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Definition: Sanderling |
SanderlingNoun1. Small sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and migrates south along sandy coasts in most of world. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Sanderling \San"der*ling\, noun. [Sand -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SanderlingSynonym: Crocethia alba (n). (additional references) |
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| Calidris alba |
The Sanderling, Calidris alba is a small wader. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, Africa and Australia. It is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches.
This bird is similar in size to a Dunlin, but stouter, with a thick bill. It shows a strong white wingbar in flight, and runs along the sandy beaches it prefers with a characteristic "bicycling" action, stopping frequently to pick small food items.
The depicted bird is a spring recent arrival on the High Arctic breeding grounds, wher it lays 3-4 eggs on a ground scrape. Later in the summer, the face and throat become brick-red.
The winter bird is very pale, almost white apart from a dark shoulder patch. This is the source of the specific name, alba, which is the Latin for "white". The juvenile bird is spangled black and white, and shows much more contrast than the adult.
The only confusion with this species occurs if the size is misjudged, when a breeding plumage bird can be mistaken for a stint.
On the map below, the dark shading shows the approximate southern limit of the Sanderling's breeding range
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sanderling."
Crosswords: Sanderling |
| English words defined with "sanderling": Oxbird ♦ Sand lark, Sea lark ♦ Towilly. (references) |
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| "Sanderling" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Sanderling" is used about 7 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 (proper) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sanderling | 77 |
inn sanderling | 56 |
resort sanderling | 21 |
carolina north sanderling | 9 |
nc sanderling | 8 |
sanderling venture | 6 |
hotel sanderling | 6 |
inn resort sanderling | 5 |
duck nc sanderling | 4 |
carolina inn north sanderling | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sanderling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sandlocker. (various references) | |
Dutch | drieteenstrandloper. (various references) | |
French | sanderling des sables, sanderling, bécasseau sanderling. (various references) | |
German | Sanderling. (various references) | |
Greek | λευκοσκαλίδρα. (various references) | |
Italian | piovanello tridattilo. (various references) | |
Manx | coar gheinnee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anderlingsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pilrito sanderlingo. (various references) | |
Russian | песчанка (chick-weed, sand eel). (various references) | |
Spanish | correlimos tridáctilo. (various references) | |
Swedish | Sandlöpare. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Calidris alba, Crocethia alba, RM:rivarel sabluner. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sanderling": sanderlings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sanderling" (pronounced 'San"der*ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Baubling, Bawbling, Bicycling, Birdling, Bitterling, Bottling, Brambling, Cabbling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Chitterling, Conventicling, Courtling, Crackling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dandyling, Dapperling, Dearling, Decolling, Dilling, Doegling, Duckling, Dukeling, Dwarfling, Eanling, Earthling, Egling, Eightling, Faintling, Fatling, Fehling, Fettling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, Fosterling, foundling, Fourling, Fribbling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, Godling, gosling, Greekling, groundling, Gruntling, Heddling, Hinderling, Homeling, Houseling, Housling, inkling, Intermeddling, Jentling, Kidling, Kingling, Kitling, Lapling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, middling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Muscling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Organling, Outfling, Overmeddling, Oysterling, Pastorling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Purfling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Riverling, Rockling, rumbling, Saibling, sapling, Scabling, Scatterling, schilling, seedling, Self-repelling, Sembling, Shaveling, Shearling, Shepherdling, shilling, Shoreling, Shorling, Silverling, Sippling, Skiffling, Snobling, Softling, Sperling, Sportling, Spurling, squireling, Steerling, stripling, Surling, Sutling, Swainling, Tabling, Tankling, Tanling, Tenderling, Throstling, Timberling, Timeling, Tireling, Tittle-tattling, Troutling, Turtling, Twaddling, Twinling, Uncling, underling, Unsling, Vetchling, Warling, Westling, Whigling, Whimling, Whitling, Wiseling, Witherling, Witling, Wolfling, Worldling, Wormling, Yeanling, Yeorling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: slandering. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: draglines, inlanders, learnings. | |
