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Pictor

Definition: Pictor

Pictor

Noun

1. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Columba.

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

Date "Pictor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Pictor

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

See constellation.Abbreviation Pic, Pict. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Pictor

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pictor (abbr. Pic, genitive Pictoris), the Sculptor's easel, is one of the minor southern (declination -50 to -60) constellations. It contains the star β Pictoris that is surrounded by a dust disk.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pictor."

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Crosswords: Pictor

English words defined with "Pictor": Dorado. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Pictor": Pic, Pict, Pict. (references)
Etymologies containing "Pictor": Pictorial. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Pictor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (painter, pictorial), Romanian (animalist, artist, knight of the brush, painter).

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Usage Frequency: Pictor

"Pictor" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Pictor" is used about 4 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 (proper)75%3202,518
Noun (singular)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pictor

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  pictor

25

  416xte pictor

2

  201xt pictor

2

  416 pictor

2
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Modern Translations: Pictor

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

画架座 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がかざ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ictorpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Pictor

Derivations

Words beginning with "Pictor": pictorial, pictorialism, pictorialisms, pictorialist, pictorialists, pictorialization, pictorializations, pictorialize, pictorialized, pictorializes, pictorializing, pictorially, pictorialness, pictorialnesses, pictorials. (additional references)

Words ending with "Pictor": depictor. (additional references)

Words containing "Pictor": depictors. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Pictor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tropic.

Words within the letters "c-i-o-p-r-t"

-1 letter: optic, picot, topic, toric.

-2 letters: coir, crop, otic, port, riot, roti, tiro, topi, torc, tori, trio, trip, trop.

-3 letters: cop, cor, cot, opt, orc, ort, pic, pit, poi, pot, pro, rip, roc, rot, tic, tip, top, tor.

-4 letters: it, op, or, pi, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-o-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: apricot, aprotic, parotic, portico, trophic, tropics.

 

+2 letters: apricots, atrophic, coscript, depictor, dioptric, entropic, impactor, inceptor, leprotic, operatic, outprice, periotic, petrolic, piscator, porticos, protatic, protonic, strophic, tripodic, tropical.

 

+3 letters: ametropic, anthropic, capacitor, captopril, catoptric, conscript, coprolite, copyright, coscripts, courtship, croupiest, depictors, eurytopic, eutrophic, geotropic, hypocrite, impactors, inceptors, incorrupt, inotropic, inspector, intercrop, isotropic, nephrotic, operatics, orthoepic, outpriced, outprices, pantropic, patriotic, peridotic, pictogram, pictorial, piscators, piscatory, pitchfork, plethoric, podiatric, porticoes, preatomic, prebiotic, precocity, precoital, predictor, proactive, proclitic, prolactin, proleptic, prophetic, prostatic, prothetic, psoriatic, pyrolytic, reception, subtropic, tropistic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pictor


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

50 69 63 74 6F 72

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)

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