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Definition: Drinking Fountain |
Drinking FountainNoun1. A public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Drinking FountainSynonyms: bubbler (n), water fountain (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And we wont be able to pee in the drinking fountain (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Yeah, they should put a drinking fountain out here. (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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![]() | Drinking fountain, Prospect Park. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Drinking fountain on county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Public drinking fountain. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Fountains. Old drinking fountain on street. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
| Slurping water out of a drinking fountain. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drinking fountain | 198 |
outdoor drinking fountain | 38 |
drinking fountain haws | 30 |
oasis drinking fountain | 21 |
drinking fountain halsey taylor | 4 |
drinking fountain outdoor water | 4 |
drinking fountain murdock | 3 |
drinking fountain segregated | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drinking fountain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shatërvan (fountain), çezmë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обществена чешма. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közkút. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | farrane (fount, fountain, spring, spring-well; breeze, squirt, water source). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkingdray ountainfay bebedouro (fountain, water-drinker). (various references) питьевой фонтанчик. (various references) česma (faucet, fountain). (various references) fuente de beber. (various references) dricksfontän (bubbler). (various references) çeşme (fountain, tap, well). (various references) vòi nước uống công cộng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-i-i-i-k-n-n-n-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-5 letters: auditioning, fountaining, indignation, infuriating, infuriation, nondrinking, outdrinking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 6E 6B 69 6E 67      46 6F 75 6E 74 61 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i n k i n g   F o u n t a i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 006E 006B 0069 006E 0067      0046 006F 0075 006E 0074 0061 0069 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388475807775807324081878086677580 |
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