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Arrow-shaped

Definition: Arrow-shaped

Arrow-shaped

Adjective

1. Of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "arrow-shaped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)


Synonyms: Arrow-shaped

Synonyms: sagittate (adj), sagittiform (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: arrow-shaped blowhole (metallurgy).

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Crosswords: Arrow-shaped

English words defined with "arrow-shaped": checkered adderhouse snakeLampropeltis triangulummaltese cross, milk adderPickerel weedRumex acetosellasheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Arrow-shaped

"Arrow-shaped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arrow-shaped" is used about 6 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

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

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Modern Translation: Arrow-shaped

Language Translations for "arrow-shaped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

ç®­å¤´å¡‘é€ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

í™"ì‚´ 형성하ëŠ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrow-shapeday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Arrow-shaped

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-o-p-r-r-s-w"

-1 letter: arrowheads.

-2 letters: arrowhead, hardwares, paradores, shoreward.

-3 letters: awarders, eardrops, hardware, harrowed, hoarders, paraders, paradors, rhapsode, shadower, warheads, warhorse.

-4 letters: adorers, arrased, arrowed, awarder, dorpers, drapers, drawers, drosera, eardrop, harpers, harrows, hoarder, hoarser, parader, parades, parador, parados, pardahs, phrased, powders, preshow, prewash, pshawed, redowas, redraws, rewards, rewords, rewraps, saphead, seaward, sharped, sharper, sparred, sparrow, warders.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Arrow-shaped


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 72 6F 77 2D 73 68 61 70 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 00101101 01110011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#45 &#115 &#104 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0072 006F 0077 002D 0073 0068 0061 0070 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358484818915857467827170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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