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LACUNE

Definition: LACUNE

LACUNE

Noun

1. A lacuna.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Lacune \La*cune"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: LACUNE

Non-English Usage: "LACUNE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (gap, hiatus, hole, Lacuna, loophole, omission, scoop, slap, void).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LACUNE

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

lacune

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

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Modern Translations: LACUNE

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

German

  

lakune. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acunelay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LACUNE

Derivations

Words beginning with "LACUNE": lacunes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: LACUNE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cuneal, launce, unlace.

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

-1 letter: clean, lance, ulnae, uncle.

-2 letters: acne, alec, cane, caul, clan, clue, elan, lace, lane, lean, luce, luna, lune, ulan, ulna.

-3 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, cue, eau, ecu, lac, lea, leu, nae.

-4 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne, nu, un.

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

+1 letter: canulae, cauline, censual, cleanup, lacunae, lacunes, launces, lucarne, nucleal, nuclear, unclean, unclear, unlaced, unlaces.

 

+2 letters: acauline, baculine, cannulae, canulate, caruncle, cerulean, cleanups, dulcinea, eulachan, eulachon, lacunate, lacunose, launched, launcher, launches, lucarnes, lunacies, nucellar, nuclease, nucleate, relaunch, scalenus, tenacula, uncalled, unplaced, unscaled.

 

+3 letters: accentual, acidulent, affluence, affluency, ambulance, antiulcer, calcaneum, calcaneus, calendula, calenture, calumnies, candlenut, canulated, canulates, carbuncle, caruncles, ceruleans, chanceful, changeful, cingulate, consulate, countable, crenulate, culminate, dulcineas, encapsule, enucleate, euclidean, euclidian, eulachans, eulachons, exultance, exultancy, gluconate, herculean, inculcate, inculpate, incunable, incurable, inoculate, jubilance, larcenous, launchers, luminance, lunchmeat, masculine, neuralgic, nucleases, nucleated, nucleates, nucleator, nucleolar, numerical, petulance, petulancy, prelaunch, reluctant, spleuchan, tenaculum, unactable, unbalance, unclaimed, unclamped, unclasped, uncleaned, uncleaner, uncleanly, unclearer, uncloaked, unethical, unlatched, unlatches, unshackle, vulcanise, vulcanize.

 

+4 letters: affluences, ambulances, animalcule, binucleate, calendulas, calentures, calumniate, cancellous, candlenuts, cantaloupe, carbuncled, carbuncles, casualness, censurable, clangoured, conceptual, consensual, consulates, consumable, contextual, conventual, crenulated, crunchable, culminated, culminates, documental, ecumenical, encapsuled, encapsules, enucleated, enucleates, enunciable, exultances, flatulence, flatulency, geniculate, glauconite, gluconates, granduncle, houseclean, includable, inculcated, inculcates, inculpable, inculpated, inculpates, incunables, incurables, ineducable, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, jubilances, lacquering, lacqueying, lacustrine, lawrencium, lenticular, leprechaun, luminances, lunchmeats, luxuriance, masculines, nonnuclear, novaculite, nucleating, nucleation, nucleators, outbalance, paniculate, peculating, peculation, peduncular, petulances, pronuclear, quenchable, relaunched, relaunches, reluctance, reluctancy, republican, retinacula, spleuchans, subcentral, subnuclear, superclean, suppliance, tenaculums, tentacular, ulcerating, ulceration, ultraclean, unathletic, unbalanced, unbalances, unbleached, uncalcined, uncanceled, unchastely, unchewable, unciliated, uncleanest, unclearest, uncoalesce, undeclared, underclass, uneducable, ungraceful, unicameral, unscalable, unscramble, unshackled, unshackles, unsociable, vernacular, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanized, vulcanizer, vulcanizes.

 

+5 letters: acaulescent, accentually, accountable, affluencies, animalcules, anticruelty, antinuclear, antinucleon, arenicolous, binucleated, callousness, calumniated, calumniates, campanulate, cancerously, candelabrum, cantaloupes, carefulness, cavernously, centrifugal, changefully, collagenous, communalize, confabulate, conjectural, conjugately, construable, consumables, conventuals, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenulation, cupellation, curableness, curtailment, curtainless, curvilinear, cutaneously, denticulate, educational, ejaculating, ejaculation, elucidating, elucidation, encapsulate, encapsuling, enucleating, enucleation, equinoctial, equivalence, equivalency, eugenically, exculpating, exculpation, exonuclease, exultancies, factualness, flatulences, fraudulence, geniculated, gesticulant, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, granduncles, granulocyte, hallucinate, hibernacula, homonuclear, housecleans, illuminance, ineffectual, ineluctable, ineluctably, inexcusable, inexcusably, inoculative, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, involucrate, knuckleball, knucklehead, larcenously, lawrenciums, leprechauns, lieutenancy, luxuriances, macronuclei, masculinely, masculinise, masculinize, mononuclear, multiagency, noncellular, novaculites, nucleations, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, numerically, oecumenical, outbalanced, outbalances, peculations, pecuniarily, pedunculate, petulancies, polynuclear, radiolucent, rectangular, reductional, reinoculate, relaunching, reluctances, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, republicans, retinaculum, sansculotte, solanaceous, speculating, speculation, subjacently, suppliances, tactfulness, tenaciously, thunderclap, translucent, ulcerations, unallocated, uncalcified, uncalloused, uncataloged, uncatchable, unceasingly, uncertainly, unchanneled, uncheckable, unclarified, unclarities, uncleanness, unclimbable, unclubbable, uncoalesced, uncoalesces, unconcealed, uncongenial, uncountable, uncrossable, uncrushable, undanceable, undecidable, unelectable, unempirical, unequivocal, unescapable, unexcitable, unicellular, uninucleate, unlocalized, unmasculine, unmatchable, unreachable, unrealistic, unreclaimed, unreluctant, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles, unshockable, unteachable, untechnical, untouchable, untraceable, unwatchable, ventricular, vernaculars, vulcanisate, vulcanizate, vulcanizers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LACUNE


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

4C 41 43 55 4E 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 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0043 0055 004E 0045

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

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

463537554839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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