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Birdbath

Definition: Birdbath

Birdbath

Noun

1. An ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Birdbath

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Birdbath (1971)

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Commercial Usage: Birdbath

DomainTitle

Books

  • Birdbath Beauty : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • The Fire in the Birdbath and Other Disturbances (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Birdbath

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Birdbath

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Birdbath in an Urbandale, Iowa back yard.Credit: Lynn Betts.

A birdbath may be the source of water in a backyard, such as this one in eastern Florida.Credit: Lynn Betts.

Cap Stubbs and Tippie. Tippie sights birds in a birdbath.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Usage Frequency: Birdbath

"Birdbath" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Birdbath" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translations: Birdbath

Language Translations for "birdbath"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

madárfürdő. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vaschetta per gli uccelli. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irdbathbay

   

Spanish

  

pila para pájaros. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fågelbad. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Birdbath

Derivations

Words beginning with "birdbath": birdbaths. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Birdbath" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barbalho, bedbath, Bodnath. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Birdbath

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-h-i-r-t"

-2 letters: rabbit.

-3 letters: airth, baith, birth, braid, habit, rabbi, rabid, tabid, third, triad.

-4 letters: abri, adit, airt, arid, baht, bait, barb, bard, bath, bird, brad, brat, brit, darb, dart, dirt, dita, drab, drat, drib, hair, hard, hart, raid, rath, tahr, thir, trad.

-5 letters: aid, air, ait, arb, art, bad, bah, bar, bat, bib, bid, bit.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-h-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: birdbaths.

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Alternative Orthography: Birdbath


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

42 69 72 64 62 61 74 68

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    .-.    -..    -...    .-    -    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100 01100010 01100001 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#114 &#100 &#98 &#97 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0072 0064 0062 0061 0074 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3675847068678674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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