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Breadbasket

Definitions: Breadbasket

Breadbasket

Noun

1. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion.

2. A basket for serving bread.

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

Date "breadbasket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)


Synonyms: Breadbasket

Synonyms: stomach (n), tum (n), tummy (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Breadbasket

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Receptacle

Stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Breadbasket

DomainTitle

Books

  • Breadbasket or Dust Bowl? the Future of Illinois Farmland (reference)

  • Breadbasket With the Blues (reference)

  • Chicago 1966: Open Housing Marches Summit Negotiations and Operation Breadbasket (Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement) (reference)

  • Empty Breadbasket (reference)

  • Politics and Responsibility of the North American Breadbasket (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Breadbasket

Computer Images:
Breadbasket

More pictures...

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Photo Album: Breadbasket

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Donald S. Perkins, Pres. of Jewel Co. with ministers of Operation Breadbasket, left to right: Rev. Strom Freeman, Rev. Martin Luther King, and Rev. Jesse Jackson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Spoken Usage: Breadbasket

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

The communist system is destroying a country that used to be referred to as Africa's breadbasket, and turning it into a wasteland by stealing farms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Breadbasket

"Breadbasket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Breadbasket" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Breadbasket

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

breadbasket operation

4

breadbasket

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Breadbasket

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

Farsi 

  

معده 2 (Kyte, Stomach, Tummy), ناحیه حاصلخیز, سبدنان , شکم (Abdomen, Belly, Bowel, Bulge, Gorge, Gut, Kyte, Paunch, Tummy, Ventricle, Womb). (various references)

   

German

  

Brotkorb (bread basket). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perut (abdomen, belly, maw, paunch), keranjang roti. (various references)

   

Italian

  

granaio (barn, granary, shed, stand). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadbasketbray

   

Russian 

  

хлебница. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

barriga (bay window, belly, bilge, paunch, potbelly), panera (bread bin, pannier), granero (barn, garner, granary, shed, stand). (various references)

   

Thai

  

"ินแ"นส่วนที่ผิ"อาหารจำนวนมากให้ประเทศ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Breadbasket

Derivations

Words beginning with "breadbasket": breadbaskets. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Breadbasket"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "breadbasket" (pronounced bre"dba'skut)
6-b a' s k u twastebasket.
4-s k u tbasket, biscuit, brisket, casket, gasket, musket.
3-k u tadvocate, affricate, aftermarket, Becket, blanket, bucket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, hypermarket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wicket.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Breadbasket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-e-k-r-s-t"

-3 letters: breasted, debaters, drabbest, drabbets, rabbeted, streaked.

-4 letters: abaters, abrades, abreast, aerated, aerates, arabesk, barbate, barbets, bastard, beakers, beaters, beraked, berakes, berated, berates, bestead, betakes, dabbers, dabster, darkest, dearest, debarks, debaser, debater, debates, debeaks, dekares, derates, drabbet, karates, rabbets, rebated, rebates, redates, retakes, sabered, sedater, stabbed, stabber, straked, tabards, tabered.

-5 letters: abased, abaser, abated.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-e-k-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: breadbaskets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Breadbasket


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

42 72 65 61 64 62 61 73 6B 65 74

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 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100010 01100001 01110011 01101011 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#98 &#97 &#115 &#107 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0061 0064 0062 0061 0073 006B 0065 0074

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

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

3684716770686785777186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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