Hearthrug

  

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Hearthrug

Definition: Hearthrug

Hearthrug

Noun

1. A rug spread out in front of a fireplace.

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

Date "hearthrug" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Usage Frequency: Hearthrug

"Hearthrug" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hearthrug" is used about 25 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2569,787

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hearthrug

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

Bulgarian 

  

килимче пред камина. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kandallószőnyeg. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earthrughay

   

Russian 

  

коврик перед камином (hearth-rug). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sag pred kaminom (hearth-rug). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spismatta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hearthrug

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: urethra.

-3 letters: arguer, garret, garter, gather, grater, hearth, hurrah, hurter, rather, rugate.

-4 letters: argue, auger, aught, earth, garth, gerah, ghaut, grate, great, hater, haugh, haute, heart, heath, heugh, huger, rater, rathe, retag, rugae, targe, tarre, tegua, terga, terra, teugh, truer, urare, urate, urger.

-5 letters: ager, ague, eath, gate, gaur, gear, geta, ghat, grat, grue, guar, haet, hare, hart, hate, hath, haut, hear, heat, heth, huge, hurt, rage, rare, rate, rath, rear, rhea, ruer, ruga, ruth, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thru, thug, true, trug, urea, urge.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-h-r-r-t-u"
 

+3 letters: breakthrough, thoroughfare.

 

+4 letters: breakthroughs, thoroughbrace, thoroughfares.

 

+5 letters: thoroughbraces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hearthrug


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

48 65 61 72 74 68 72 75 67

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)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01110010 01110101 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#114 &#117 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0072 0074 0068 0072 0075 0067

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

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

427167848674848773

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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