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LEANING TOWER

Specialty Definition: LEANING TOWER

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Literature

Leaning Tower The one at Pisa, in Italy, is 178 feet in height, and leans about 14 feet. At Caerphilly, in Glamorganshire, there is a tower which leans eleven feet in eighty.
"The Leaning Tower of Pisa continues to stand because the vertical line drawn through its centre of gravity passes within its base."- Ganot: Physics. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Crosswords: LEANING TOWER

English words defined with "LEANING TOWER": atiltcantedleaningPisatilted, tipped. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LEANING TOWER": Line of DirectionSeven Wonders of the World. (references)

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Modern Usage: LEANING TOWER

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Screenplays

Is the Leaning Tower of Pizza just a statue? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Max, look, it's the Leaning Tower of Cheesa! (A Goofy Movie; writing credit: Jymn Magon; Chris Matheson)

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Commercial Usage: LEANING TOWER

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Books

  • The Leaning Tower of Babel: And Other Affronts by the Underground Grammarian (reference)

  • The Diary of Melanie Martin or: How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza (reference)

  • Leaning Tower and Other Stories (reference)

  • The old order : stories of the South, from Flowering Judas, Pale horse, Pale rider, and The leaning tower (reference)

  • The leaning tower, or, Out of the perpendicular (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Photo Album: LEANING TOWER

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Station Post emulating the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Leg settled badly in vicinity of ditch Tower was rebuilt with one leg placed in center of road. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A new leaning tower. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caerphilly Castle, leaning tower / F.F. & Co. Credit: Library of Congress.

Panoramic view of Baptistry, Cathedral and Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leaning Tower, Baptistry & Cathedral, Pisa, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Expression: LEANING TOWER

Expression using "LEANING TOWER": the leaning tower of pisa. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEANING TOWER

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

leaning tower of pisa

343

leaning tower

66

picture of leaning tower of pisa

34

leaning tower ymca

9

italy leaning tower

4
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Modern Translation: LEANING TOWER

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

Danish

  

mod vinden hældende tårn. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tegen de wind in overhellende toren. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuuleen nojaava torni. (various references)

   

French

  

supportage monopode avec étai tournant. (various references)

   

German

  

gegen den Wind geneigter Turm. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κεκλιμένος πύργος με στήριγμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pisai ferde torony (leaning tower of pisa). (various references)

   

Italian

  

torre inclinata controvento. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

斜" . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゃとう (front ofa shrine). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eaninglay owertay

   

Portuguese

  

torre inclinada. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

turnul înclinat din pisa (the leaning tower of pisa). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torre inclinada contra el viento. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

torn som lutar mot vinden. (various references)

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Anagrams: LEANING TOWER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: generation, relegation.

-3 letters: argentine, eglantine, entangler, inelegant, relenting, reloaning, tangerine, troweling, waterline, weltering.

-4 letters: aerolite, alerting, algerine, altering, anointer, antigene, elaterin, eloigner, elongate, entailer, entangle, entering, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelation, geraniol, gratinee, ignorant, integral, interage, internal, lanneret, latening, learning, legatine, legation, lowering, negation, negatron, nitrogen, nonelite, nonglare, oriental, reanoint, regental, regional, relating, relation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LEANING TOWER


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

4C 45 41 4E 49 4E 47      54 4F 57 45 52

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

    

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

01001100 01000101 01000001 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#87 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 004E 0049 004E 0047      0054 004F 0057 0045 0052

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

4639354843484125449573952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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