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NEWGATE

Date "NEWGATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

"NEWGATE" is a common misspelling or typo for: negate.


Specialty Definition: NEWGATE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Newgate Before this was set up, London had but three gates: Aldgate, Aldersgate, and Ludgate. The new one was added in the reign of Henry I.
Newgate. Nash, in his Pierce Penilesse. says that Newgate is "a common name for all prisons, as homo is a common name for a man or woman." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Newgate

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Newgate was a gate in the west of London Wall round the City of London. It was between Ludgate and Aldersgate. It survives only in the name of 'Newgate Street', just north of St Paul's Cathedral.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Newgate."

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Synonyms within Context: NEWGATE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prison

Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's (or Queen's) Bench.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: NEWGATE

Specialty definitions using "NEWGATE": Black as a Newgate Knocker, BOARDING SCHOOLCHEQUER INN, City College, CURSITORSHolbornKING'S HEAD INN, Knight's WardMoll CutpurseNEWGATE BIRD, Newgate Fashion, Newgate Fringe, Newgate Knocker, NEWGATE SOLICITOR, NEWMAN'S HOTEL, NEWMAN'S TEA GARDENSSheppard, SPRING-ANKLE WAREHOUSE, STONE JUGTANGIER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEWGATE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Grub St. stripped bare: the scandalous lives & pornographic works of the original Grub St. writers, together with the bottle songs which led to their drunkenness, the shameless pamphleteering which led them to Newgate Prison, & the continual pandering to (reference)

  • The English Bastille: a history of Newgate Gaol and prison conditions in Britain, 1188-1902 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: NEWGATE

"NEWGATE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "NEWGATE" is used about 85 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)94.12%8037,112
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.53%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)1.18%1339,140
Noun (singular)1.18%1339,140
                    Total100.00%85N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: NEWGATE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "NEWGATE": newgate-sequestered.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEWGATE

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

newgate

23

newgate prison

15

newgate mall

15

newgate old prison

7

honda newgate

4

motorsports newgate

3

calendar newgate

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: NEWGATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-t-w"

-1 letter: atween, negate.

-2 letters: agene, agent, eaten, enate, genet, ngwee, tenge, twang, tween.

-3 letters: agee, anew, ante, awee, etna, gaen, gane, gate, gene, gent, geta, gnat, gnaw, neat, newt, tang, teen, twae, twee, wage, wane, want, wean, ween, weet, went.

-4 letters: age, ane, ant, ate, awe, awn, eat, eng, eta, ewe, gae, gan, gat, gee.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-t-w"
 

+2 letters: newsagent, wagonette.

 

+3 letters: dewatering, newsagents, wagonettes, wavelength, weathering.

 

+4 letters: enwreathing, gentlewoman, graniteware, wavelengths, weatherings, witenagemot.

 

+5 letters: cartwheeling, granitewares, interweaving, overwatering, weatherizing, witenagemote, witenagemots.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEWGATE


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

4E 45 57 47 41 54 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .    .--.    --.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001110 01000101 01010111 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#87 &#71 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0057 0047 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

48395741355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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