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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A stone whose cutting crystals break away rapidly from its bond. The use of water forms a gritty paste which acts in much the same way as oil when used on an oilstone. The Queer Creek and Hindostan stone are good examples. b. Forest of Dean. A shale, so called in consequence of the wet soil that is found wherever it appears at the surface. c. The formation name for certain flaggy micaceous sandstone and marls in the Keuper of the Midlands. d. Eng. Quarrymen's name for the lowest bed in a Portland stone quarry at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.e. A whetstone requiring water instead of oil. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "WATERSTONE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WATERSTONE" is used about 15 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 (proper) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: stoneware. | |
-2 letters: earstone, entreats, ratteens, resonate. | |
-3 letters: arenose, atoners, attorns, earnest, eastern, entreat, estreat, estrone, natters, nearest, neatest, netters, notates, ratteen, rattens, rattons, restate, retaste, roseate, rosette, rotates, senator, stentor, swatter, sweater, swotter, tenters, ternate, toaster, townees, treason, wanters, weaners, western, wetters. | |
-4 letters: answer, antres, aretes, arseno, astern, atoner, atones, attorn, atween, easter, eaters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-w" | |
+4 letters: westernisation, westernization. | |
+5 letters: weatherizations, westernisations, westernizations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 54 45 52 53 54 4F 4E 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- - . .-. ... - --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A T E R S T O N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 0054 0045 0052 0053 0054 004F 004E 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57355439525354494839 |
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