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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | WCL A Common Lisp implementation in a shared library by Wade Hennessey |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
WCL is an acronym for Water Closet, a European euphemism for a room in which toilet facilities are located. Although W.C. is the much more common abbreviation.
WCL (Wade's CL) is also a Common Lisp implementation in a shared library by Wade Hennessey
See also: Lisp programming language
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WCL | English | World Confederation of Labour | Law, Labor |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: WCL |
| Specialty definitions using "WCL": Common Lisp ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| "WCL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WCL" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wcl | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "WCL": dewclaw, dewclaws. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-w" | |
+1 letter: claw, clew, cowl. | |
+2 letters: claws, clews, clown, cowls, crawl, scowl, welch, wilco. | |
+3 letters: callow, clawed, clawer, clewed, clowns, cowled, crawls, crawly, crewel, curlew, declaw, lechwe, scowls, scrawl. | |
+4 letters: beclown, becrawl, catclaw, catwalk, clawers, clawing, clewing, clowder, clowned, cowbell, cowedly, cowflap, cowflop, cowgirl, cowlick, cowling, cowplop, cowslip, crawled, crawler, crewels, curlews, declaws, dewclaw, lechwes, lockjaw, rowlock, salchow, scowled, scowler, scrawls, scrawly, wackily, warlock, wedlock, welched, welcher, welches, welcome, wildcat. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 43 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. -.-. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000011 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W C L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0043 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)573746 |
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