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Definition: Moped |
MopedNoun1. A motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | MOPED. Stupid, melancholy for want of society. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A moped is a motorized two-wheeled vehicle subject to local speed regulations. Typically, mopeds are restricted to 30-35 mph (about 50-55 km/h). Some localities require pedals, thus making them hybrid transport using both human power and machine power. The earliest mopeds, introduced in the early 1950s, were nothing but bicycles with a helper motor on top of the front wheel. An example of this early type is the Solex brand.
The word moped is imported from a Swedish short form of the word motorvelociped. Velociped is an older Swedish word for bicycle, imported from the French word vélocipède formed from the latin velocispedis meaning "fast foot".
In the United Kingdom, Hawaii, and some other jurisdictions, the term "Moped" describes any low powered motorcycle or motor scooter with an engine capacity of less than 50 cc.
Mopeds are like motorcycles and motorized scooters.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moped."
Crosswords: Moped |
| Non-English Usage: "Moped" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (moped), German (moped), Hungarian (moped), Norwegian (moped), Serbo-Croatian (moped), Spanish (moped), Swedish (moped), Turkish (moped, motor scooter, scooter). |
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Screenplays | Yes, on the moped. (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I think I'll take this thing for a spin NOAA diver gets ready for a spin on a tourist moped At the end of the cruise ship piers in Nassau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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 | Beep of a moped horn. |
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| "Moped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.15% of the time. "Moped" is used about 65 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.15% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 24.62% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.15% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "moped": small moped. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "moped": moped-riders. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moped | 3,531 | sachs moped | 27 |
used moped | 268 | jawa moped | 27 |
moped for sale | 211 | vespa moped | 26 |
scooter moped | 197 | eu moped | 25 |
honda moped | 187 | gas go moped peds scooter | 25 |
tomos moped | 152 | moped tire | 25 |
moped part | 131 | fast moped | 24 |
cheap moped | 119 | garelli moped | 24 |
puch moped | 101 | moped rental | 23 |
electric moped | 62 | moped delar | 23 |
yamaha moped | 61 | honda moped part | 23 |
used moped for sale | 58 | puch moped part | 21 |
kinetic moped | 43 | motobecane moped | 19 |
bike mini moped racing | 41 | moped accessory | 19 |
moped dealer | 39 | buy a moped | 18 |
peugeot moped | 36 | used cheap moped | 17 |
law moped | 34 | derbi moped | 17 |
gas moped | 34 | moped picture | 17 |
moped trim | 29 | moped säljes | 17 |
suzuki moped | 27 | moped insurance | 17 |
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| Language | Translations for "moped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | biçikletë me motor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мотопед. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 脚踏车. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | moped. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | knallert (motor-bicycle, motor-bike, motor-cycle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bromfiets. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mopedo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mopo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | motocycle (motorcycle), vélomoteur (motorcycle), cyclomoteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Moped (motor-bicycle, motor-bike, motor-cycle), sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, mad, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μοτοποδήλατο (motor bike, motorbike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | moped, segédmotoros kerékpár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | brompit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ciclomotore (motor-bicycle, motorbike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 原付き (low power "motorized" bicycle, scooter), モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex), モーゼル連発銃 (fashion, Mauser rifle, mobile ham, mobile home, mobile house, modal, mode, mode line, mode-line, moment, momentum, morning, morning after, morning call, morning coat, morning cup, morning dress, morning service, motel, motor, motor home, motor hotel, motor pool, motor race, motor show, motor sports, motorbike, motorboat, motorcar, motorcycle, motorist, motorization, mourning dress, Mozart, wake-up call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | モペット , モーペッド , '"つき (low power "motorized" bicycle, scooter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coshaleen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | moped. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | bròmer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opedmay motocicleta (motorbike, motorcycle), enfadado (disgruntled, sulky, surly, weariful), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, dumpish, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, prostrate, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone). (various references) велосипед с мотором. (various references) moped. (various references) ciclomotor (motorcycle), motocicleta (motorbike, motorcycle). (various references) brombaysigri. (various references) moped. (various references) รถจักรยานยนต์ขนา"เล็ก (น้อยกว่า 50 ซีซี). (various references) motosiklet (bike, cycle, motor scooter, motorbike, motorcycle), moped (motor scooter, scooter). (various references) мопед (motorbike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "moped": mopeds. (additional references) | |
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"Moped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foped, Maope, maphed, mboepd, Mbopo, mepe, Meppem, moape, moced, moded, moed, Mokpo, mopad, mopar, mopede, mopeed, mopel, moper, mopey, mophead, mopi, mopie, Mopof, moppen, mored, mpe, Mppda, mpted, myope, myoped, nopec, noped, oped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-p" | |
-1 letter: demo, dome, dope, mode, mope, oped, poem, pome. | |
-2 letters: doe, dom, med, mod, mop, ode, ope, ped, pod, pom. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, em, me, mo, od, oe, om, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-o-p" | |
+1 letter: comped, mopeds, mopped, pomade, romped. | |
+2 letters: chomped, clomped, compend, compted, implode, imponed, imposed, megapod, morphed, pomaded, pomades, popedom, premold, stomped, tromped, whomped. | |
+3 letters: coempted, compadre, compared, compends, compered, competed, compiled, complied, composed, computed, dopamine, employed, hypoderm, imploded, implodes, implored, imported, imposted, improved, malposed, megapode, megapods, monopode, oompahed, pediform, piedmont, podomere, pogromed, pomander, pommeled, popedoms, premolds, prodrome, promised, promoted, prompted, pyoderma, tamponed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 70 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o p e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0070 0065 0064 |
| 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)4781827170 |
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