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Definition: PIERCER |
PIERCERNoun1. An insect provided with an ovipositor. 2. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. 3. A piercel. 4. An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. 5. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates |
Date "PIERCER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A blasting needle. See also:picker. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Perforator | Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PIERCER |
| English words defined with "PIERCER": Piercel. (references) |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PIERCER": armor-piercer, armour-piercer, Cloud-piercer, Ear-piercer. | |
| 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 |
piercer | 8 |
become piercer | 5 |
become body piercer | 5 |
ear piercer | 2 |
egg piercer | 2 |
piercer wave | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PIERCER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الثاقب (penetrator, perforator, puncher). (various references) | |
French | perceur. (various references) | |
Greek | τρυπητήσ (borer, broacher, perforator, puncher), διατρυπών. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקב (perforator, punch), מ"קר (piercing stab). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fúrómunkás (driller). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ル風 (binding, bingo, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peek, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piece, piecework, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "アサー . (various references) | |
Manx | broddeyder (poker, pricker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iercerpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | verruma (bore, drill), trado (auger, irate), sovela (awl, bradawl, broach, pricker, puncher, roasting-jack), furador (awl, bodkin, borer, bradawl, broach, drill, driller, pricker, puncher, roasting-jack), broca (auger, bit, bore, borer, broach, drill bit, wimble). (various references) | |
Romanian | poanson (die, piston, style). (various references) | |
Russian | пробойник (mandrel, mandril, ramrod). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svrdlo (auger, broach), žaoka (prick, sting, stinger), šilo (awl, bodkin, bradawl). (various references) | |
Swedish | genomträngare. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укус (bite, nip, snack, sting), свердел (auger, borer, drill, gimlet, hand-brace, perforator), бурильник (borer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mũi khoan (bit), mũi đột, giùi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PIERCER": piercers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crepier, reprice. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: piecer, pierce, pricer, recipe. | |
-2 letters: creep, crepe, crier, cripe, piece, price, prier, ricer, riper. | |
-3 letters: cepe, cere, cire, epic, peer, peri, pice, pier, pree, rice, ripe. | |
-4 letters: cee, cep, ere, err, ice, ire, pec, pee, per, pic, pie, rec, ree, rei, rep, rip. | |
-5 letters: er, pe, pi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: creepier, piercers, preciser, preprice, repriced, reprices. | |
+2 letters: overprice, perceiver, preachier, prepriced, preprices, prescribe, prurience, puckerier. | |
+3 letters: decipherer, encipherer, overpriced, overprices, perceivers, precertify, prescribed, prescriber, prescribes, preservice, princelier, pruriences, underprice. | |
+4 letters: carpentries, decipherers, depreciator, encipherers, hypermetric, intercepter, interceptor, microampere, microsphere, overprecise, parcenaries, pieceworker, preclearing, precreasing, preelectric, preerecting, prescribers, prevaricate, procreative, pruriencies, recarpeting, reciprocate, superscribe, transpierce, underpriced, underprices. | |
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