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Cold Frame

Definition: Cold Frame

Cold Frame

Noun

1. Protective covering consisting of a wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold.

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


Photo Album: Cold Frame

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Rhode Island--Newport--A.C. James home, Blue Garden, gardener watering flowers in cold frame. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cold Frame

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

cold frame

67
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cold Frame

Language Translations for "cold frame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

остъклено сандъче за разсад. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lava (bed, hotbed, platform, stage, stand). (various references)

   

German

  

glaskasten (glass box, glass case), frühbeet. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hidegágy. (various references)

   

Italian

  

specie di serra. (various references)

   

Manx

  

frame feayr. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldcay amefray

   

Russian 

  

теплица (cold-frame, forcing bed, glass house, greenery, greenhouse, hothouse, warm-house). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

växthus (forcing house, glass house, greenhouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

limonluk (conservatory, garden frame, greenhouse, hothouse, lemon squeezer, orangery, stove, winter garden). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

холодний парник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cold Frame

Misspellings

"Cold Frame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coldframe. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cold Frame

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-l-m-o-r"

-1 letter: clamored.

-2 letters: caroled, caromed, comrade, earldom, femoral.

-3 letters: calmed, calmer, clamor, coaled, coaler, colder, colead, comade, cormel, cradle, credal, defoam, deform, dermal, farced, fardel, farmed, fedora, femora, flamed, flamer, flared, florae, foaled, foamed, foamer, folder, forced, formal, formed, framed, loader, loafed, loafer, loamed, macled, malfed, marcel, marled, medlar, molder, morale, oracle, ordeal, radome.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-l-m-o-r"
 

+5 letters: discomfortable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cold Frame


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

43 6F 6C 64      46 72 61 6D 65

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

    

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

01000011 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#32 &#70 &#114 &#97 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 0064      0046 0072 0061 006D 0065

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

3781787024084677971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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