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Definition: Ashtray |
AshtrayNoun1. A receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ashtray" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now, let everyone out of here or your girlfriend fits in an ashtray! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Bless the saints, it's an ashtray! I've been thinking of taking up smoking (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) Where's the smokes I asked you to bring me? I had to pinch out all the butts in the ashtray to make rollies (Kevin Spencer; writing credit: Rick Kaulbars; Greg Lawrence) It smells like an ashtray when I pee. Is there anything you can do to help with that (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ashtray Heart (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Ashtray" by Tijs Gerritsen Commentary: "Macro shot of smoking ashtray on red table." | "Ashtray" by Feike Kloostra Commentary: "Close-up of an ashtray." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Ashtray" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.59% of the time. "Ashtray" is used about 213 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) | 98.59% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 213 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ashtray"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tavëll (backgammon), tallvë duhani, taketuke. (various references) | |
Arabic | منفضة رماد للسجائر, مرمدة (cinerary). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пепелник (ash bin, ash-box, ashpan, ash-stand, ash-trey, cinder-box). (various references) | |
Catalan | cendrer. (various references) | |
Chinese | 烟灰缸, 煙灰缸 . (various references) | |
Czech | popelník (ash pan). (various references) | |
Danish | askebaeger, askebæger (ash-tray). (various references) | |
Dutch | asla (ash-tray), asbakje, asbak (ash-tray). (various references) | |
Esperanto | cindrujo. (various references) | |
Farsi | زیرسیگاری . (various references) | |
French | cendrier (ash bin, ash pan, ash-tray). (various references) | |
Frisian | jiskepântsje, jiskelaad, jiskebakje, jiskebak. (various references) | |
German | Aschenbecher (ash-tray, ashtrays). (various references) | |
Greek | στακτοδοχείο, σταχτοδοχείο (ash pan, ash tray), τασάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאפרה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hamutartó (spitkid). (various references) | |
Indonesian | asbak. (various references) | |
Irish | luaithreadÚn. (various references) | |
Italian | portacenere (ash-tray). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 灰皿. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいざら, はいさら. (various references) | |
Korean | 재떨이. (various references) | |
Manx | shlig-leoie, leoireydane. (various references) | |
Norwegian | askebeger (ash-tray). (various references) | |
Papiamen | asbak, shinishero. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashtrayay.(various references) | |
Polish | popielniczka. (various references) | |
Portuguese | cinzeiro (ash-tray, cinder-box). (various references) | |
Romanian | scrumiera. (various references) | |
Russian | пепельница (ash-pot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pepeljara. (various references) | |
Spanish | cenicero (ash-tray). (various references) | |
Swedish | askkopp (ash-pot, ash-stand, ash-tray), askfat (ash-stand). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่เขี่ยบุหรี่. (various references) | |
Turkish | sigara tablası, kül tablasi, kül tablası. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kьldan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | попільничка. (various references) | |
Welsh | plat lludw. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ashtray": ashtrays. (additional references) | |
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"Ashtray" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achray, akhdar, Akhtra, Asataryan, ashrae, Ashtal, Ashtiany, ashtree, Rasthriya. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ashtray" (pronounced a"shtrā') |
| 3 | -t r ā' | entree. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: arhats, astray, rayahs, trashy. | |
-2 letters: arhat, artsy, ayahs, haars, harts, hasty, rayah, rayas, rhyta, satay, satyr, stray, tahrs, trash, trays. | |
-3 letters: aahs, arts, arty, ashy, ayah, haar, hart, hast, hats, hays, rash, rath, rats, raya, rays, ryas, shay, star, stay, tahr, tars, tray, tsar. | |
-4 letters: aah, aas, aha, ars, art, ash, ays, has, hat. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: ashtrays. | |
+2 letters: arythmias. | |
+3 letters: dysarthria, satyagraha, throwaways, thysanuran. | |
+4 letters: arrhythmias, dysarthrias, phalanstery, pyracanthas, satyagrahas, straightway, thysanurans. | |
+5 letters: amateurishly, hexahydrates, lachrymators, parathyroids, paratyphoids, saccharinity, shareability, straightaway, stratigraphy, tachycardias, tetrahymenas. | |
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