Landau

Definitions: Landau

Landau

Noun

1. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).

2. A four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately.

Date "Landau" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

Etymology: Landau \Lan"dau\, noun. [From the town Ladau in Germany; compare to French landau. See Land, Island.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Landau

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart, denotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass in rapid succession through your life. If the vehicle is overturned, then pleasure will abruptly turn into woe. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Specialty Definition: Landau

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Landau is a city in southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The city's fortifications were upgraded by Vauban.

External link

Official homepage of the city

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Landau."

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Synonym: Landau

Synonym: Lev Davidovich Landau (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Landau

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Landau

English words defined with "Landau": Landaulet, Lev Davidovich Landau. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Landau": Landau damping, Landau, Lev D.. (references)

Etymologies containing "Landau": Landaulet. (references)

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

French (baby carriage, buggies, landau, perambulator, pram, pram carriage).

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Commercial Usage: Landau

Domain	Title
Books	30 Years of the Landau Institute: Selected Papers (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, Vol 11) (reference) Landau Fermi-Liquid Theory: Concepts and Applications (reference) The Landau Theory of Phase Transitions: Application to Structural, Incommensurate, Magnetic, and Liquid Crystal Systems (World Scientific Lecture No) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Landau Zeal (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Landau

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This syndrome was first described in 1957 by Dr. William M. Landau and Dr. Frank R. Kleffner, who identified six children with the disorder. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Landau

"Landau" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.70% of the time. "Landau" is used about 46 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)	58.7%	27	66,962
Noun (proper)	41.3%	19	80,337
Total	100.00%	46	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Landau

The following table summarizes the usage of "Landau" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Landau	Last name	1,000	10,607
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Landau

Expressions using "Landau": Landau damping ♦ Lev Davidovich Landau. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Landau": Landau-Kleffner, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome.
	Ending with "Landau": Ginzburg-landau.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Landau

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
landau	300
landau uniform	156
landau scrubs	136
juliet landau	72
landau boat	54
martin landau	48
landau jewelry	45
juliette landau	34
landau kleffner syndrome	34
michael landau	26
kleffner landau	17
jeweler landau	13
ford landau	13
landau lab coat	8
landau pontoon	8
hayt hayt landau	7
jon landau	6
landau mike	6
landau nursing uniform	6
adrienne landau	6
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Modern Translations: Landau

Language		Translations for "Landau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		llandon, karrocë udhëtarësh (coach, diligence, stagecoach). (various references)

Arabic		‏اللندوية عربة بأربع عجلات. (various references)

Bulgarian		ландо (sociable). (various references)

Czech		dvousedadlový vùz (two seater). (various references)

Danish		Landaudaempning (Landau damping), Landau-dæmpning (Landau damping), omvendt Landaudaempning (inverse Landau damping), invers Landaudaempning (inverse Landau damping). (various references)

Dutch		Landau-demping (Landau damping), landaudemping (Landau damping), omgekeerde landaudemping (inverse Landau damping). (various references)

Finnish		Landau-vaimennus (Landau damping), Landau-vahvistus (inverse Landau damping), Landaun vaimennus (Landau damping), käänteinen Landau-vaimennus (inverse Landau damping). (various references)

French		landau. (various references)

German		landauer (barouche). (various references)

Greek		λαντώ. (various references)

Hungarian		hintó (chaise, chariot, rig). (various references)

Italian		landò. (various references)

Pig Latin		andaulay

Portuguese		feitor (clerk of works, foreman, inspector, overseer). (various references)

Romanian		landou (perambulator). (various references)

Russian		ландо (barouche). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kočije sa dva koša. (various references)

Spanish		landó. (various references)

Swedish		landå (barouche). (various references)

Turkish		lando. (various references)

Ukranian		ландо (barouche). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Landau

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Landau": landaulet, landaulets, landaus. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Landau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anaud, bandau, Candau, Glendhu, Lanao, Lanaud, Landeur, landex, landi, Landie, lando, landu, Lazda, Lenau, lendvay, lindo, Llandewi, Lundbaek, lyaenidae. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Landau

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-n-u"
	-1 letter: aland, lauan, ulnad.
	-2 letters: alan, anal, auld, dual, land, laud, luna, nada, ulan, ulna.
	-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, and, dal, dun, lad.
	-4 letters: aa, ad, al, an, la, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-n-u"
	+1 letter: ladanum, landaus.
	+2 letters: dulciana, labdanum, ladanums, laudanum.
	+3 letters: adulating, adulation, angulated, auslander, calendula, canulated, dulcianas, glandular, labdanums, landaulet, laudanums, laudation, launchpad.
	+4 letters: abundantly, adulations, adulterant, andalusite, annualized, applauding, aquaplaned, auslanders, calendulas, granulated, landaulets, latifundia, laudations, launchpads, laundromat, laundryman, mandibular, quadrangle, quadrantal, salmagundi, scandalous, unabatedly, unanalyzed, unassailed, unbalanced, unreadable, unsalaried.
	+5 letters: acidulating, acidulation, adulterants, altitudinal, andalusites, aptitudinal, attitudinal, autoloading, calumniated, candelabrum, devaluating, devaluation, educational, fundamental, glandularly, gradualness, latitudinal, laundromats, mandibulate, manipulated, naturalised, naturalized, outbalanced, pastureland, quadrangles, quadrennial, salmagundis, transvalued, unabashedly, unadaptable, unadoptable, unalienated, unallocated, unashamedly, unavoidable, unavoidably, unballasted, uncataloged, undanceable, undauntable, undebatable, undebatably, unevaluated.
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