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Definition: Igloo |
IglooNoun1. An Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Engineering & Technology | A dome-shaped storage building from ammunition and explosives. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | , called igloos, already are being moved in this fashion. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The snow used to build an igloo must have sufficient structural strength to be cut and stacked in the appropriate manner. The best snow to use for this purpose is snow which has been blown by wind, which can serve to compact and interlock the ice crystals. The hole left in the snow where the blocks are cut from is usually used as the lower half of the shelter. Sometimes, a short tunnel is constructed at the entrance to reduce wind and heat loss when the door is opened. Due to snow's excellent insulative properties, inhabited igloos are surprisingly comfortable inside.
Central Eskimos, especially those around the Davis Strait, line the living area with skin, which can increase the temperature within from around 2°C to 10-20°C.
Architecturally the igloo is unique in that it is a dome that can be raised out of independent blocks leaning on each other and polished to fit without an existing supporting structure.
Because "igloo", or iglu in standard orthography, simply means "house" in Inuktitut, since the twentieth century, a snowhouse in Inuktitut is frequently called an igluvigaq, or igluvigait in plural, in distinction.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Igloo."
Synonym: IglooSynonym: iglu (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Igloo |
| Non-English Usage: "Igloo" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (igloo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | An Igloo for Two (1955) How to Build an Igloo (1949) Igloo (1932) Among the Igloo Dwellers (1931) | |
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| "Igloo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Igloo" is used about 18 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) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
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 |
igloo | 1,768 |
igloo cooler | 776 |
igloo ice chest | 87 |
igloo product | 43 |
igloo dog house | 41 |
igloo part store.com | 38 |
igloo cooler part | 34 |
igloo water cooler | 26 |
igloo picture | 24 |
igloo marine cooler | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "igloo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | banesë eskimeze. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوخ الإسكيمو على شكل قبة, المبني القباني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | иглу (icehouse). (various references) | |
Chinese | 园屋顶的小屋. (various references) | |
Czech | iglú. (various references) | |
Farsi | کلبه اسکیموها (Iglu). (various references) | |
French | iglou, igloo, PETIT container. (various references) | |
German | iglu. (various references) | |
Greek | καλύβη από πάγο, παγοκαλύβα εσκιμώων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי'לו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégkunyhó. (various references) | |
Italian | iglù. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | イギリス帝国 (British Empire, equal, equal opportunity, equal partner, equalizer, equipment, icon, iconography, ignition key, iguana, Islam, Israel, Istanbul, salmon roe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | イグルー . (various references) | |
Manx | bwaane sniaghtee, bwaane rioee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iglooay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | iglu, se não atendido. (various references) | |
Russian | иглу (icehouse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iglo. (various references) | |
Spanish | iglú (icehouse), de iglú. (various references) | |
Swedish | igloo, iglo. (various references) | |
Thai | บ้านสร้าง"้วยน้ำแข็งและมีรูปร่างคล้ายโ"มของชาวเอสกิโม. (various references) | |
Turkish | kubbe biçiminde cephanelik, eskimo kulübesi (iglu). (various references) | |
Ukranian | іглу (icehouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "igloo": igloos. (additional references) | |
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"Igloo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aglio, eglo, Figlio, Gilboa, Giljod, Giuoco, gloo, Iflo, Igalo, igl, Igla, Iglau, igle, iglo, iglom, Igloolik, iglooo, iglu, igluk, iglut, ignoo, igo, igol, igoo, iloo, Ingalo, inloo, jiglo, Ngolo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: logoi. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-o-o" | |
-1 letter: logo, olio. | |
-2 letters: goo, log, loo, oil. | |
-3 letters: go, li, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-o-o" | |
+1 letter: gigolo, igloos, isolog, logion, looing. | |
+2 letters: biology, cooling, fooling, gigolos, girosol, globoid, glonoin, goofily, isologs, locoing, logions, looking, looming, looping, loosing, looting, obligor, ologies, ologist, oologic, pooling, soloing, tooling. | |
