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Definition: Penalty Box |
Penalty BoxNoun1. (in ice hockey) an enclosed bench to the side of an ice-hockey rink for players who are serving time penalties. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box; and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. (Happy Gilmore; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
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| 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 |
penalty box | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "penalty box"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منطقة الجزاء (penalty area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jäähyllä (in the penalty box, on the penalty bench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surface de réparation (penalty area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strafkasse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | area di rigore (penalty area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ペトリ皿 (pedometer, penalty, penalty area, penalty goal, penalty kick, penicillin, penicillin anaphylaxy, penicillin shock, penis, pennant, pennant race, pepper, peppermint, pepsin, peptide, petri dish, petrofood, petroleum, PG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ペナルティーボックス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enaltypay oxbay штрафная скамья. (various references) área de castigo (penalty area). (various references) ceza sahası (penalty area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-n-o-p-t-x-y" | |
-3 letters: anolyte, aplenty, baloney, bayonet, explant, notable, notably, penalty, polenta, potable, tenably, typable. | |
-4 letters: betony, boatel, botany, etalon, lepton, lobate, neatly, oblate, openly, pelota, pentyl, peyotl, planet, platen, plenty, poleax, poleyn, teabox, teapoy, teopan, tolane. | |
-5 letters: alone, anole, aptly, atone, atony, atopy, axone, banty, baton, beano, belay, beton, blate, bleat, blent, bloat, blype, boney. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-n-o-p-t-x-y" | |
+3 letters: exceptionably. | |
+5 letters: unexceptionably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 61 6C 74 79 42 6F 78 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01100001 01101100 01110100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n a l t y   B o x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0061 006C 0074 0079 0042 006F 0078 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507180677886912368190 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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