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Definition: Manhole |
ManholeNoun1. A hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manhole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A hole, usually with a cover, large enough for a man to creep through to gain access to a sewer, drainpipe, an electric conduit, a steam boiler, or ohter similar places when it is necessary to make repairs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | An underground concrete vault large enough for a man to enter and joint cables, and to allow easier cable pulling at sharp bends. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Round or oval-shaped opening in tank tops, tanks, boilers, and so on, fitted with a watertight or steamtight cover. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A safety hole b. Cubicles cut into the solid strata or built into the gob pile along haulageways in which miners can be safe from passing locomotives and cars. Also called refuge hole c. A refuge hole constructed in the side of a gangway, tunnel, or slope d. A small and generally very short passage used only for the ingress and egress of the miners e. A hole in cylindrical boilers through which a worker can get into the boiler to examine and repair it f. A small passage connecting a level with a stope, or with the level nextabove. (references) |
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Crosswords: Manhole |
| English words defined with "manhole": manhole cover ♦ Sludge hole, steam boiler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "manhole": BOILERMAKER HELPER II ♦ HULL INSPECTOR ♦ LABORER, CONSTRUCTION OR LEAK GANG ♦ manhole door ♦ SEWER-LINE PHOTO-INSPECTOR, SEWER-LINE REPAIRER, shelter hole, side-entrance manhole. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Manhole Manny (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The battle of the manhole covers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Manhole cover on Euclid St. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Manhole cover" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Manhole cover." | "Manhole_cover" by Jason Smith Commentary: "Manhole cover." |
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| "Manhole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manhole" is used about 65 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% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manhole": manhole cover ♦ manhole door. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "manhole": manhole-covers. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "manhole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrimë për shihje, kapanxhë (hatch, hatchway, slot), baxhë (dormer, scuttle, skylight, slot). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتحة (aperture, breach, gap, niche, opening, orifice, overture, porthole, slash, slit, slot, vent), نظرة (blush, cast, catch sight, eye, gander, gaze, glimpse, look), صنبور (faucet, hydrant, jet, nozzle, spout, tap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гърло (gorge, gullet, mouth, neck, pharynx, swallow, throat, weasand, whistle), наблюдателен отвор (eyesight), люк (scuttle, sun-roof). (various references) | |
Chinese | 出入孔. (various references) | |
Czech | prùlez. (various references) | |
Danish | mandehulsdør (manhole door), mandehul (manhole door), nedgangsbrønd, inspektionsbrønd. (various references) | |
Dutch | mangat, poortje (manhole door), permanent toegankelijke ruimte, inspectieput, inspectiegat. (various references) | |
Farsi | کوره (Chimney, Kiln, Oven, Stove), سوراخ ادم رو. (various references) | |
Finnish | miesluukku, tarkastusluukku (manhole door), tarkastuskaivo (junction wells), kulkuaukko (manhole door), kaapelikaivo. (various references) | |
French | regard. (various references) | |
German | Mannloch (manhole door), Kanalisationsschacht. (various references) | |
Greek | φρεάτιο (coffer dam, small well), ανθρωποθυρίδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתח (aperture, door, doorway, entrance, entry, gateway, hatch, hole, intake, mouth, opening, portal, porthole, prise), כוית, כות איש, גוב (den, pit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kábelakna, búvónyílás (hatch). (various references) | |
Italian | tombino (gutter), sportello (cage, door, ticket-window, window), pozzetto di ispezione, pozzetto (catch basin, catchpit, cockpit, drop shaft, grit trap, inlet sump, lifting hole, mud trap, slot, sump, sump pit, well), passo d'uomo, foro d'uomo, botola (trap, trap door), bocca di accesso. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マンハッタン計画 (mambo, mambo jupon, mammon, mammonist, mammoth, mammoth tanker, man machine interface, Manhattan Project, manhunt, man-machine interface, man-power, MMI). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マンホール . (various references) | |
Korean | 맨홀. (various references) | |
Manx | towl obbree. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anholemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | porta de visita (hatch, inspection hole). (various references) | |
Romanian | trapã (hatch, sink, slot). (various references) | |
Russian | люк (hatch, hatchway, luke, sunroof, trap door, trapdoor), лаз. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otvor za kabl, kanalizacioni otvor, šaht (chute). (various references) | |
Spanish | boca de inspección, agujero de hombre. (various references) | |
Swedish | manhål. (various references) | |
Turkish | lağım kapağı, iniş deliği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | горловина (throat), люк (hatch, hatchway, heck, scuttle, trap, trap door), лаз (hole). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manhole": manholes. (additional references) | |
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"Manhole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amshold, Anholt, janhonen, Mahale, Mahali, Mahele, Majhola, mandola, Mangole, manhede, Manhilad, Manhire, manhold, Manola, Manole, Manoli, Manolic, Mansholt, Mansolu, manxome, Marnhull, Meinholf, Menehould, mephile, Midhope, minho, monohull, Muchope, Mulhooley, Munhepe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manhole" (pronounced ma"nhō'l) |
| 4 | -n h ō' l | buttonhole, pigeonhole, pinhole. |
| 3 | -h ō' l | cubbyhole, foxhole, keyhole, loophole, posthole, pothole, sinkhole. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: enhalo. | |
-2 letters: almeh, alone, amole, anole, haole, hemal, leman, lemon, mahoe, melon, mohel. | |
-3 letters: aeon, ahem, alme, aloe, amen, elan, enol, haem, haen, hale, halm, halo, hame, heal, helm, helo, hole, holm, home, hone, lame, lane, lean, leno, loam, loan, lone, male, mane, mano, meal, mean, meno, moan, mola, mole, name, nema, noel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: homeland, hotelman, manholes, methanol. | |
+2 letters: chameleon, homelands, methanols, nemophila. | |
+3 letters: chameleons, chloramine, handsomely, melancholy, motherland, nemophilas, nonthermal, phenomenal, pheromonal. | |
+4 letters: abolishment, chameleonic, chloramines, collenchyma, hematoxylin, homonuclear, melancholia, melancholic, melanophore, mentholated, methylation, motherlands, nonchemical, phantomlike. | |
+5 letters: abolishments, anemophilous, chlorenchyma, collenchymas, commonwealth, elasmobranch, endothelioma, epithalamion, ethanolamine, hematoxylins, longshoreman, malnourished, melancholiac, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, melanophores, metallophone, methaqualone, methylations, monadelphous, neurohumoral, nonchemicals, phenomenally, phentolamine, phonemically, stenothermal, thermohaline, unfathomable, unhandsomely. | |
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