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Waterpower

Definition: Waterpower

Waterpower

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definitions: Waterpower

DomainDefinitions

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: Waterpower

Synonym: Water power. (additional references)
Synonym by domain: Central Waterpower,Irrigation and Navigation Research Station (food & agriculture, transportation).

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Crosswords: Waterpower

English words defined with "waterpower": hydroelectric. (references)

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Modern Usage: Waterpower

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Waterpower (1977)

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Commercial Usage: Waterpower

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Complete Waterpower Workout Book: Program for Fitness, Injury Prevention, and Healing (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Waterpower

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Economic History

Switzerland

Natural resources: Waterpower, timber, salt. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Waterpower

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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Expressions: Waterpower

Expressions using "waterpower": waterpower engine waterpower engineering. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Waterpower

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

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5

  review waterpower

2

  waterpower xiii

2
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Modern Translations: Waterpower

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

   

Romanian

  

energie hidraulicã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

водная энергия. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hidroenergija (water power). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Waterpower

Derivations

Words beginning with "waterpower": waterpowers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Waterpower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: watertower. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Waterpower

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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Alternative Orthography: Waterpower


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

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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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "waterpower"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "waterpower"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Waterpower