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Unplumbed

Definition: Unplumbed

Unplumbed

Adjective

1. Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns".

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

Date "unplumbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Synonyms: Unplumbed

Synonyms: profound (adj), unfathomed (adj), unsounded (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unplumbed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Size

Immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unplumbed

"Unplumbed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unplumbed" 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)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unplumbed

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

unplumbed

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unplumbed

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

German

  

unergründet (uncharted, unfathomed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umbedunplay

   

Swedish

  

outgrundlig (fathomless, impenetrable, inscrutable, unfathomable), inte lodad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keşfedilmemiş (dormant, new, uncharted, undiscovered, unexplored), iskandil edilmemiş, derinliği ölçülmemiş. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chưa thăm dò. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unplumbed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-m-n-p-u-u"

-1 letter: pendulum.

-2 letters: plumbed.

-3 letters: blumed, bumped, bundle, lumped, lumpen, numbed, plenum, plumed.

-4 letters: blend, blued, blume, duple, lubed, lumen, muled, plumb, plume, puled, umbel, umped, undue, unled, upend.

-5 letters: bedu, bend, bled, blue, bump, bund, duel, dumb, dump, dune, dupe, lend, leud, lube, lude, lump, lune, meld, mend, menu, mule, neum, nude, numb, pend, pleb.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unplumbed


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

55 6E 70 6C 75 6D 62 65 64

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

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

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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)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01101100 01110101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#108 &#117 &#109 &#98 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 006C 0075 006D 0062 0065 0064

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

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

558082788779687170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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