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Definitions: Panhandle |
PanhandleNoun1. A relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area; "Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia". 2. The handle of a pan. Verb1. Beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "panhandle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
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Slang | Noun. Source: Slang place name. Definition: Refering to the Aleutian Island chain off of Alaska. Context: Used by all age groups in talking about the islands, plain speech. Social Source: Alaskan students at UO. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Panhandle |
| English words defined with "panhandle": Amarillo ♦ Canadian, Canadian River, Coeur d'Alene ♦ wheeling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "panhandle": 79068 ♦ spange. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Panhandle Scandal (1959) Law of the Panhandle (1950) Panhandle (1948) Texas Panhandle (1945) Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 66 across the Panhandle of Texas. |
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| "Panhandle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Panhandle" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Panhandle, TX (town, FIPS 54960) |
Expression using "panhandle": panhandle State. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
florida panhandle | 233 |
panhandle | 66 |
panhandle texas | 63 |
panhandle state | 35 |
panhandle state university | 26 |
beach florida panhandle | 25 |
panhandle slim | 24 |
panhandle plain | 21 |
drownings florida panhandle | 18 |
fishing florida panhandle | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "panhandle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lyp rrugëve, gjuhëz (bleak, bolt, clapper, promontory, Reed, reed pipe, sole, strip, tenon, tongue), bisht tigani. (various references) | |
Arabic | يد الطوة, يد (duke, hand), مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, handle, inlet, lever, lug, power outlet, shaft, shank, socket, squeeze, stick), مضيق (bottleneck, gorge, isthmus, narrow, sound, strait), تسول (beggary, begging, cadge, mendicity, put out, tramp), طلب الإحسان, إستعطى (beg), إستجدى (solicit), رقعة أرض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прося по улиците, дръжка на тиган. (various references) | |
Czech | vyžebrat (cadge), držadlo pánve, žebrat na ulici. (various references) | |
Farsi | تکدی کردن , زمین باریکه , دسته ماهی تابه . (various references) | |
French | mendigoter, manche de casserole, manche, faire la manche, bande de terre. (various references) | |
German | pfannenstiel, zipfel (corner, dip, end, peak, point, summit, tail, tip, tit, wart), die leute anhauen. (various references) | |
Greek | στενή χερσόνησοσ, χέρι τηγανιού, επαιτώ (beg, cadge, mump, prog). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקבץ "בות (beg, collect alms). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koldul (beg, cadge, out on the scran, pan-handle, to beg, to bum, to panhandle, to ponce). (various references) | |
Italian | manico di padella. (various references) | |
Manx | shirrey jeirk (beg, begging, cadge). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anhandlepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pangolim, cabo de caçarola. (various references) | |
Romanian | umbla cu cerşitul, fâşie strâmtã de pãmânt ataşatã unui teren mai mare, cerşi (beg, cadge). (various references) | |
Russian | ручка сковороды, ручка кастрюли. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prevlaka (coating, furring, plate), ručka od tiganja. (various references) | |
Spanish | mendigar (beg), faja estrecha de un territorio que entra en otro. (various references) | |
Swedish | tigga på gatan, tigga (beg, cadge, grub, mooch), stekpannehandtag, landtunga (isthmus, neck of land, tongue), långsmalt landområde. (various references) | |
Turkish | tava sapı, eyaletin başka eyaletler arasında kalan uzantısı, dilenmek (ask for alms, beg, bum, cant, mump). (various references) | |
Ukranian | старцювати (mump), ручка каструлі, жебрацтво (beggarism, begging, cadge, mendicancy, mendicity), просити милостиню. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "panhandle": panhandled, panhandler, panhandlers, panhandles. (additional references) | |
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"Panhandle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penhandle. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "panhandle" (pronounced pa"nha'ndul) |
| 8 | -a" n h a' n d u l | manhandle. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bindle, Brindle, bundle, candle, dwindle, fondle, handle, kindle, mishandle, rekindle, Rundle, sandal, scandal, spindle, swindle, trundle, unbundle, vandal, Windle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-n-n-p" | |
-2 letters: planned. | |
-3 letters: anneal, apneal, daphne, handle, panned, planed. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead, aland, alane, aleph, alpha, annal, apnea, eland, hadal, haled, henna, laden, naled, padle, paean, palea, paled, panda, paned, panel, panne, pedal, penal, penna, plane, plead, plena. | |
-5 letters: alae, alan, anal, anna, aped, dahl, dale, deal, dean, dhal, elan, epha, hade, haed, haen, hale, hand, head, heal, heap, held, help, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, leap, lend, naan, nada, nana, nape, neap, pale, pane, peal, pean, pend, plan, plea, pled. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-n-n-p" | |
+1 letter: panhandled, panhandler, panhandles. | |
+2 letters: panhandlers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6E 68 61 6E 64 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. .... .- -. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101110 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a n h a n d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006E 0068 0061 006E 0064 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506780746780707871 |
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