NEAR DROWNING

  

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NEAR DROWNING

Specialty Definition: NEAR DROWNING

DomainDefinition

Health

Non-fatal immersion or submersion in water. The subject is resuscitable. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: NEAR DROWNING

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Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Methods of torture included electric shock, beatings (especially on the soles of the feet), suspension by the wrists or feet in contorted positions, burning, slamming testicles in desk drawers, and near drowning. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEAR DROWNING

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

near drowning

28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NEAR DROWNING

Language Translations for "NEAR DROWNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

vähältä piti, ettei hän hukkunut (he came very near drowning, he was within a hair's breadth of drownindrowning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earnay owningdray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: NEAR DROWNING

Misspellings

"NEAR DROWNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: near drownings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NEAR DROWNING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: nonreading, readorning.

-3 letters: downrange, narrowing, redonning, redrawing, renowning, rewarding, rewording, wandering, wondering.

-4 letters: adorning, androgen, arrowing, awninged, dowering, drowning, endowing, ironware, narrowed, orangier, ordainer, ordering, organdie, reordain.

-5 letters: adoring, adorner, aginner, andiron, aneroid, angrier, arrowed, darning, dawning, deaning, denning, deraign, donning, dowager, downier, downing, drainer, drawing, droning, drowner, earning, earring, engrain, eroding, gnarred, gowaned.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEAR DROWNING


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

4E 45 41 52      44 52 4F 57 4E 49 4E 47

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

    

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

01001110 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000100 01010010 01001111 01010111 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0041 0052      0044 0052 004F 0057 004E 0049 004E 0047

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

4839355223852495748434841

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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