Carborundum

Definition: Carborundum

Carborundum

Noun

1. (trade mark) an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals.

Date "carborundum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Crosswords: Carborundum

English words defined with "carborundum": coolly ♦ nervelessly, nonchalantly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carborundum": coping machine ♦ muck saw. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carborundum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (carborundum), Vietnamese (carborundum).

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Photo Album: Carborundum

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carborundum

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Carborundum attended the International Irrigation Fair in Orlando last year, as a first approach to the American market. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carborundum

"Carborundum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Carborundum" is used about 9 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)	88.89%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

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

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Expressions: Carborundum

Expressions using "carborundum": Carborundum cloth ♦ carborundum paper. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "carborundum": carborundum-impregnated.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carborundum

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
carborundum	63
illegitimi non carborundum	16
carborundum saw	9
carborundum company	6
carborundum non	6
carborundum abrasives	6
carborundum illegitimus non	5
carborundum illegitimis non	2
carborundum sandpaper	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carborundum

Language		Translations for "carborundum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		siliciur karboni, karborund. (various references)

Arabic		‏الورق المفحم. (various references)

Bulgarian		карборунд. (various references)

Chinese		金刚沙. (various references)

French		carborundum. (various references)

Greek		ανθρακορούνδιο. (various references)

Hungarian		szilíciumkarbid, karborundum. (various references)

Italian		carborundo. (various references)

Manx		carbrym. (various references)

Pig Latin		arborundumcay

Portuguese		carborundo. (various references)

Russian		карборунд. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta abraziva. (various references)

Spanish		carborundo. (various references)

Swedish		karborundum. (various references)

Turkish		zımpara (emery, glass cloth, rubber, sandpaper), korindon (corundum). (various references)

Ukranian		карбід кремнію, карборунд. (various references)

Vietnamese		carborundum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Carborundum"

Words rhyming with "carborundum" (pronounced 'Car`bo*run"dum'): Abandum, Addendum, Agendum, Corrigendum, Corundum, Credendum, Habendum, memorandum, mutandum, Notandum, Observandum, Pudendum, Reddendum, sedum, Silundum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Carborundum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-m-n-o-r-r-u-u"
	-3 letters: corundum.
	-4 letters: candour, rancour.
	-5 letters: abound, arbour, ardour, armour, around, auburn, bonduc, candor, carbon, carrom, corban, cornua, crambo, cundum, curran, durbar, macron, maduro, marron, ramrod, rancor, random, roband, rodman, rumour, rurban, uncurb.
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