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Definition: Snowbank |
SnowbankNoun1. A mound or heap of snow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snowbank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| 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 |
lake snowbank | 6 |
boltonia snowbank | 4 |
smittys snowbank | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snowbank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pirg dëbore (snowdrift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | снежна преспа (snowdrift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owbanksnay снежный нанос (snow-bank). (various references) smet (snow drift, snowdrift). (various references) kar tepeciği. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "snowbank": snowbanks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-k-n-n-o-s-w" | |
-2 letters: knowns. | |
-3 letters: banks, banns, bonks, kaons, knobs, known, knows, koans, nonas, swank, wonks. | |
-4 letters: abos, anon, awns, bank, bans, bask, boas, bonk, bosk, bows, kabs, kaon, knob, know, koan, koas, kobs, nabs, nans, naos, nobs, nona, nows, oaks, okas, owns, sank, sawn, snaw, snob, snow, soak, sown, swab, swan, swob, wabs, wans, woks. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-k-n-n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: snowbanks. | |
+4 letters: pawnbrokings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 6F 77 62 61 6E 6B |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. --- .--. -... .- -. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01100010 01100001 01101110 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n o w b a n k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 006F 0077 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)5380818968678077 |
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