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Definition: Cinder Block |
Cinder BlockNoun1. A concrete building block made with cinder aggregate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A block closing the front of a blast furnace and containing the cindernotch. (references) |
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Screenplays | At this point, you might be asking yourself, 'why am I holding this 30lb. Cinder block in my hands (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips) Did you guys see Circus break that cinder block with his head (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cinder block construction, Jersey Homesteads, Hightstown, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
cinder block | 179 |
cinder block wall | 26 |
cinder block home | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cinderblock. | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-d-e-i-k-l-n-o-r" | |
-3 letters: blockier, cordlike, corniced, cornicle, crinkled. | |
-4 letters: bedrock, bicorne, binocle, blinder, blinked, blinker, blocked, blocker, blonder, bricked, brickle, bricole, brindle, broiled, circled, clicked, clicker, clinked, clinker, clocked, clocker, clonked, cockier, cockled, corbeil, cornice, cricked, crinkle, crocein, crocine, crocked, dorneck, dornick, ecbolic, kindler, nickled, rodlike. | |
-5 letters: beckon, berlin, bicker, bicorn, bicron, bilked, bilker, binder, bindle. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-d-e-i-k-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: cinderblocks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 6E 64 65 72 42 6C 6F 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i n d e r   B l o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 006E 0064 0065 0072 0042 006C 006F 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37758070718423678816977 |
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