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SOAKAWAY

Specialty Definition: SOAKAWAY

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

Pits or excavation placed for draining surface water and absorbing it into the subsoil. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SOAKAWAY

Specialty definitions using "SOAKAWAY": Aqua privy. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: SOAKAWAY

"SOAKAWAY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOAKAWAY" is used about 18 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%1882,615

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOAKAWAY

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

soakaway

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SOAKAWAY

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

Danish

  

samlebrønd (collector, intercepting sewer, interceptor, recharging basin, sump, trunk sewer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zinkput (sewer), zakput (recharging basin, sump). (various references)

   

French

  

puits perdu. (various references)

   

German

  

Sickergrube (collapse sinkhole, doline, recharging basin, sink, sinkhole, solution sinkhole, sump). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρεάτιο άντλησης (recharging basin, sump). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pozzo perdente (recharging basin, sump), pozzo di drenaggio (drainage wells, recharging basin, sump). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oakawaysay

   

Portuguese

  

poço de infiltração (recharging basin, sump). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pozo ciego (recharging basin, sump). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

infiltrationsbrunn (diffusing well, diffusion well, injection well, inverted well, recharge well, recharging basin, sump), dränbrunn (collecting drain, collector, main drain, recharging basin, sump), avloppsbrunn (cesspit, cesspool, sink, sump). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SOAKAWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-k-o-s-w-y"

-3 letters: kayos, okays.

-4 letters: away, kaas, kayo, kays, koas, oaks, okas, okay, soak, soya, sway, ways, woks, yaks, yaws, yoks, yows.

-5 letters: aas, ask, awa, ays, kas, kay, koa, kos, oak, oka, saw, say, ska, sky, sow, soy, was, way, wok, wos, yak, yaw, yok, yow.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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