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Definition: Capri |
CapriNoun1. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Capri" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Overlooking Capri harbor from
Villa San Michele. (large version)Capri is an island off the coast of Italy, in the Bay of Naples that has been a celebrated "beauty spot' and resort since Roman times. Its features are a litany of postcard views: the Marina Piccola (Small Harbor), the Belvedere of Tragara, which is a high panoramic promenade lined with villas, the limestone masses that stand out of the sea (the 'Faraglioni'), Anacapri, the Blue Grotto ('Grotta Azzurra'). Above all are the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas.
Tacitus records that there were twelve Imperial villas in Capri. Ruins of one at Tragara could still be seen in the 19th Century. Suetonius reports that when the foundations for the villa were being excavated, giant bones and 'weapons of stone' were discovered, which Octavian Augustus ordered to be displayed in the garden of his main residence, the Sea Palace, one of the first displays of fossils.
Augustus' successor Tiberius also built a series of villas at Capri, the most famous of which is the 'Villa Jovis' one of the best preserved Roman villas in Italy.
These days the busier parts of the island are over-run with tourists during the summer and especially during the middle of the day. To savour the wonderful light and atmosphere of the island it is best to be out and about early in the morning and late in the day and out of the high summer tourist season.
Capri in Literature
Capri is the setting for The Lotus Eater, a short-story by Somerset Maugham. In the story, the protagonist from London comes to Capri on a holiday and is so enchanted by the place he gives up his job and decides to spent the rest of his life in leisure at Capri.
External link
- Capri Hotels and Accommodation in Isle of Capri Italy
- Capriweb illustrated highly informative tourist itineraries.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Capri."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CAPRI | English | Computerized administration of patent documents reclassified according to the IPC | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Capri |
| English words defined with "Capri": Campania. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Capri": MAS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Capri" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Capri). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | To the island of Capri (Rhythm Divine; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blond muß man sein auf Capri (1961) Avventura a Capri (1958) Ci sposeremo a Capri (1956) Adventure in Capri (1956) Unter den Sternen von Capri (1953) | |
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 | Figure 7. E. von Petersen's photometer. Left: device before opening. Middle: device during exposure. Right: device after closing. This device was invented in 1886 by Eugen von Petersen, an engineer at the Naples zoological station. The design follows the specifications of Carl Chun. The first test of this ins trument was by Carl Chun off Capri in 250 meters water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 11. W. F. Ewald's photometer, messenger model, at the end of operation. Invented by Wolfgang F. Ewald about 1910 to fix some of the problems of the previous model. First tested about 1910 off the coast of Scotland. Other tests were then made off Capri. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 14. W. F. Ewald's and K. Grein's photometer. Left: view of the apparatus. Right (from top to bottom): messenger container; removable photographic plates; removable filters. This instrument was designed by Wolfgang F. Ewald with the aid of Klaus Green. It was first tested off Capri and put to the definitive tests off Monaco in up to 500 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | View of Vesuvius from Capri. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Early moonlight, Capri. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "A sail in the blue" by Piotr Kreglicki Commentary: "A pic of a lone sailship near Capri, Italy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Frilled hems, Capri pants, Turkish trousers, wide leg trousers, drawstring lounge pants, hipsters, low-slung trousers, one-piece trousers. (references) | |
Economic History | Italy | That region, home to Capri, the Amalfi Coast and the Sorrento peninsula, boasts significant tourism sector opportunities and environmental projects. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Capri" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capri" is used about 133 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 (proper) | 100% | 133 | 27,614 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Capri" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Capri | Last name | 100 | 74,365 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Capri": capri-driver. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
capri | 862 | isle of capri lake charles | 39 |
isle of capri | 786 | capri lighting | 38 |
isle of capri casino | 551 | capri sail boat | 38 |
capri pants | 300 | mercury capri part | 35 |
capri italy | 201 | kid capri | 35 |
mercury capri | 194 | capri set | 33 |
capri hotel | 164 | capri cine harkins | 32 |
ford capri | 125 | capri miss trish | 31 |
bayliner capri | 124 | 1991 mercury capri | 31 |
isle of capri italy | 108 | capri by the sea | 29 |
capri cine | 101 | capri motel | 27 |
capri island | 72 | isle of capri shreveport | 25 |
isle of capri biloxi | 68 | bossier capri city isle | 24 |
capri sun | 57 | capri camper | 23 |
capri cigarette | 54 | isle of capri casino biloxi | 22 |
isle of capri hotel | 51 | ahna capri | 21 |
capri drive in | 44 | 1989 bayliner capri | 21 |
capri overall | 43 | capri event | 21 |
capri pants for man | 43 | capri cargo pants | 21 |
isle of capri casino hotel | 39 | capri court | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Capri"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Capri. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apricay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Capri": capric, capricci, capriccio, capriccios, caprice, caprices, capricious, capriciously, capriciousness, capriciousnesses, caprification, caprifications, caprifig, caprifigs, caprine, capriole, caprioled, caprioles, caprioling, capris. (additional references) | |
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"Capri" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Campri, Caparn, capir, Capraia, Capree, Capreee, Capria, Caprimo, capro, Carpoid, Carri, Cazrti, Cepror, cipro, Clapci, Cpti, cypri, Shapurji. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carpi. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: carp, crap, pair, pica. | |
-2 letters: air, arc, cap, car, pac, par, pia, pic, rap, ria, rip. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: capric, capris, picara, picaro, piracy. | |
+2 letters: apraxic, apricot, aprotic, caliper, campier, cantrip, caprice, caprine, carping, charpai, crampit, craping, crappie, cyprian, epicarp, graphic, haircap, paprica, paretic, parodic, parotic, peracid, picador, picaras, picaros, picrate, piratic, piscary, practic, priapic, primacy, privacy, prosaic, puranic, replica, scrapie, spacier, tipcart, tripack. | |
+3 letters: adscript, agraphic, airscape, airspace, apocrine, apractic, apricots, apyretic, aspheric, atrophic, calipers, calliper, campfire, camphire, cantraip, cantrips, capering, caponier, capricci, caprices, caprifig, capriole, carpalia, carpings, chapiter, charpais, copremia, cramping, crampits, crankpin, crappier, crappies, crapping, crispate, cyprians, diapiric, earpiece, epicarps, graphics, gripsack, haircaps, hipparch, impacter, impactor, operatic, orphical, pacifier, papricas, paranoic, parchesi, parching, parchisi, parecism, paretics, parhelic, parritch, parsonic, particle, patchier, peachier, peculiar, peracids, pericarp, perisarc, phratric, phreatic, piacular, picadors, picaroon, picloram, picogram, picrated, picrates, pilchard, piracies, pirarucu, piscator, poachier, podagric, practice, practise, praecipe, prancing, prelatic, procaine, prochain, proclaim, protatic, rapacity, repacify, replicas, sapremic, saprobic, scarfpin, scarping, scrapies, scraping, seraphic, spagyric, spicular, spiracle, sporadic, tipcarts, tripacks, triptyca, tropical, vampiric. | |
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