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Definition: NOWT |
NOWTNoun plural1. Neat cattle. |
Date "NOWT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Crosswords: NOWT |
| Specialty definitions using "NOWT": GRAVE ♦ -grave. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NOWT" is generally used as a pronoun (indefinite) -- approximately 94.98% of the time. "NOWT" is used about 219 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 |
| Pronoun (indefinite) | 94.98% | 208 | 21,075 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.57% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.46% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 219 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "NOWT": see-all-hear-all-say-nowt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NOWT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nix (merman, nothing, water-sprite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owtnay nada (any, aught, naught, nil, Nix, none, not any the, not at all, nothing, nothingness, nought, peanuts). (various references) ไม่มีอะไรเลย (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) тупоголовий (brutish, fatheaded, heavy-handed, numskull, thick-headed), грубіян (bearish, bucko, cad, chuff, churl, cur, snapper, termagant, twerp, tyke, ugly customer), віл (beef, neat, ox, stag), велика рогата худоба (cattle, neat, nolt), бик (bull, neat, ox). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NOWT": nowts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: town, wont. | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-t-w" | |
-1 letter: not, now, own, ton, tow, two, won, wot. | |
-2 letters: no, on, ow, to, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: nowts, towns, towny, wonts. | |
+2 letters: intown, newton, strown, thrown, towing, townee, townie, uptown, wanton, wonted, wonton. | |
+3 letters: bowknot, crownet, cutdown, fanwort, forwent, letdown, midtown, network, newtons, nutwood, outfawn, outgnaw, outwent, outwind, outworn, putdown, stowing, tinwork, towline, towmond, towmont, townees, townies, townish, townlet, trowing, uptowns, wantons, whatnot, wonting, wontons, wotting. | |
+4 letters: bentwood, bestrown, boomtown, bowfront, bowknots, brownest, brownout, crownets, cutdowns, danewort, downbeat, downcast, downiest, downtick, downtime, downtown, downtrod, downturn, fanworts, footworn, forewent, hawthorn, hometown, honewort, hornwort, ingrowth, interrow, knotweed, kotowing, letdowns, lungwort, meltdown, midtowns, moonwort, nanowatt, networks, nonwhite, nutbrown, nutwoods, outdrawn, outfawns, outflown, outfrown, outgnawn, outgnaws, outgrown, outsworn, outwinds, putdowns, sandwort, shutdown, snowbelt, snowiest, snowmelt, snowsuit, strowing, swotting, takedown, teardown, thindown, throwing, timeworn, tinworks, toilworn, toweling, towering, towlines, towmonds, towmonts, townfolk, townhome, townless, townlets, township, townsman, townsmen, townwear, turndown, twinborn, twopence, twopenny, undertow, untoward, unwonted, unworthy, upthrown, uptowner, wainscot, wantoned, wantoner, wantonly, whatnots, whodunit, wonkiest, wontedly, woodnote, worsting, worthing, wrongest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 4F 57 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01001110 01001111 01010111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N O W T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 004F 0057 0054 |
| 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)48495754 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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