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Definition: TRAMROAD |
TRAMROADNoun1. A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron. |
Note: Tramroad \Tram"road`\, noun. [Tram coal wagon road.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A mine haulage road. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TRAMROAD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRAMROAD" is used about 15 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) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TRAMROAD": tramroads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: matador. | |
-2 letters: mortar, ramrod. | |
-3 letters: amort, aorta, ardor, armor, aroma, damar, drama, radar, tardo. | |
-4 letters: atma, atom, dart, data, dato, doat, dorm, dorr, dram, drat, maar, mart, moat, mora, mort, orad, orra, rato, road, roam, roar, rota, taro, toad, tora, torr, trad, tram, trod. | |
-5 letters: ado, ama, arm, art, dam, dom, dor, dot, mad, mar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: tramroads. | |
+2 letters: prodromata. | |
+3 letters: mortarboard. | |
+4 letters: mortarboards, overdramatic. | |
+5 letters: administrator, autoradiogram, overdramatize, sclerodermata. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 52 41 4D 52 4F 41 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -- .-. --- .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010010 01000001 01001101 01010010 01001111 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T R A M R O A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0052 0041 004D 0052 004F 0041 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5452354752493538 |
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