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Date "PELORUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Pelorus \Pe*lo"rus\, noun. [After Pelorus, said to have been Hannibal's pilot when he left Italy.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Pelorus Cape di Faro, a promontory of Sicily. (Virgil AEneid, iii. 6, 7.) "As when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus." Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 232. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Catapults a F6F "Hellcat" fighter during operations in the Marianas area, June 1944. Note flight deck numbers, crewmen with catapult bridles, plexiglass bridge windscreen and pelorus. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "PELORUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PELORUS" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
pelorus | 37 |
pelorus yacht | 6 |
group pelorus | 3 |
jack pelorus | 2 |
lurssen pelorus | 2 |
navigation pelorus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PELORUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | pejlskive. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | pelorus (clinometer, inclinometer), peiltoestel (level indicator for liquids). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | taximètre. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Peilshcheibe. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | πυξίδα με διόπτρα. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | tassimetro. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eloruspay taxímetro (clock, taximeter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PELORUS": peloruses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PELORUS" (pronounced 'Pe*lo"rus'): Arcturus, Birrus, brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Carus, Ceratosaurus, Churrus, Citrus, Coenurus, gyrus, hadrosaurus, ichthyosaurus, Laurus, Malapterurus, Morosaurus, Morus, Mosasaurus, Paleosaurus, Palinurus, Papyrus, Pleiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pliosaurus, Proterosaurus, Pylorus, Pyrus, Scarus, Sciurus, Silurus, Strato-cirrus, Susurrus, thesaurus, torus, urus, Varus, Virus, Walrus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: leprous, sporule. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lopers, loupes, polers, poseur, proles, pulers, pulser, sloper, splore, uprose. | |
-2 letters: euros, loper, lopes, lores, loser, loupe, loups, lours, louse, lures, orles, ousel, poler, poles, pores, poser, pours, prole, prose, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, repos, roles, ropes, roues, roups, rouse, rules, slope, slurp, sorel, spore, sprue, super. | |
-3 letters: epos, eros, euro, lope. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: couplers, overplus, perilous, poulters, sporules. | |
+2 letters: corpuscle, leprously, opercules, peloruses, ploughers, polluters, poulardes, poultries, prelusion, profusely, prologues, promulges, prunellos, pullovers, purposely, pyloruses, recouples, reposeful, repulsion, splendour, sporulate, supercoil, supercool, upholders, upholster. | |
+3 letters: corpuscles, fourplexes, operculars, operculums, outsparkle, overpluses, oversupply, peculators, pellagrous, pelycosaur, perilously, petroleums, plesiosaur, plunderous, popularise, poulterers, preciously, preclusion, prelusions, previously, pronucleus, propagules, propulsive, purebloods, purloiners, purposeful, pyrolusite, repulsions, speculator, splendours, splendrous, sporulated, sporulates, subproblem, superalloy, superblock, supercoils, supercools, superiorly, supermodel, suppletory, turophiles, uncouplers, underplots, upholsters, upholstery, viperously. | |
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