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Date "LAPUTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Laputa The flying island inhabited by scientific quacks, and visited by Gulliver in his "travels." These dreamy philosophers were so absorbed in their speculations that they employed attendants called "flappers," to flap them on the mouth and ears with a blown bladder when their attention was to be called off from "high things" to vulgar mundane matters. (Swift.) "Realising in a manner the dreams of Lapnta and endeavouring to extract sunbeams from cucumbers."- De Quincy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Laputa is a flying island or rock, that can be directed by its inhabitants in any direction. Its tyrannic ruler uses it to control the mainland by threatening with covering rebel regions with the island's shadow. The people of Laputa are fond of mathematics and technology, but fail to make practical use of their knowledge. They created such marvels as a mirror that would let you converse with any historical figure, but couldn't construct well-designed clothing. This is probably a satire on the Royal Society.
The "Laputa Missile Complex" is the target of the B-52 bomber "Leper Colony" in the 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove, a reference to the highly theroetical discussions of nuclear war and deterrence that led the world to catastrophe in that film.
The 1986 anime film Laputa: The Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki features a floating city named Laputa after that of Gulliver's Travels.
"La puta" means "the whore" in Spanish. Swift probably knew this, and Miyazaki probably not. The Walt Disney company did, and as the American distributor of Miyazaki's film (though still unreleased in the USA), contracted the name to "Castle in the Sky." Some Spanish editions of "Gulliver's Travels" use "Lupata" as an euphemism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laputa."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Misteaching | Noun: misteaching, misinformaton, misintelligence, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion, misinstruction, misleading;Verb: perversion, false teaching; sophistry; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LAPUTA |
| English words defined with "LAPUTA": Laputan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LAPUTA": Amaurote ♦ Lagado. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Laputa (1986) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology. |
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| "LAPUTA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LAPUTA" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "LAPUTA": college of Laputa. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
laputa | 37 |
laputa castle in the sky | 29 |
laputa mp3 | 8 |
laputa midi | 4 |
grand laputa tree | 4 |
laputa wallpaper | 4 |
laputa music sheet | 3 |
laputa mazda | 3 |
laputa lyrics | 2 |
laputa music | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-p-t-u" | |
-2 letters: atap, plat, pula, tala, tapa. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, alp, alt, apt, lap, lat, pal, pat, pul, put, tap, tau, tup, uta. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, at, la, pa, ta, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: plateau, spatula. | |
+2 letters: capitula, catapult, pastural, plateaus, plateaux, spatular, spatulas. | |
+3 letters: apetalous, apiculate, aspectual, asphaltum, cantaloup, capitular, catapults, plateaued, portulaca, spatulate, tarpaulin. | |
+4 letters: antiplague, antiplaque, asphaltums, cantaloupe, cantaloups, capitulary, capitulate, capsulated, catapulted, manipulate, paniculate, particular, plateauing, portulacas, spathulate, supravital, tarpaulins, ultrarapid, ultrasharp, unpastoral, unpleasant. | |
+5 letters: antenuptial, antiplagues, antipopular, apicultural, aptitudinal, autocephaly, campanulate, cantaloupes, capitulated, capitulates, catapulting, encapsulate, manipulated, manipulates, manipulator, paramountly, particulars, particulate, pastureland, perambulate, planetarium, purgatorial, puritanical, spectacular, unadaptable, unadoptable, uniparental, unpalatable, unpractical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 50 55 54 41 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01001100 01000001 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A P U T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0050 0055 0054 0041 |
| 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)463550555435 |
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