Counterspy

  

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Counterspy

Definition: Counterspy

Counterspy

Noun

1. A spy who works against enemy espionage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Counterspy

Synonym: mole (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Counterspy

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Counterspy (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Counterspy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Counterspy Mission in World War II (reference)

  • I led 3 lives: citizen, "Communist," counterspy (reference)

  • Mole/the True Story of the First Russian Spy to Become an American Counterspy (reference)

  • Sleeping With the FBI: Sex, Booze, Russians and the Saga of an American Counterspy Who Couldn't (reference)

  • Spy Counterspy an Encyclopedia of Espionage (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Counterspy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

counterspy

7

counterspy spy

4

counterspy shop

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Counterspy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: construe, counters, courtesy, cynosure, encrypts, necropsy, pouncers, recounts, tourneys, trounces.

-3 letters: century, contuse, copters, cornets, cornute, cotypes, counter, country, couters, crepons, croupes, cryptos, curtesy, curtsey, encrust, encrypt, entropy, petrous, postern, posture, potency, pouncer, pounces, pouters, precuts, prosect, proteus, punster, punters, pyrones, recount, recoups, scouter, spouter, syncope, tenours, tonsure, tourney, trounce, troupes.

-4 letters: censor.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: counterplays, counterploys.

 

+4 letters: counterplayers, hyperfunctions, parenchymatous, percutaneously, pertinaciously, psychoneurotic.

 

+5 letters: neuropsychiatry, psychoneurotics.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Counterspy


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

43 6F 75 6E 74 65 72 73 70 79

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    ..-    -.    -    .    .-.    ...    .--.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0075 006E 0074 0065 0072 0073 0070 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

37818780867184858291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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