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RAVENSTONE

Date "RAVENSTONE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

"RAVENSTONE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Gravestone.


Specialty Definition: RAVENSTONE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Ravenstone The stone gibbet of Germany; so called from the ravens which are wont to perch on it. (German rabenstein.)
"Do you think
I'll honour you so much as save your throat
From the Ravenstone, by choking you myself?"
Byron: Werner, ii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: RAVENSTONE

"RAVENSTONE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RAVENSTONE" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RAVENSTONE

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

ravenstone

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: RAVENSTONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: renovates, revenants.

-2 letters: earstone, enterons, neonates, overeats, overneat, renovate, resonant, resonate, revenant, tenoners, veterans.

-3 letters: arenose, atoners, earnest, eastern, ensnare, enteron, estrone, natrons, nearest, neatens, neonate, nervate, nonarts, novenae, novenas, overate, overeat, oversea, overset, rennase, rennets, revotes, roseate, senator, servant, tanners, taverns, tenners, tenoner, tonners, treason, vanners, venters, versant, veteran, vetoers.

-4 letters: anenst, antres.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: contravenes, covenanters, enervations, nonveterans, venerations.

 

+2 letters: contraveners, denervations, nonassertive, nonrelatives.

 

+3 letters: intravenouses, normativeness, overornaments, rejuvenations.

 

+4 letters: convertaplanes, convertiplanes, nonderivatives, nonvegetarians, overattentions, reinnervations.

 

+5 letters: adventurousness, governmentalism, governmentalist, informativeness, inoperativeness, neoconservatism, neoconservative, nonconservative, noncreativities, normativenesses, reinvestigation, undemonstrative, voluntarinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RAVENSTONE


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

52 41 56 45 4E 53 54 4F 4E 45

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)

01010010 01000001 01010110 01000101 01001110 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0056 0045 004E 0053 0054 004F 004E 0045

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

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

52355639485354494839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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