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Fish Bowl

Definitions: Fish Bowl

Fish Bowl

Noun

1. A state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl".

2. A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept.

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


Synonyms: Fish Bowl

Synonyms: fishbowl (n), goldfish bowl (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fish Bowl

English words defined with "fish bowl": aquariumfish tank, fishbowlgoldfish bowlmarine museumvivarium. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Fish Bowl

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fish Bowl

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

  fish bowl

98

  gold fish bowl

21

  in and out of the gold fish bowl

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fish Bowl

Language Translations for "fish bowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

домашен аквариум. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

金魚鉢 (a fish bowl). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ishfay owlbay

   

Romanian

  

acvariu mic. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bình nuôi cá và ng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fish Bowl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blowfish, fishbowl.

Words within the letters "b-f-h-i-l-o-s-w"

-1 letter: wolfish.

-2 letters: lowish, owlish.

-3 letters: blows, boils, bowls, filos, flows, foils, fowls, howfs, howls, wolfs.

-4 letters: bios, blow, boil, bosh, bowl, bows, fibs, filo, fils, fish, flow, fobs, foil, fowl, hobs, hols, howf, howl, hows, libs, lobs, lows, obis, oils, owls, show, silo, slob, slow, soil, soli, swob, wish, wolf.

-5 letters: bio, bis, bos, bow.

 Words containing the letters "b-f-h-i-l-o-s-w"
 

+1 letter: fishbowls.

 

+2 letters: blowfishes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fish Bowl


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

46 69 73 68      42 6F 77 6C

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

    

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

01000110 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000010 01101111 01110111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#119 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0073 0068      0042 006F 0077 006C

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

40758574236818978

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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