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"NARKS" is a plural of: nark. |
Date "NARKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Pressure-induced vertigo causing a loss of sense of direction and inco-ordination of muscular movements experienced by divers breathing compressed air at pressures equivalent to 45 m or more. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "NARKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "NARKS" is used about 5 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 (plural) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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 |
narks | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NARKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | nitrogennarkose (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stikstofnarcose (nitrogen narcosis), stikstofgasroes (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | typpihumala (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | narcose l'azote (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Stickstoffintoxikation (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | νάρκωση με άζωτο (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | narcosi da azoto (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arksnay narcosis del nitrógeno (nitrogen narcosis), narcosis del ázoe (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) kvävenarkos (nitrogen narcosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NARKS": snarks. (additional references) | |
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"NARKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anris, nacks, Nahke, Nairus, Narc, narch, narci, narcis, narcs, narcuss, nargis, narkis, narkos, narky, narres, nars, naruk, narx, Nekrasov, nerbs, nerk, nirs, nirvs, noris, norskes, nras, nsrrki, nurk, Nurkse, uarks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: karns, knars, ranks, snark. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arks, karn, knar, nark, rank, sank, sark. | |
-2 letters: ark, ars, ask, kas, ran, ras, ska. | |
-3 letters: an, ar, as, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: branks, cranks, franks, knaurs, pranks, shrank, snarks, snarky, tranks. | |
+2 letters: anoraks, bankers, cankers, darkens, hankers, harkens, kantars, korunas, krakens, kurgans, rankers, rankest, rankish, rankles, ransack, ryokans, snakier, sneaker, spanker, swanker, tankers. | |
+3 letters: bearskin, brackens, bunrakus, crankest, crankish, crankles, crankous, darkness, finmarks, flankers, forsaken, frankers, frankest, hearkens, kaiserin, kartings, keratins, klaverns, knackers, knappers, kneaders, markings, marksman, marksmen, outranks, parkings, prankish, ramekins, rankings, rankness, ranpikes, ransacks, ratfinks, redshank, rewakens, runbacks, sharking, snarkier, sneakers, sneakier, spankers, sparking, stinkard, swankier, synkarya, tanbarks, tankards, thankers, unbrakes, unmakers, unmasker, wakeners. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 52 4B 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- .-. -.- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000001 01010010 01001011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A R K S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 0052 004B 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4835524553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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