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Definition: TOP-DRESSING |
TOP-DRESSINGNoun1. The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Top-dress |
Date "TOP-DRESSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Crosswords: TOP-DRESSING |
| Etymologies containing "TOP-DRESSING": Top-dress. (references) |
| "TOP-DRESSING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "TOP-DRESSING" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TOP-DRESSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | sự rải phân lên mặt ruộng lớp đá rải lên mặt đường, sự rải đá lên mặt đường, phân để rải lên mặt ruộng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: topdressing. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dripstones, progestins, signposted. | |
-2 letters: deporting, digestors, dripstone, progestin, spongiest, topsiders. | |
-3 letters: deposing, deposits, digestor, diopters, dioptres, dipteron, disports, disposer, dopiness, dressing, dropsies, genitors, goriness, gorsiest, gossiped, gossiper, grodiest, indorses, negroids, oestrins, peridots, perigons, podgiest, pointers, porniest, portends, posterns, postings, pressing, prisoned, prosiest, prosties, proteids, proteins, protends, reposing, reposits, responds, ringtoss, riposted, ripostes, ropiness. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: topdressings. | |
+2 letters: predigestions. | |
| 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)54 4F 50 2D 44 52 45 53 53 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01010000 00101101 01000100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O P - D R E S S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0050 002D 0044 0052 0045 0053 0053 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544950153852395353434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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