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Definition: Greensand |
GreensandNoun1. An olive-green sandstone containing glauconite. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. An unconsolidated marine sediment consisting largely of dark greenish grains of glauconite, often mingled with clay or sand (quartz may form the dominant constituent), found between the low-water mark and the inner mud line. The term is loosely applied to any glauconitic sediment b. A sandstone consisting of greensand that is often little or not at all cemented, having a greenish color when unweathered but an orange or yellow color when weathered, and forming prominent deposits in Cretaceous and Eocene beds (as in the Coastal Plain areas of New Jersey and Delaware); specif. either or both of the Greensands (Lower and Upper) of the Cretaceous System in England, whether containing glauconite or not.Syn:glauconite; glauconitic sandstone. (references) |
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Crosswords: Greensand |
| English words defined with "greensand": Gault, glauconite ♦ Neocomian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "greensand": greensand marl ♦ malmstone ♦ Shanklin sand. (references) |
| "Greensand" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Greensand" is used about 8 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 (singular) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
greensand | 33 |
manganese greensand | 17 |
filter greensand | 5 |
greensand texas | 3 |
filter greensand iron | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "greensand": greensands. (additional references) | |
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"Greensand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gergesene, Glensanda, greenlandic, Greenman, Grenersen, Grenson. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: endangers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: deranges, endanger, ensnared, grandees, grenades. | |
-2 letters: angered, dangers, derange, dragees, endears, enneads, enraged, enrages, ensnare, ganders, gardens, genders, grandee, greased, grenade, rennase. | |
-3 letters: agenes, agreed, agrees, angers, danger, denars, denser, dragee, eagers, eagres, earned, edgers, endear, enders, ennead, enrage, erased, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, genres, grades, grands, grease, greeds, greens, neared, ragees. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: greensands, grenadines, serenading. | |
+2 letters: grandnesses, grandnieces, reascending, transgender. | |
+3 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, daringnesses, derangements, freestanding, grandnephews, tragediennes. | |
+4 letters: dangerousness, darlingnesses, degenerations, disheartening, endangerments, gelandesprung, grandioseness, kindergartens, nondecreasing, nonsegregated, transgendered, undergarments, unguardedness. | |
+5 letters: deconsecrating, defenestrating, degenerateness, disarrangement, gelandesprungs, kindergartners, nondegenerates, nondegradables, predesignating, predestinating, pseudopregnant, superhardening. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 65 65 6E 73 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . . -. ... .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r e e n s a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0065 0065 006E 0073 0061 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)418471718085678070 |
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