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Definition: Snarl-up |
Snarl-upNoun1. A number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Snarl-upSynonym: traffic jam (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: congestion (transportation), traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up. |
| "Snarl-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snarl-up" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "snarl-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verkeersstagnatie (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up), verkeerscongestie (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | encombrement du trafic (traffic snarl-up), encombrement de la circulation (traffic snarl-up), congestion (traffic snarl-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verkehrsstörung (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | congestione (congestion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arl-upsnay congestionamento de tráfego (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up). (various references) congestionamiento de tránsito (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up), congestión de tránsito (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up), congestión (congestion, snarl up). (various references) trafikträngsel (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up), trafikstockning (traffic jam), trafikstörning (congestion, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-n-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lunars, pulsar, ulpans. | |
-2 letters: lunar, lunas, nurls, plans, praus, punas, purls, slurp, snarl, spurn, supra, sural, ulans, ulnar, ulnas, ulpan. | |
-3 letters: alps, anus, laps, lars, luna, naps, nurl, pals, pans, pars, plan, plus, prau, pula, puls, puna, puns, purl, purs, raps, rasp, runs, salp, saul, slap, slur, snap, span, spar, spun, spur, sura. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-n-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: lupanars, purslane, supernal. | |
+2 letters: pauldrons, prunellas, purslanes, superlain, underlaps, uplanders. | |
+3 letters: peninsular, pleasuring, superclean, superlunar, supernally, superplane, supplanter, suprarenal, tarpaulins, underplays, unpastoral. | |
+4 letters: aquaplaners, insuperable, insuperably, leprechauns, nulliparous, pastureland, playgrounds, polyandrous, proconsular, republicans, sporulating, sporulation, spurgalling, superaltern, superlunary, supernormal, superplanes, supplanters, suprarenals, ungraspable, unsparingly, unspiritual. | |
+5 letters: allopurinols, antipleasure, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, manipulators, outsparkling, pasturelands, pelargoniums, planetariums, popularising, porcelaneous, premenstrual, proconsulate, sporulations, subprincipal, superalterns, superhumanly, supernatural, supraliminal, surpassingly, thunderclaps, unscriptural. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 61 72 6C 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01100001 01110010 01101100 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n a r l - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0061 0072 006C 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5380678478158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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