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Date "NEWGATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
"NEWGATE" is a common misspelling or typo for: negate. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prison | Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's (or Queen's) Bench. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NEWGATE |
| Specialty definitions using "NEWGATE": Black as a Newgate Knocker, BOARDING SCHOOL ♦ CHEQUER INN, City College, CURSITORS ♦ Holborn ♦ KING'S HEAD INN, Knight's Ward ♦ Moll Cutpurse ♦ NEWGATE BIRD, Newgate Fashion, Newgate Fringe, Newgate Knocker, NEWGATE SOLICITOR, NEWMAN'S HOTEL, NEWMAN'S TEA GARDENS ♦ Sheppard, SPRING-ANKLE WAREHOUSE, STONE JUG ♦ TANGIER. (references) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 94.12% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.53% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "NEWGATE": newgate-sequestered. | |
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| 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 |
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. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 45 57 47 41 54 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .--. --. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000101 01010111 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N E W G A T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0045 0057 0047 0041 0054 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48395741355439 |
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