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Definition: Manhole Cover |
Manhole CoverNoun1. A flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A movable cast-iron plate fitting a cast-iron frame bedded on a rebated concrete slab or kerb over a manhole. Covers over foul drains are formedto prevent escape of foul air. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Manhole cover on Euclid St.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
manhole cover | 77 |
manhole cover lifter | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "manhole cover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | porta de visita (hatch, inspection hole, manhole). (various references) | |
Russian | крышка люка. (various references) | |
Spanish | tapa de registro. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-m-n-o-o-r-v" | |
-3 letters: chameleon, overclean. | |
-4 letters: amelcorn, cheveron, choreman, choremen, coenamor, colorman, colormen, cornmeal, hemocoel, hormonal, menarche, novercal, overcame, overcome, revanche, vernacle. | |
-5 letters: almoner, armhole, cavemen, chalone, charnel, chevron, cholera, chorale, choreal, cleaner, cleaver, coelome, corneae, corneal, coronae, coronal, coronel, echelon, enclave, haverel, honoree, hormone, leacher, machree, manhole, marchen, menacer, menorah, monarch, monocle, moocher, moorhen, nomarch, ochreae, oenomel, overman, overmen, reclame, reclean, removal, romance, valence, velamen, venomer, volcano. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 68 6F 6C 65 43 6F 76 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n h o l e   C o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0068 006F 006C 0065 0043 006F 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767807481787123781887184 |
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