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Definition: Barndoor |
BarndoorNoun1. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barndoor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Crosswords: Barndoor |
| English words defined with "barndoor": Barndoor fowl, barndoor skate. (references) |
Expressions using "barndoor": as big as a barndoor ♦ Barndoor fowl ♦ barndoor skate. 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 |
barndoor | 63 |
barndoor mount | 3 |
barndoor bus vw | 2 |
barndoor furniture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barndoor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portë e hambarit. (various references) | |
Czech | vrata (door, gate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arndoorbay.(various references) | |
Russian | домашняя птица (barn-door fowl, fowl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrata ambara. (various references) | |
Swedish | överskuggare. (various references) | |
Turkish | ambar kapısı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-o-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: bradoon, onboard. | |
-2 letters: roband. | |
-3 letters: aboon, adobo, adorn, arbor, ardor, baron, board, boron, brand, broad, brood, dobra, dobro, donor, radon, rondo. | |
-4 letters: band, bard, barn, boar, bond, boon, boor, bora, born, brad, bran, broo, darb, darn, dona, door, dorr, drab, nard, odor, orad, ordo, orra, rand, road, roan, roar, rood. | |
-5 letters: abo, ado, and, arb, bad, ban, bar, boa, bod, boo, bra, bro, brr, dab, don, dor, nab, nob, nod, noo, nor, oar, ora, orb, rad, ran, rob, rod. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-n-o-o-r-r" | |
+3 letters: hydrocarbon, radiocarbon, snowboarder. | |
+4 letters: hydrocarbons, radiocarbons, snowboarders, subordinator. | |
+5 letters: storyboarding, subordinators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 72 6E 64 6F 6F 72 |
| 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)01000010 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100100 01101111 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a r n d o o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0072 006E 0064 006F 006F 0072 |
| 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)3667848070818184 |
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