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Definition: Sandbank |
SandbankNoun1. A submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sandbank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Crosswords: Sandbank |
| English words defined with "sandbank": shoal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sandbank" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (sand bank, sandbank, sandbar, shelf, shoal), Swedish (bank, bar, sandbank). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Das Rätsel der Sandbank (1987) | |
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| "Sandbank" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.87% of the time. "Sandbank" is used about 31 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) | 83.87% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sandbank": on a sandbank. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
sandbank | 50 |
ontario sandbank | 8 |
park provincial sandbank | 7 |
beach sandbank | 4 |
camping sandbank | 3 |
park sandbank | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sandbank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrip rëre (sandbar, sands), kuti (box, canister, case, casket, container, crate, receptacle, Square, thriftbox, tray). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرتفع رملي, رصيف رملي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пясъчна плитчина (sand). (various references) | |
Danish | sandbanke (sand bank, sand reef, sandbar, shallow place). (various references) | |
Dutch | zandbank (bank, bela, sand bank, sand reef, sandbar, shallow place). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sablobenko (bank). (various references) | |
Farsi | کرانه ماسه , ساحل شنی . (various references) | |
French | banc de sable (sand bank, sand bar, sand reef, sandbar). (various references) | |
German | Sandbank (bela, sand bank, sand bar, sandbar, shelf, shoal). (various references) | |
Greek | σύρτις, σωρόσ άμμου, σωρός άμμου, μπάνκος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שרטון (bank of a river, reef, sand bar, shoal). (various references) | |
Italian | banco di sabbia (cay, sand bank, sand bar, sand reef, sandbar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 州 (reef, sandbar), 州 (province, state). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | す (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, den, haunt, nest, rookery, vinegar), なかす (bar, sandbank in stream, sandbar, to grieve, to make someone cry, to move someone to tears), さす (reef, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt), さし (sharpened tube for testing rice in bags, spit). (various references) | |
Manx | gransh (sandbar). (various references) | |
Papiamen | ref (bank), klef (bank). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andbanksay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bancodeareia, banco (bank, banking institution, bed, bench, easel, machine, school of fish, seat, shoal, stool, tressle, work bench, workbench), baixio (bela, sandbar, shallow, shallows, shoal). (various references) | |
Russian | банка (bank, can, cup, cupping glas, cupping glass, cupping-glass, jar, knoll, tin can), песчаная отмель (cay, sand bar, sandbanks). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sprud (cay, key, sandbar, shelf, shoal), prud. (various references) | |
Spanish | banco de arena (sandbar, sands, shoal, spit). (various references) | |
Swedish | sandbank (bank, bar). (various references) | |
Thai | สัน"อนทราย. (various references) | |
Turkish | kumsal (beach, Plage, sandy seashore). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saя (shoal). (various references) | |
Ukranian | піщана мілина, дюна (dune, hummock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bãi cát. (various references) | |
Welsh | traethell (bank of sand, beach, sand bar, strand). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | syrtim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sandbank": sandbanks. (additional references) | |
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"Sandbank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sandbanck, sandbark, Sandjak, Sandybank. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-k-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: kanbans. | |
-2 letters: kanban. | |
-3 letters: annas, bands, banks, banns, kanas, naans, nadas, nanas. | |
-4 letters: abas, anas, ands, anna, ansa, baas, bads, band, bank, bans, bask, dabs, daks, dank, kaas, kabs, kana, naan, nabs, nada, nana, nans, sand, sank. | |
-5 letters: aas, aba, abs, ads, ana, and, ask, baa, bad, ban, bas, dab, dak, kab, kas, nab, nan, sab, sad, ska. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-k-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: sandbanks. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 62 61 6E 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. -... .- -. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100010 01100001 01101110 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d b a n k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0062 0061 006E 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367807068678077 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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