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Definition: Tannery |
TanneryNoun1. Workplace where skins and hides are tanned. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tannery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Etymology: Tannery \Tan"ner*y\, noun; plural Tanneries. [Compare to the French expression tannerie.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness. Loss in trade is portended. To dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work which is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you. To buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful in your undertakings, but will not make many friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonym by domain: tanneries (industry). |
Crosswords: Tannery |
| English words defined with "tannery": Tanneries, Tanyard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tannery": 16691, 17212 ♦ 22654. (references) |
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Economic History | Mali | Trade (1999): Exports--$516 million: cotton and cotton products, animals, fish, tannery products, groundnuts, diamonds, and gold. (references) |
Gambia, The | Within agriculture, peanut production accounts for 5.3% of GDP, other crops 8.3%, livestock 4.4%, fishing 1.8%, and forestry 0.5%. Industry accounts for 12% of GDP and forestry 0.5%. Manufacturing accounts for 6% of GDP. The limited amount of manufacturing is primarily agriculturally based (e.g., peanut processing, bakeries, a brewery, and a tannery). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tannery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tannery" is used about 35 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) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tannery" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tannery | Last name | 200 | 39,049 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Guangdong Tannery Limited | India | Super Tannery Ltd. |
| Thailand | Chai Watana Tannery Group Public Company Limited | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tannery": big Cove Tannery ♦ Star Tannery ♦ Wells Tannery. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tannery | 74 |
celsius tannery | 46 |
old hickory tannery | 16 |
leather tannery | 12 |
machine tannery | 10 |
shop tannery | 4 |
concert pond tannery | 3 |
tannery west | 3 |
shoes tannery | 3 |
mall tannery | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tannery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fabrikë lëkurësh. (various references) | |
Arabic | مدبغة, المدبغة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | работилница за щавене на кожи (tan yard), щавене (tannage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 皮革厂 (Tanneries). (various references) | |
Czech | koželužna. (various references) | |
Danish | garveri (tanning). (various references) | |
Dutch | looierij (tanning), leerfabriek, lederfabriek. (various references) | |
Finnish | nahkatehdas (leather factory). (various references) | |
French | tannerie (tanning). (various references) | |
German | Gerberei (tanning). (various references) | |
Greek | βυρσοδεψείο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בית חרושת לעורות, בורסקי (tanner), בורסקאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cserzőműhely. (various references) | |
Italian | conceria (curriery, tannage, tanning). (various references) | |
Manx | thie cartee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annerytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fábrica de curtumes. (various references) | |
Romanian | tãbãcãrie (tawery). (various references) | |
Russian | кожевенный завод. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | štavionica (barkery). (various references) | |
Spanish | curtiduría. (various references) | |
Swedish | garveri. (various references) | |
Thai | สถานที่ฟอกหนัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | tabakhane (tan-pit). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чинбарня, дублення (tannage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xưởng thuộc da (tan-house). (various references) | |
Welsh | barcty. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Tannery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: donnery, itinery, stannary, tandry, taney, tangery, tangry, tanneur, tanney, tannir, tanry, tinney, tonnerre, tunney. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tannery" (pronounced 'Tan"ner*y'): Cannery, Copartnery, Dinnerly, gunnery, Hennery, Innerly, Innermostly, invulnerability, Munnerary, Nunnery, Remuneratory, Swannery, unmannerly, Vulnerary. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tanner. | |
-2 letters: anent, antre, entry, teary, yearn, yenta. | |
-3 letters: aery, ante, arty, earn, etna, eyra, nary, near, neat, rant, rate, rent, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tray, trey, tyer, tyne, tyre, yare, yarn, yean, year. | |
-4 letters: ane, ant, any, are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, nan, nay, net, ran, rat, ray, ret, rya, rye, tae, tan, tar, tea, ten, try, tye, yar, yea, yen, yet. | |
-5 letters: ae, an, ar, at, ay, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: tenantry. | |
+2 letters: ancientry, centenary, pantrymen, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrannize. | |
+3 letters: antipyrine, internally, itinerancy, pregnantly, resonantly, transiency, trenchancy, tyrannised, tyrannises, tyrannized, tyrannizer, tyrannizes. | |
+4 letters: antipyrines, astringency, banteringly, bicentenary, cybernation, entranceway, infantrymen, interagency, interlaying, interlunary, internality, itinerantly, nonliterary, nonmonetary, permanently, redundantly, repentantly, repugnantly, transiently, trenchantly, triennially, tyrannicide, tyrannizers, uncertainly, uncertainty. | |
+5 letters: astringently, condemnatory, cybernations, denunciatory, entranceways, entreatingly, hearteningly, hymenopteran, inadvertency, inapparently, inordinately, intercompany, interminably, interplaying, intolerantly, labyrinthine, neuroanatomy, nonlinearity, ornamentally, penitentiary, renunciatory, stonemasonry, tercentenary, translucency, transparency, tripinnately, tyrannicides, underlayment, underpayment. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6E 6E 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -. -. . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n n e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54678080718491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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