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Definition: Capsize |
CapsizeVerb1. Of boats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "capsize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | It is caused by the elevation of the centre of gravity above the metacentre, thus creating an unstable equilibrium so that the vessel will be lost. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CAPSIZE. To overturn or reverse. He took his broth till he capsized; he drank till he fell out of his chair. SEA TERM. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | A keelboat is said to have capsized when she turns keel upmost, but a capsized dinghy may be either floating with her mast and sail lying on the water, or she may have turned turtle lying with mast pointing downwards. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inversion | Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle. |
Success | Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Capsize |
| English words defined with "capsize": Capsized ♦ To keel over, To turn turtle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B5 you sunk my battleship ("The Bad Touch"; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Capsize of Lifeboat (1897) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| "Capsize" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Capsize" is used about 46 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) | 50% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.09% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.74% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "capsize": don't-worry-you-won't-capsize. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
capsize | 18 |
boat capsize oregon | 7 |
boat capsize | 5 |
capsize oregon | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "capsize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përmbysem (fall away, founder, keel over, topple, turn over), përmbys (bring about, dislocate, keel, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset, upturn), gremis (overturn, tumble, turn head over heels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلب قارب, قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), إنقلب (be inverted, change over, overturn, recoil, swing, tip over, topple, toss, turn over, turn turtle, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прекатурване (roll over, tumble, turnover, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弄翻 (Capsized, Capsizing, upsetting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | převrhnout (overset, overthrow, overturn, tilt, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kæntre (turn over), gå i baljen (turn over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | omslaan (pousse, reversion, turn over), kenteren (change, turn over), kapseizen (capsizing, turn over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | واژگون کردن کشتی(نظ.), واژگون شدن (Purl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaatua (be overturned, be upset, collapse, fall, fall down, overturn, turn over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chavirer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kentern (capsizing, keel over, overturn, reversing current, turn, turn over), kentere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανατρέπομαι (keel over, overturn, tumble, turn over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felborul (fall over, keel over, tilt, to capsize, to careen, to fall over, to tip, to tip over, to topple, to topple over, to turn turtle), felborít (overset, overthrow, to blow over, to bowl over, to cant, to capsize, to push over, to roll over, to tilt, to tip over, to tumble down, to turn over, upset), felbillen (to cant, to capsize, to tip over, to tip up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terbalik (keel, reverse, rolled back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | capovolgersi (turn over, upset), capovolgere (be reversed, invert, keel, overset, overturn, reverse, tilt, tip, turn upside down, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 覆る (to be overturned, to capsize, to topple over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くつがえる (to be overturned, to capsize, to topple over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll bun ry-skyn (capsizing), goll beeal fo (capsizing), cur bun ry-skyn (disorder, invert), cur beeal fo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kantre (overthrow, turn, turn over, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apsizecay capotar (keel over), capotagem (cowling, upset), voltar-se (turn over, upset), virar-se (broach, get callous, turn over), virar de quilha (turn over), virar (bend, board the net, haul in, heave, overset, slew, slue round, spill, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), ir para o malagueiro (turn over), fazer da quilha portaló (turn over), emborcar (down, neckband). (various references) se rãsturna (cant, overturn, tumble, turn), rãsturna (coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, spill, subvert, throw down, tilt, topple, tumble, turn, upset). (various references) опрокидывать (dump, fall over, keel over, overset, overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, pull down, tilt, trip, upend, upset, upturn). (various references) prevrtanje (nose over, overturn, turnover, upset), prevrnuti se (keel over, nose over, turn over), prevrnuti (overturn, roll over, tip over, upset, upturn), preturiti (ferret about, overset, overturn, tip over). (various references) zozobrar (fail, heel over, keel over, miscarry, turn over). (various references) segla omkull, kapsejsa (keel over, turn over), kantra (keel over, overturn, turn over, upset). (various references) ters dönmek (overturn, turn, turn down, turn turtle, turn upside down), devirmek (chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), değişivermek, alabora olmak (keel over, overset, overturn, turn over, turn turtle), alabora etmek (keel over, upset). (various references) перекидати (kick about, overrun, overset, overthrow, overturn, push over, tip over, trip, upset), перекидання (canting, flip flap, move, movement, somersault, tumble, turnover, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capsize": capsized, capsizes. (additional references) | |
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"Capsize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capesize, capishe, Casazza, Kasise, Mapsize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "capsize" (pronounced ka"psī'z) |
| 3 | -s ī' z | anglicize, circumcise, criticize, deemphasize, downsize, emphasize, exercise, fantasize, hypothesize, metastasize, midsize, ostracize, outsize, overemphasize, politicize, publicize, reemphasize, romanticize, synthesize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-z" | |
-1 letter: apices, spicae. | |
-2 letters: aspic, capes, epics, paces, paise, picas, saice, scape, sepia, sepic, space, spica, spice. | |
-3 letters: aces, apes, apse, asci, cape, caps, case, ceps, epic, ices, pace, pacs, pase, peas, pecs, pias, pica, pice, pics, pies, sice, sipe, size, spae, spaz, spec, spic, zaps, zips. | |
-4 letters: ace, ais, ape, asp, cap, cep, cis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-z" | |
+1 letter: capsized, capsizes. | |
+2 letters: caponizes, capsulize. | |
+3 letters: capsulized, capsulizes, plasticize, specialize. | |
+4 letters: capitalizes, chimpanzees, plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizes, specialized, specializes. | |
+5 letters: parfocalizes, pentazocines, phagocytizes, plasticizers, specializing, tropicalizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 73 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. ... .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p s i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0073 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678285759271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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