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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Air vitiated by powder fumes, noxious gases, or respirable dust. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BAD AIR |
| English words defined with "BAD AIR": Cholera infantum. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BAD AIR": malaria. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. |
William Shakespeare | I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| 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 |
bad air | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BAD AIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | rossz levegő, elhasznált levegő (dead air). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | adbay airay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-i-r" | |
-1 letter: braid, rabid. | |
-2 letters: abri, aria, arid, bard, bird, brad, darb, drab, drib, raia, raid. | |
-3 letters: aba, aid, air, arb, baa, bad, bar, bid, bra, dab, dib, rad, ria, rib, rid. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ai, ar, ba, bi, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-i-r" | |
+1 letter: barmaid, bidarka, carabid. | |
+2 letters: abrading, arabized, baidarka, barmaids, bidarkas, bigarade, biradial, carabids, hairband, radiable, rainband. | |
+3 letters: abdicator, admirable, admirably, adverbial, baidarkas, bargained, barricade, barricado, bigarades, biohazard, broadtail, carbamide, gabardine, garibaldi, hairbands, jaborandi, rainbands, sailboard, tailboard, trainband. | |
+4 letters: abdicators, adverbials, arabicized, arbitraged, arbitrated, balladries, banderilla, barbarized, barramundi, barricaded, barricades, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, biohazards, brachiated, brigandage, broadtails, calibrated, carbamides, eradicable, fabricated, gabardines, garibaldis, jaborandis, mandibular, paraboloid, radiolabel, sailboards, tailboards, trainbands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 44 41 49 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000100 00100000 01000001 01001001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A D   A I R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0044 0041 0049 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635382354352 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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