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Silverback

Definition: Silverback

Silverback

Noun

1. An adult male gorilla with gray hairs across the back.

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


Commercial Usage: Silverback

DomainTitle

Books

  • Silverback (reference)

  • The Silverback Gorilla Syndrome: Transforming Primitive Man (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Silverback

Photos:
Silverback

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Silverback

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

silverback

202

silverback gorilla

55

rawlings silverback

12

silverback technology

10

gorilla picture silverback

9

silverback system

5

rawlings silverback softball bat

4

armour silverback tommy

3

record silverback

2

bat silverback

2

bat rawlings silverback

2

gloves rawlings silverback

2

silverback staffing

2

gorrila silverback

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Silverback

Derivations

Words beginning with "silverback": silverbacks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Silverback

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-k-l-r-s-v"

-2 letters: brickles, calibers, calibres, cavilers, claviers, scablike, visceral.

-3 letters: ascribe, backers, bailers, balkers, balkier, bickers, bilkers, blacker, brickle, caliber, calibre, calkers, caribes, carvels, caviler, claries, clavers, clavier, clivers, eclairs, lackers, lekvars, lickers, revisal, saclike, scalier, scribal, skiable, slacker, slicker, valeric, varices, verbals, vesical, viscera.

-4 letters: abseil, aivers, alkies, alsike, ariels, backer, bailer, bakers, balers.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-k-l-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: silverbacks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Silverback


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 6C 76 65 72 62 61 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    .-..    ...-    .    .-.    -...    .-    -.-.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01101100 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#108 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#97 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 006C 0076 0065 0072 0062 0061 0063 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53757888718468676977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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