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Dry Cleaners

Definition: Dry Cleaners

Dry Cleaners

Noun

1. Shop where dry cleaning is done.

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


Synonym: Dry Cleaners

Synonym: cleaners (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Dry Cleaners

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Did the dry cleaners have your car? (Sabrina; writing credit: Samuel A. Taylor; Billy Wilder)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dry Cleaners

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Economic History

Guatemala

These companies are operating mainly in the fields of fast food restaurants, physical fitness centers, car rentals, hotel operations, dry cleaners, lawn and garden services, professional painters, learning centers, shoe repair, pest control, discount stores/pharmacies, auto repair and others. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dry Cleaners

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

dry cleaners

273

dry cleaners for sale

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Dry Cleaners

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n-r-r-s-y"

-2 letters: calenders, declarers, larceners, slanderer.

-3 letters: ascender, calender, candlers, cleaners, cleansed, cleanser, clearers, cradlers, decayers, decenary, declarer, declares, delayers, larcener, learners, readerly, reascend, recleans, relearns, rescaled, reynards, sacredly, yearends, yearners.

-4 letters: adenyls, ardency, calends, candler, candles, carders, careens, careers, carneys, carrels, caserne, cereals, cleaned, cleaner, cleanse, cleared, clearer, cradler, cradles, creased, creaser, creedal, crenels.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dry Cleaners


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

44 72 79      43 6C 65 61 6E 65 72 73

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

    

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

01000100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110010 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0079      0043 006C 0065 0061 006E 0065 0072 0073

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

38849123778716780718485

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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