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Definition: Boxcars |
BoxcarsNoun1. (usually plural) when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boxcars" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Crosswords: Boxcars |
| Specialty definitions using "boxcars": alum mixer, ALUM-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ BULL-GANG WORKER ♦ DF Car ♦ hogshead roller ♦ load-out worker ♦ MAGAZINE KEEPER ♦ powder nipper, priller ♦ QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTOR ♦ SPOUT TENDER II. (references) |
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 | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 August 1943, upon completion of overhaul and battle damage repairs. Note: SK-1 search radar and gunfire directors mounted atop her foremast and bridge; large false windows painted on her pilothouse, part of a camouflage scheme intended to make her look like a destroyer; Sailors pushing a cart full of battle helmets in the lower left; railway boxcars on the pier alongside the ship; lighter YF-280 in the left distance and crane vessel YD-98 at right. Circles mark recent alterations. Credit: NAVY. |  | When the pilot signals the drop-point, the engineers "hit the silk" on the way to another job in support of the combat mission. ... The five Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars above are dropping troops over the area of Sunchon, about 23 miles northeast of Pyo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Atlanta, Ga. Boxcars with refugees at railroad depot. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Catlett's Station, Va. The station with U.S. military railroad boxcars and soldiers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old boxcars often converted into homes along highway between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hoisting bundles of sugarcane into boxcars near Delcambre, Louisiana. Due to difficulty in getting boxcars farmers had to wait for two or three days with loaded wagons. Sucrose content of cane was decreasing steadily. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Boxcars at a sulphur vat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. The heavy sections of steel which were once proud boxcars but now fit only for scrap are being cut by these heavy shears so as to be made ready for shipping to steel mills. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Glass factory in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Exterior of glass factory with boxcars. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Railroads. Unloading of boxcars, B&O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The water swirled into the flat where the boxcars stood. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Boxcars" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Boxcars" is used about 6 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 (plural) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "boxcars"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 棚车 (boxcar). (various references) | ||||
German | Güterwagens. (various references) | ||||
Italian | vagone merci (freight car, goods truck, waggon, wagon). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oxcarsbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Boxcars" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bavcar, bocals, bocart, boccas, Boscart, toxacara, toxicara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boxcars" (pronounced bÄ"kskÄ'rz) |
| 4 | -k Ä' r z | motorcars, railcars. |
| 3 | -Ä' r z | feldspars, handlebars, hectares, jaguars, memoirs, radars, registrars, reservoirs, seminars, sidebars. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r-s-x" | |
-1 letter: boxcar, carbos, carobs, cobras. | |
-2 letters: boars, boras, borax, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, orcas. | |
-3 letters: abos, arbs, arco, arcs, bars, boar, boas, bora, bras, bros, cabs, carb, cars, coax, cobs, cors, coxa, crab, oars, ocas, orbs, orca, orcs, osar, robs, rocs, scab, scar, soar, sora, sorb. | |
-4 letters: abo, abs, arb, arc, ars, bar, bas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r-s-x" | |
+2 letters: carboxyls. | |
+4 letters: carboxylase. | |
+5 letters: carboxylases, carboxylates, chatterboxes, exorbitances. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 78 63 61 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- -..- -.-. .- .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01111000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o x c a r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0078 0063 0061 0072 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36819069678485 |
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