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Patchboard

Definition: Patchboard

Patchboard

Noun

1. Telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Patchboard

DomainDefinitions

Electrical Engineering

A board or panel having a number of jacks at which circuits are terminated. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Patchboard

Synonyms: plugboard (n), switchboard (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Patchboard

English words defined with "patchboard": patchcord. (references)

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Modern Translations: Patchboard

Language Translations for "patchboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

verbindingspaneel (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

   

French

  

panneau de raccordement (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel), panneau de distribution. (various references)

   

German

  

Programmsteckfeld, Steckerplatte (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel), Schalttafel (connection panel, console, control board, control console, control desk, control panel, junction panel, panel, patch panel, switch board, switch desk, switch panel, switchboard), Anschlußplate (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίνακας ηλεκτρικών συνδέσεων (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pannello di raccordo (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchboardpay

   

Portuguese

  

painel de junção (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

panel de unión (connection panel, junction panel, patch panel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Patchboard

Derivations

Words beginning with "patchboard": patchboards. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Patchboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-h-o-p-r-t"

-3 letters: abroach, acrobat, adaptor, hardtop, pochard.

-4 letters: abator, aboard, abroad, barhop, broach, captor, carhop, cartop, chadar, chador, coprah, datcha, pardah, rabato, tabard.

-5 letters: abhor, abort, actor, adapt, adopt, aorta, apart, aport, arhat, batch, board, boart, botch, brach, bract, broad, broth, carat, carbo, carob, chapt, chard, chart, chord, coapt, cobra, copra, dacha, dobra, dropt, hoard, octad, orach, pacha, parch, patch, poach, porch, rabat, ratch, roach, rotch, tabor, tardo, taroc, thorp, throb, torah, torch.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-h-o-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: patchboards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Patchboard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 74 63 68 62 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    -    -.-.    ....    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0074 0063 0068 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50678669746881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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