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LET-DOWN

Specialty Definition: LET-DOWN

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Post & Telecom

Complete procedure from top of descent(TOD)at end of cruise through the approach of landing. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: LET-DOWN

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Movie/TV Titles

The Jet Beacon Let-Down (1957)

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

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Usage Frequency: LET-DOWN

"LET-DOWN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "LET-DOWN" is used about 44 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)63.64%2865,706
Adjective (general or positive)36.36%1687,710
                    Total100.00%44N/A

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

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Modern Translation: LET-DOWN

Language Translations for "LET-DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

nedklappelige sider (downfolding gate, drop-side, folding side, let-down side), hængslede sidefjæle (downfolding gate, drop-side, folding side, let-down side). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

daling (landing). (various references)

   

French

  

percée. (various references)

   

German

  

Sinkflug (descent), Durchstoß. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάθοδος (cathode, companion ladder, companionway, descent, down feed, feed motion directed to the interior, feed motion towards the interior, feed movement directed to the interior, feed movement towards the interior, infeed, in-feed, lowering). (various references)

   

Italian

  

discesa (declivity, descent, downhill, drop, fall, slope), avvicinamento (approach). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

et-downlay

   

Portuguese

  

descida-penetração. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

penetración (breakthrough, diffusion, insight, penetration, permeation), descenso (decline, descent, drop, fall, landing, relegation). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự thất vọng (blue devils, chagrin, collapsable, dejection, despair, despondency, suck-in), sự suy giảm sự l m thất vọng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LET-DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: letdown.

Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-t-w"

-1 letter: wonted.

-2 letters: dowel, dwelt, endow, lento, loden, lowed, noted, olden, owlet, owned, toled, toned, towed, towel.

-3 letters: delt, dent, dole, dolt, done, dote, down, enol, enow, lend, leno, lent, lewd, lode, lone, lowe, lown, newt, node, noel, note, nowt, owed, tend, toed, told, tole, tone, town, weld, welt, wend, went, wold, wont.

-4 letters: del.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-o-t-w"
 

+1 letter: letdowns, meltdown, wontedly.

 

+2 letters: meltdowns.

 

+3 letters: tumbledown, unwontedly.

 

+4 letters: netherworld, stonewalled, thistledown, trickledown.

 

+5 letters: counterworld, netherworlds, thistledowns, towardliness.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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