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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pound sign hash. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pound sign."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| 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 |
pound sign | 11 |
british pound sign | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POUND SIGN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | kruis (cross, crotch, fork, grid, hash, loin, number sign, seat, sharp), hekje (balustrade, banisters, grid, hash, number sign, parapet, railing, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | dieso (grid, hash, number sign, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | risuaita (grid, hash, number sign, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Norwegian | nummertegn (grid, hash, number sign, sharp), grind (gate, grid, hash, number sign, sharp), firkant (grid, hash, number sign, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundpay ignsay sustenido (grid, hash, number sign, sharp), diese (grid, hash, number sign, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pounding, sounding, undoings. | |
-2 letters: dousing, guidons, ponding, pongids, souping, spongin, undoing, unipods. | |
-3 letters: dingus, doings, doping, dosing, duping, gipons, guidon, nosing, pignus, pingos, pinons, poinds, pongid, posing, pounds, spuing, sundog, unions, unipod, unison, unpins. | |
-4 letters: dingo, dings, dipso, doing, dongs, dungs, gipon, guids, nidus, nodus, nouns, oping, opsin, pingo, pings, pinon, pions, pious, poind. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+2 letters: outspending. | |
+4 letters: nondiapausing, soundproofing, typefoundings, underexposing. | |
+5 letters: superabounding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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