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Coffee Grounds

Definition: Coffee Grounds

Coffee Grounds

Noun

1. The dregs remaining after brewing coffee.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Coffee Grounds

English words defined with "coffee grounds": coffee filterespresso maker. (references)

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Modern Usage: Coffee Grounds

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Coffee grounds (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

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

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Commercial Usage: Coffee Grounds

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fortune in a Coffee Cup: Divination With Coffee Grounds (reference)

  • The Complete Guide to Coffee Grounds & Tea Leaf Reading (Astrolog Complete Guides Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: Coffee Grounds

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Pa tossed his coffee grounds out of his cup.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coffee Grounds

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Health

In addition to obvious bleeding such as nosebleeds, signs of bleeding can be seen in the stools (red or black), in the urine (pink, red, or brown), in vomit (red or brown, like coffee grounds), or the presence of multiple bruises. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coffee Grounds

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coffee grounds

18

cellulite coffee grounds

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coffee Grounds

Language Translations for "coffee grounds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

llum kafeje. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

утайка от кафе. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kávová sedlina. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kahvinporot. (various references)

   

German

  

Kaffeesatz. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zacc (dregs, grounds, Lees). (various references)

   

Manx

  

drundin caffee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay oundsgray

   

Russian 

  

кофейная гуща (coffee-grounds). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

talog kafe, soc (grounds, sediment). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

poso de café. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kaffesump. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telve (foots, sediment), kahve telvesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coffee Grounds

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-f-g-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-3 letters: cofounders.

-4 letters: coendures, cofounder, erogenous, forefends, offenders, offscreen, refocused, scrounged, undergoes.

-5 letters: censored, censured, coendure, coenures, coffered, cofounds, condores, confused, corneous, crunodes, decorous, deforces, encoders, enforced, enforces, foredoes, foredone, forefend, foregoes, foregone, forfends, founders, fourgons, frescoed, frondose, frounced, frounces, generous, goffered, guerdons, necrosed, offences, offender, refounds, scourged, scrouged, scrounge, seconder, suffered, unforced, unforged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Coffee Grounds


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 66 66 65 65      47 72 6F 75 6E 64 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01000111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#71 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0047 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378172727171241848187807085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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