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Definition: Arrow-shaped |
Arrow-shapedAdjective1. 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-shapedSynonyms: sagittate (adj), sagittiform (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: arrow-shaped blowhole (metallurgy). |
Crosswords: Arrow-shaped |
| English words defined with "arrow-shaped": checkered adder ♦ house snake ♦ Lampropeltis triangulum ♦ maltese cross, milk adder ♦ Pickerel weed ♦ Rumex acetosella ♦ sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 | ||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 00101101 01110011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r r o w - s h a p e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0072 006F 0077 002D 0073 0068 0061 0070 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358484818915857467827170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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