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Handwash

Definition: Handwash

Handwash

Verb

1. Wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine.

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

Antonym: machine wash (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Handwash

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on Delicates & Handwash Products: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Delicates & Handwash Products: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Delicates & Handwash Products in Europe (reference)

    (more reference examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Handwash

"Handwash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Handwash" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Handwash

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

handwash portable station

13

handwash

6

handwash sequence

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Handwash

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

Pig Latin

  

andwashhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Handwash

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-h-h-n-s-w"

-1 letter: handsaw.

-3 letters: awash, dawns, hahas, hands, hansa, nadas, shawn, wands.

-4 letters: aahs, anas, ands, ansa, awns, dahs, dash, dawn, daws, haha, hahs, hand, hash, haws, hwan, nada, sand, sawn, shad, shah, shaw, snaw, swan, wads, wand, wans, wash.

-5 letters: aah, aas, ads, aha, ana, and, ash, awa, awn, dah, daw, had, hah, has, haw, nah, naw, sad, saw, sha, shh, wad, wan, was, wha.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Handwash


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

48 61 6E 64 77 61 73 68

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    -.    -..    .--.    .-    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110111 01100001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#119 &#97 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0064 0077 0061 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4267807089678574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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