+3 letters: apiology, apologia, axiology, biologic, blooding, blooming, blooping, boodling, coloring, cooingly, doodling, drooling, ecologic, etiology, flooding, flooring, folioing, footling, foozling, geologic, girlhood, girosols, globoids, glonoins, gloomier, gloomily, glooming, gloriole, glorious, golliwog, goodlier, goodwill, googlies, holloing, hooligan, ideology, isogloss, isogonal, isologue, misology, mixology, myologic, neologic, noodling, obligato, obligors, oinology, oligomer, ologists, oogonial, oologies, oologist, polliwog, shooling, sinology, sitology, snooling, solidago, spooling, stooling, toolings, tootling, urologic, virology, wooingly, zoologic. | |
+4 letters: aetiology, apologiae, apologias, apologies, apologise, apologist, apologize, audiology, befooling, biologics, biologies, biologism, biologist, bloodings, bloodying, bolloxing, choplogic, colorings, colouring, condoling, consoling, cytologic, dewooling, dolloping, ecologies, ecologist, enologies, enologist, etiologic, floorings, following, geologies, geologist, geologize, girlhoods, gloomiest, gloomings, glorioles, golliwogg, golliwogs, gondolier, goodliest, goodwills, grillroom, hagiology, hallooing, histology, hobgoblin, holloaing, hollooing, hollowing, hooligans, iconology, ideologic, ideologue, imbroglio, inglenook, iridology, isogonals, isologues, lightwood, limnology, lithology, logaoedic, logogriph, lolloping, longicorn, loosening, mongolism, mongoloid, moonlight, myoglobin, myologies, neologies, neologism, nosologic, obbligato, obligatos, oligomers, oligopoly, oncologic, onlooking, oologists, orologies, otologies, outloving, pedologic, philology, polliwogs, prologing, prologize, radiology, relooking, retooling, schooling, semiology, serologic, sinologue, snoozling, sociology, solfeggio, solidagos, spoolings, theologic, tribology, ufologies, ufologist, unloosing, urologies, urologist, virologic, zoologies, zoologist. | |
+5 letters: aerologies, agrologies, algologies, algologist, apiologies, apologetic, apologised, apologises, apologists, apologized, apologizer, apologizes, areologies, audiologic, axiologies, ballooning, beblooding, beglooming, bibliology, biofouling, biological, biologisms, biologists, bloodguilt, blossoming, broodingly, bryologies, bryologist, canoodling, cardiology, carpooling, cetologies, cetologist, choplogics, codicology, coevolving, cognominal, colloguing, colocating, colonising, colonizing, colorizing, conglobing, convolving, coplotting, craniology, cytologies, cytologist, decoloring, doxologies, droopingly, ecological, ecologists, elongation, enological, enologists, ethnologic, ethologies, ethologist, etiologies, exobiology, fetologies, fetologist, floodlight, followings, footlights, gemologies, gemologist, geological, geologists, geologized, geologizes, glaciology, gloominess, gloriously, golliwoggs, gondoliers, goodwilled, grillrooms, hagiologic, hemoglobin, histologic, hobgoblins, hologamies, hologynies, homologies, homologize, horologies, horologist, hydrologic, ideologies, ideologist, ideologize, ideologues, imbroglios, immunology, inglenooks, inglorious, isoglossal, isoglosses, isoglossic, karyologic, lampooning, langostino, lexicology, lightproof, lightwoods, limnologic, lithologic, locomoting, logaoedics, logogriphs, logorrheic, logotypies, logrolling, longicorns, loopholing, menologies, misologies, missiology, mixologies, mixologist, mongolisms, mongoloids, monologies, monologist, moonlights, musicology, mycologies, mycologist, myoglobins, mythologic, neologisms, neurologic, nomologies, nonlogical, nosologies, obbligatos, obligation, obligatory, obsoleting, oecologies, oenologies, offloading, oinologies, oleaginous, oligoclase, oligomeric, oligophagy, oligopsony, oncologies, oncologist, ontologies, ontologist, orismology, outflowing, outfooling, outglowing, outhowling, outpolling, outrolling, overloving, pathologic, pedologies, pedologist, penologies, penologist, petrologic, phlogiston, phlogopite, phonologic, physiology, pigeonhole, platooning, polygonies, pomologies, pomologist, posologies, potboiling, precooling, proglottid, proglottis, prologized, prologizes, prologuing, prologuize, prolonging, pyrologies, radiologic, reblooming, recoloring, reflooding, rheologies, rheologist, rigorously, schoolgirl, schoolings, scolloping, seismology, semeiology, serologies, serologist, sexologies, sexologist, sinologies, sinologist, sinologues, sitologies, sociologic, solfeggios, soothingly, subcooling, swooningly, teleologic, theologian, theologies, theologise, theologize, tocologies, tokologies, toolmaking, topologies, topologist, topsoiling, toxicology, trichology, tropologic, typologies, typologist, ufological, ufologists, urological, urologists, vanpooling, vigorously, virologies, virologist, zoological, zoologists, zymologies. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100111 01101100 01101111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I g l o o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0067 006C 006F 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4373788181 |
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