Acrobat

Definition: Acrobat

Acrobat

Noun

1. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination.

Date "acrobat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Acrobat \Ac"ro*bat\, noun. [French expression acrobate, from the Greek expression walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft; high to go.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Acrobat A product from Adobe Systems, Inc., for manipulating documents stored in Portable Document Format. Acrobat provides a platform-independent means of creating, viewing, and printing documents. Acropolis: the magazine of Acrobat publishing (http://www.acropolis.com/acropolis). (1995-04-21). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of seeing acrobats, denotes that you will be prevented from carrying out hazardous schemes by the foolish fears of others. To see yourself acrobating, you will have a sensation to answer for, and your existence will be made almost unendurable by the guying of your enemies. To see women acrobating, denotes that your name will be maliciously and slanderously handled. Also your business interests will be hindered. For a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights, signifies that she will court favor of men. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Acrobat means one who goes on his extremities , or uses only the tips of his fingers and toes in moving about. (It is from the two Greek words, akros baino, to go on the extremities of one's limbs.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Occupations	Entertains audience by performing difficult and spectacular feats, such as leaping, tumbling, and balancing, alone or as member of team. Originates act or adapts stock presentations. May use equipment, such as chairs and teeter board. May juggle various articles [JUGGLER (amuse. & rec.)]. May perform feats requiring bodily contortions and be designated Contortionist (amuse. & rec.). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An acrobat is someone who practices acrobatics.
Adobe Acrobat is a computer program for making PDF files.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Humorist	Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool.
Proficient	Nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror; (deceiver); wizard.
Strength	Athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.
The Drama	Mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Acrobat

English words defined with "acrobat": acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt, acrobatics, Acrobatism, aerialist ♦ back circle, balancer ♦ circus acrobat, contortion, contortionist, crookedness ♦ ropedancer, ropewalker ♦ torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumbling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "acrobat": Portable Document Format. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Acrobat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Occitan (acrobat), Romanian (acrobat, distortionist, tumbler).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	What kind of acrobat do you think I am? (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.)
Lyrics	And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover ("Little Jeannie"; performing artist: Elton John)
Movie/TV Titles	Acrobat Ranch (1950) The Dizzy Acrobat (1943) Mysterious Acrobat (1900) Acrobat Chas. Werts (1897) The Drunken Acrobat (1896)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Acrobat Cats (Sagwa Easy-To-Read, 1) (reference) Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class (reference) Adobe Acrobat 5 Pdf Bible (reference) Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User's Guide (reference) An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting (Vintage Original) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Dreams of an Acrobat (reference) Liquid Acrobat As Regards the Air (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Aero the Acrobat (reference) Aero the Acrobat 2 (reference) Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (reference) Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Upgrade (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Female acrobat standing on ball in circus, in the Philippines.Credit: Library of Congress.		Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant, as an acrobat, on trapeze "third term," holding on to "whiskey ring" and "Navy ring," with strap "corruption" in his mouth, holding up other acrobats, Shepard, George M. Robeson, William W. Belknap, Murphy, Williams, and.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Circus; drum roll; daredevil; trapeze; performer; acrobat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Burma	This file is available for downloading without charge in WordPerfect 5.1 ASCII, and Adobe Acrobat readable (*.pdf) FORMATS. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Acrobat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Acrobat" is used about 30 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)	80%	24	71,196
Lexical Verb (base form)	10%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	10%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Expression using "acrobat": circus acrobat. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "acrobat": dancer-acrobat.
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.

Language		Translations for "acrobat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		akrobaat. (various references)

Albanian		akrobat (balancer, distortionist, equilibrist, rope dancer, rope walker, tumbler), pehlivan. (various references)

Arabic		‏حيلة بارعة, ‏البهلوان (equilibrist, stuntman, tightrope walker), ‏ألعاب رياضية للعرض, ‏بهلوان (aerialist, clown, clowning, contortionist, histrion, ropewalker, tumbler). (various references)

Basque		akrobata. (various references)

Bulgarian		акробат (contortionist, tightrope-dancer, tumbler). (various references)

Chinese		杂技�"员. (various references)

Czech		artista (artiste, circus artiste), akrobat (distortionist, tumbler). (various references)

Danish		akrobat. (various references)

Dutch		kunstenmaker, acrobaat. (various references)

Esperanto		akrobato. (various references)

Farsi		سیاست باز, بندبازیااکروبات . (various references)

Finnish		tasapainotaituri (trapeze artist), taitovoimistelija (equilibrist). (various references)

French		acrobate. (various references)

German		Akrobat (equilibrist, tumbler). (various references)

Greek		ακροβάτησ (aerialist, contortionist, tumbler). (various references)

Hebrew		לולין (aerialist, tumbler), אקרובט (aerialist). (various references)

Hungarian		akrobata (equilibrist, tumbler, vaulter), légtornász (aerialist, trapezist), artista (acrobatic, artist, artiste). (various references)

Icelandic		loftfimleikamaður. (various references)

Indonesian		akrobat. (various references)

Irish		gleacaí, cleasaí. (various references)

