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Snowplough

Definition: Snowplough

Snowplough

Noun

1. A vehicle used to push snow from roads.

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


Synonym: Snowplough

Synonym: snowplow (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: blade (geography, transportation), snow clearing blades (transportation), snow remover, snowplow.

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Usage Frequency: Snowplough

"Snowplough" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snowplough" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Snowplough

Expression using "snowplough": snowplough turn. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Snowplough

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

Albanian

  

makinë pastruese bore, makinë borëheqëse. (various references)

   

Danish

  

sneplov (blade). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sneeuwschaafploeg (blade). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lumiaura (snow plough). (various references)

   

French

  

rabot-déneigeur. (various references)

   

German

  

schneepflug (snow plough, snowplow), Schneehobel (blade), räumpflug (snowplow). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπίδα αποχιονισμού (blade). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spazzaneve (snow plough, snowplow). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keeaght niaghtey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owploughsnay

   

Portuguese

  

dispositivo para remover a neve (blade). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

снегоочиститель (pilot, plough, plow, snow-plough, snowplow). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

snežni plug. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reja quitanieves (blade), quitanieves (snowplow). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snöplog (blade). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kayakla kar sıçratma (snowplow), kar temizleme aracı (snowplow). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

снігорозорювач (snowplow), снігоочисник (plough, plow, snow-breaker, snowplow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Snowplough

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-l-n-o-o-p-s-u-w"

-3 letters: gonophs, ploughs, sunglow.

-4 letters: ghouls, gluons, golosh, gonoph, loughs, phonos, plough, shogun, slough, whoops.

-5 letters: ghoul, glops, glows, gluon, goons, goops, gowns, gulps, hongs, hoops, howls, logos, longs, loons, loops, lough, loups, lungs, nohow, nolos, ouphs, phono, phons, plows, plugs, plush, polos, pongs, poohs, pools, poons, pungs, shool, shoon, shown, shuln, sloop, slung.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snowplough


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

53 6E 6F 77 70 6C 6F 75 67 68

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)

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

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

01010011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01110000 01101100 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#111 &#119 &#112 &#108 &#111 &#117 &#103 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 006F 0077 0070 006C 006F 0075 0067 0068

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

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

53808189827881877374

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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