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Definition: SNAIL-PACED |
SNAIL-PACEDAdjective1. Slow-moving, like a snail. |
Date "SNAIL-PACED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| "SNAIL-PACED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SNAIL-PACED" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SNAIL-PACED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蜗牛踱步于. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 달팽이 걷". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ail-pacedsnay неповороткий (clumsy, gauche, inert, laggard, lagger, lumpish, unwieldy), повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, sulky). (various references) đi chậm như sên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: asclepiad, canalised, inclasped, landscape. | |
-2 letters: alcaides, canalise, candelas, capelans, capelins, capsidal, displace, paladins, palisade, panicled, panicles, pelicans, sandpile, scalepan. | |
-3 letters: acedias, alcades, alcaide, alipeds, alpines, anlaces, apicals, apsidal, calends, canaled, canapes, candela, candies, candles, capelan, capelin, caplins, clasped, decanal, denials, elapids, enclasp, incased, inclasp, inlaced, inlaces, inscape, lapides, naiades, paesani, palaced, palaces, paladin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-s" | |
+3 letters: relandscaping. | |
+4 letters: encyclopaedias. | |
+5 letters: paradoxicalness, platinocyanides. | |
| 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)53 4E 41 49 4C 2D 50 41 43 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001110 01000001 01001001 01001100 00101101 01010000 01000001 01000011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S N A I L - P A C E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004E 0041 0049 004C 002D 0050 0041 0043 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5348354346155035373938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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