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Definition: Vacant Lot |
Vacant LotNoun1. A lot on which there are no permanent buildings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Vacant LotSynonym: building site (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Vacant Lot |
| English words defined with "vacant lot": sandlot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vacant lot": HYPOCHONDRIASIS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A man without dreams is as empty as a vacant lot. Everyone needs dreams. (Vacant Lot; writing credit: Paul Branton; Skee Skinner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vacant Lot (1967) The Vacant Lot (1994) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) found on a vacant lot along Spring Street in Medford, OR.Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy |
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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 |
vacant lot | 10 |
vacant lot loan | 5 |
vacant lot sale | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vacant lot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | udyrket areal (waste ground, waste land). (various references) | |
Dutch | braakliggend terrein (disused land, waste ground, waste land). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakentamaton tontti (gap between buildings, gap site, unusual building plot, vacant site). (various references) | |
French | terrain vague. (various references) | |
German | Ödland Baulücke (waste ground, waste land). (various references) | |
Italian | terreno sterile (waste ground, waste land), terreno non sfruttato (undeveloped land, waste ground, waste land). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空閑地 (vacant lot or land). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くうか"ち (vacant lot or land). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acantvay otlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lote vago. (various references) | |
Russian | свободная земля. (various references) | |
Spanish | solar (bare ground, building lot, building site, floor, land lot, lot, plot, raw land, sandlot, site, solar, sun, undisturbed ground, waste ground, waste land), casilla libre. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n-o-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: octantal. | |
-2 letters: cattalo, octaval. | |
-3 letters: anatto, atonal, canola, catalo, octant, ottava, vacant, volant. | |
-4 letters: alant, avant, canal, canto, coala, cotan, cotta, lovat, natal, naval, notal, octal, octan, talon, tanto, tolan, tonal, total, vocal, volta. | |
-5 letters: acta, alan, alto, anal, anoa, anta, calo, cant, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, lava, loan, loca, lota, nota, nova, oval, taco, tact, tala, talc, tola, volt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n-o-t-t-v" | |
+4 letters: stratovolcano, vocationalist. | |
+5 letters: anticonvulsant, stratovolcanos, vocationalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 63 61 6E 74 4C 6F 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001100 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a c a n t   L o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0063 0061 006E 0074 004C 006F 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667696780862468186 |
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