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Pithead

Definition: Pithead

Pithead

Noun

1. The entrance to a coal mine.

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


Specialty Definitions: Pithead

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. Landing stage at the top of a shaft b. The top of a mine shaft including the buildings, roads, tracks, plant,and machines around it. See also:pit brow. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Pithead

English words defined with "pithead": headgear. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pithead": colliery plandry fatigueface concentrationpit brow, pithead outputsalable output, shock loading. (references)

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Historic Usage: Pithead

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The prices to be paid for coal delivered under these options shall be as follows: (a) For overland delivery, including delivery by barge, the German pithead price to German nationals, plus the freight to French, Belgian, Italian or Luxemburg frontiers, provided that the pithead price does not exceed the pithead price of British coal for export. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Pithead

"Pithead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pithead" is used about 18 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pithead

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

Albanian

  

hyrje pusi miniere. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вход на каменовъглена мина. (various references)

   

Danish

  

koksfremstilling i forbindelse med minedrift (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven), central fjernmaaling af minegas har bidraget betydeligt til kendskabet til sikkerheden under jorden (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stortbaden (pithead baths), de centrale afstandsregistratie van de mijngasmetingen heeft bijgedragen tot verbetering van de inzichten op het stuk van de veiligheid aan het werkfront (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety), aan steenkolenmijnen verbonden cokesovenbedrijven (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven), aan een steenkolenmijn verbonden cokesovenbedrijf (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaivosaukko. (various references)

   

French

  

le central de télégrisoumétrie contribué l'amélioration des connaissances en matière de la sécurité au fond (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety), cokerie minière (coke oven at pithead, pithead coking plant), bains-douches (pithead baths). (various references)

   

German

  

Zechenkokerei (coke oven at pithead, coke oven plant associated with a colliery, colliery coke oven), Waschkaue (pithead baths), die Grubengasfernmessstelle hat zur Verbesserung unserer Kenntnisse ueber die Betriebssicherheit unter Tage beigetragen (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκαταστάσεις οπτάνθρακα της βιομηχανίας άνθρακα (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven), ο κεντρικός σταθμός τηλεμετρικού ελέγχου των αερίων ορυχείου βοήθησε στη βελτίωση των γνώσεων μας επί της υπόγειας ασφάλειας (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

aknatorony (headframe, headgear, pithead machinery). (various references)

   

Italian

  

imbocco di miniera. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

坑口 (minehead). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"う"う (baby chicken, brave, cruise, filial piety, great feudal lords, harbor entrance, higher technical school, incurable disease, mine, minehead, mouth cavity, pickled vegetables, pit, princes and marquises, senior high school, sexual union, shaft, surge, thefather of the current emperor, valiant, young and inexperienced person). (various references)

   

Manx

  

beeal slogh meainey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itheadpay

   

Portuguese

  

produção mineira de coque (coke oven at pithead, colliery coke oven), a central de telegrisumetria contribuiu para a melhoria dos conhecimentos sobre a segurança subterrânea (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

надшахтное здание. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bocamina (exit portal, outlet, pit bank, pit brow, portal, ramp portal, shaft collar). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gruvöppning (mouth of a mine). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maden kuyusu ağzı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

копер, надшахтна будівля. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pithead

Derivations

Words beginning with "pithead": pitheads. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pithead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pathia, peghead, pighead, pitahayas, pit'ead, Pitha, pithe, pithed, pithoi, Pittham, Pytheas, Pythium. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Pithead

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-p-t"

-1 letter: heptad, pithed.

-2 letters: adept, aphid, death, depth, hated, pated, pieta, taped, tepid.

-3 letters: adit, aide, aped, date, diet, dipt, dita, dite, eath, edit, epha, hade, haed, haet, hate, head, heap, heat, hide, hied, idea, padi, paid, pate, path, peat, phat, pied, pita, pith, tape, tepa, thae, tide, tied.

-4 letters: aid, ait, ape, apt, ate.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-p-t"
 

+1 letter: pitheads.

 

+2 letters: apartheid, atrophied, cadetship, hepatized, printhead, therapsid.

 

+3 letters: apartheids, cadetships, diphtheria, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, empathised, empathized, mispatched, pathfinder, phantasied, printheads, therapsids.

 

+4 letters: asphyxiated, despatching, diaphaneity, diaphoretic, diphosphate, diphtherial, diphtherias, dispatchers, feldspathic, graphitized, hepatitides, orthopaedic, pathfinders, phosphatide, stewardship, sympathised, sympathized, transhipped.

 

+5 letters: alphabetized, apotheosized, diaphoretics, diphosphates, hospitalised, hospitalized, hydropathies, hyperacidity, hypostatized, lithographed, orthopaedics, phagocytized, phosphatides, phosphatized, radiotherapy, stewardships, transshipped.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pithead


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

50 69 74 68 65 61 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 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0074 0068 0065 0061 0064

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

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

50758674716770

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
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Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, ‏شخص إيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏الإيطالي, ‏إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian;
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Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;