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Definition: SHIPPEN |
SHIPPENNoun1. A stable; a cowhouse. |
Date "SHIPPEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
Note: Shippen \Ship"pen\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression scypen. Compare to Shop, Shepen.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SHIPPEN |
| English words defined with "SHIPPEN": Shepen, Shippon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SHIPPEN": Incorruptiple. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SHIPPEN": Shepen, Shippon. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Portraits of Great American Surgeons: Past Presidents of the American College of Surgeons : William Shippen, Junior, M.D. (1736-1808) / From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Col. Rush Shippen Huidekoper. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Engraving by A. Stachic, published in "Naval Battles of America", by E. Shippen. It depicts the successful spar torpedo attack by Lieutenant William B. Cushing and his crew on the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Kenneth was the bookish one / Elizabeth Shippen Green. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Chief Justice Ed. Shippen of Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "SHIPPEN" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "SHIPPEN" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHIPPEN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shippen | Last name | 100 | 78,224 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shippen place hotel | 4 |
hanna howard realty shippen | 4 |
inn shippen way | 4 |
peggy shippen | 3 |
realty shippen | 3 |
dr eugene shippen | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SHIPPEN": shippens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SHIPPEN" (pronounced 'Ship"pen'): Alpen, Behappen, Gloppen, happen, Mishappen, Pigpen, reopen, Shopen, Wopen. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: pepsin. | |
-2 letters: peins, penis, pines, pipes, shine, snipe, spine. | |
-3 letters: hens, hies, hins, hips, hisn, nips, pehs, pein, pens, peps, phis, pies, pine, pins, pipe, pips, pish, shin, ship, sine, sinh, sipe, snip, spin. | |
-4 letters: ens, hen, hep, hes, hie, hin, hip, his, ins, nip, peh, pen, pep, pes, phi, pie, pin, pip, pis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: shippens. | |
+2 letters: happiness, hippiness, hornpipes, phosphine, shlepping, unshipped. | |
+3 letters: apophonies, choppiness, epiphanies, epiphanous, happenings, hippieness, pansophies, penmanship, phosphines, preshaping, princeship, reshipping, sapphirine, schlepping, sphenopsid, unhappiest, uppishness. | |
+4 letters: epinephrins, foppishness, happinesses, hippinesses, partnership, penmanships, periphytons, phenocopies, planisphere, polyphonies, princeships, prophesying, sphenopsids, superhyping, transhipped, unhappiness. | |
+5 letters: apomorphines, apprehension, apprehensive, choppinesses, epinephrines, handicappers, hippienesses, hypercapnias, misapprehend, naprapathies, partnerships, planispheres, planispheric, siphonophore, snappishness, transshipped, uppishnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 48 49 50 50 45 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .. .--. .--. . -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001000 01001001 01010000 01010000 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S H I P P E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0048 0049 0050 0050 0045 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53424350503948 |
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