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TOUCH-DOWN

Specialty Definition: TOUCH-DOWN

DomainDefinition

Transportation

The point where the nominal glide path intercepts the runway. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: TOUCH-DOWN

Specialty definitions using "TOUCH-DOWN": aircraft approach limitation. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TOUCH-DOWN

"TOUCH-DOWN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TOUCH-DOWN" 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
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: TOUCH-DOWN

Language Translations for "TOUCH-DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

touch-down. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kosketuspiste. (various references)

   

French

  

toucher des roues, impact (touchdown). (various references)

   

German

  

Aufsetzpunkt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σημείο προσγείωσης, σημείο επαφής των τροχών. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gól (amerikai futballban) (touchdown), földet érés (touchdown). (various references)

   

Italian

  

punto di contatto sulla pista. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouch-downtay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ponto de tocar, patamar (baseline, landing-place), desembarque (debarkation, debarkment, disembarkation, landfall, run), descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, lay-over, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow-block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, time-out, truce), atracagem (landing), aterragem (alighting, landfall, landing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

punto de toma de contacto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOUCH-DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: touchdown.

Words within the letters "c-d-h-n-o-o-t-u-w"

-2 letters: cutdown, nutwood, woodcut.

-3 letters: unhood.

-4 letters: codon, condo, conto, count, couth, donut, dunch, dutch, hound, nohow, notch, outdo, tondo, touch, wound.

-5 letters: chon, chow, coho, coon, coot, dhow, doth, down, duct, dunt, hood, hoot, hunt, nowt, onto, ouch, thou, thud, toon, town, unco, undo, unto, wont, wood.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-h-n-o-o-t-u-w"
 

+1 letter: touchdowns.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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