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Definition: Soundboard |
SoundboardNoun1. (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: SoundboardSynonym: sounding board (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soundboard |
| English words defined with "soundboard": sound hole. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "soundboard": BELLY BUILDER ♦ HARP MAKER, HARP REGULATOR. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (common) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| 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 звуковой плата. (various references) ljudkort (soundcard). (various references) ส่วนของเครื่อง"นตรีที่สะท้อนเสียงไปยังผู้ฟังเช่น ในไวโอลิน, ตัวแทนความคิ"ของผู้อื่น. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "soundboard": soundboards. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 6E 64 62 6F 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..- -. -.. -... --- .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u n d b o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53818780706881678470 |
| 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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