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Date "GRABEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
"GRABEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: garbed, garden, grabbed, grabber, grabbing, graven, grebe, green. |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A zone of tectonic subsidence along a system of boundary faults, in which the length, parallel to the fault strike, is considerably greater than the width. The term "rift" is partly syno nymous with "graben", but generally applies to topographic depressions of regional extent and is associated with seismic and volcanic activity; "graben" applies to much smaller structure s, without necessarily implying seismic activity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Elongated, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that is bounded by faults on its long sides. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | An elongate crustal block that is relatively depressed (downdropped) between two fault systems. (Foxworthy and Hill, 1982). (references) |
| A down-dropped block of the earth's crust resulting from extension, or pulling, of the crust. See also horst. (references) | |
| An elongate block of rock down-dropped along roughly parallel faults. (references) | |
Mining | An elongate, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that is bounded by faults on its long sides. It is a structural form that may or may not be geomorphologically expressed as a rift valley. Etymol: Ger., ditch.CF:horst. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GRABEN |
| Specialty definitions using "GRABEN": trough fault. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GRABEN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), Portuguese (graben, sunken block, trough), Turkish (graben). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A German map of the seafloor in the equatorial western Pacific. Uses the term "graben" for modern day "trench." This map was included in: "Das Deutsche Kolonialreich," by Hans Meyer, 1909. Vol II, p. 496. Library Call Number: Cfd M612 d. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "GRABEN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "GRABEN" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GRABEN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Graben | Last name | 300 | 28,943 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GRABEN": graben-like. | |
Ending with "GRABEN": half-graben. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
graben | 12 |
graben hotel vienna | 6 |
graben hotel | 5 |
graben joe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRABEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gravsænkning (fault trough, rift valley, sunken block, trough), graben (fault trough, rift valley, sunken block, trough), rift valley (fault trough, rift valley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tektonische slenk (fault trough, rift valley), slenkdal (fault trough, rift valley), slenk (coring, piping defect, sunken block, trough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hautavajoama (fault trough, rift valley, sunken block, trench, trough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | graben, vallée d'effondrement, massif affaissé, fossé tectonique, fossé d'effondrement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Grabental (fault trough, rift valley), Grabensenke (fault trough, rift valley), Graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), Verwerfungsgraben (sunken block, trough), tektonischer Graben (fault trough, rift valley), Rift (fault trough, rift valley), abgesunkenes Massiv (sunken block, trough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | graben (fault trough, rift valley, sunken block, trough), τεκτονικó β?θισμα (fault trough, rift valley), τάφρος (dike, ditch, fosse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | graben (fault trough, rift valley, sunken block, trough), massiccio sprofondato (sunken block, trough), fossa tettonica (fault trough, rift valley), fossa di sprofondamento (fault trough, rift valley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abengray graben (sunken block, trough), fossa tectónica (fault pit, fault trough, median valley, rift, rift valley). (various references) graben (sunken block, trough), fosa tectónica (fault trough, rift valley), fosa de hundimiento (fault trough, rift valley). (various references) gravsänka (rift valley), graben (sunken block, trough). (various references) graben, çökük (broken down, collapsed, hollow, sunk, sunken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GRABEN": grabens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GRABEN" (pronounced gra"bun) |
| 4 | -a" b u n | cabin. |
| 3 | -b u n | bobbin, bourbon, carbon, corban, fluorocarbon, Gibbon, hemoglobin, hydrocarbon, interurban, jacobin, Leben, psilocybin, ribbon, Robin, suburban, turban, urban. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: banger. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anger, barge, began, range, regna. | |
-2 letters: ager, bane, bang, bare, barn, bean, bear, berg, brae, brag, bran, bren, earn, gaen, gane, garb, gear, gnar, grab, gran, nabe, near, rage, rang. | |
-3 letters: age, ane, arb, are, bag, ban, bar, beg, ben, bra, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gab, gae, gan, gar, gen, nab, nae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bangers, bearing, begroan, grabens, rebegan. | |
+2 letters: bandager, bargeman, bargemen, baronage, bearding, bearings, begroans, beraking, berating, bewaring, blearing, breading, breaking, breaming, rebating, sabering, tabering. | |
+3 letters: abnegator, aborigine, aubergine, badgering, bandagers, bannering, bantering, barbering, bargained, bargainer, baronages, barreling, bartering, battering, beavering, bedraping, beggaring, begroaned, bereaving, betraying, bewraying, boogerman, boomerang, brazening, breaching, breakings, breasting, breathing, cambering, debarking, debarring, embarking, embarring, embracing, embrangle, frangible, gabardine, gaberdine, generable, grantable, greenback, habergeon, harbinger, ignorable, jabbering, prebaking, pregnable, rabbeting, rebaiting, rehabbing, subgenera, unbearing, upbearing, yabbering. | |
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