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Definitions: Waterwheel |
WaterwheelNoun1. A wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond. 2. A wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: WaterwheelSynonym: water wheel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Waterwheel |
| English words defined with "waterwheel": Aldrovanda ♦ genus Aldrovanda ♦ Soleplate ♦ waterwheel plant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "waterwheel": Poncelet wheel ♦ undershot wheel. (references) |
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 | Old mill with waterwheel.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Waterwheel, FSA (Farm Security Administration) water facilities project, Mohave County, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Part of waterwheel. Gristmill on road to Skyline Drive, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detail of waterwheel. Gristmill on road to Skyline Drive, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative waterwheel. Water is used for irrigation. Near Littlefield, Mohave County, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oregon, Marion County, north of West Stayton. Waterwheel for field irrigation in the bean country.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The old Kenyon's johnnycake flour mill in Usquepaugh is run by water power. The waterwheel is underneath the mill and by means of these two gears its power is brought into the mill.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All steel waterwheel in the Vernon flour mill, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Stream, with waterwheel and cabin on left.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Waterwheel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Waterwheel" is used about 47 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% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "waterwheel": waterwheel plant. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
plan waterwheel | 23 |
waterwheel | 14 |
realty waterwheel | 8 |
free plan waterwheel | 7 |
build waterwheel | 6 |
overshot waterwheel | 4 |
foundation waterwheel | 3 |
falls waterwheel | 3 |
mill saw waterwheel | 2 |
construction waterwheel | 2 |
backyard waterwheel | 2 |
restaurant waterwheel | 2 |
campground waterwheel | 2 |
plan waterwheel wooden | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "waterwheel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Farsi | فواره (Fountain, Jet, Spout, Springhead), اب بند (Dam, Dyke), دستگاه اب رسان . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aterwheelway | ||||
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Words beginning with "waterwheel": waterwheels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t-w-w" | |
-2 letters: ethereal. | |
-3 letters: haltere, leather, weather, wetware, wheeler, whereat, wreathe. | |
-4 letters: aether, elater, halter, healer, heater, heeler, hereat, lather, reheat, reheel, relate, thaler, thawer, wealth, welter, wether, whaler, wreath. | |
-5 letters: alert, alter, arete, artel, earth, eater, elate, ether, etwee, haler, hater, heart, hewer, laree, later, lathe, lethe, ratel, rathe, relet, rewet, taler, tawer, telae, there. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-l-r-t-w-w" | |
+1 letter: waterwheels. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 77 68 65 65 6C |
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