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Definitions: Caulked |
CaulkedAdjective1. Having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler. 2. Having the seams between planks packed with waterproof material. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: uncaulked (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Caulked |
| English words defined with "caulked": uncaulked. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caulked": CONTROLLER, COAL OR ORE ♦ HULL INSPECTOR ♦ ore grader. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Any openings larger than a quarter-inch by a half-inch should be caulked. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Caulked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Caulked" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "caulked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 填隙 (calkin, Caulk). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | calfater (caulk, to calk, to caulk), calfaté, rendre étanche. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | dichtete ab. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aulkedcay calafateado. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Caulked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cauled, Cauley, Caulkett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-u" | |
-1 letter: calked, caudle, cedula, lacked, lucked. | |
-2 letters: caked, cauld, caulk, clade, clued, decal, ducal, laced, laked. | |
-3 letters: aced, alec, auld, cade, cake, calk, caul, clad, clue, cued, cuke, dace, dale, deal, deck, dual, duce, duck, duel, duke, kale, lace, lack, lade, lake, laud, lead, leak, leku, leud, luce, luck, lude. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, auk, cad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-u" | |
+2 letters: uncloaked. | |
+3 letters: backhauled, duckwalked, parbuckled, unshackled. | |
+4 letters: chucklehead, knucklehead. | |
+5 letters: blackguarded, chuckleheads, knuckleheads, multitracked, swashbuckled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 75 6C 6B 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ..- .-.. -.- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110101 01101100 01101011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a u l k e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0075 006C 006B 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678778777170 |
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