Italian		acrobata (balancer, tumbler). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		軽業師 , 曲芸師 (tumbler), アクリル繊維 (accommodator, accord, accordion, accordion door, accordion pleats, achromatic lens, acid, acidosis, acoustic, acoustic guitar, acoustic sound, acrobatic, acrobatic dance, acrobatic dancer, acropolis, acrylic fiber, acrylonitrile, against, against wind, agglomeration, aggressive, agitation, agoraphobia, agreement, agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Asia dollar, aside, assassin, assault, assert, assertiveness training, assign, assignment, assist, assistance, assistant, assistant director, assistant manager, assistant purser, asymmetric design, asymmetry, contortionist, to instigate, to stir up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょく�'いし (tumbler), かるわざし, アクロバット . (various references)

Korean		곡예사. (various references)

Manx		skibbyltagh (jig, jigging, nimble person). (various references)

Occitan		acrobat. (various references)

Papago		ma-lohma (circus). (various references)

Papiamen		akrobat. (various references)

Pig Latin		acrobatay

Portuguese		acrobata (balancer, equilibrist). (various references)

Romanian		acrobat (distortionist, tumbler), echilibrist (balancer, equilibrist, funambulist). (various references)

Russian		акробат (aerialist, contortionist, distortionist, equilibrist, tumbler). (various references)

Sepedi		mojakari. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		akrobata (aerialist, stunt-master), pelivan (fighter, wrestler). (various references)

Spanish		acróbata. (various references)

Sranan		piyasiman. (various references)

Swedish		akrobat (equilibrist). (various references)

Turkish		cambaz (coper, distortionist, stunter), akrobat (aerialist, contortionist, equilibrist, stunter). (various references)

Turkmen		akrobat (r). (various references)

Ukranian		акробат (balancer, contortionist, distortionist, tumbler). (various references)

Vietnamese		người biểu diễn leo dây. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	hub. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acrobat": acrobatic, acrobatically, acrobatics, acrobats. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acrobat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrobated, acrpbat, afrobeat, Arcopata, arobat, astrobelt, Auribat, carboot, Mcrobert. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acrobat" (pronounced a"kruba't)
3	-b a' t	brickbat, wombat.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: abator, rabato.
	-2 letters: abort, actor, aorta, boart, bract, carat, carbo, carob, cobra, rabat, tabor, taroc.
	-3 letters: acta, arco, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, brat, carb, cart, coat, crab, orca, rato, rota, taco, taro, tora, torc.
	-4 letters: aba, abo, act, arb, arc, art, baa, bar, bat, boa, bot, bra, bro, cab, car, cat, cob, cor, cot, oar, oat, oca, ora, orb, orc, ort, rat, rob, roc, rot, tab, tao, tar, tor.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, ar, at, ba, bo, or, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: acrobats.
	+2 letters: abdicator, acrobatic, aerobatic, ascorbate, broadcast, carbonate, tackboard.
	+3 letters: abdicators, abreaction, abstractor, acrobatics, aerobatics, ascorbates, barracouta, brachiator, broadcasts, calibrator, carbonated, carbonates, contraband, contrabass, fabricator, factorable, matchboard, parabiotic, patchboard, tackboards.
	+4 letters: abreactions, absorptance, abstraction, abstractors, azotobacter, barracoutas, bicarbonate, brachiation, brachiators, broadcasted, broadcaster, calibration, calibrators, carbonating, carbonation, carboxylate, collaborate, contrabands, decarbonate, fabrication, fabricators, matchboards, nonabstract, patchboards, rebroadcast, relocatable.
	+5 letters: absorptances, abstractions, azotobacters, backcourtman, bacteriostat, bicarbonates, brachiations, broadcasters, broadcasting, calibrations, carbohydrate, carbonations, carboxylated, carboxylates, collaborated, collaborates, collaborator, confabulator, constabulary, contrabasses, contrastable, correlatable, decarbonated, decarbonates, exacerbation, fabrications, forecastable, microhabitat, mycobacteria, nonabstracts, nonbacterial, nonbroadcast, overabstract, rebroadcasts, scratchboard, secobarbital.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 72 6F 62 61 74

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)

01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01100010 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#114 &#111 &#98 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0072 006F 0062 0061 0074

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

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

Expression	Frequency per Day
acrobat reader	11,227
adobe acrobat	11,085
acrobat	7,396
acrobat reader download	808
acrobat 6	367
acrobat reader 5.0	352
acrobat writer	336
acrobat distiller	301
acrobat download	274
free adobe acrobat	207
acrobat 6.0	198
acrobat reader free download	168
acrobat 5.0	159
acrobat reader 5	134
acrobat 5	120
acrobat free	86
acrobat adobe.com product readstep2.html	84
acrobat reader 4.0	82
acrobat adobe.com	77
acrobat pdf writer	61
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Acrobat

Definition: Acrobat

Acrobat

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Acrobat

Specialty Definition: Acrobat

Synonyms within Context: Acrobat

Humorist

Proficient

Strength

The Drama

Crosswords: Acrobat

Modern Usage: Acrobat

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Acrobat

Books

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Acrobat

Photos:Acrobat

Illustrations:Acrobat

Computer Images:Acrobat

Photo Album: Acrobat

Sounds Captioned with "Acrobat".

Non-Fiction Usage: Acrobat

Usage Frequency: Acrobat

Expression: Acrobat

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acrobat

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Modern Translations: Acrobat

Afrikaan

Albanian

Arabic

Basque

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Occitan

Papago

Papiamen

Pig Latin

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