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Definition: Blackwater |
BlackwaterNoun1. Any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blackwater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
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Environment | Water that contains animal, human, or food waste. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blackwater is a city located in Cooper County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 199.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blackwater, Arizona."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The falls of the Blackwater. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Great Falls of the Blackwater, West Vir. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | North Fork of the Blackwater. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cascades on the nth. fork of the Blackwater. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blackwater" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Blackwater" is used about 26 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) | 76.92% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blackwater" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blackwater | Last name | 400 | 22,452 |
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1. Blackwater, AZ (CDP, FIPS 6820) 2. Blackwater, MO (city, FIPS 6148) 3. Blackwater, VA |
Expressions using "blackwater": Blackwater Bridg ♦ blackwater fever ♦ Blackwater State. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "blackwater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | blackwater fever (blackwater fever, black-water fever), black water fever (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), svær hæmoglobinuri ved Plasmodium falcifiparum-attak (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), sortvandsfeber (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), Schwarzwasserfieber (blackwater fever, black-water fever), malaria hæmoglobinurica (blackwater fever, black-water fever). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwartwaterkoorts (blackwater fever), malaria biliosa (blackwater fever), febris perniciosa (blackwater fever), febris biliosa haemoglobinurica (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), febris biliosa et haemoglobinurica (blackwater fever). (various references) | |
Finnish | malarian hemoglobinuurinen keltakuume (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever). (various references) | |
French | fièvre bilieuse hémoglobinurique (blackwater fever, black-water fever), fièvre bilieuse hématurique (blackwater fever, black-water fever), fièvre bileuse hémoglobinurique (blackwater fever). (various references) | |
German | blackwater fever (blackwater fever), Schwarzwasserfieber (blachwather fever), Perniciosa haemoglobinurica (blackwater fever, black-water fever), Malaria biliosa (blackwater fever, black-water fever), Haemoglobinuria malarica (blackwater fever, black-water fever), Febris biliosa et haemolytica (blackwater fever, black-water fever), Febris biliosa et haemoglobinurica (blackwater fever, black-water fever). (various references) | |
Greek | ικτερώδησ αιμοσφαιρινολρικόσ πυρετόσ (blackwater fever), ικτερώδης αιμοσφαιρινουρικός πυρετός (blackwater fever), χολώδης αιμοσφαιρινουρικός πυρετός (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever). (various references) | |
Italian | febbre biliosa emoglobinurica (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), febbre biliare emoglobinurica (blackwater fever, black-water fever). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '水熱 (blackwater fever). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "くすいねつ (blackwater fever). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackwaterblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | febre biliosa hemoglobinúrica (blackwater fever), febre biliar hemoglobinúrica (blackwater fever, black-water fever). (various references) | |
Spanish | fiebre hemoglobinúrica (blackwater fever), fiebre de la orina negra (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever). (various references) | |
Turkish | karasu humması (blackwater fever), kara humma (blackwater fever). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blackwater": blackwaters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-k-l-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: backwater. | |
-2 letters: bracteal, cartable. | |
-3 letters: abreact, actable, bearcat, becrawl, blacker, bracket, cabaret, catwalk, ratable, tackler, takable, wetback. | |
-4 letters: abater, ablate, acetal, arable, backer, balker, bawler, cablet, calker, carate, cartel, claret, clawer, karate, labret, lacker, racket, rackle, rectal, retack, tacker, tackle, talker, walker, warble. | |
-5 letters: aback, abate, abler, acerb, aceta, akela, alack, alate, alert, altar, alter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-k-l-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: blackwaters. | |
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