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Round-the-clock

Definition: Round-the-clock

Round-the-clock

Adjective

1. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care".

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

 

Synonyms: Round-the-clock

Synonyms: around-the-clock (adj), day-and-night (adj), nonstop (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: continuous navigation (transportation), round-the-clock navigation (transportation), round-the-clock operation (computing, post & telecom).

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Crosswords: Round-the-clock

Specialty definitions using "round-the-clock": SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Round-the-clock

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In patients who are hospitalized or who receive round-the-clock care, treatment schedules or hospital routines also may disrupt sleep. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

Sunday shopping and round-the-clock shopping are permitted under Slovak law. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Round-the-clock

"Round-the-clock" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "Round-the-clock" is used about 39 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
Adjective (general or positive)94.87%3756,631
Noun (singular)5.13%2245,945
                    Total100.00%39N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Round-the-clock

Language Translations for "round-the-clock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

ympärivuorokautinen. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

둥글 시계. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ound-the-clockray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

continuamente (around-the-clock, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, day-and-night, hourly, night and day). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

круглосуточный (around the clock, around-the-clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตลอ"เวลา (livelong). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

suốt ng y đêm (around-the-clock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Round-the-clock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-k-l-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-4 letters: chondrule, concluder, conductor, contoured, decontrol, outrocked, rockhound, unclothed, uncolored, undercool, undertook.

-5 letters: checkout, chortled, chuckled, chuckler, clotured, clutched, coholder, coloured, concerto, conclude, condoler, conducer, cornuted, creodont, crotched, crouched, crunched, crutched, cuckooed, decolour, elkhound, honoured, knothole, occulted, occulter, roundlet, trounced, truckled, unchoked, unclothe, uncocked, uncooked, uncooled, uncorked, unhooked, unlocked, unrooted.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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