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Definition: Schnorkel |
SchnorkelNoun1. Air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "schnorkel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | Tube. . . through which a person may breathe while swimming face down in the water. . . by inserting one end in the mouth and letting the other end project above the surface. Also called, Brit. , snort. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SchnorkelSynonyms: breather (n), schnorchel (n), snorkel (n), snorkel breather (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: schnorkle (sports & leisure), snorkel. |
| Language | Translations for "schnorkel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шнорхел (snorkel, snort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tuba (schnorkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnorchel (snorkel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orkelschnay tubo de respiración (snorkel), esnórquel (snorkel). (various references) hava borusu, şnorkel ile yüzmek, şnorkel (snorkel). (various references) шноркель (snorkel), дихальна трубка (snorkel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "schnorkel": schnorkeled, schnorkeling, schnorkels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-k-l-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: sherlock. | |
-2 letters: chokers, cholers, cloners, conkers, cornels, hockers, honkers, lockers, reckons, relocks, shocker, snorkel. | |
-3 letters: censor, ceorls, choker, chokes, choler, chores, chosen, clerks, cloner, clones, clonks, closer, conker, cornel, cosher, cresol, crones, enrols, herons, hocker, honers, honker, kelson, kosher, locker, loners, nerols, nosher, ochers, ochres, ockers, reckon, recons, relock, schorl, senhor, shlock. | |
-4 letters: ceorl, ceros, choke, chore, chose, clerk, clone, clonk, clons, close, cokes, coles, cones, conks, cores, corks, corns, corse, crone, echos, enols, enrol, hecks, helos, herls, herns, heron, heros, hocks, hoers, hokes, holes, holks, honer, hones, honks, horns, horse, hosel, hosen, kench, kenos, kerns, koels, kohls, krone, lehrs, lenos, lochs, locks, loner, lores, loser, necks, nerol, nocks, noels, ocher, ochre, ocker, okehs, onces, orles, recks, recon, rocks, roles, scone, score, scorn, senor, sheol, shock, shoer, shone, shore, shorl, shorn, sneck, snore, socle, sorel. | |
-5 letters: cels, cero, chon, clon, coke, cole, cols, cone, conk, cons, core, cork, corn, cors, cosh, echo, elks, enol, eons, erns, eros, heck, helo, hens, herl, hern, hero, hers, hock, hoer, hoes, hoke, hole, holk, hols, hone, honk, hons, horn, hose, keno, kens, kern, koel, kohl, kore, kors, lech, lehr, leks, leno, lens, loch, lock, lone, lore, lorn, lose, neck, nock, noel, noes, nose, nosh, okeh, okes, oles, once, ones, orcs, ores, orle, reck, recs, resh, rhos, rock, rocs, roes, role, rose, shoe, sloe, sock, soke, sole, sone, sore, sorn. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-k-l-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: schnorkels. | |
+2 letters: schnorkeled. | |
+3 letters: schnorkeling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6E 6F 72 6B 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... -. --- .-. -.- . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101110 01101111 01110010 01101011 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h n o r k e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006E 006F 0072 006B 0065 006C |
| 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)536974808184777178 |
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