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Definition: Temblor |
TemblorNoun1. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Temblor \Tem*blor"\, noun. [Spanish expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | See:earthquake. (references) |
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Synonyms: TemblorSynonyms: earthquake (n), quake (n), seism (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Temblor |
| Non-English Usage: "Temblor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (earthquake), Spanish (dither, jitter, quake, quaver, quiver, quivering, shake, shakiness, shiver, temblor, tremble, trembling, tremor). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Temblor de 1911 en México (1911) | |
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| 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 |
temblor | 11 |
esencial temblor | 2 |
del norte temblor | 2 |
cuando el pase temblor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "temblor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërmet (earthquake, quake, seism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεισμόσ (earthquake, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földrengés (earthquake, seism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emblortay землетрясение (convulsion of nature, earthquake, quake, seism). (various references) zemljotres (earthquake), potres (concussion, quake, shake, shock, turn). (various references) temblor (dither, jitter, quake, quaver, quiver, quivering, shake, shakiness, shiver, tremble, trembling, tremor, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "temblor": temblores, temblors. (additional references) | |
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"Temblor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: timolol, tremblor, Twemlow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "temblor" (pronounced te"mbler) |
| 5 | -e" m b l er | assembler. |
| 4 | -m b l er | Ambler, gambler, rambler, tumbler. |
| 3 | -b l er | babbler, cobbler, scribbler, warbler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bolter, merlot, molter. | |
-2 letters: botel, brome, metro, morel, motel, omber, ombre, roble. | |
-3 letters: belt, berm, blet, blot, bole, bolt, bore, bort, lobe, lore, melt, merl, mole, molt, more, mort, mote, omer, orle, robe, role, rote, rotl, term, tole, tomb, tome, tore. | |
-4 letters: bel, bet, bot, bro, elm, let, lob, lot, mel, met, mob, mol, mor, mot, obe, ole, orb, ore, ort, reb, rem, ret, rob, roe, rom, rot, tel, toe, tom, tor. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, el, em, er, et, lo, me, mo, oe, om, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: temblors. | |
+2 letters: bolometer, temblores. | |
+3 letters: blastoderm, blastomere, bolometers, bolometric, importable, letterbomb, lobsterman, lobstermen, promotable. | |
+4 letters: amortizable, biomaterial, biometrical, blameworthy, blastoderms, blastomeres, bloodstream, comfortable, embroilment, footlambert, letterbombs, meroblastic, microtubule, problematic, rambouillet, troublesome. | |
+5 letters: ambulatories, biomaterials, biotelemetry, blabbermouth, bloodstreams, demonstrable, demonstrably, embroilments, embryologist, footlamberts, memorability, microtubules, multiproblem, perambulator, problematics, rambouillets, removability, surmountable, thermolabile, thermostable, timberdoodle, troublemaker. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 62 6C 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- -... .-.. --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01100010 01101100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m b l o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0062 006C 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717968788184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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