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Definitions: Capstone |
CapstoneNoun1. A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination. 2. A stone that forms the top of wall or building. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "capstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: CapstoneSynonyms: copestone (n), coping stone (n), finishing touch (n), stretcher (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Capstone |
| English words defined with "capstone": cromlech ♦ dolmen. (references) |
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 | The Honorable Buck Kilgore in his great act of kicking the capstone from the Washington Monument.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Capstone laying", Temple Cardston, Alta.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Capstone laying on Cardston Temple.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A capstone of the wall had been thrown down. |
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Economic History | Moldova | The Enterprise Fund is the capstone of focusing assistance efforts on creating the institutions necessary to support market economies. (references) |
Botswana | As the capstone of a continuing economic program targeted at diversifying the economy and attracting foreign investment the government sought a country credit rating from both Moody's and Standard and Poor's. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Tourism surpassed agriculture as the largest earner of foreign exchange in 1992 and brought in over US$ 1.1 billion in 2000. Growth on the order of 10 percent is forecast for 2001. Export processing industries were the staple of growth during the 1990's, with Intel's US$200 million investment in 1997/98 as the capstone. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Capstone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capstone" is used about 3 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Capstone Turbine Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 "capstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кулминационен пункт, най-горният камък на строеж, най-горният камък на зидария, последният камък на строеж. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | puncak (apex, crest, culmination, cusp, high, mount, peak, pitch, top, zenith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apstonecay capeamento, espigão (agnail, crest, dowel, gable, gardenbed, pier, pintle, plug, rough, spigot, Spike, spur, stake). (various references) кульминационный пункт (climax, culmination, pinnacle, punchline), замковый камень (keystone). (various references) završni kamen (cope-stone, coping stone, keystone). (various references) piedra arquitectónica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capstone": capstones. (additional references) | |
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"Capstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capisto, capitone, capstobe, captone, Carstone, caston, cupstone, Davstone, Dawstone, Radstone, Rapstone, Shalstone, Shepstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "capstone" (pronounced ka"pstō'n) |
| 4 | -s t ō' n | bloodstone, Bluestone, brownstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, gravestone, greenstone, grindstone, hailstone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, moonstone, rhinestone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, whetstone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | acetone, baritone, halftone, monotone, overtone, undertone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: opencast. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: capotes, octanes, teopans, toecaps. | |
-2 letters: ascent, aspect, atones, canoes, cantos, capons, capote, centas, centos, coapts, contes, copens, costae, cotans, enacts, epacts, netops, oceans, octane, octans, paeons, pantos, patens, pecans, ponces, pontes, sapote, secant, stance, teopan, toecap. | |
-3 letters: acnes, aeons, antes, ascot, aspen, atone, canes, canoe, canso, canst, canto, cants, capes, capon, capos, caste. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: capstones, cenotaphs, conepates, conepatls, coparents, portances, syncopate, townscape. | |
+2 letters: alpenstock, compensate, constipate, copartners, copayments, neoplastic, opalescent, pleonastic, speciation, syncopated, syncopates, townscapes. | |
+3 letters: absorptance, alpenstocks, cantaloupes, captionless, ceratopsian, compactness, compensated, compensates, compensator, constipated, constipates, importances, peculations, pratincoles, precautions, procrustean, protectants, speciations, speculation, syncopative. | |
+4 letters: absorptances, acceptations, amylopectins, captiousness, cephalothins, ceratopsians, chiropterans, coleopterans, compartments, compensating, compensation, compensative, compensators, compensatory, conceptacles, contemplates, cooperations, counterpanes, counterparts, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, craftsperson, crepitations, ctenophorans, cupellations, decompensate, deprecations, emancipators, exculpations, expectations, expectorants, explications, importancies, imprecations, incorporates, inspectorate, lycanthropes, miscaptioned, narcoleptics, opalescently, pectinaceous, pectinations, pentazocines, percolations, percutaneous, pertinacious, phoneticians, plainclothes, plecopterans, poeticalness, pontificates, postaccident, postulancies, predications, proconsulate, procreations, replications, scapegoating, speciational, speculations, stenographic, stupefaction. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 73 74 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. ... - --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p s t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0073 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
| 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)3767828586818071 |
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