink, snick, sonic.

-5 letters: cigs, cion, cogs, coin, coni, conk, conn, cons, gink, gins, icon, ikon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KNOCKINGS


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

4B 4E 4F 43 4B 49 4E 47 53

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 01001111 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#78 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 004E 004F 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 0053

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

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

454849374543484153

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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