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STONEBIRD

Definition: STONEBIRD

STONEBIRD

Noun

1. The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: STONEBIRD

"STONEBIRD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STONEBIRD" is used about 30 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%3063,341

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

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Anagrams: STONEBIRD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: bornites, deorbits.

-2 letters: bestrid, binders, bistred, bonders, boniest, borides, bornite, debtors, deorbit, dineros, disrobe, editors, inbreds, indorse, norites, oestrin, orbiest, orbited, ordines, orients, rebinds, rodents, rosined, snorted, sorbent, sordine, sortied, steroid, stonier, storied, tinders, triodes.

-3 letters: bedsit, bestir, betons, biders, bidets, binder, bionts, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, bodies, boites, bonder, boners, bonier, boride.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: counterbids, strikebound, subordinate, tinderboxes.

 

+3 letters: brainstormed, debarkations, outbreedings, subordinated, subordinates, tenebrionids.

 

+4 letters: deliberations, insubordinate, moribundities, skateboarding, subordinately, subordinative.

 

+5 letters: decarbonations, decerebrations, defibrinations, disembarkation, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, insubordinates, rebroadcasting, rediscountable, redistribution, skateboardings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STONEBIRD


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

53 54 4F 4E 45 42 49 52 44

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)

01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101 01000010 01001001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#66 &#73 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 004F 004E 0045 0042 0049 0052 0044

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

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

535449483936435238

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INDEX

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


  

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