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Definition: Mothball |
MothballNoun1. A small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing. Verb1. Put into long-term storage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: MothballSynonym: camphor ball (n). (additional references) |
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| "Mothball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mothball" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
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 |
mothball | 70 |
fleet mothball | 32 |
mothball odor | 7 |
mothball smell | 4 |
get mothball rid smell | 4 |
melting mothball | 3 |
mothball use | 3 |
mothball snake | 3 |
mothball ship | 3 |
fleet mothball navy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mothball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرة العث, نفتلين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 封存. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | naftalínová kulièka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gardiennage, disponibilité armée, boule de naphtaline. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mottenkugel (camphor, moth ball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כ"ור פטלין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | naftalin (moth ball, naphtalene, naphthalene, white tar), molyirtó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pallina di naftalina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othballmay нафталин (camphor ball, camphor balls, naphthalene, naphthaline). (various references) empaquetar (bag, envelop, pack, pack up, package, packet, parcel, wrap), bola de naftalina, bola de la polilla. (various references) เก็บไว้ใช้, ลูกเหม็น. (various references) ставити на консервацію, антиміль. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mothball": mothballed, mothballing, mothballs. (additional references) | |
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"Mothball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: motaball, mothbal, Mothibeli, multiball. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mothball" (pronounced mô"thbô'l) |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, blackball, butterball, cannonball, eyeball, fastball, fireball, football, handball, hardball, meatball, oddball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, spitball, stickball, trackball, volleyball. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-l-l-m-o-t" | |
-2 letters: ballot, hallot, maltol, mollah, tombal. | |
-3 letters: abmho, abohm, allot, altho, atoll, bloat, hallo, holla, loath, lotah, molal. | |
-4 letters: alto, ambo, atom, baht, ball, balm, bath, blah, blam, blat, blot, boat, bola, boll, bolt, bota, both, hall, halm, halo, halt, holm, holt, lamb, lath, loam, lota, loth, mall, malt, math, moat, mola, moll, molt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-l-l-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: mothballs. | |
+2 letters: mothballed. | |
+3 letters: lymphoblast, mothballing. | |
+4 letters: lymphoblasts, thermolabile. | |
+5 letters: lymphoblastic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 74 68 62 61 6C 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o t h b a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0074 0068 0062 0061 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781867468677878 |
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