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Around-the-clock

Definition: Around-the-clock

Around-the-clock

Adjective

1. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Around-the-clock

Synonyms: day-and-night (adj), nonstop (adj), round-the-clock (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Around-the-clock

Specialty definitions using "around-the-clock": Environmental Response Teamnetwork operations center. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Around-the-clock

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Burma

The most common forms of mistreatment are sleep and food deprivation, beatings coupled with around-the-clock questioning under bright lights, near suffocation with plastic bags, confinement in leg clamps, and forcing water in the nose and throat. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Around-the-clock

"Around-the-clock" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Around-the-clock" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

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

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Expression: Around-the-clock

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "around-the-clock": fun-around-the-clock.

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

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Modern Translation: Around-the-clock

Language Translations for "around-the-clock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

昼夜兼行 (day and night). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちゅうやけ""う (day and night). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

의 주위에 시계. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

around-the-clockay

   

Portuguese

  

continuamente (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, day-and-night, hourly, night and day, round-the-clock). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

круглосуточный (around the clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock, round-the-clock). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทั้งวันทั้งคืน. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

suốt ng y đêm (round-the-clock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Around-the-clock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-k-l-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-4 letters: coanchored, coauthored, octahedron, outcoached.

-5 letters: accounted, accoutred, cartooned, cartouche, chloracne, chlordane, chocolate, chondrule, colocated, concluder, concordat, conductor, contoured, coronated, craunched, creodonta, decathlon, decontrol, headcount, nucleator, ochlocrat, outlander, outranked, outrocked, rockhound, trauchled, truckload, uncharted, uncloaked, unclothed, uncolored, uncracked, undercoat, undercool, undertook, unlatched.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Around-the-clock


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

41 72 6F 75 6E 64 2D 74 68 65 2D 63 6C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110100 01101000 01100101 00101101 01100011 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#45 &#99 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 002D 0074 0068 0065 002D 0063 006C 006F 0063 006B

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

35848187807015867471156978816977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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