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Definition: Wollaston |
WollastonNoun1. English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wollaston" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1650. (references) |
Synonym: WollastonSynonym: William Hyde Wollaston (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Wollaston prism (geography). |
Crosswords: Wollaston |
| English words defined with "Wollaston": William Hyde Wollaston, Wollaston prism. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wollaston, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wollaston" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wollaston" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Wollaston": William Hyde Wollaston ♦ Wollaston prism. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
lake wollaston | 18 |
lake lodge wollaston | 18 |
wollaston | 14 |
beach wollaston | 9 |
club golf wollaston | 8 |
club country wollaston | 3 |
william wollaston | 2 |
ma wollaston | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Wollaston": wollastonite, wollastonites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: latosol, tallows. | |
-3 letters: allots, allows, aswoon, atolls, llanos, sallow, saloon, santol, solano, stolon, tallow, talons, tolans. | |
-4 letters: allot, allow, altos, atoll, awols, lawns, llano, loans, loons, loots, lotas, lotos, nolos, notal, nowts, ollas, salol, salon, santo, slant, snool, snoot, solan, solon, sotol, stall, stool, swoon, talon, tolan, tolas, tolls, tonal, tools, toons, towns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-s-t-w" | |
+3 letters: wollastonite. | |
+4 letters: wollastonites. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 6F 6C 6C 61 73 74 6F 6E |
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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).--. --- .-.. .-.. .- ... - --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W o l l a s t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 006F 006C 006C 0061 0073 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)578178786785868180 |
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