SNAIL-PACED

  

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SNAIL-PACED

Definition: SNAIL-PACED

SNAIL-PACED

Adjective

1. Slow-moving, like a snail.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SNAIL-PACED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)


Usage Frequency: SNAIL-PACED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: SNAIL-PACED

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

   

Ukrainian

  

неповороткий (clumsy, gauche, inert, laggard, lagger, lumpish, unwieldy), повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, sulky). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đi chậm như sên. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SNAIL-PACED

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.

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Alternative Orthography: SNAIL-PACED


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

53 4E 41 49 4C 2D 50 41 43 45 44

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

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

01010011 01001110 01000001 01001001 01001100 00101101 01010000 01000001 01000011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#45 &#80 &#65 &#67 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 0041 0049 004C 002D 0050 0041 0043 0045 0044

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

5348354346155035373938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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