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CAVE-IN

Date "CAVE-IN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)


Specialty Definition: CAVE-IN

DomainDefinition

Mining

Collapse of the walls or roof of a mine excavation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CAVE-IN

Specialty definitions using "CAVE-IN": FOUNDATION-DRILL OPERATORSAFETY ENGINEER, MINES, small landslide. (references)

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Modern Usage: CAVE-IN

DomainUsage

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.

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Photo Album: CAVE-IN

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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.

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Usage Frequency: CAVE-IN

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

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

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Expression: CAVE-IN

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CAVE-IN": Cave-In-Rock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CAVE-IN

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

   

Portuguese

  

lago termocársico (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обвал (avalanche, collapse, landslide). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lago termokárstico (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

termokarstsjö (cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, thaw lake, thermokarst lake). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การพังทลายลง (ในใต้พื้นที่เป็นโพรง). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CAVE-IN

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).

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Anagrams: CAVE-IN

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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