HEAVERS

  

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HEAVERS

"HEAVERS" is a plural of: heaver.


Specialty Definition: HEAVERS

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

HEAVERS. Thieves who make it their business to steal tradesmen's shop-books. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Usage Frequency: HEAVERS

"HEAVERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "HEAVERS" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (-s form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Expression: HEAVERS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HEAVERS": coal-heavers.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: HEAVERS

Derivations

Words ending with "HEAVERS": upheavers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HEAVERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cheevers. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: HEAVERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reshave.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-s-v"

-1 letter: averse, haeres, havers, hearse, heaver, heaves, reaves, shaver, sheave.

-2 letters: avers, eaves, erase, hares, haver, haves, hears, heave, heres, raves, reave, rheas, saree, saver, serve, sever, share, shave, shear, sheer, veers, verse.

-3 letters: ares, arse, aver, aves, ears, ease, eave, eras, ever, eves, haes, hare, have, hear, here, hers, rase, rash, rave, rees.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: behavers, haverels, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, shivaree.

 

+2 letters: achievers, chivarees, harvested, harvester, overhates, overheads, overheaps, overhears, overheats, revanches, shivareed, shivarees, upheavers.

 

+3 letters: aftershave, chevaliers, echeverias, enravished, enravishes, harvesters, harvestmen, misbehaver, overarches, preharvest, superheavy, whatsoever.

 

+4 letters: aftershaves, changeovers, earthmovers, harvestable, harvesttime, heavenwards, misbehavers, overcharges, overcoaches, overhandles, overharvest, overmatches, overreaches, preharvests, shivareeing, slaveholder, unharvested.

 

+5 letters: apprehensive, czarevitches, harvesttimes, hyperactives, overachieves, overbleaches, overemphases, overemphasis, overharvests, overreachers, overshadowed, overslaughed, shrievalties, slaveholders, venographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEAVERS


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

48 45 41 56 45 52 53

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)

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

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0056 0045 0052 0053

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

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

42393556395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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