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COULOIR

Definition: COULOIR

COULOIR

Noun

1. A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.

2. A deep gorge; a gully.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: COULOIR

Non-English Usage: "COULOIR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (aisle, close, corridor, couloir, Creek, gallery, gangway, hall, hallway, Lane, passage, passageway), French Canadian (aisle).

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Commercial Usage: COULOIR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Introduction à l'étude paléontologique du trias continental marocain : description des premiers stegocephales recueillis dans le couloir d'Argana (Atlas occidental) (reference)

  • Le couloir : une infirmière au pays du SIDA (reference)

  • Le couloir aux sept portes : récit (reference)

  • Le Couloir De LA Mort/the Chamber (reference)

  • Le couloir de nuit (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Usage Frequency: COULOIR

"COULOIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COULOIR" is used about 21 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
Noun (singular)100%2176,261

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COULOIR

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

couloir

9

couloir magazine

6

couloir mag.com

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

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Modern Translation: COULOIR

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

Albanian

  

luginë (Coomb, dale, dell, Dene, draw, Vale, valley). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ممر ضيق (defile, gap, gat, gate, gorge, gut). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

клисура (defile, draw, gap, gorge, narrow, neck, notch, opening, ravine). (various references)

   

French

  

couloir (corridor). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vízmosás (corridor, donga, gulch, gullet, gully, nullah, ravine). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouloircay

   

Portuguese

  

ravina (canyon, col, donga, flume, gulch, gully, hollow, kloof, nullah, ravine). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ущелье (coomb, defile, donga, gap, gorge, gulch, kloof, linn, notch, pass, purgatory, ravine). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hodnik (corridor, foyer, hall, hallway, passage, passageway). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abismo (abysm, abyss, chasm, cleft, coulee, crevice, deepness, gulf, hell, pit, precipice, Slough, steep). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kuloar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tarak makinesi (carder, Comber, dredger), sel sularından dere, sel sularının açtığı vadi. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ущелина (crevice, defile, hope, notch, nullah, opening, pass, purgatory, ravine, rift), канавокопач. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: COULOIR

Derivations

Words beginning with "COULOIR": couloirs. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: COULOIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-o-r-u"

-1 letter: colour.

-2 letters: clour, color, curio, oculi.

-3 letters: coil, coir, cool, curl, loci, loco, lour, olio, roil, uric.

-4 letters: col, coo, cor, cur, loo, oil, orc, our, roc.

-5 letters: li, lo, or.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: bicolour, couloirs, unicolor, urologic.

 

+2 letters: bicolours, colouring, councilor, fluorotic.

 

+3 letters: councillor, councilors, dicoumarol, inoculator, locutories, multicolor, neurologic, urological.

 

+4 letters: arenicolous, atrociously, bromouracil, chloroquine, coulometric, councillors, counterfoil, croquignole, decolouring, dicoumarols, douroucouli, ferociously, inoculators, luteotropic, multicolors, terricolous, voraciously.

 

+5 letters: biomolecular, bromouracils, censoriously, chloroquines, compulsorily, conductorial, coprophilous, coulometries, counterfoils, croquignoles, douroucoulis, elocutionary, fluorometric, fluoroscopic, fluorouracil, indecorously, interlocutor, luteotrophic, microvillous, multicolored, neurological, overclouding, precociously, productional, supercooling, undercooling, victoriously, vociferously.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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