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Date "CAVE-IN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Collapse of the walls or roof of a mine excavation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CAVE-IN |
| Specialty definitions using "CAVE-IN": FOUNDATION-DRILL OPERATOR ♦ SAFETY ENGINEER, MINES, small landslide. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There was a cave-in in one of the mines, and eight people were killed. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cave-In! (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Cave-in section of roof of a lava tube. This is why walking on open lava fields can be quite dangerous. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Newspaper reporters listening through pipe for sounds of life at the scene of an aqueduct tunnel cave-in. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Architect of the Capitol. Cave-in 1st and C St. where gas main and Capitol steam line are layed I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CAVE-IN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CAVE-IN" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CAVE-IN": Cave-In-Rock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAVE-IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 洞在岩石 (Cave-In-Rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | termokarstsø (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake), tøbrudssø (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake), kryogen sø (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thermokarstmeer (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | termokarstinen järvi (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affaissement, éboulement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abtausee (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θερμοκαρστική λίμνη (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lago termocarsico (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 崩落 (break, collapse, crash, decline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうらく (break, collapse, crash, decline, pleasures of a pious life), か"ぼつ (subsidence), らくば". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 굴 안에 "위 (Cave-In-Rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ave-incay lago termocársico (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) обвал (avalanche, collapse, landslide). (various references) lago termokárstico (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) termokarstsjö (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references) การพังทลายลง (ในใต้พื้นที่เป็นโพรง). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CAVE-IN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Af-i, cavein, caveing, Chauvelin, chaverim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-v" | |
-1 letter: cavie, naevi, naive, vinca. | |
-2 letters: acne, cain, cane, cave, cine, nave, nevi, nice, vain, vane, vein, vena, vice, vina, vine. | |
-3 letters: ace, ain, ane, ani, ave, can, ice, nae, vac, van, via, vie. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, an, en, in, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-v" | |
+1 letter: vaccine, venatic. | |
+2 letters: cavatine, cleaving, conative, deviance, deviancy, enactive, inactive, invocate, navicert, vaccinee, vaccines, valencia, valiance, variance, veronica, vesicant, vibrance, vicenary, vicinage, voidance. | |
+3 letters: achieving, advecting, advection, anchovies, ascensive, avoidance, biconcave, carnivore, caveating, caverning, clavering, cravening, deviances, evangelic, evocation, grievance, incurvate, invocated, invocates, navicerts, novocaine, vacancies, vaccinate, vaccinees, valencias, valencies, valiances, variances, ventifact, veronicas, vesicants, vibrances, vicennial, vicinages, vigilance, vinaceous, vindicate, voidances, vulcanise, vulcanize. | |
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