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Definition: WACKE |
WACKENoun1. Alt. of Wacky |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. A dirty sandstone that consists of a mixed variety of angular and unsorted or poorly sorted mineral and rock fragments, and of an abundant matrix of clay and fine silt; specif. an impure sandstone containing more than 10% argillaceous matrix. The term is used for a major category of sandstone, as distinguished from arenite b. A clastic sedimentary rock in which the grains are almost evenly distributed among the several size grades; e.g., a sandstone consisting of sediment poured in to a basin of deposition at a comparatively rapid rate without appreciable selection or reworking by currents after deposition, or a mixed sediment of sand, silt, and clay in which no component forms more than 50% of the whole aggregate c. A term commonly used as a shortened form of graywacke. This usage is not recommended d. Originally, a term applied to a soft earthy variety of basalt, or to the grayish-green to brownish-black claylike residue resulting from the partial chemical decomposition of basalts, basaltic tuffs, and related igneous rocks. Syn:vakemining term signifying a large stone or stoniness in general e.g., a sandstone consisting of sediment poured in to a basin of deposition at a comparatively rapid rate without appreciable selection or reworking by currents after deposition, or a mixed sediment of sand, silt, and clay in which no component forms more than 50% of the whole aggregate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: WACKE |
| Specialty definitions using "WACKE": subfeldspathic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WACKE": Graywacke. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "WACKE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | roca basáltica. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WACKE": wackes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "WACKE": graywacke. (additional references) | |
Words containing "WACKE": graywackes, swacked, thwacked, thwacker, thwackers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-w" | |
-1 letter: cake, wack, wake, weak, weka. | |
-2 letters: ace, awe, caw, kae, kea, wae. | |
-3 letters: ae, aw, ka, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-w" | |
+1 letter: wackes. | |
+2 letters: swacked, wackier, wackoes, waesuck, wetback, whacked, whacker, wickape, wracked. | |
+3 letters: cakewalk, capework, casework, clawlike, cookware, lacework, neckwear, skewback, thwacked, thwacker, wackiest, waesucks, wetbacks, whackers, whackier, wickapes, wreckage, zwieback. | |
+4 letters: awestruck, backswept, backwater, buckwheat, cakewalks, capeworks, caseworks, cookwares, graywacke, jackscrew, laceworks, packwaxes, skewbacks, spacewalk, sweepback, thwackers, wackiness, waterbuck, whackiest, whaleback, wisecrack, workplace, wreckages, zwiebacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 43 4B 45 |
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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)01010111 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A C K E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 0043 004B 0045 |
| 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)5735374539 |
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