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Definition: Coin-operated |
Coin-operatedAdjective1. Of devices that do not operate without the prior insertion of one or more coins; "a coin-operated telephone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COCOT | English | Common Operator Coin-Operated Telephone | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Coin-operated |
| English words defined with "coin-operated": amusement arcade ♦ launderette, Laundromat ♦ parking meter, pay-phone, pay-station, peepshow, penny arcade. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coin-operated": automatic food vending machine ♦ beverage dispenser ♦ CAR-WASH ATTENDANT, AUTOMATIC, coin-operated laundry ♦ MANAGER, LAUNDROMAT ♦ QUALITY-CONTROL TECHNICIAN ♦ self-service laundry ♦ VENDING-MACHINE ATTENDANT. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Comic book illustration (without text) depicting a man leaning against a coin-operated viewing scope in a city park and staring into the distance, recalling the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / Story: Don McGreg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Focus" by Erik Dungan Commentary: "This is part of a coin-operated telescope on the pier. I like the textures and think the word-image might be useful." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption |
 | Inserting coins into a coin-operated laundry machine. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Coin-operated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coin-operated" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "coin-operated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | automatik (automatic, automatical, mechanical, robot, submachine gunner). (various references) | |
Danish | moenttelefon (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Dutch | munttoestel (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone), munttelefoontoestel (coin box, coin box set, coin collecting box, coin collector set, coin-collecting box, coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone, paystation). (various references) | |
French | taxicopieur (coin-operated copyer), laverie automatique (coin-operated laundry), appareil téléphonique à jetons (coin-operated telephone), appareil à pièces de monnaie (coin-operated telephone). (various references) | |
German | Muenzfernsprecher (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone), Markenfernsprecher (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Greek | συσκευή που λειτουργεί με νόμισμα (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone), τηλεφωνική συσκευή που λειτουργεί με κέρμα (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Italian | apparecchio telefonico a gettoni (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone), apparecchio a moneta (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oin-operatedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aparelho que só trabalha quando se lhe introduz uma moeda (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Spanish | aparato telefonico de monedas (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone), aparato telefonico de fichas (coin-operated telephone, pay phone, payphone). (various references) | |
Turkish | paralı (coin-op, flush, heeled, loaded, mercenary, moneyed, paid, paying, rich, wealthy, well heeled), bozuk parayla çalışan (coin-op). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: deprecation. | |
-2 letters: carotenoid, cooperated, coordinate, decoration, picarooned. | |
-3 letters: captioned, cartooned, cooperate, coronated, creodonta, deception, operation, peritonea, pertained, portioned, predation, predicate, prenticed, reception, recondite, redaction, repainted, terpenoid. | |
-4 letters: acrodont, adoption, anecdote, anoretic, antipode, aperient, apocrine, arointed, atropine, canopied, cantered, caponier, carotene, carpeted, cartoned, catenoid, centiare, centroid, ceratoid, coeditor, conepate, coopered, coparent, copatron, coronate, creatine, creation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: reincorporated. | |
| 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. | |
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