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Definition: Saltworks |
SaltworksNoun1. A plant where salt is produced commercially. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | Any installation where salt is produced commercially, as by extraction from seawater, from wells, or from the brine of salt springs.Syn:salina; saltern. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Saltworks |
| Specialty definitions using "saltworks": scratch pan. (references) |
| "Saltworks" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Saltworks" is used about 3 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 (plural) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saltworks | 5 |
cabin old saltworks | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "saltworks"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kripore (saline, salt marsh, saltern). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاحة (navigation, shipping). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | солница (pan, salt pan, salt pit, salt-box, saltcellar, saltern, saltshaker). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盐厂. (various references) | |
Farsi | محل استخراج نمک . (various references) | |
German | Saline (saline, salt works). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altworkssay.(various references) | |
Romanian | salinã (salt pan, saltern). (various references) | |
Russian | солеварня (brine pit, saline, saltern). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | solana (saline, saltern). (various references) | |
Spanish | salinas, refinería (refinery, refining plant). (various references) | |
Swedish | saltverk. (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzla (saline, salt marsh, salt pan, saltern, saltpan), tuz fabrikası (saltern). (various references) | |
Ukranian | солеварня (saltern). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-o-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: saltwork. | |
-2 letters: skatols. | |
-3 letters: assort, kaross, karsts, korats, roasts, skatol, skoals, sowars, stalks, storks, straws, strows, taroks, tolars, torsks, trawls, troaks, worsts. | |
-4 letters: altos, askos, awols, karst, karts, kolas, korat, larks, lasso, lasts, lotas, oasts, okras, orals, ratos, roast, rotas, rotls, salts, sarks, saros, skats, skoal, slats, slaws, slots, slows, soaks, soars, solar, soras, sorts, sowar, stalk, stark, stars, stoas, stork, stows, straw, strow, swart, swats, swots, talks, tarok, taros, tasks, tolar, tolas, toras, torsk, trass, trawl, troak, trows, tsars, walks, warks, warts, wasts, works, worst, worts. | |
-5 letters: alow, also, alto, alts, arks, arts, asks, awls, awol, kart, kats, koas, kola, kors, koss, lark, lars, lass, last, lats, laws, loss, lost, lota, lots, lows, oaks, oars, oast, oats, okas, okra, oral, orts, osar, ossa, owls, rato, rats, raws, rota, rotl, rots, rows, sals, salt, sark, saws, skas, skat, slat, slaw, slot, slow, soak, soar, sola, sols, sora, sort, sots, sows, star, staw, stoa, stow, swat, swot, talk, taos, taro, tars, task, tass, taws, tola, tora, tors, toss, tows, trow, tsar, tsks, twas, twos, walk, wark, wars, wart, wast, wats, woks, work, wort, wost, wots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-o-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+3 letters: plasterworks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6C 74 77 6F 72 6B 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .-.. - .--. --- .-. -.- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101100 01110100 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a l t w o r k s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006C 0074 0077 006F 0072 006B 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536778868981847785 |
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