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Definitions: Pay Dirt |
Pay DirtNoun1. Ore that yields a substantial profit to the miner. 2. A profitable success; "the inventor worked for years before hitting pay dirt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. Gravel. Of alluvial deposits, sand rich enough to be excavated and treated to recover its valuable contents. See also:pay strea b. S. Afr. The same as payable ore, but in an alluvial deposit. Also called pay rock. See also:pay orec. Earth, rock, etc., that yields a profit to a miner. (references) |
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Crosswords: Pay Dirt |
| Specialty definitions using "pay dirt": pay load ♦ wash pan. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pay Dirt (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pay dirt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expression using "pay dirt": strike pay dirt. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
pay dirt | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "pay dirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mineral që e vlen të nxirret, diçka fitimprurëse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | богата жила, източник на печалба. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | abbauwürdiges erzlager. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aranytartalmú föveny (pay gravel), aranytartalmú áradmány (pay gravel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aypay irtday suelo rico en minerales, información interesante, filón (dyke, lode, pocket, seam, vein). (various references) para (boodle, brass, bread, cash, chink, chip, coffers, coin, currency, dough, ducat, dust, filthy lucre, funds, green, Jack, kale, lolly, lucre, means, monetary, money, oof, pecuniary, purse, rhino, rock, shekels, shiners, sugar, tin, wherewithal), madenli toprak, kâr (avail, avails, benefit, capital, catch, fruit, gain, gainings, increment, melon, profit, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Pay Dirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paydirt. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: parity. | |
-2 letters: atrip, dairy, diary, dirty, dript, padri, pardi, pardy, party, rapid, tapir, tardy, triad, yaird. | |
-3 letters: adit, airt, airy, arid, arty, dart, dipt, dirt, dita, drat, dray, drip, padi, paid, pair, pard, part, paty, pita, pity, prat, pray, raid, rapt, tarp, tidy, trad, trap, tray, trip, yard, yird. | |
-4 letters: aid, air, ait, apt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: podiatry, rapidity. | |
+2 letters: depravity, disparity, predacity. | |
+3 letters: depilatory, depositary. | |
+4 letters: cardiopathy, disparately, drapability, hydropathic, interplayed, parathyroid, paratyphoid, predicatory, predictably, predynastic, prodigality, stipendiary, tetraploidy. | |
+5 letters: aperiodicity, depreciatory, discrepantly, dispensatory, disreputably, drapeability, hydropathies, hyperacidity, parathyroids, paratyphoids, prudentially, radiotherapy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 79 44 69 72 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a y   D i r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0079 0044 0069 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506791238758486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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