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PODSNAP

Specialty Definition: PODSNAP

DomainDefinition

Literature

Podsnap A type of the heavy gentry, lumbering and straight-backed as Elizabethan furniture. (Dickens: Our Mutual Friend.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Date "PODSNAP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references)


Usage Frequency: PODSNAP

"PODSNAP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PODSNAP" is used about 9 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)100%9117,287

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

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Anagrams: PODSNAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-n-o-p-p-s"

-2 letters: apods, donas, dopas, ponds, spado.

-3 letters: ados, ands, apod, daps, dona, dons, dopa, naos, naps, nods, pads, pans, paps, pods, pond, pons, pops, sand, snap, soap, soda, span.

-4 letters: ado, ads, and, asp, dap, don, dos, nap, nod, nos, ods, ons, ops, pad, pan, pap, pas, pod, pop, sad, sap, sod, son, sop.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-n-o-p-p-s"
 

+1 letter: oppidans.

 

+2 letters: peponidas.

 

+3 letters: disappoint, dognappers, snowcapped.

 

+4 letters: disappoints, paperbounds, pentaploids, propagandas.

 

+5 letters: disappointed, disapproving, postprandial, propagandist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PODSNAP


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

50 4F 44 53 4E 41 50

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)

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

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

01010000 01001111 01000100 01010011 01001110 01000001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0044 0053 004E 0041 0050

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

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

50493853483550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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