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Telemark

Definition: Telemark

Telemark

Noun

1. A turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards.

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



Specialty Definitions: Telemark

DomainDefinitions

Sports & Leisure

Performed by pushing one ski ahead of, and across at an angle to, the other ski. The leading ski carried most of the skier's weight, with the opposite knee. . . bent. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Telemark

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Telemark is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. In 2002 there were 165,038 inhabitants. Its area is 15,313 km². The county administration is in Skien.

Municipalities

Telemark is also a type of ski and a sport.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Telemark."

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Modern Usage: Telemark

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

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

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Commercial Usage: Telemark

DomainTitle

Books

  • Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips: 109 Amazing Tips to Improve Your Tele-Skiing (reference)

  • Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series) (reference)

  • Skifteregister for Holla, Nedre Telemark : offentlige arveskifter 1667-1900, med oversikt over slekt og arvinger etter b²nder og husmenn og verks- og bruksarbeidere (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Unparalleled: A Journey From the Roots of Telemark Skiing (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Telemark

Photos:
Telemark

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Expression: Telemark

Expression using "telemark": Lake Telemark. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Telemark

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

telemark

101

telemark skiing

14

telemark tip

14

telemark resort

10

telemark ski

8

telemark lodge

7

hero of telemark

6

norway telemark

4

telemark boot

4

telemark pyrenees

4
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Modern Translations: Telemark

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

Bulgarian 

  

вид обръщане. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

テレフタル酸 (telecommuting, telemarker, telemarketer, telemarketing, telemedicine, telementary, telemeter, telemetering, telemetry, telephone, telephone box, telephone card, telephone club, telephone marketing, telephone service, telephone sex, Teleport, teleprinter, television documentary, telework, telewriting, terephtalic acid). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

テレマーク . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elemarktay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Telemark

Derivations

Words beginning with "telemark": telemarketer, telemarketers, telemarketing, telemarketings, telemarks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Telemark

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-l-m-r-t"

-1 letter: meerkat.

-2 letters: armlet, elater, kelter, leaker, market, melter, relate, remake, remate, remelt, retake, reteam, talker, tramel.

-3 letters: alert, alter, ameer, arete, armet, artel, eater, elate, laker, lamer, laree, later, latke, maker, mater, merle, metal, meter, metre, rakee, ramee, ramet, ratel, realm, relet, remet, retem, taker, taler, tamer, telae.

-4 letters: akee, alee, alme, earl, kale, kame, kart, keel, keet, lake, lame, lark, late, leak, lear, leek, leer, leet, leke, make, male, malt, mare, mark, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, meek, meet, melt, mere, merk, merl, meta, mete, rake, rale, rate, real, ream, reek, reel, rete, tael, take, tale, talk, tame, tare, teak, teal, team, tear, teel, teem, tela, tele, term, tram, tree, trek.

-5 letters: ale, alt, are, ark, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, eke, elk, elm, eme, era, ere, eta, kae, kat, kea, lam, lar, lat, lea, lee, lek, let, mae, mar, mat, mel, met, ram, rat, ree, rem, ret, tae, tam, tar, tea, tee, tel.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-l-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: telemarks.

 

+2 letters: marketable, platemaker, steelmaker.

 

+3 letters: alkalimeter, marketplace, metalworker, platemakers, steelmakers.

 

+4 letters: alkalimeters, marketplaces, metalworkers, telemarketer, troublemaker, unmarketable.

 

+5 letters: alkalimetries, kapellmeister, telemarketers, telemarketing, troublemakers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Telemark


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

54 65 6C 65 6D 61 72 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    .-..    .    --    .-    .-.    -.-

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

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

01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 0065 006D 0061 0072 006B

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

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

5471787179678477

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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