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Snowbank

Definition: Snowbank

Snowbank

Noun

1. 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)


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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snowbank

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

lake snowbank

6

boltonia snowbank

4

smittys snowbank

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snowbank

Language Translations for "snowbank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pirg dëbore (snowdrift). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

снежна преспа (snowdrift). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owbanksnay

   

Russian 

  

снежный нанос (snow-bank). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smet (snow drift, snowdrift). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kar tepeciği. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Snowbank

Derivations

Words beginning with "snowbank": snowbanks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Snowbank

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snowbank


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

53 6E 6F 77 62 61 6E 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 01101110 01101111 01110111 01100010 01100001 01101110 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#111 &#119 &#98 &#97 &#110 &#107

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)

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

5380818968678077

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INDEX

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


  

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