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Definition: CLAMPED |
CLAMPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Clamp |
Date "CLAMPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Crosswords: CLAMPED |
| English words defined with "CLAMPED": clamp, clamp down, crack down ♦ Patent-hammered ♦ Rag wheel ♦ Sandwich girder ♦ Tool-stock ♦ viselike. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CLAMPED": AGATE SETTER ♦ BUNDLE TIER AND LABELER ♦ cast in vertical clamped moulds, chip breaker, clamping jaw, cold-press operator, continental gland-type capping, cupping test, curtain wall, curtain walling ♦ FEEDER TUBE ♦ ganged sub-bases, gripping jaw ♦ Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, holding jaw, HYDRAULIC-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ indexable tip ♦ parmalee wrench, plated crystal ♦ roof layer ♦ SAW-EDGE FUSER, CIRCULAR, SOLDERER-DIPPER ♦ throwaway tip, TINNING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR ♦ vulcanizing machine ♦ work holding jaw. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I was bound up in a straightjacket, and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with, like, wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lodlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them, no matter how hard I tried (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch (Psycho; writing credit: Joseph Stefano) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Taking a bar check to calibrate fathometer Note transducer clamped to side of boat - officer on right monitoring fathometer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A red ant ran into the shell, into the soft skin inside the shell, and suddenly head and legs snapped in, and the armored tail clamped in sideways |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To obtain cord blood stem cells, blood is drained from the umbilical cord and placenta as soon as a healthy baby is born and the cord clamped and cut. The cord blood is typed, frozen and stored. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | According to Taliban regulations, men's beards were required to extend farther than a fist clamped at the base of the chin. (references) |
Economic History | Afghanistan | When Pakistan clamped down in 2000 on the types of goods permitted duty-free transit, routing of goods through Iran from the Gulf increased significantly. (references) |
Women | Cuba | Most observers believe that the Government clamped down on prostitution to combat the perception that the Government promotes sex tourism. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CLAMPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "CLAMPED" is used about 225 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 60% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 225 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CLAMPED": be clamped ♦ cast in vertical clamped moulds. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CLAMPED": clamped-free. | |
Ending with "CLAMPED": voltage-clamped. | |
| 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 |
clamped | 17 |
clamped nipples | 10 |
clamped tit | 8 |
clamped nipple | 4 |
clamped fins | 3 |
clamped cunt | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLAMPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 夹紧 (Clamping). (various references) | |
Danish | støbning i vertikale sammenspændte forme (cast in vertical clamped moulds), støbning i stående sammenspændte forme (cast in vertical clamped moulds). (various references) | |
Dutch | gieten in vertikaal geklemde vormen (cast in vertical clamped moulds). (various references) | |
Finnish | valaa pystyssä (cast in vertical clamped moulds). (various references) | |
French | couler en presse (cast in vertical clamped moulds), câble plat cramponné (clamped flat rope), assemblage bridé (clamped assembly). (various references) | |
German | befestigte (affixed, cleated, fastened, fixed, fortified, gartered). (various references) | |
Greek | χύνω σε κατακόρυφα στερεωμένα καλούπια (cast in vertical clamped moulds). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"צבט (be clamped, be grasped, be pinched). (various references) | |
Korean | 죄". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampedclay.(various references) | |
Spanish | conjunto sujeto con abrazadera (clamped assembly), colar en prensa (cast in vertical clamped moulds). (various references) | |
Swedish | hopklämd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CLAMPED": unclamped. (additional references) | |
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"CLAMPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alampiev, Blampied, Clampe, clampet, Clampett, Illampu, Klaipeda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLAMPED" (pronounced kla"mpt) |
| 4 | -a" m p t | camped, cramped, damped, decamped, encamped, revamped, stamped. |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, bumped, contempt, crimped, dumped, exempt, humped, jumped, limped, lumped, plumped, preempt, prompt, pumped, slumped, stomped, stumped, swamped, tempt, thumped, trumped, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m-p" | |
-1 letter: calmed, camped, decamp, lamped, macled, palmed, placed. | |
-2 letters: ample, camel, caped, clade, clamp, decal, laced, lamed, maced, macle, maple, medal, paced, padle, paled, pedal, place, plead. | |
-3 letters: aced, acme, alec, alme, aped, cade, calm, came, camp, cape, clad, clam, clap, dace, dale, dame, damp, deal, lace, lade, lame, lamp, lead, leap, mace, made. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: emplaced. | |
+2 letters: misplaced, unclamped. | |
+3 letters: camelopard, complained, epidemical, implicated, premedical, proclaimed. | |
+4 letters: camelopards, complicated, dimercaprol, diplomacies, endoplasmic, paramedical, spermicidal. | |
+5 letters: accomplished, compoundable, contemplated, decomposable, dimercaprols, displacement, epidemically, paramedicals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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