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Definition: Armrest |
ArmrestNoun1. A support for the arm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "armrest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He beat his breast with his fist humbly, secretly under cover of the wooden armrest. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Armrest" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Armrest" is used about 13 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 |
| Adjective (superlative) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "armrest": armrest controls. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "armrest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扶手. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opìradlo (arm, back, maulstick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | accoudoir (arm, arm rest, arm-rest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Armlehne (arm, arm rest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karfa (balustrade, banisters, elbow rest, guard, guard rail, handrail, parapet, rail, railing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bracciolo (arm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脇息 , 肘掛 (elbow rest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうそく (rules of teaching), ひじかけ (arm of a chair, elbow rest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taggey-uillin, skelloo uillin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armrestay braço (arm, branch, offshoot). (various references) подлокотник (elbow, elbow rest, elbow-rest). (various references) brazo (arm, armlet, bracket, branch, jib, sail, sail arm). (various references) ที่วางแขน (arm). (various references) kol dayama yeri, dirseklik. (various references) підлокітник (arm, elbow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "armrest": armrests. (additional references) | |
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"Armrest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ararats, ares, arresst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "armrest" (pronounced Ä"rmre'st) |
| 4 | -r e' s t | backrest, headrest. |
| 3 | -e' s t | accessed, alkahest, incest, inquest, manifest, protest, slugfest, unprocessed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: smarter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: armers, armets, arrest, master, maters, matres, ramets, rarest, raster, raters, rearms, starer, stream, tamers, tarres, terras. | |
-2 letters: armer, armet, aster, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, ramet, rares, raser, rater, rates, reams, rearm, rears, satem, smart, smear, stare, steam, tamer, tames, tares, tarre, teams, tears, terms, terra, trams. | |
-3 letters: ares, arms, arse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: armrests, rearmost, remaster, streamer, trampers. | |
+2 letters: airstream, armatures, cremators, imparters, marketers, martyries, reformats, remarkets, remasters, smatterer, stammerer, streamers, streamier, tamperers, tetramers, tramplers, veratrums. | |
+3 letters: aerometers, airstreams, arboretums, arrestment, astrometry, astronomer, barometers, earthworms, erraticism, formatters, heartworms, imperators, ironmaster, macerators, margarites, marketeers, martyrizes, masterwork, mercurates, moderators, mortarless, mortgagers, mortuaries, numerators, overmaster, parameters, permafrost, preformats, prematures, ratemeters, reformates, remastered, retransmit, ringmaster, rotameters, shirtmaker, smatterers, stammerers, stereogram, supersmart, tambourers, terraforms, terrariums, trademarks, watermarks, yardmaster. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 6D 72 65 73 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -- .-. . ... - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01101101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r m r e s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 006D 0072 0065 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35847984718586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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