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Marconi Rig

Definition: Marconi Rig

Marconi Rig

Noun

1. A rig of triangular sails for a yacht.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Marconi Rig

DomainDefinitions

Transportation

Triangular fore-and-aft sails are set without a gaff, sprit or yard; the mast required is very much taller than that of a gaff-rigged boat and, like the tall aerial used for the Marconi transmitter in the early days of wireless, the original spars for this rig required a considerable number of stays and shrouds for support. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Marconi Rig

Synonyms: Bermuda rig (n), Bermudan rig (n), Bermudian rig (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: bermudan (transportation), bermudian.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marconi Rig

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

design marconi rig sailing upwind

2
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Modern Translations: Marconi Rig

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

Danish

  

Marconi-rig (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), Bermuda-rig (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bermudazeil (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Marconi-takila (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), Marconi-riki (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), bermudatakila (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), bermudariki (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

French

  

marconi, bermudienne, bermudien. (various references)

   

German

  

Marconitakelung (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), Bermudatakelung (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βερμουδιανό (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Italian

  

marconi (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), bermudiana (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), attrezzatura marconi (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), attrezzatura bermudiana (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arconimay igray

   

Portuguese

  

Marconi (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian), bermudiana (Bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bermudarigg (bermuda rig, bermudan, bermudian). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Marconi Rig

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-m-n-o-r-r"

-1 letter: cairngorm, carroming.

-2 letters: armoring, caroming, ignorami, morainic.

-3 letters: amorini, carrion, coaming, marring, minicar, minorca, organic, origami, roaming, roaring.

-4 letters: agonic, aiming, airing, aminic, anomic, arcing, arming, camion, caring, carrom, coming, congii, coring, garcon, garron, gnomic, ironic, macing, macron, manioc, margin, marron, micron, miring, moirai, morgan, oaring, onagri, orgiac, origan, origin, racing, rancor, raring, ricing.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-m-n-o-r-r"
 

+3 letters: micrographing, microorganism.

 

+4 letters: intercomparing, microorganisms, microsporangia.

 

+5 letters: circumnavigator, microsporangium, trigonometrical.

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Alternative Orthography: Marconi Rig


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

4D 61 72 63 6F 6E 69      52 69 67

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

    

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

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101001 00100000 01010010 01101001 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#32 &#82 &#105 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0063 006F 006E 0069      0052 0069 0067

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

476784698180752527573

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INDEX

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


  

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