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Soundboard

Definition: Soundboard

Soundboard

Noun

1. (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument.

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


Synonym: Soundboard

Synonym: sounding board (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Soundboard

English words defined with "soundboard": sound hole. (references)
Specialty definitions using "soundboard": BELLY BUILDERHARP MAKER, HARP REGULATOR. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Soundboard

"Soundboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Soundboard" is used about 13 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)92.31%12101,599
Noun (common)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soundboard

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

soundboard

335

prank soundboard

13

arnold soundboard

256

chris farley soundboard

13

celebrity soundboard

113

family guy soundboard

12

arnold schwarzenegger soundboard

50

chris soundboard tucker

12

full jacket metal soundboard

42

dr evil soundboard

12

al pacino soundboard

32

jackson samuel soundboard

11

homer simpson soundboard

31

homer soundboard

11

kerpal soundboard

30

cleo ms soundboard

11

black jack soundboard

27

darth soundboard vader

10

park soundboard south

26

scarface soundboard

10

howard soundboard stern

26

cartman soundboard

10

jackson l samuel soundboard

24

bruce soundboard willis

9

office soundboard space

21

austin power soundboard

9

call prank soundboard

19

beavis butthead soundboard

9

mr soundboard t

18

adam sandler soundboard

8

joe pesci soundboard

18

dumb and dumber soundboard

8

cleo miss soundboard

18

arnold download soundboard

8

simpsons soundboard

17

jack nicholson soundboard

7

dr phil soundboard

15

movie soundboard

7

bubb rubb soundboard

14

carrey jim soundboard

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soundboard

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

Chinese 

  

板胡 (a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

共鳴板 (resonator). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きょうめいば" (resonator). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheean-chlaare. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundboardsay

   

Russian 

  

звуковой плата. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ljudkort (soundcard). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ส่วนของเครื่อง"นตรีที่สะท้อนเสียงไปยังผู้ฟังเช่น ในไวโอลิน, ตัวแทนความคิ"ของผู้อื่น. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Soundboard

Derivations

Words beginning with "soundboard": soundboards. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Soundboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-2 letters: baudrons, bourdons, bradoons.

-3 letters: abounds, bausond, bourdon, bradoon, dorados, onboard, robands, sandbur.

-4 letters: abound, absurd, adobos, adorns, adsorb, around, barons, boards, borons, bounds, bourns, brands, broads, broods, burans, dobras, dobros, dobson, donors, dorado, dorsad, douras, nodous, odours, radons, roband, rondos, rounds, soudan, suborn, unbars.

-5 letters: aboon, adobo, adorn, arson, bands, bards, barns, baron, bauds.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-n-o-o-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: soundboards.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Soundboard


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

53 6F 75 6E 64 62 6F 61 72 64

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 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

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

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

53818780706881678470

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INDEX

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


  

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