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ROCK HOUND

Specialty Definition: ROCK HOUND

DomainDefinition

Geography

Petroleum exploration geologist. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

An amateur mineralogist or collector. (references)

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

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Synonym: ROCK HOUND

Synonym by domain: hounding (geography).

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Modern Usage: ROCK HOUND

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rock Hound Magoo (1957)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROCK HOUND

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

rock hound

54
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ROCK HOUND

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

Danish

  

prospektor (prospector), geolog (geologist). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geoloog (geologist). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

geologi (geologist). (various references)

   

French

  

géologue. (various references)

   

German

  

Geologe (geologist). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γεωλόγος (geologist). (various references)

   

Italian

  

geologo (geologist). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockray oundhay

   

Portuguese

  

geólogo (geologist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

geolog (geologer, geologist). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ROCK HOUND

Misspellings

"ROCK HOUND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rockhound. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ROCK HOUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rockhound.

Words within the letters "c-d-h-k-n-o-o-r-u"

-2 letters: dornock.

-3 letters: condor, cordon, honour, uncork, undock, unhood, unhook.

-4 letters: chook, chord, chunk, churn, codon, condo, cornu, crook, croon, donor, drouk, drunk, dunch, duroc, honor, hound, korun, kroon, odour, rondo, round.

-5 letters: chon, coho, conk, cook, coon, cord, cork, corn, crud, curd, curn, dock, door, dork, dour, duck, dunk, durn, duro, hock, honk, hood.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-h-k-n-o-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: rockhounds.

 

+3 letters: rockhounding.

 

+4 letters: rockhoundings.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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