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Definition: Waterpower |
WaterpowerNoun1. The power to do work that is latent in a head of water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. The power of water derived from its gravity or its momentum as applied or applicable to the driving of machinery b. A descent or fall in a stream from which motive power may be obtained; specif., in law, the fail in a stream in its natural state, as it passesthrough a person's land or along the boundaries of it. (references) |
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Synonym: WaterpowerSynonym: Water power. (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Central Waterpower,Irrigation and Navigation Research Station (food & agriculture, transportation). |
Crosswords: Waterpower |
| English words defined with "waterpower": hydroelectric. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Waterpower (1977) | |
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Economic History | Switzerland | Natural resources: Waterpower, timber, salt. (references) |
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| "Waterpower" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Waterpower" is used about 2 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Expressions using "waterpower": waterpower engine ♦ waterpower engineering. Additional references. | |
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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 |
waterpower | 5 |
review waterpower | 2 |
waterpower xiii | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "waterpower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 白煤 (anthracite, hard coal, white coal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vodní energie (hydroelectric power, water power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wasserkraft (water power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aterpowerway energie hidraulicã. (various references) водная энергия. (various references) hidroenergija (water power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waterpower": waterpowers. (additional references) | |
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"Waterpower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: watertower. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-o-p-r-r-t-w-w" | |
-2 letters: perorate, warpower. | |
-3 letters: operate, pearter, praetor, prorate, repower, rewrapt, rewrote, taperer, waterer, wetware. | |
-4 letters: parrot, perter, pewter, porter, powter, prater, pretor, prewar, protea, prowar, prower, raptor, reaper, repeat, report, retape, retear, retore, rewrap, tearer, terrae, warper, wearer. | |
-5 letters: aport, apter, arete, arrow, eater, etape, oater, opera, orate, pareo, parer, pater, pawer, peart, perea, peter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-o-p-r-r-t-w-w" | |
+1 letter: waterpowers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 70 6F 77 65 72 |
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