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Date "LANCE-CORPORAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1926. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LANCE-CORPORAL": boy-lance-corporal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LANCE-CORPORAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | címzetes őrvezető, őrvezető (private first class). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ance-corporallay младший капрал (lance corporal). (various references) | ||||||||||
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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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)
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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)L A N C E - C O R P O R A L |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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