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Definition: Craton |
CratonNoun1. The part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Large portion of continents which has attained stability and has been little deformed for a prolonged period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | The relatively stable nucleus of a continent. Cratons are made up of a shield-like core of Precambrian Rock and a buried extension of the shield. (references) |
Mining | A part of the Earth's crust that has attained stability, and has been little deformed for a prolonged period. The term is now restricted to theextensive central areas of the continents. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Craton |
| Specialty definitions using "craton": cratogenic. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Craton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Craton" is used about 8 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 (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "craton" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Craton | Last name | 200 | 36,040 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
michael craton | 7 |
craton | 6 |
barrel craton | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "craton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | skjold (continental shield, escutcheon, fairing, guard plate, plate guard, plate type guard, protecting screen, protective shield, screen, scutellum, shield, shield block), kraton (continental shield, shield block), kontinental blok (continental shield, shield block). (various references) | |
Dutch | continentaal blok (continental shield, shield block), schild (aegis, carapace, protection, shell, shield, sign-board), kraton (continental shield, shield block). (various references) | |
French | kraton, bouclier, bloc continental. (various references) | |
German | Schild (badge, board, carapace, escutcheon, label, license plate, marker, nameplate, notice, notice board, number plate, peak, placard, plaque, plate, shade, shell, shield, shingle, sign, signboard, sign-board, signpost, ticket), Kraton (continental shield, shield block), Kontinentalblock (continental shield, shield block). (various references) | |
Italian | cratone (continental shield, shield block), scudo (Buckler, escutcheon, label, notice, plate, shield, sign, signpost, tag), blocco continentale (continental shield, shield block). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atoncray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "craton": cratonic, cratons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "craton" (pronounced kra"tun) |
| 4 | -a" t u n | fatten, batten, flatten, Manhattan, Patten, platen, satin. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cantor, carton, contra. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: acorn, actor, canto, cotan, narco, octan, racon, taroc, trona. | |
-2 letters: arco, cant, carn, cart, coat, corn, narc, nota, orca, rant, rato, roan, rota, taco, tarn, taro, tora, torc, torn. | |
-3 letters: act, ant, arc, art, can, car, cat, con, cor, cot, nor, not, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, ran, rat, roc, rot, tan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cantors, carotin, cartons, cartoon, chantor, contras, coranto, courant, cratons, enactor. | |
+2 letters: accentor, acrodont, ancestor, anchoret, anoretic, anorthic, antirock, calutron, carotene, carotins, carrotin, cartoned, cartoons, cartoony, caryotin, chantors, cilantro, colorant, congrats, contract, contrail, contrary, contrast, coparent, copatron, corantos, coronate, corybant, courante, couranto, courants, cratonic, creation, enactors, enactory, fraction, monocrat, narcotic, nonactor, octonary, ostracon, outrance, portance, raincoat, reaction, romantic, tornadic, traction, turncoat. | |
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