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Definition: ROCKAWAY |
ROCKAWAY1. Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side. |
Date "ROCKAWAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rockaway, New Jersey."
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Screenplays | You couldn't find a Jew in Rockaway. (Q & A; writing credit: Sidney Lumet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bathing Scene at Rockaway (1898) | |
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 | Hospital for Joint Diseases. : Country Branch, Far Rockaway, Long Island, N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Three-year-old Randy Gail Schwartz, wearing crown and holding large scepter, grins after winning "the most beautiful child" contest at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Str. Grand Republic landing at Rockaway, L[ong] I[sland]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Str. Mobjack loading passengers at Rockaway Island, L.I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Community Center, 295 Main St., East Rockaway, Long Island. Ballroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brooklyn Convalescent Home, Beach and 9th St., Far Rockaway, New York. Trellis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
1. Rockaway, NJ (borough, FIPS 64050) 2. Rockaway, OR |
Expressions using "ROCKAWAY": East Rockaway ♦ Far Rockaway ♦ Rockaway Beach. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ROCKAWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид карета. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockawayray прогулочный экипаж. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ROCKAWAY": rockaways. (additional references) | |
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"ROCKAWAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rucksana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ROCKAWAY" (pronounced rÄ"kuwā') |
| 4 | -k u w ā' | breakaway. |
| 3 | -u w ā' | caraway, castaway, getaway, giveaway, hideaway, runaway, straightaway, throwaway. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-k-o-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: croaky. | |
-3 letters: corky, cowry, croak, rocky, wacko, wacky, wrack. | |
-4 letters: arak, arco, away, awry, caky, cark, cork, cory, cowy, craw, crow, kayo, kyar, okay, okra, orca, rack, racy, raya, rock, wack, wark, wary, work, yack, yock. | |
-5 letters: arc, ark, awa, car, caw, cay, cor, cow, coy, cry, kay, koa, kor, oak, oar, oca, oka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-k-o-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: rockaways. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 43 4B 41 57 41 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- -.-. -.- .- .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O C K A W A Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0043 004B 0041 0057 0041 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5249374535573559 |
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