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Definition: Pas-de-Calais |
Pas-de-CalaisNoun1. The strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Pas-de-CalaisSynonyms: Strait of Calais (n), Strait of Dover (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pas-de-Calais is a département of northern France created in 1790 out of the former provinces of the coastal Boulonnais and Artois to the east, and now constituting along with the neighbouring département of Nord the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
The Pas-de-Calais has 1.44 million inhabitants in an area of 6670 sq. km.
Préfecture (the departmental seat of administration): Arras.
Sous-préfectures: Béthune, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Lens, Montreuil, Saint Omer.
Its principal towns are, on the coast, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and in Artois, Lens, Liévin, Arras and Saint-Omer.
Here, some of the costliest battles of World War I were fought. At Vimy Ridge is Canada's most important memorial to its fallen soldiers.

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| "Pas-de-Calais" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pas-de-Calais" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
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| France | Credit Agricole Pas-De-Calais |
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Ending with "Pas-de-Calais": Nord-pas-de-calais. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Pas-de-Calais"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | Det regionale EKSF-udvalg for boliger til Minearbejdere - Nord og Pas-de-Calais (ECSC Regional Committee for Miners' Housing in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais areas). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | Regionale Commissie ( EGKS ) Woningbouw voor mijnwerkers - Nord en Pas-de-Calais (ECSC Regional Committee for Miners' Housing in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais areas). (various references) | ||||
French | Commission régionale " Maisons ouvrières ( CECA ) mineurs -région du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais ". (various references) | ||||
German | Revierausschuss " Bergbauarbeiterwohnungsbau ( EGKS ) - Nord und Pas-de-Calais ". (various references) | ||||
Italian | Commissione regionale " Case operaie ( CECA ) minatori - regione del Nord e del Passo di Calais ". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | as-de-calaispay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-i-l-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: asclepiads. | |
-2 letters: asclepiad, displaces, palisades, slipcased. | |
-3 letters: alcaides, aplasias, assailed, capiases, capsidal, displace, palisade, scalades, slipcase, spadices, specials. | |
-4 letters: acedias, aidless, alcades, alcaide, aliases, alipeds, alpacas, apicals, aplasia, apsidal, apsides, calesas, capless, capsids, clasped, classed, dalasis, declass, discase, dispels, elapids, espials, lapides, lapises, lipases, palaced, palaces, palsied, palsies, pascals, passade, plaices, pleiads, salpids, scalade, scalped, spacial, special, spliced, splices. | |
-5 letters: acedia, aecial, aisled, aisles, alcade, alcids, aliped, alpaca, apical, apices, asdics, asides, aspics, assail, calesa, capias, capsid, cassia, clades, clasps, daises, dalasi, dassie, deasil, decals, dipsas, dispel, elapid, epical, espial, ideals, ladies, lapsed, lapses, lassie, lipase, lisped, padles, paisas, palace, palais, pascal, passed, passel, pedals, pissed, placed, places, placid, plaice, plaids, pleads, pleiad, plicae, plisse, saices, sailed, salads, saleps, salpae, salpas, salpid, scalds, scaled, scales, scalps, scaped, scapes, sepals, sepias, sidles, sliced, slices, slides, sliped, slipes, spaced, spaces, spades, spails, spales, speils, spicae, spicas, spiced, spices, spiels, spiled, spiles, splice. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-i-l-p-s-s" | |
+4 letters: paradoxicalness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 73 2D 64 65 2D 43 61 6C 61 69 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110011 00101101 01100100 01100101 00101101 01000011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a s - d e - C a l a i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0073 002D 0064 0065 002D 0043 0061 006C 0061 0069 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678515707115376778677585 |
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