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Date "BANKET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A general term for a compact, siliceous conglomerate of vein-quartz pebbles about the size of a pigeon's egg, embedded in a quartzitic matrix. The term was originally applied in the Witwatersrand area of South Africa to the mildly metamorphosed gold-bearing conglomerates containing muffin-shaped quartz pebbles and resembling an almond cake made by the Boers. Etymol: Afrikaans, a kind of confectionery b. Originally applied by the Dutch settlers to the gold-bearing conglomerates of the Witwatersrand. It is now used more widely for similarconglomerates and conglomeratic quartzites. (references) |
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Crosswords: BANKET |
| Specialty definitions using "BANKET": handpicking. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BANKET" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (banquet), Albanian (banquet, feast), Czech (banquet, feast), Dutch (almond pastry, banquet), Serbo-Croatian (banquet, banquette), Turkish (hard shoulder, shoulder). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Banket (1986) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| 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 |
banket | 11 |
banket brood en | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BANKET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukrainian | банкет. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-n-t" | |
-1 letter: taken. | |
-2 letters: abet, ante, bake, bane, bank, bate, beak, bean, beat, bent, beta, etna, kane, kent, nabe, neat, take, tank, teak. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, ban, bat, ben, bet, eat, eta, kab, kae, kat, kea, ken, nab, nae, neb, net, tab, tae, tan, tea, ten. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, an, at, ba, be, en, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-k-n-t" | |
+1 letter: beatnik, betaken, bethank, blanket. | |
+2 letters: banknote, beatniks, betaking, bethanks, blankest, blankets, bunkmate, snakebit. | |
+3 letters: banknotes, beanstalk, bethanked, blanketed, bunkmates, interbank, snakebite, thinkable. | |
+4 letters: backbitten, bankrupted, barkentine, beanstalks, bethanking, blanketing, bracketing, breakfront, embankment, embarkment, handbasket, mountebank, snakebites. | |
+5 letters: barkentines, blanketlike, breakfronts, cabinetwork, debarkation, embankments, embarkation, embarkments, handbaskets, heartbroken, mountebanks, snakebitten, tiebreaking, unbracketed, unthinkable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4E 4B 45 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01000010 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A N K E T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004E 004B 0045 0054 |
| 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)363548453954 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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