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DRY LAKE

Specialty Definition: DRY LAKE

DomainDefinition

Geography

Dry, vegetation-free, flat area at the lowest part of an undrained desert basin, underlain by stratified clay, silt or sand, and commonly by soluble salts. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

See:playa. (references)

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

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Photo Album: DRY LAKE

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M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake. Credit: NASA.

HL-10 On Rogers Dry Lake Bed With Pilots. Credit: NASA.

X-1E On Rogers Dry Lake With Collapsed Nose Gear. Credit: NASA.

On a dry lake bed White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A dry lake bed flooded by late spring rains Level crew of Paul Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Desert Shadows Leveling across a dry lake bed. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Dust devil in a dry lake bed. Credit: Tillman.

  

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRY LAKE

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 lake

7

bed dry lake

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DRY LAKE

Language Translations for "DRY LAKE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

French

  

playa. (various references)

   

German

  

Playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συλλεκτήρια λεκάνη (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ydray akelay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer), planície salgada (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRY LAKE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-l-r-y"

-1 letter: darkle, darkly, dearly, larked.

-2 letters: alder, alkyd, deary, delay, deray, drake, early, lader, laked, laker, lardy, larky, layed, layer, leady, leaky, leary, lyard, raked, rayed, ready, redly, relay, ryked.

-3 letters: aery, alky, aryl, dale, dare, dark, deal, dear, dray, drek, dyer, dyke, earl, eyra, kale, kyar, lade, lady, lake, laky, lard, lark, lead.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-l-r-y"
 

+1 letter: kaleyard, markedly.

 

+2 letters: kaleyards, skylarked.

 

+5 letters: daydreamlike, holidaymaker.

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

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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