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Drinking Fountain

Definition: Drinking Fountain

Drinking Fountain

Noun

1. 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 Fountain

Synonyms: bubbler (n), water fountain (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Drinking Fountain

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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;)

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

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Commercial Usage: Drinking Fountain

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Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Drinking Fountain

Illustrations:
Drinking Fountain

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Computer Images:
Drinking Fountain

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Photo Album: Drinking Fountain

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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.

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Sounds Captioned with "Drinking Fountain".

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Slurping water out of a drinking fountain.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drinking Fountain

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

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.

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Modern Translation: Drinking Fountain

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

   

Portuguese

  

bebedouro (fountain, water-drinker). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

питьевой фонтанчик. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

česma (faucet, fountain). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fuente de beber. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dricksfontän (bubbler). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çeşme (fountain, tap, well). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vòi nước uống công cộng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drinking Fountain

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Drinking Fountain


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)

    

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)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#70 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#110

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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