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Highwater

Definitions: Highwater

Highwater

Noun

1. The tide when the water is highest.

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

Date "highwater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Synonyms: Highwater

Synonyms: high tide (n), high water (n). (additional references)
Antonym: low tide (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Highwater

DomainTitle

Books

  • Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Ralph Ellison-Jamake Highwater (reference)

  • Helen Highwater : a Shropshire lass (reference)

  • Myth and Metaphor in Society: A Conversation with Joseph Campbell & Jamake Highwater (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Jamake Highwater Collection (Primal Mind / Native Land) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Highwater

"Highwater" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Highwater" is used about 4 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
Adjective (comparative)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Highwater

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

  day highwater lyrics rising wasted

11

  clay highwater

11

  highwater

9

  highwater rising

8

  coming highwater lyrics rising undone

4

  jamake highwater

3

  highwater pants

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

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Modern Translations: Highwater

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

Farsi 

  

مددریا, مد (Chic, Mode, Vogue), دریادرحال مد. (various references)

   

Manx

  

baare y lane (highwater mark, watermark). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighwaterhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Highwater

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-r-t-w"

-2 letters: whither.

-3 letters: aigret, aright, aweigh, earwig, eighth, gaiter, gather, hearth, hegari, hegira, height, higher, hither, thawer, triage, waiter, weight, whiter, wither, wraith, wreath, wright, writhe.

-4 letters: airth, earth, eight, garth, gerah, girth, grate, great, grith, hater, heart, heath, heigh, hight, irate, ither, rathe, retag, retia, right, targe, tawer, tawie, terai, terga, their, thigh.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-r-t-w"
 

+4 letters: featherweight.

 

+5 letters: featherweights.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Highwater


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

48 69 67 68 77 61 74 65 72

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 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#119 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 0077 0061 0074 0065 0072

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

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

427573748967867184

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INDEX

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


  

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