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Definition: CLASPER |
CLASPERNoun1. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera. 2. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. 3. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. |
Crosswords: CLASPER |
| English words defined with "CLASPER": Pterygopodium. (references) |
| "CLASPER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "CLASPER" is used about 24 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) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CLASPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | σφίγγων (squeezer, tightener, tightening). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | asperclay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLASPER": claspers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CLASPER" (pronounced 'Clasp"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carpels, parcels, placers, reclasp, scalper. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: capers, carles, carpel, clears, crapes, escarp, lacers, lapser, pacers, parcel, parles, parsec, pearls, placer, places, recaps, scaler, sclera, scrape, secpar, spacer. | |
-2 letters: acres, alecs, apers, apres, arles, asper, caper, capes, cares, carle, carls, carps, carse, claps, clasp, clear, crape, craps, earls, escar, lacer, laces, lapse, lares, laser, leaps, lears, pacer, paces, paler. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: calipers, clampers, clappers, claspers, percales, reclasps, replaces, replicas, scalpers, sceptral, scrapple, spectral, specular, spiracle. | |
+2 letters: callipers, calypters, caprioles, clepsydra, parlances, particles, pectorals, peculiars, placaters, praelects, precleans, preclears, prelacies, preplaces, reclasped, replacers, replicase, scalloper, scrapples, specialer, spherical, spiracles. | |
+3 letters: afterclaps, applecarts, aspherical, campestral, carpoolers, clepsydrae, clepsydras, crawlspace, curlpapers, fireplaces, kiloparsec, landscaper, narcolepsy, operculars, parbuckles, parfleches, peculators, pelycosaur, percalines, percolates, porcelains, precancels, reclasping, replicases, replicates, scallopers, screenplay, sepulchral, spectrally, specularly, speculator, superclass, superclean, superflack, superscale, workplaces. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 53 50 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- ... .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A S P E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 0053 0050 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37463553503952 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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