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Definition: TOUCH-PAPER |
TOUCH-PAPERNoun1. Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like. |
| "TOUCH-PAPER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TOUCH-PAPER" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TOUCH-PAPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 接触纸. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 만지 종이. (various references) | ||||
Manx | pabyr aile. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ouch-papertay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outpreach. | |
-2 letters: copperah, outcaper, outreach. | |
-3 letters: capture, chapter, chopper, couther, outhear, outpace, outrace, patcher, phorate, poacher, precoup, prophet, repatch, retouch, toucher, upreach. | |
-4 letters: acuter, apercu, author, capote, capper, captor, carhop, carpet, cartop, cheapo, chorea, coater, copper, coppra, coprah, copter, coteau, couter, croupe, cupper, curate, eparch, hector, hepcat, hopper, ochrea, orache, pauper, pother, pouter, preach. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-p-r-t-u" | |
+4 letters: computerphobia. | |
+5 letters: computerphobias, pithecanthropus. | |
| 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)54 4F 55 43 48 2D 50 41 50 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 00101101 01010000 01000001 01010000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O U C H - P A P E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0055 0043 0048 002D 0050 0041 0050 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449553742155035503952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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