Swanneck

  

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Swanneck

Definition: Swanneck

Swanneck

Noun

1. Any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan.

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


Specialty Definition: Swanneck

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Special tool made for screw cutting, is designed on the gooseneck principle of spring tools. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Swanneck

Synonyms: swan orchid (n), swanflower (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: gooseneck (transportationengineering & technology, transportationfood & agriculture, mechanical engineering).

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Modern Translation: Swanneck

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

Danish

  

svanehals (gooseneck), krum del (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zwanehals (gooseneck), zwaanshals (gooseneck), ploegboom in de vorm van een zwanehals (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

French

  

partie incurvée, col de cygne. (various references)

   

German

  

Schwanenhals (gooseneck), Grindelbogen (curved extension, gooseneck), Bogenteil (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καμπυλωτό τμήμα σταβαρίου (curved extension, gooseneck), σωλήνας σχήματος λαιμού χήνας (gooseneck), χηνίσκος (gooseneck), τμήμα σταβαρίου που προσομοιάζει με λαιμό κύκνου (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

Italian

  

parte curva (curved extension, gooseneck), montante curvo (curved extension, gooseneck), gomito (crank, elbow, sharp bend), collo d'oca (gooseneck), collo di cigno (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

annecksway

   

Portuguese

  

pescoço de cisne (curved extension, gooseneck). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ventilador de cuello de ganso (gooseneck), parte curvada (curved extension, gooseneck), cuello de cisne (gooseneck). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuğu boynu, deve boynu boru. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Swanneck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-n-n-s-w"

-2 letters: nances, wackes, wakens.

-3 letters: acnes, askew, cakes, canes, kanes, nance, necks, scena, senna, sewan, skean, snack, snake, sneak, sneck, swank, wacke, wacks, waken, wakes, wanes, weans, wekas.

-4 letters: aces, acne, anes, anew, awes, awns, cake, cane, cans, case, cask, caws, kaes, kane, keas, kens, knew, nans, neck, news, sack, sake, sane, sank, sawn.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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