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Definitions: Carat |
CaratNoun1. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg. 2. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carat" was first used: 1469. (references) |
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Mining | A. A unit of weight for diamonds, pearls, and other gems; formerly equal to 3-1/6 troy grains (205 mg). The international metric carat (abbreviated M.C.) of 200 mg was made the standard in the United States in 1913, as it was the standard in Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden. A carat grain is 1/4 carat. Syn:international metric carat CF:point b. Employed to distinguish the fineness of a gold alloy, and meaning 1/24 part. Pure gold is 24-carat gold. Goldsmiths' standard is 22 carats fine; it contains 22 parts of gold, 1 part of copper, and 1 part of silve. (references) |
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Synonym: CaratSynonym: Karat (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gravity | Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Carat |
| English words defined with "carat": grain ♦ metric grain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carat": added diamonds ♦ big-stone bit ♦ carat loss, Carat of Gold, carat weight, carat-goods, congos ♦ diamonds per carat ♦ international metric carat ♦ medium-stone bit, melle, metric carat ♦ sovereign gold, stone per carat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "carat": Karob. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Carat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (carat, karat), Manx (carat), Romanian (carat, karat). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Eighteen Carat Virgin (1972) Eighteen Carat (1925) | |
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| "Carat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Carat" is used about 118 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) | 98.31% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "carat": eighteen-carat, nine-carat. | |
Containing "carat": 20-carat gold. | |
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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 "carat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قيراط, القيراط وحدة وزن للذهب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | karát (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karat (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ct (cent, karat), kt (karat), krt (karat), karaat (karat), kar (bed, carriage, cart, chariot, coffin, farm cart, karat, waggon, wagon), k (karat, kilo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قیراط(karat=), واحدوزن جواهرات (Karat), عیار (Alloy, Rover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karaatti (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karat (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καράτι (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קרט (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karát (car, karat, metric carat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mutu (quality), karat (rust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | gcarat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carato (carafe, jug, karat), carati (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, caricature, caricaturize, caries, cauliflower, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, curriculum, Kaliglas, Karachi, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カラット (karat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | carat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aratcay carate (karat, karate), quilate (finery, karate). (various references) carat (karat). (various references) карат (karat). (various references) karat (karat). (various references) quilate (karat). (various references) karat (karat). (various references) กะรัต (karat). (various references) kırat, ayar (accuracy, adjusting, adjustment, content, exactness, flag, foot rule, Gage, gauge, precision, readjustment, regulating, regulation, standard, touchstone, tune up, tuning, yardstick). (various references) стандарт вмісту золота у сплаві, карат (karat). (various references) cara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | keration. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | qirat. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carat": carate, carates, carats. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "carat": baccarat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "carat": baccarats, vicarate, vicarates. (additional references) | |
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"Carat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acat, arat, caat, cabat, Cabrach, cadran, Caerau, Caernach, caira, caja, cajra, camat, canat, capat, caproate, cara, caraa, caract, caraf, Caram, caraq, carate, careatum, Careta, careth, Careto, Cargate, Carha, cariat, carit, Carlat, carma, carnt, caroa, carot, Caroto, Carra, Carrad, carrat, Carratu, Carraz, carret, Carrett, carta, cartae, Cartan, cartaz, Caruth, catar, Catraeth, cavat, cavret, Ceara, cerar, cerit, cerot, certa, Chaorach, Ciara, cifra, cira, cirat, ciret, Cirith, Clrtap, Corat, corot, corta, Crait, crat, crauat, crta, Cugat, curat, farat, garat, Garatt, larat, marat, Mcgarrat, Mcgarrett, Sarnat, Sarrat, Sarratt, Sarraut, scartata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carat" (pronounced ke"rut) |
| 5 | k e" r u t | karat. |
| 4 | -e" r u t | beret, demerit, ferret, garret, inherit, merit, parrot. |
| 3 | -r u t | carrot, culprit, curate, desperate, elaborate, interpret, invertebrate, noncorporate, pirate, portrait, reinterpret, secret, spirit, supersecret, temperate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-r-t" | |
-1 letter: acta, cart. | |
-2 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, rat, tar. | |
-3 letters: aa, ar, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-r-t" | |
+1 letter: amtrac, carate, carats, cravat, tarmac. | |
+2 letters: abreact, acerate, acrobat, actuary, amtrack, amtracs, anticar, arcuate, attract, bearcat, cabaret, caltrap, cantrap, carates, caritas, cartage, catarrh, cateran, cithara, cravats, flatcar, fractal, hatrack, lactary, marcato, ostraca, tarmacs, teacart, trachea, tramcar. | |
+3 letters: abreacts, abstract, accurate, acerated, acerbate, acervate, achromat, acierate, acrobats, acrylate, actuator, aircraft, alacrity, amtracks, apractic, arcature, archaist, arcuated, aromatic, artefact, artifact, ataraxic, attacher, attacker, attracts, autarchy, autarkic, autocrat, baccarat, bacteria, bearcats, bracteal, cabarets, cabresta, cabretta, cadaster, cadastre, caltraps, calyptra, cantraip, cantraps, carcanet, caretake, carinate, cartable, cartages, cartload, caryatic, caryatid, castrate, castrati, castrato, cataract, catarrhs, catenary, caterans, cathedra, catnaper, caveator, cavitary, citharas, claptrap, claustra, coatrack, crabmeat, craniate, curtalax, czaritza, dramatic, flatcars, fractals, handcart, hardtack, hatracks, iatrical, lacerate, macerate, placater, racemate, radicate, raincoat, rapacity, reactant, reattach, reattack, seacraft, tailrace, tamarack, tartaric, teacarts, theriaca, thoracal, tracheae, tracheal, tracheas, trachoma, trackage, trackman, trackway, tractate, tragical, tramcars, transact, varactor, vicarate, warcraft. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 61 74 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0061 0074 |
| 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)3767846786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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