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Definition: CRUTCHES |
CRUTCHESPlural1. Of Crutch |
Date "CRUTCHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you go on crutches, denotes that you will depend largely on others for your support and advancement. To see others on crutches, denotes unsatisfactory results from labors. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CRUTCHES |
| English words defined with "CRUTCHES": Crutched. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRUTCHES": apparatus for walking exercises ♦ CORRECTIVE THERAPIST ♦ Mumpers ♦ ORTHOPEDIC ASSISTANT, orthopedic cast specialis ♦ PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT, physical therapy assistant, physical therapy technicia, physiotherapis, PROPS ♦ Ready-to-Halt. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Only cripples need crutches. (Unstrung Heroes; writing credit: Richard LaGravenese) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bride Wore Crutches (1940) Love on Crutches (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown are several different shots of an NIH employee, Shana Malone in her working environment. Shana works while seated in a wheelchair and can walk with the assistance of crutches. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer). |  | Great Britain, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital, Newton-Abbot, England. : Patients with crutches. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Male amputee plague victim (three-quarter length portrait, facing front) on crutches, hands upraised, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "During the many long weeks of healing the patients must use wheelchairs and crutches until they learn how to walk with a synthetic limb. Shown is PFC Charles Moody of Institute, West Virginia, who was injured near Taegu, Korea, while serving with the First Cavalry Division." Photograph was probably taken at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC. Quoted sentences are from the original caption, released with the photo on 1 February 1951. Credit: NAVY. |
 | One-legged man on crutches and instrument, with clock above reading 12:00, at the Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.] / copyrighted and photographed by Waldon Fawcett. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hon. William David Upshaw, three-quarter length portrait, standing with crutches, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gettysburg, Pa. John L. Burns, the "old hero of Gettysburg," with gun and crutches. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "The old rocking chair has got him." Everything from crutches to crockery is on display at Hardwick's victory store. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Colley Cibber | Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many individuals with SB will need assistive devices such as braces, crutches, or wheelchairs. (references) | |
If appropriate, your child may begin to practice walking with crutches even before amputation of the leg makes crutches temporarily necessary. (references) | ||
Business | These include wheel chairs, orthopedic products, walking aids, crutches, all kind of bath safety products, massage apparatus, colostomy and blood bags, sanitary devices, adjustable beds, respiratory apparatus, and others. (references) | |
A substantial part of Russian-made home health care products are represented by low-tech products such as manual wheelchairs, crutches, canes, simple bathing aids and lifts for elderly and disabled, tread mills, walking aids, mattresses, bandages, supports and simple orthopedic products. (references) | ||
Children | Thailand | Persons with disabilities who register with the Government are entitled to free medical examinations, wheelchairs, and crutches. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Relatives who visited the brothers reported that Mukhammad Bekzhon was walking on crutches and looked emaciated. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CRUTCHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "CRUTCHES" is used about 107 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 (plural) | 98.13% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CRUTCHES": walk on crutches. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CRUTCHES": elbow-crutches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRUTCHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | ركائز. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 拐杖 (Crutch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | chodit o berlích (walk on crutches). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | piliers (crutched friars). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Krücken. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | πατερίτσες (crutch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '木杖 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅもくずえ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 목발 (Crutch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | utchescray muletas (crutch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CRUTCHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crotche, croutches, cruachem, Cruche, crutche, Crutcher, Crutchley, curches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRUTCHES" (pronounced kru"khuz) |
| 4 | -u" kh u z | clutches, touches. |
| 3 | -kh u z | approaches, arches, attaches, avalanches, batches, beaches, benches, bitches, boches, branches, breaches, britches, broaches, brunches, bunches, catches, churches, clenches, clinches, coaches, cockroaches, couches, crunches, detaches, dispatches, ditches, encroaches, enriches, entrenches, etches, fetches, finches, glitches, goldfinches, hatches, hitches, hunches, impeaches, inches, itches, latches, launches, leaches, leeches, lunches, lurches, marches, matches, mismatches, mulches, niches, notches, ostriches, overreaches, patches, peaches, perches, pitches, pooches, porches, pouches, preaches, punches, ranches, reaches, researches, riches, roaches, sandwiches, scotches, scratches, screeches, searches, sketches, slouches, snatches, speeches, starches, stitches, stopwatches, stretches, swatches, switches, teaches, thatches, torches, trenches, twitches, watches, wenches, witches, wrenches, wristwatches. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scutcher. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: curches, cutches. | |
-2 letters: cercus, cherts, chutes, cruces, cruets, cruset, crutch, curets, eructs, rectus, recuts, ruches, scutch, truces, tusche. | |
-3 letters: chert, chest, chute, crest, cruet, cruse, crush, crust, curch, cures, curet, curse, curst, cusec, cutch, cuter, cutes, ecrus, eruct, hurst, hurts, recut, retch, ruche, ruths, scute, shute, sucre, teuch, truce, trues, usher. | |
-4 letters: crus, cues. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: scutchers. | |
+2 letters: cartouches, churchiest, crunchiest, cutcheries. | |
+3 letters: churchliest, eucharistic. | |
+4 letters: breechclouts, butterscotch, charcuteries. | |
+5 letters: architectures, counterchecks. | |
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