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Drainboard

Definition: Drainboard

Drainboard

Noun

1. A board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink.

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


Synonym: Drainboard

Synonym: draining board (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drainboard

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

drainboard kitchen sink

8

drainboard sink

6

drainboard

3

drainboard home kitchen sink stainless

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drainboard

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

Hungarian

  

szárítóállvány (flake), konyhai öblögetőasztal. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

簀の子 (bamboo blind, reed mat), 流し板 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すの" (bamboo blind, reed mat), ながしいた. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainboarddray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drainboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-i-n-o-r-r"

-3 letters: android, bandaid, bandora, inboard.

-4 letters: aboard, abroad, arroba, barrio, briard, indaba, inroad, ordain, radian, riband, roband.

-5 letters: adorn, arbor, ardor, aroid, bairn, baron, board, braid, brain, brand, briar, broad, danio, dinar, dobra, drain, droid, nadir, naiad, naira, noria, rabid, radar, radio, radon, ranid, robin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-i-n-o-r-r"
 

+3 letters: breadboarding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Drainboard


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

44 72 61 69 6E 62 6F 61 72 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    .-    ..    -.    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0069 006E 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

38846775806881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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