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Neckar

Definition: Neckar

Neckar

Noun

1. A river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine.

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

Date "Neckar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonym: Neckar

Synonym: Neckar River (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Neckar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Neckar is a river in Germany, joining the Rhine at Mannheim. It flows through a steep valley in the Odenwald hills and passes through Tübingen, Stuttgart and Heidelberg.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Neckar."

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Crosswords: Neckar

English words defined with "Neckar": MannheimNeckar nut, Neckar River. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Neckar

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ricarda Huch, 1864-1947 : eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs im Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar (reference)

  • Glückliches Land : am Bodensee u. Neckar, zwischen Ries u. Rhein : Reiseskizzen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Neckar

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Familiar Quotations: Neckar

AuthorQuotation

Madame Neckar

The inconvenience, or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Neckar

"Neckar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Neckar" is used about 5 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 (proper)60%3202,518
Noun (singular)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Expressions: Neckar

Expressions using "Neckar": neckar nut Neckar River neckar tree. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neckar

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

neckar rhein zeitung

5

neckar river

5

neckar

5

neckar nsu

3

hotel neckar

2

am freiberg germany neckar

2
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Modern Translations: Neckar

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

Pig Latin

  

eckarnay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Neckar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: canker.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-n-r"

-1 letter: caner, crake, crane, crank, creak, nacre, rance.

-2 letters: acne, acre, cake, cane, care, cark, carn, earn, kane, karn, kern, knar, narc, nark, near, neck, race, rack, rake, rank, reck.

-3 letters: ace, ane, arc, are, ark, can, car, ear, era, ern, kae, kea, ken, nae, ran, rec.

-4 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, ka, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-n-r"
 

+1 letter: bracken, cankers, cranked, cranker, crankle, knacker.

 

+2 letters: brackens, cankered, corncake, cracknel, crankest, crankier, crankled, crankles, creaking, knackers, knackery, neckwear, trackmen, unpacker.

 

+3 letters: benchmark, blackener, breakneck, canebrake, cankering, cankerous, caretaken, corncakes, corncrake, cracknels, cracksmen, crankcase, crankiest, dackering, greenback, knackered, lackering, nicknamer, panickier, racketing, raincheck, ransacked, ransacker, repacking, reracking, retacking, screaking, uncracked, unpackers.

 

+4 letters: backhander, benchmarks, blackeners, bracketing, canebrakes, cankerworm, caretaking, corncrakes, cornerback, cornflakes, crankcases, crankiness, creakiness, greenbacks, knackeries, linebacker, nicknamers, nutcracker, prepacking, rainchecks, ransackers, restacking, retackling, retracking, trancelike.

 

+5 letters: airsickness, awestricken, backbencher, backhanders, blackhander, cabinetwork, cankerworms, caretakings, carsickness, cartoonlike, cornerbacks, greenbacker, kitchenware, leatherneck, linebackers, nutcrackers, racewalking, reattacking, rejacketing, repackaging, unbracketed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Neckar


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

4E 65 63 6B 61 72

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)

01001110 01100101 01100011 01101011 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#99 &#107 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0063 006B 0061 0072

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

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

487169776784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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