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COLLAR BONE

Definition: COLLAR BONE

COLLAR BONE

1. The clavicle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: COLLAR BONE

Specialty definitions using "COLLAR BONE": medial supraclavicular lymph nodes. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: COLLAR BONE

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Guyana

In June one student suffered a broken collar bone and another a broken elbow as a result of flogging by their teachers, a form of corporal punishment in public schools. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COLLAR BONE

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

broken collar bone

56

collar bone

55

collar bone fracture

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COLLAR BONE

Language Translations for "COLLAR BONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

clavicule (collarbone). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλείδα ωμού, οστό του τραχήλου. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עצם "בריח (clavicle, wishbone), כתפ" (clavicle), בריח (bar, bolt, clavicle, latch). (various references)

   

Manx

  

croymmag ny geaylin (clavicle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollarcay onebay

   

Romanian

  

claviculã (clavicle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ключица (clavicle, collarbone, collar-bone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

fišbajn (busk, collarbone). (various references)

   

Shona

  

bendekete. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clavícula (clavicle, collarbone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COLLAR BONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: collarbone.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-n-o-o-r"

-1 letter: colorable.

-2 letters: cornball.

-3 letters: balloon, borneol, colonel, corneal, corolla, coronae, coronal, coronel, ocellar.

-4 letters: baller, ballon, beacon, bolero, borane, boreal, bronco, caller, carbon, cellar, clonal, cloner, coaler, collar, colone, cooler, corban, corbel, cornea, cornel, corona, enroll, lancer, loaner, locale, loreal, nobler, oracle, racoon, recall, recoal, reloan, robalo.

-5 letters: abler, aboon, acerb, acorn, alone, anole, bacon.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-n-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: collarbones.

 

+2 letters: controllable.

 

+4 letters: incontrollable, uncontrollable.

 

+5 letters: neurobiological, noncontrollable.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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