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Definition: Cl |
ClAdjective1. Being ten more than one hundred forty. Noun1. A common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water). 2. A metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | CL |
Census | (Crew Leader) First line supervisor of census enumerators for field data collection operations. (references) |
Shipping | Abbreviation for "Carload" and "Containerload". (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CL | Danish | Republikken Chile | Geography |
CL | Dutch | Computerlinguistiek | Computing |
CL | English | Closed Loop | N/A |
CL | Finnish | Chilen tasavalta | Geography |
CL | French | Concentration léthale | N/A |
CL | German | Weißkalk | N/A |
CL | Greek | ασυνδεσιμικός | N/A |
CL | Italian | Concentrazione letale | N/A |
CL | Portuguese | Concentração letal | N/A |
CL | Spanish | Concentración letal | N/A |
CL | Swedish | Republiken Chile | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ClSynonyms: one hundred fifty (adj), atomic number 17 (n), centiliter (n), centilitre (n), chlorine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cl |
| Specialty definitions using "cl": baotite ♦ Cl-, CL data, CMU CL, CMU Common Lisp, compliance of the lungs-thorax system ♦ ECL ♦ hilgardite ♦ lift coefficient ♦ MACL, MMA ♦ OCL ♦ PseudoScheme ♦ Report Program Generator. (references) |
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![]() | A destroyer-escort (DE) dropping depth charges while searching for Japanese submarines in Ulithi anchorage on 20 November 1944, following the sinking of USS Mississinewa (AO-59). A Fletcher class destroyer is steaming past in the foreground. Two light cruisers (CL) and several other ships are in the distance. Photographed from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) / Cl. Julien. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Taine (1828-1893) / Cl. Braun. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Robert Scott, one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern arsenal, is fondling a little "bundle for Berlin." These 75 mm shells are being turned out on a mass production basis in this arsenal which works around the cl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Trinidad and Tobago | In May 1997, the government sold it remaining 69% interest in the Trinidad and Tobago Methanol Company to a consortium consisting of the local firm CL Financial and Germany's Ferrostaal and Helm consortium. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cl" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 41.22% of the time. "Cl" is used about 489 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 41.22% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Noun (proper) | 40.82% | 200 | 21,580 |
| Cardinal Number | 17.96% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Total | 100.00% | 489 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cl": CL data ♦ cmu CL. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cl": cl-activating, Cl-alexanders, Cl-caralight. | |
Ending with "cl": Tris-cl. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cl | 570 | hjc cl 31 solid helmet | 22 |
acura cl | 155 | acura 3.2 cl | 22 |
cl p | 70 | 2004 acura cl | 21 |
cl p.com | 60 | cl 14 mbii helmet | 21 |
acura cl used | 43 | cl 14 switch helmet | 21 |
acura cl type s | 41 | 65 amg cl | 21 |
hjc cl 14 | 41 | mercedes cl 500 | 21 |
hjc cl 12 | 40 | acura cl for sale | 20 |
mercedes cl class used | 37 | buy acura cl | 20 |
acura cl body kit | 32 | cl class for sale | 20 |
rock pete cl smooth | 31 | mercedes cl class for sale | 20 |
12 cl helmet hjc | 31 | new cl class | 19 |
cl gd5401 | 30 | bargain mercedes cl class | 19 |
cl google | 27 | bargain acura cl | 19 |
new acura cl | 23 | bargain mercedes benz cl class | 19 |
hjc cl 14 mbii helmet | 23 | bargain cl class | 19 |
hjc cl 14 metallic helmet | 23 | buy cl class | 19 |
hjc cl 14 solid helmet | 22 | buy mercedes cl class | 19 |
hjc cl 14 switch helmet | 22 | new mercedes cl class | 19 |
mercedes cl class | 22 | cl flushentitypacket | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 编译程序语言 (Cl-). (various references) | ||||
French | données CL (CL data). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | clay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cl": clabber, clabbered, clabbering, clabbers, clach, clachan, clachans, clachs, clack, clacked, clacker, clackers, clacking, clacks, clad, cladding, claddings, clade, clades, cladist, cladistic, cladistically, cladistics, cladists, cladoceran, cladocerans, cladode, cladodes, cladodial, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, cladogenetic, cladogenetically, cladogram, cladograms, cladophyll, cladophylla, cladophylls, cladophyllum, clads, clag, clagged, clagging, clags, claim, claimable, claimant, claimants, claimed, claimer, claimers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cl": acclaim, acclaimed, acclaimer, acclaimers, acclaiming, acclaims, acclamation, acclamations, acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, acclimation, acclimations, acclimatise, acclimatised, acclimatises, acclimatising, acclimatization, acclimatizations, acclimatize, acclimatized, acclimatizer, acclimatizers, acclimatizes, acclimatizing, acclivities, acclivity, aclinic, acyclic, acyclovir, acyclovirs, afterclap, afterclaps, alicyclic, anaclitic, anticlassical, anticlerical, anticlericalism, anticlericalisms, anticlericalist, anticlericalists, anticlericals, anticlimactic, anticlimactical, anticlimactically, anticlimax, anticlimaxes, anticlinal, anticline, anticlines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l" | |
+1 letter: cel, col, lac. | |
+2 letters: acyl, alec, bloc, calf, calk, call, calm, calo, calx, carl, caul, ceil, cell, cels, celt, clad, clag, clam, clan, clap, claw, clay, clef, clew, clip, clit, clod, clog, clon, clop, clot, cloy, club, clue, coal, coil, cola, cold, cole, cols, colt, coly, cool, cowl, cull, culm, cult, curl, flic, floc, lace, lack, lacs, lacy, laic, lech, lice, lich, lick, loca, loch, loci, lock, loco, luce, luck, talc. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais |
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