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Date "CALEPIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"CALEPIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: capelin. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Calepin (A). A dictionary. (Italian, calepino.) Ambrosio Calepino, of Calepio, in Italy, was the author of a dictionary, so that "my Calepin," like my Euclid, my Johnson, according to Cocker, etc., have become common nouns from proper names. Generally called Calepin, but the subjoined quotation throws the accent on the le. "Whom do you prefer For the best linguist? And I seelily Said that I thought Calepine's Dictionary." Dr. Donne: Fourth Satire. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: CALEPIN |
| Non-English Usage: "CALEPIN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (notebook, pocket book). |
| 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 |
calepin | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: capelin, panicle, pelican. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: alpine, apneic, caplin, epical, inlace, pencil, penial, pineal, plaice, plicae. | |
-2 letters: alien, aline, anile, clean, cline, elain, ileac, lance, lapin, liane, linac, panel, panic, pecan, penal, pical, pilea, place, plain, plane, plena, plica. | |
-3 letters: acne, alec, anil, cain, cane, cape, ceil, cine, clan, clap, clip, elan, epic, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, lean. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: capelins, cephalin, manciple, panicled, panicles, pelicans, pinnacle. | |
+2 letters: analeptic, appliance, campanile, candlepin, cephalins, cisalpine, emplacing, incapable, inclasped, inculpate, manciples, parceling, percaline, pinnacled, pinnacles, pleaching, pliancies, policeman, porcelain, replacing. | |
+3 letters: analeptics, antipolice, appliances, beclasping, calipering, campaniles, candlepins, cephalexin, complained, complainer, compliance, enclasping, epicentral, escaloping, inculpable, inculpated, inculpates, neophiliac, neoplastic, opalescing, paniculate, parcelling, peculating, peculation, penicillia, percalines, placidness, plasticene, plasticine, pleonastic, porcelains, pratincole, preplacing, reclasping, republican, scaloppine, spanceling, suppliance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4C 45 50 49 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. . .--. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01001100 01000101 01010000 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A L E P I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004C 0045 0050 0049 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37354639504348 |
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