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Definition: Around-the-clock |
Around-the-clockAdjective1. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Around-the-clockSynonyms: day-and-night (adj), nonstop (adj), round-the-clock (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Around-the-clock |
| Specialty definitions using "around-the-clock": Environmental Response Team ♦ network operations center. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "around-the-clock": fun-around-the-clock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 continuamente (ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, day-and-night, hourly, night and day, round-the-clock). (various references) круглосуточный (around the clock, day and night, day-and-night, round the clock, round-the-clock). (various references) ทั้งวันทั้งคืน. (various references) suốt ng y đêm (round-the-clock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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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)
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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)A r o u n d - t h e - c l o c k |
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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