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Definition: Marrowbone |
MarrowboneNoun1. A bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Adverb: on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Marrowbone |
| Specialty definitions using "marrowbone": Bedfordshire ♦ Walker's 'Bus. (references) |
| 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 |
lake marrowbone | 5 |
marrowbone | 3 |
marrowbone ky | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "marrowbone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thelb (backbone, burden, core, crux, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, matter, nub, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), kockë me palcë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | العظم النخاعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кост с мозък. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | morková kost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ydinluu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | os moelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | markknochen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | velõscsont (marrowbones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ossobuco, osso che contiene midollo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | craue smuirrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrowbonemay os medular (marrow bone). (various references) суть (backbone, burden, core, cruces, crux, gist, heart, nub, pith), мозговая кость. (various references) koštana srž. (various references) hueso con tuétano. (various references) märgben. (various references) ilik kemiği. (various references) суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, essential, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, matter, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), мозкова кістка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "marrowbone": marrowbones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-n-o-o-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: wareroom. | |
-3 letters: barroom, browner, earworm, embrown, woomera. | |
-4 letters: barmen, barren, barrow, bemoan, beworm, boomer, borane, borrow, bowman, bowmen, brawer, enamor, enwomb, maroon, marron, marrow, moaner, morrow, narrow, reborn, remora, rewarm, roamer, romano, roomer, warmer, warner, warren, womera, wormer. | |
-5 letters: aboon, amber, arbor, armer, armor, arrow, barer, baron, barre, beano, boner, borer, borne, boron, bower. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-n-o-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: marrowbones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 72 6F 77 62 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. .-. --- .--. -... --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r r o w b o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 0072 006F 0077 0062 006F 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678484818968818071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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