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Definition: Cartload |
CartloadNoun1. The quantity that a cart holds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cartload" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contents | Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage. |
Greatness | Great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | One good, solid hope's worth a cartload of certainty. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
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| "Cartload" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cartload" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cartload"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 杯水車薪 (trying to put out a burning cartload of faggots with a cup of water - an utterly inadequate measure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | charretée (cartful), voiturée (cart load), tombereau (cart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wagenladung (carload, lorryload, truckage, trucking, truckload, wagonload). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carrata (cartful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lught cairt, laad cairt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artloadcay carretada (carload, cart load, loading). (various references) hästlass. (various references) yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), sürü (cloud, Covey, crew, crowd, drove, flock, fold, gang, herd, horde, pack, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), bir araba dolusu şey, bir araba. (various references) віз (car, cart, waggon, wagon, wain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cartload": cartloads. (additional references) | |
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"Cartload" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cotyloid, crateload, Cratloe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carload. | |
-2 letters: aortal, catalo. | |
-3 letters: acold, actor, altar, aorta, artal, carat, carol, claro, coala, coral, craal, dotal, octad, octal, ratal, talar, tardo, taroc, tolar. | |
-4 letters: acta, alar, alto, arco, calo, card, carl, cart, clad, clod, clot, coal, coat, coda, cola, cold, colt, cord, dart, data, dato, doat, dolt, drat, lard, load, loca, lord, lota. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cartloads. | |
+2 letters: defalcator, octahedral, sacerdotal. | |
+3 letters: accordantly, artiodactyl, declamatory, declaration, declaratory, defalcators, dictatorial, reallocated, redactional. | |
+4 letters: artiodactyls, carboxylated, collaborated, declarations, endotracheal, melodramatic, octahedrally, procathedral, sacerdotally, translocated. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomy, congratulated, crystalloidal, decarboxylate, dictatorially, melodramatics, particleboard, procathedrals, radioactively, sacerdotalism, sacerdotalist, sclerodermata, valedictorian. | |
| 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 72 74 6C 6F 61 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. - .-.. --- .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101100 01101111 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r t l o a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0074 006C 006F 0061 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767848678816770 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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