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Tombak

Definition: Tombak

Tombak

Noun

1. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Tombak

Synonyms: tambac (n), tombac (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tombak

Non-English Usage: "Tombak" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (pinchbeck), German (tombac), Hungarian (Dutch metal), Indonesian (dissatisfied, javelin, pike, spear), Turkish (bath metal, tombac, tombak).

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Commercial Usage: Tombak

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tombak

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

tombak

9

michal tombak

3

mihkel tombak

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tombak

Language Translations for "tombak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

tombak (bath metal, tombac). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tombak

Derivations

Words beginning with "tombak": tombaks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Tombak

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-k-m-o-t"

-2 letters: ambo, amok, atom, boat, bota, mako, moat, tomb.

-3 letters: abo, bam, bat, boa, bot, kab, kat, koa, kob, mat, moa, mob, mot, oak, oat, oka, tab, tam, tao, tom.

-4 letters: ab, am, at, ba, bo, ka, ma, mo, om, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-k-m-o-t"
 

+1 letter: tomback, tombaks.

 

+2 letters: backmost, tombacks.

 

+3 letters: matchbook.

 

+4 letters: matchbooks, mountebank.

 

+5 letters: embarkation, mountebanks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tombak


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

54 6F 6D 62 61 6B

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)

-    ---    --    -...    .-    -.-

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101101 01100010 01100001 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#109 &#98 &#97 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006D 0062 0061 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548179686777

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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