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Definition: Dry Cleaners |
Dry CleanersNoun1. Shop where dry cleaning is done. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Dry CleanersSynonym: cleaners (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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 |
dry cleaners | 273 |
dry cleaners for sale | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 79      43 6C 65 61 6E 65 72 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r y   C l e a n e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0079      0043 006C 0065 0061 006E 0065 0072 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38849123778716780718485 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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