-2 letters: aginners, aligners, annelids, danglers, darlings, darnings, dealings, deraigns, dragline, eanlings, earnings, engrails, engrains, glanders, gradines, grannies, inlander, insnared, islander, ladening, landings, leadings, leanings, learning, lindanes, nargiles, readings, realigns, sandling, signaled, signaler, slangier, snarling. | |
-3 letters: aginner, aldrins, aligned, aligner, aliners, aneling, anglers, annelid, dangers, dangler, dangles, darings, darling, darnels, darning, dealing, deaning, denials, deraign, derails, dialers, dingers, dingles, dinners, eanling, earings, earning, endings, endrins, engilds, engirds, engrail, engrain, ensnarl, erasing, gainers, ganders, gardens, gilders, ginners, girdles, gladier, glaired, glaires, glandes, gliders, gnarled, gradine, gradins, grained, grannie, grinned, inlands, innards, insaner, insnare, ladings, lagends, landers, landing, lanners, larding, leading, leaning, leasing, lending, lensing, ligands, linages, lindane, lindens, lingers, linsang, nailers, nardine, nargile, nearing, randies, reading, reagins, realign, redials, regains, regilds, reginal, reginas, renails, rending, ridgels, sandier, sanding, sardine, sealing, searing, sending, seringa, singled, slander, slanged, slinger, snailed, snaring, snarled. | |
-4 letters: aiders, aisled, alders, aldrin, algins, aliens, aligns, alined, aliner, alines, angels, angers, angled, angler, angles, argils, argled, argles, ariels, ariled, arisen, arsine, danger, dangle, daring, darnel, deairs, deasil, deigns, denari, denars, denial, derail, design, dialer, dinars, diners, dinger, dinges, dingle, dinner, dirges, drails, drains, earing, easing, elains, elands, ending, endrin, engild, engird, ensign, gained, gainer, gander, garden, genial, gilder, ginned, ginner, girdle, girned, glades, glaire, glairs, glands, glared, glares, gleans, glider, glides, gnarls, grades, gradin, grails, grains, grands, grides, grilse, grinds, ideals, idlers, inaner, inanes, ingles, inland, inners, insane, irades, island, ladens, laders, ladies, lading, lagend, lagers, lairds, laired, lander, lanner, larges, larine, lasing, learns, lianes, liangs, liards, lidars, ligand, ligans, ligase, ligers, linage, linden, linear, linens, liners, lingas, linger, nadirs, nailed, nailer, naleds, narine, railed, rained, raised, ranged, ranges, ranids, rasing, reagin, redans, redial, redias, reding, regain, regild, regina, regnal, reigns, relaid, renail, renigs, renins, resaid, resail, resign, ridgel, ridges, ringed, rinsed, sagier, sailed, sailer, sained, saline, sander, sanger, saning, sendal, serail, serial, sering, sidler, sienna, signal, signed, signer, silage, silane, singed, singer, single, sinned, sinner, slider, snared, snider. | |
-5 letters: aegis, agers, agile, aider, aides, ailed, aired, airns, aisle, alder, algid, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, anils, anise, argil, argle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, aside, dales, dangs, dares, darns, deair, deals, deans, dears, degas, deign, deils, delis, denar, dials, dinar, diner, dines, dinge, dings, dirge, dirls, drags, drail, drain, dregs, dries, earls, earns, egads, elain, eland, elans, gadis, gains, gales, garni, gears, gelds, gelid, gilds, girds, girls, girns, glade, glads, glair, gland, glans, glare, glean, gleds, glens, glias, glide. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: darlingness, sanderlings. | |
+3 letters: darlingnesses, niggardliness, relandscaping. | |
+4 letters: bildungsromane, degranulations, disenthralling. | |
+5 letters: depersonalizing, dishearteningly, grandiloquences, niggardlinesses, reconsolidating, understandingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 65 72 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. . .-. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d e r l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678070718478758073 |
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