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Definition: MOLASSE |
MOLASSENoun1. A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology. |
Etymology: Molasse \Mo*lasse"\, noun. [French expression molasse, probably from mollasse flabby, flimsy, from the Latin expression mollis soft.]. (Websters 1913) |
"MOLASSE" is a common misspelling or typo for: molasses. |
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Mining | A. A partly marine, partly continental sedimentary facies consisting of a thick sequence of fossiliferous conglomerates, sandstones, shales, and marls, characterized by primary sedimentary structures and sometimes by coal and carbonate deposits. It is more clastic and less rhythmic than the preceding flysch facies b. An extensive sedimentary formation representing the totality of the molasse facies resulting from the wearing down of elevated mountain ranges during and immediately after the main paroxysmal (diastrophic) phase of an orogeny, and deposited considerably in front of the preceding flysch. Adj:molassic. CF:flysch. (references) |
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| "MOLASSE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOLASSE" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "MOLASSE": molasse-detritus, molasse-type. | |
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| Language | Translations for "MOLASSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | molasse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Molasse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | molassa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olassemay molasso. (various references) molasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MOLASSE": molasses, molasseses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: amoles. | |
-2 letters: almes, aloes, amole, lames, lases, lasso, loams, loess, loses, males, masse, meals, mesas, molas, moles, oases, sales, seals, seams, slams, sloes, soles, somas. | |
-3 letters: ales, alme, alms, aloe, also, elms, lame, lams, lase, lass, leas, less, loam, lose, loss, maes, male, mass, meal, mels, mesa, mess, moas, mola, mole, mols, moss. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: amyloses, damosels, foamless, loamless, maltoses, molasses. | |
+2 letters: abelmosks, albumoses, almshouse, armorless, camisoles, mesogleas, mesoscale, moralises, neoplasms, pleonasms, salerooms, salesroom, scleromas, semolinas, womanless. | |
+3 letters: almshouses, assoilment, commensals, desmosomal, ectoplasms, elastomers, embossable, endoplasms, fathomless, formalises, formalness, gladsomest, glamorises, lemongrass, maelstroms, marlstones, mausoleums, megalopses, mesogloeas, mestranols, mislocates, molasseses, moniliases, mortarless, normalises, omphaloses, plasmodesm, psalmodies, salesrooms, saleswoman, saleswomen, salometers, semipostal, smallpoxes, somersault, squamulose, steamrolls. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 4C 41 53 53 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O L A S S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 004C 0041 0053 0053 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47494635535339 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francês, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, tedesco, alemão, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italienisch, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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