Oxbow Lake

  

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Oxbow Lake

Definition: Oxbow Lake

Oxbow Lake

Noun

1. A crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel.

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


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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oxbow Lake

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

oxbow lake

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Oxbow Lake

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

河跡湖 (billabong, crescentic lake). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かせき" (billabong, crescentic lake). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oxboway akelay

   

Spanish

  

lago secado. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Oxbow Lake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-l-o-o-w-x"

-2 letters: lawbook.

-4 letters: awoke, below, bleak, bloke, bowel, elbow, obole, oxbow.

-5 letters: able, aloe, alow, awol, axel, axle, bake, bale, balk, bawl, beak, blae, blaw, blew, blow, bola, bole, bolo, book, bowl, kale, kobo, koel, kola, kolo, lake, leak, lobe, lobo, look, lowe, oboe, obol, olea, oleo, wake, wale, walk, weak, weal, weka, woke.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Oxbow Lake


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

4F 78 62 6F 77      4C 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01001111 01111000 01100010 01101111 01110111 00100000 01001100 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#98 &#111 &#119 &#32 &#76 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0062 006F 0077      004C 0061 006B 0065

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

4990688189246677771

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Oxbow Lake"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónスペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationinglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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