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WALK-OVER

Definition: WALK-OVER

WALK-OVER

Noun

1. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonym: WALK-OVER

Synonym by domain: walk over (sports & leisure).

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Crosswords: WALK-OVER

Non-English Usage: "WALK-OVER" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (walkover), German (walkover).

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Usage Frequency: WALK-OVER

"WALK-OVER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WALK-OVER" 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
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translations: WALK-OVER

Language Translations for "WALK-OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Korean 

  

낙승 (walkover). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ard-varriaght (triumph). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alk-overway

   

Russian 

  

легкая победа (runaway victory, walkaway, walkover). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cuộc thi dễ thắng vì không có đối thủ, cuộc thi đấu thắng dễ d ng (walkaway). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "WALK-OVER"

Words rhyming with "WALK-OVER" (pronounced 'Walk"-o`ver'): Demiquaver, Demisemiquaver, Passover, Rep-silver, Semidemiquaver, semiquaver, Up-over. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WALK-OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: walkover.

Words within the letters "a-e-k-l-o-r-v-w"

-2 letters: avower, lekvar, reavow, walker, wolver.

-3 letters: awoke, laevo, laker, laver, lover, lower, ravel, rowel, valor, velar, volar, vowel, vower, waker, waler, waver, wreak.

-4 letters: aero, aloe, alow, arvo, aver, avow, awol, earl, kale, koel, kola, kore, lake, lark, lave, leak, lear, leva, levo, lore, love, lowe, okra, olea, oral, orle, oval, over, rake.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-l-o-r-v-w"
 

+1 letter: walkovers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WALK-OVER


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

57 41 4C 4B 2D 4F 56 45 52

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

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

01010111 01000001 01001100 01001011 00101101 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#76 &#75 &#45 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004C 004B 002D 004F 0056 0045 0052

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

573546451549563952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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