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Date "MELTDOWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Meltdown network meltdown. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MELTDOWN |
| Specialty definitions using "MELTDOWN": broadcast storm ♦ century meltdown, Chernobyl packet, CRYSTAL GROWER, crystal growing furnace operator ♦ DAU ♦ Ethernet meltdown ♦ meltdown, network, millennium meltdown ♦ network meltdown ♦ POLYSILICON PREPARATION WORKER ♦ Shockwave, sorcerer's apprentice mode. (references) |
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Screenplays | He thwarted your campaign for governor, you ran over his son, he saved the plant from meltdown, his wife painted you in the nude (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991) Meltdown (1990) | |
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| "MELTDOWN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MELTDOWN" is used about 39 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% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MELTDOWN": century meltdown ♦ Ethernet meltdown ♦ millennium meltdown ♦ network meltdown. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "MELTDOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ç†"æ¯. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nedsmeltning (melting down), nedsmelte (melting down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | smelten (melt), insmelten (fritting, melting down, sintering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sulattaminen (melting down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fusion (melting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Einschmelzen (melt down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ïευστοποίηση (fluxion, liquefaction, liquidation, realization), λυώσιμο (melting down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fusione della carica (melting down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | メルカトル図法 (characteristic, fairy tale, having a fairy tale atmosphere, Melbourne, melt, melton, Mercator's projection, Mercedes-Benz, Thank You). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | メルトダウン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eltdownmay fusão (amalgamation, casting, consolidation, debacle, fusion, interflow, interfusion, melt, melting, merger, merging). (various references) topljenje jezgra nuklearnog reaktora. (various references) fusión de un reactor, fusión (blowout, coalescence, fusion, melt, melting, merge, merger, merging). (various references) smältning (liquefaction, liquifaction), nedsmältning (melting down). (various references) розплавленнÑ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MELTDOWN": meltdowns. (additional references) | |
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"MELTDOWN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embledown, metdown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MELTDOWN" (pronounced me"ltdou'n) |
| 4 | -t d ou' n | countdown, letdown, putdown, shutdown. |
| 3 | -d ou' n | breakdown, clampdown, closedown, comedown, crackdown, drawdown, godown, hoedown, knockdown, lockdown, lowdown, markdown, rundown, shakedown, showdown, slowdown, sundown, touchdown, turndown. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-m-n-o-t-w" | |
-1 letter: letdown. | |
-2 letters: dolmen, loment, melton, molted, molten, wonted. | |
-3 letters: demon, dowel, dwelt, endow, lemon, lento, loden, lowed, melon, model, monde, monte, motel, mowed, noted, olden, owlet, owned, toled, toned, towed, towel, women. | |
-4 letters: delt, demo, dent, dole, dolt, dome, done, dote, down, enol, enow, lend, leno, lent, lewd, lode, lone, lowe, lown, meld, melt. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-m-n-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: meltdowns. | |
+2 letters: tumbledown. | |
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