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Definition: Marmora |
MarmoraNoun1. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Marmora" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: MarmoraSynonyms: Marmara (n), Sea of Marmara (n), Sea of Marmora (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Marmora |
| English words defined with "Marmora": Sea of Marmora. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Marmora" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (marble), Romanian (cloud, grain, mottle). |
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 | Off Constantinople, Turkey, on 16 December 1922, with 482 survivors of the French transport Vinh-Long on board. The French ship had burned in the Sea of Marmora earlier that day. Bainbridge is flying her ensign at half mast height, in mourning for the victims of the disaster.Credit: NAVY. |  | Constantinople. Tower of Marmora - old walls.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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1. Marmora, NJ |
Expression using "Marmora": sea of Marmora. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
marmora nj | 47 |
marmora | 30 |
marmora ontario | 14 |
marmora new jersey | 2 |
econo lodge marmora | 2 |
canada marmora | 2 |
hotel marmora | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Marmora"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Мраморное море (Sea of Marmara, Sea of Marmora). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sylvia sarda. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Marmora" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mahmuda, Mamor, Marbore, Marmaris, Marmorata, Marmoura, Maroua, Maxmara, Mazmoor, mormorar, Muraoka, Muroroa, Normura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: marram. | |
-2 letters: armor, aroma. | |
-3 letters: ammo, maar, mama, mora, orra, roam, roar. | |
-4 letters: ama, arm, mar, moa, mom, mor, oar, ora, ram, rom. | |
-5 letters: aa, am, ar, ma, mm, mo, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: marjoram. | |
+2 letters: marjorams, marmoreal, marmorean. | |
+3 letters: aerogramme. | |
+4 letters: aerogrammes, marmoreally. | |
+5 letters: chromatogram, micromanager, programmable, programmatic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 6D 6F 72 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. -- --- .-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r m o r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 006D 006F 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678479818467 |
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