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Three-decker

Date "three-decker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Synonyms: Three-decker

Synonyms: club sandwich (n), tripple-decker (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Three-decker

English words defined with "three-decker": Sally port, Sea pie, ship of the line. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Three-decker

"Three-decker" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Three-decker" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Three-decker

Language Translations for "three-decker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

lhong tree lout. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ee-deckerthray

   

Vietnamese 

  

tàu thuỷ ba boong. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Three-decker"

Words rhyming with "three-decker" (pronounced 'Three"-deck`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backbiter, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blackmailer, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bushwhacker. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Three-decker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-e-h-k-r-r-t"

-2 letters: reerected.

-4 letters: cheeked, cheered, cheerer, decreer, erected, erecter, reerect, retched.

-5 letters: cheder, decker, decree, etched, etcher, heeder, herder, recede, recked, reeked, reeker, teched.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Three-decker


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

54 68 72 65 65 2D 64 65 63 6B 65 72

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

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

01010100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101 00101101 01100100 01100101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#45 &#100 &#101 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0072 0065 0065 002D 0064 0065 0063 006B 0065 0072

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

547484717115707169777184

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