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Definition: Climb-down |
Climb-downNoun1. A retraction of a previously held position. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Climb-downSynonyms: backdown (n), withdrawal (n). (additional references) |
| "Climb-down" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Climb-down" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "climb-down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "登下来. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | visszavonulás (backdown, backward movement, countermarch, recession, recoiling, retirement, retreat, sequestration, withdrawal, withdrawal operation), visszakozás, meghátrálás, lemenetel (climb down), lemászás, lekúszás. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 올라가십시" 아래. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imb-downclay sự trèo xuống, sự tụt xuống sự thụt lùi sự chịu thua, sự nhượng bộ (concession). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-i-l-m-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: cowbind. | |
-3 letters: codlin. | |
-4 letters: blind, blond, blown, cibol, climb, clomb, clown, colin, dolci, domic, indol, indow, limbo, nicol, wilco. | |
-5 letters: bind, blin, bloc, blow, boil, bold, bond, bowl, cion, clod, clon, coil, coin, cold, comb, coni, cowl, diol, down, icon, idol, lido, limb, limn, limo, lino, lion, loci, loin, lown, mild, milo, mind, modi. | |
| 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 6C 69 6D 62 2D 64 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100010 00101101 01100100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l i m b - d o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0069 006D 0062 002D 0064 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37787579681570818980 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kínai, 중국 |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , magyar, 헝가리, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreai, 한국, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnami, vietnámi, 트남, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , angol, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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