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Dried-out

Definition: Dried-out

Dried-out

Adjective

1. Thoroughly dried out; "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split".

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


Synonym: Dried-out

Synonym: desiccated (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: cultivation of dried-out ponds (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Crosswords: Dried-out

Specialty definitions using "dried-out": cultivation of dried-out ponds. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dried-out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Is the dried-out, washed-up has-been having a moment? (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

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

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Usage Frequency: Dried-out

"Dried-out" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dried-out" is used about 16 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dried-out

Language Translations for "dried-out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kultivering af udtørrede damme (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

teelt op droge vijverbodem (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

French

  

culture sur assec (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

German

  

Grünlandnutzung trockengelegter Teiche (cultivation of dried-out ponds), Gründüngung von Teichen (cultivation of dried-out ponds), Bestellung von trockengelegten Teichen (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλλιέργεια αποξηραμένων λιμνών (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

Italian

  

coltivazione di stagni prosciugati (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ied-outdray

   

Swedish

  

odling i uttorkade dammar (cultivation of dried-out ponds), odling i tömningsbara dammar (cultivation of dried-out ponds). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dried-out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: outride.

-2 letters: detour, doited, dotier, editor, outdid, redout, rioted, routed, toured, triode.

-3 letters: diode, doted, doter, dried, droid, droit, druid, dured, odder, ourie, outed, outer, outre, redid, route, tided, tired, tried, trode, trued, udder, uredo, uteri.

-4 letters: dido, died, diet, dire, dirt, dite, doer, doit, dore, dote, dour, dude, duet, duit, dure, duro, eddo.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outridden.

 

+2 letters: introduced.

 

+3 letters: fluoridated, outstridden, undistorted.

 

+4 letters: outdelivered, rediscounted, reintroduced, subordinated.

 

+5 letters: counterbidden, counterraided, misunderstood, superaddition, uncoordinated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dried-out


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

44 72 69 65 64 2D 6F 75 74

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

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

01000100 01110010 01101001 01100101 01100100 00101101 01101111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#111 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0065 0064 002D 006F 0075 0074

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

388475717015818786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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