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Carpet Sweeper

Definition: Carpet Sweeper

Carpet Sweeper

Noun

1. A cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Carpet Sweeper

Synonym: sweeper (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Carpet Sweeper

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carpet Sweeper

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  carpet sweeper

79

  bissell carpet sweeper

5

  floor and carpet sweeper

5

  hoky carpet sweeper

3

  bissel carpet sweeper

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carpet Sweeper

Language Translations for "carpet sweeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fshesë me korent. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مكنسة السجاد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

четка за килими, килимочистачка. (various references)

   

Czech

  

smeták na koberec, mechanický zametaè kobercù. (various references)

   

French

  

balai mécanique. (various references)

   

German

  

teppichkehrer. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ ק" שטיחים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szõnyegseprû készülék. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arpetcay eepersway

   

Romanian

  

aspirator (aspirator, inspirator, sucker, sucking, vacuum cleaner). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

щетка для чистки ковров (carpet-sweeper). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čistač za tepihe. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mattsopare (sweeper). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

halı süpürgesi, gırgır (hell, snoring, sweep net). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Carpet Sweeper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-p-p-r-r-s-t-w"

-4 letters: pewterers, precrease, preerects, recarpets, recreates, repartees, repeaters, rerepeats, respecter.

-5 letters: arrestee, caperers, caterers, crappers, creepers, erecters, paperers, peesweep, percepts, pesterer, pewterer, precepts, preerect, prepares, prepaste, pretapes, prewraps, recarpet, recrates, recreate, reerects, repapers, repartee, repeater, rerepeat, retraces, scrapper, secreter, strapper, taperers, terraces, trappers, waterers, wrappers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Carpet Sweeper


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 70 65 74      53 77 65 65 70 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01110000 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#112 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#83 &#119 &#101 &#101 &#112 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0070 0065 0074      0053 0077 0065 0065 0070 0065 0072

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

376784827186253897171827184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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