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THROW-OFF


Crosswords: THROW-OFF

Specialty definitions using "THROW-OFF": load throw-off. (references)

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Usage Frequency: THROW-OFF

"THROW-OFF" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THROW-OFF" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translations: THROW-OFF

Language Translations for "THROW-OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

投掷 (Darted, Darting, Pelted, Pelting, slinging, Slung, Threw, throw, Throwing, thrown, thrown-away). (various references)

   

Danish

  

throw-off. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

throw-off. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

poisto (depreciation), poisheitto, heitto (cast, fling, throw, toss). (various references)

   

French

  

délestage de consommation (load throw-off), délestage (load throw-off), chariot de jetée (throwing off belt, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), chariot de déversement (throw-off carriage, throw-off gear). (various references)

   

German

  

Abwurf (casting, dropping, jettisoning, release, throw, throwing off, yield), Abkupplung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκόπιμη διακοπή φορτίων (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), βαγονέτο εκφόρτωσης (baffle, plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), μείωση φορτίου (downloading, load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), απόρριψη φορτίου (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), αποφόρτιση (discharge, load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off, unload, unloading). (various references)

   

Italian

  

eliminazione del carico (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), distacco programmato di carichi (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), distacco di carico (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), carrello di scarico (baffle, plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

던지십시요 떨어져 (Cast-off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ow-offthray

   

Portuguese

  

vagoneta de descarga (baffle, plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), rejeição de carga (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), deslastro de cargas (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), descarga (chase, discharge, eel, exhaust, flush, outfall, outflow, shot, volley). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

separación (abducing, abruption, break, breakup, decollation, detachment, division, hyphenation, isolation, parting, partition, secession, separation, severance), eliminación de carga (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), deslastre (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), desconexión de carga (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off), carro de descarga (baffle, plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brytare av transmissionsstång, brytare av överföringsstång. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THROW-OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-h-o-o-r-t-w"

-3 letters: forth, froth, howff, ortho, rowth, thoro, throw, whoof, whort, worth, wroth.

-4 letters: foot, fort, frow, hoof, hoot, howf, roof, root, roto, thro, toff, toro, trow, woof, wort.

-5 letters: foh, for, fro, hot, how, off, oft, oho, ooh, oot, ort, rho, rot, row, tho, too, tor, tow, two, who, woo, wot.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THROW-OFF


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

54 48 52 4F 57 2D 4F 46 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010100 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010111 00101101 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#45 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0052 004F 0057 002D 004F 0046 0046

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

544252495715494040

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