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Definition: Pocket-handkerchief |
Pocket-handkerchiefNoun1. A handkerchief that is carried in a pocket. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pocket-handkerchief" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Pocket-handkerchief. The word handkerchief conveys the full meaning. Pocket is therefore superfluous and should be omitted. If a cloth or tie for the neck is meant, call it a neck tie or a neckerchief, but not a neck-handkerchief. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Pocket-handkerchief |
| Specialty definitions using "pocket-handkerchief": Pocket-handkerchief. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pocket-handkerchief" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pocket-handkerchief" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pocket-handkerchief"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 兜手帕. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 립지 손수건. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocket-handkerchiefpay khăn tay (handkerchief, nose-wiper). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-f-h-h-i-k-k-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-4 letters: chickenhearted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 63 6B 65 74 2D 68 61 6E 64 6B 65 72 63 68 69 65 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00101101 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101011 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100101 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o c k e t - h a n d k e r c h i e f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0063 006B 0065 0074 002D 0068 0061 006E 0064 006B 0065 0072 0063 0068 0069 0065 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50816977718615746780707771846974757172 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , 트남, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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