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LACUNAE

Definition: LACUNAE

LACUNAE

Plural

1. Of Lacuna

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LACUNAE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

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Crosswords: LACUNAE

English words defined with "LACUNAE": Lacunar, Lacunous. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LACUNAE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ideology in the Low Countries: Trends, Models and Lacunae (reference)

  • Losses and lacunae in early insular art : the third G.N. Garmonsway memorial lecture delivered on 9 May 1975 in the University of York (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: LACUNAE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Female children may also have a specific syndrome, Aicardi's syndrome, in addition to ACC and infantile spasms, in which there is severe mental retardation and chorioretinal lacunae (lesions of the retina of the eye). ACC may occur as an isolated condition or in combination with other cerebral anomalies including Arnold-Chiari malformation and Dandy-Walker syndrome, Andermann syndrome (with progressive neuropathy), schizencephaly, holoprosencephaly, and migrational anomalies. (references)

Aicardi syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the partial or complete agenesis (absence) of the corpus callosum (the structure that links the 2 hemispheres of the brain), infantile spasms (a form of childhood seizure), mental retardation, and an ocular (eye) abnormality called lacunae (lesions) of the retina of the eye. Aicardi syndrome may be associated with other brain defects such as microcephaly (small brain) or porencephalic cysts (cerebrospinal fluid-filled cavities or gaps in the brain). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LACUNAE

"LACUNAE" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LACUNAE" is used about 23 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%2372,767

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LACUNAE

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

lacunae

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LACUNAE

Language Translations for "LACUNAE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

空白 (BLANK, Blanks, Gap, lacuna, Lacunas). (various references)

   

Danish

  

Howshipske lakuner (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lacunae van Howship (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

French

  

lacunes de Howship (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

German

  

Howship Lakunen (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οστεορρηκτικά βοθρία (Howship lacunae), οστεορρηκτικοί λάκκοι (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lacune di HOWSHIP (Howship lacunae), lacune di assorbimento osseo (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

탈문 (lacuna, Lacunas). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acunaelay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lacunas de Howship (Howship lacunae). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lagunas (lagoons). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LACUNAE

Misspellings

"LACUNAE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acuna, alunae, lacuate, lacun, lacunaer, lacunza, lauan, lechuza, lecuna, Licona, licuna, Lipunan, Louchnje, lucunae. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: LACUNAE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: canulae.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-u"

-1 letter: anlace, canula, cuneal, lacuna, lacune, launce, unlace.

-2 letters: alane, canal, clean, lance, lauan, ulnae, uncle.

-3 letters: acne, alae, alan, alec, anal, cane, caul, clan, clue, elan, lace, lane, lean, luce, luna, lune, ulan, ulna.

-4 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, ana, ane, can, cel, cue, eau, ecu, lac, lea, leu, nae.

-5 letters: aa, ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-u"
 

+1 letter: acauline, cannulae, canulate, eulachan, lacunate, tenacula.

 

+2 letters: accentual, ambulance, calcaneum, calcaneus, calendula, canulated, canulates, eulachans, unactable, unbalance.

 

+3 letters: ambulances, animalcule, calendulas, calumniate, cantaloupe, casualness, outbalance, paniculate, retinacula, tentacular, ultraclean, unbalanced, unbalances, unicameral, unscalable, vernacular.

 

+4 letters: acaulescent, accentually, accountable, animalcules, antinuclear, calumniated, calumniates, campanulate, candelabrum, cantaloupes, confabulate, educational, ejaculating, ejaculation, encapsulate, factualness, hallucinate, hibernacula, outbalanced, outbalances, rectangular, solanaceous, unallocated, uncataloged, uncatchable, undanceable, unescapable, unmatchable, unreachable, unteachable, untraceable, unwatchable, vernaculars, vulcanisate, vulcanizate.

 

+5 letters: aeronautical, agranulocyte, alphanumeric, appendicular, candelabrums, casualnesses, caterwauling, clairaudient, confabulated, confabulates, congratulate, ejaculations, emasculating, emasculation, encapsulated, encapsulates, extranuclear, gallinaceous, hallucinated, hallucinates, inaccurately, inarticulate, incalculable, macronuclear, renovascular, tabernacular, unacceptable, unacceptably, unacclimated, unbreachable, uncalculated, uncalibrated, uncapturable, unchangeable, unchangeably, uncharitable, unicamerally, unsearchable, unsearchably, vernacularly, vulcanisates, vulcanizates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LACUNAE


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

4C 41 43 55 4E 41 45

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)

01001100 01000001 01000011 01010101 01001110 01000001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#67 &#85 &#78 &#65 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0043 0055 004E 0041 0045

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

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

46353755483539

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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