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Definition: UNDERCLIFF |
UNDERCLIFFNoun1. A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above. |
Date "UNDERCLIFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | S. Wales. An argillaceous shale forming the floor of many coal seams. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Undercliff, Lake Minnewaska, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "UNDERCLIFF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNDERCLIFF" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
institution undercliff | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-f-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: unrifled. | |
-3 letters: direful, flinder, flueric, funicle, include, inducer, lucifer, nuclide, riffled, ruffled, unfired. | |
-4 letters: cinder, clerid, cuffed, curdle, curled, differ, duffel, duffer, duffle, fecund, finder, friend, fundic, furled, induce, inured, ireful, leucin, lucern, luffed, lunier, niffer, nuclei, nurled, redfin, refind, refund, riffed, riffle, rifled, ruffed, ruffle, ruined, rundle. | |
-5 letters: cider, cliff, cline, clued, cried. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 44 45 52 43 4C 49 46 46 |
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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)..- -. -.. . .-. -.-. .-.. .. ..-. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001100 01001001 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N D E R C L I F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0043 004C 0049 0046 0046 |
| 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)55483839523746434040 |
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