APPOINTER

  

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APPOINTER

Definition: APPOINTER

APPOINTER

Noun

1. One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "APPOINTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Crosswords: APPOINTER

Non-English Usage: "APPOINTER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (appoint).

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Usage Frequency: APPOINTER

"APPOINTER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "APPOINTER" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: APPOINTER

Language Translations for "APPOINTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Berufer. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

appointeray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: APPOINTER

Misspellings

"APPOINTER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apionem, Aponte, appointen, appointier, appointme. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "APPOINTER"

Words rhyming with "APPOINTER" (pronounced 'Ap*point"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: APPOINTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reappoint.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-t"

-1 letter: antipope, atropine.

-2 letters: appoint, atropin, nappier, operant, painter, periapt, pertain, pointer, pronate, propane, propine, protean, protein, repaint, tropine.

-3 letters: aroint, arpent, atoner, enrapt, entrap, napper, nappie, nipper, norite, opiate, orient, ornate, orpine, panier, pantie, parent, parton, patine, patron, petnap, pineta, pirate, pointe, potpie, protea, protei, pterin, rapine, rappen, ratine, ration, retain, retina, tapper.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: propionate, reappoints.

 

+2 letters: apportioned, preadopting, preparation, propionates, reappointed, reapportion.

 

+3 letters: apperception, appreciation, bipropellant, lepidopteran, nephropathic, perceptional, perpetration, perpetuation, perspiration, preparations, reappointing, reapportions, repopulating, repopulation.

 

+4 letters: apperceptions, apportionable, apportionment, appreciations, bipropellants, copartnership, expropriating, expropriation, inappropriate, insupportable, lepidopterans, mousetrapping, nephropathies, perpetrations, perpetuations, perspirations, preadaptation, precipitation, preoccupation, prepositional, proportionate, reapplication, reappointment, reapportioned, repopulations.

 

+5 letters: apolipoprotein, apportionments, copartnerships, cyproheptadine, expropriations, hypnotherapies, hypnotherapist, malapportioned, mercaptopurine, nonproprietary, overpopulating, overpopulation, parthenocarpic, philanthropies, pithecanthropi, preadaptations, precipitations, preoccupations, preoperational, preponderating, preponderation, prepublication, proportionable, proportionated, proportionates, reapplications, reappointments, reapportioning, spinthariscope, unappreciation, unappropriated, unpopularities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: APPOINTER


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

41 50 50 4F 49 4E 54 45 52

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    .--.    ---    ..    -.    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01010000 01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#80 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0050 004F 0049 004E 0054 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

355050494348543952

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Non-English Dictionaries with "APPOINTER"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

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


  

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