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LANCE-CORPORAL

Date "LANCE-CORPORAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1926. (references)


Specialty Definition: LANCE-CORPORAL

DomainDefinition

Literature

Lance-Corporal and ~~~Lance-Sergeant.
Lance-Sergeant. One from the ranks temporarily acting as corporal or sergeant. In the Middle Ages a lance meant a soldier. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Usage Frequency: LANCE-CORPORAL

"LANCE-CORPORAL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "LANCE-CORPORAL" is used about 16 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 (singular)75%12101,599
Adjective (general or positive)25%4175,879
                    Total100.00%16N/A

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

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Expression: LANCE-CORPORAL

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "LANCE-CORPORAL": boy-lance-corporal.

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Modern Translation: LANCE-CORPORAL

Language Translations for "LANCE-CORPORAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

címzetes őrvezető, őrvezető (private first class). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ance-corporallay

   

Russian 

  

младший капрал (lance corporal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LANCE-CORPORAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-r"

-4 letters: carpooler, corporeal.

-5 letters: canaller, caracole, caroller, coplanar, corporal, parlance.

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Alternative Orthography: LANCE-CORPORAL


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

4C 41 4E 43 45 2D 43 4F 52 50 4F 52 41 4C

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

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

01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 00101101 01000011 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001111 01010010 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69 &#45 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#80 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004E 0043 0045 002D 0043 004F 0052 0050 004F 0052 0041 004C

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

4635483739153749525049523546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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