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"PITCHERS" is a plural of: pitcher. |
Date "PITCHERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pitchers Little pitchers have long ears. Little folk or children hear what is said when you little think it. The ear of a pitcher is the handle, made in the shape of a man's ear. The handle of a cream-ewer and of other small jugs is quite out of proportion to the size of the vessel, compared with the handles of large jars. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PITCHERSSynonyms: Ewers, Jugs. (additional references) |
Crosswords: PITCHERS |
| English words defined with "PITCHERS": Australian pitcher plant ♦ bullpen ♦ California pitcher plant, common pitcher plant, contract ♦ Darlingtonia californica ♦ fee ♦ huntsman's cup, huntsman's cups, huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns ♦ Pitcher plant, pitching coach ♦ rosin bag ♦ Sarracenia flava, Sarracenia purpurea, sign, sign on, sign up, start, starting ♦ trumpets ♦ yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PITCHERS": clay thrower ♦ pot maker. (references) |
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Screenplays | Little pitchers! (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Two hammered silver pitchers from the Caucasus, Georgia (Republic. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This Rousseau restaurant, where so few bottles and so many pitchers were emptied, was rather an appeasant than a restorant. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Pitchers have ears. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I seen pitchers once says a desert. |
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| "PITCHERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PITCHERS" is used about 19 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) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PITCHERS": multi-pitchers. | |
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| Language | Translations for "PITCHERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Krüge (jars, jugs, mugs, tankards). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 投飛 (pitchers fly), 投手板 (pitchers plate), 壁役 (catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | かべやく (catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen), とうしゅば" (pitchers plate), とうひ (equal ratio, escape, evasion, flight, justice, pitchers fly, propriety, right or wrong, scalp, spruce tree, suppression of bandits). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | itcherspay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Lamentations Chapter 4, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Uioi siwn oi timioi oi ephrmenoi en crusiw pwV elogisqhsan eiV aggeia ostrakina erga ceirwn keramewV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | BETH filii Sion incliti et amicti auro primo quomodo reputati sunt in vasa testea opus manuum figuli |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Beth. The sonus of Sion glorious, and wrappid with the chef gold, in to erthene vesseles, werk of the hondis of a crockere. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter! |
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| Language | Lamentations Chapter 4, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ang bililhong mga anak nga lalake sa Sion, takus ikatanding sa inulay nga bulawan, Naunsa nga sila giisip man nga ingon sa saro nga sa yutang kolonon, ang buhat sa mga kamot sa magkokolon! |
| Croatian | Sinovi sionski, nekoæ cijenjeni kao najèišæe zlato, ah, sada ih cijene kao sudove glinske, kao djelo ruku lonèarevih! |
| Danish | Zions de dyre Sønner, der opvejed Guld, kun regnet for Lerkar, Pottemagerhænders Værk |
| Dutch | Beth. De kostelijke kinderen Sions, tegen fijn goud geschat, hoe zijn zij nu gelijk gerekend aan de aarden flessen, het werk van de handen eens pottenbakkers! |
| Finnish | Siionin pojat, nuo kalliit, punnitut puhtaimman kullan arvoisiksi - kuinka he ovatkaan saviastiain arvossa, savenvalajan kätten tekojen! |
| French | Les nobles fils de Sion, Estimés l`égal de l`or pur, Sont regardés, hélas! comme des vases de terre, Ouvrage des mains du potier! |
| German | Die edlen Kinder Zions, dem Golde gleich geachtet, wie sind sie nun den irdenen Töpfen gleich, die ein Töpfer macht! |
| Hungarian | Sionnak drága fiait, a kik becsesebbek valának mint a színarany, cserépedénynek tekintették, a fazekas munkájának. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dahulu para remaja Kota Sion seperti emas yang berharga, tapi kini diperlakukan seperti bejana tanah belaka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun segala anak-anak Sion, yang ternilai dengan emas tua, bagaimana sekarang mereka itu dibilang sama dengan buli-buli, yang perbuatan tangan penjunan! |
| Italian | I preziosi figli di Sion, valutati come oro fino, ah! come sono stimati quali vasi di creta, lavoro delle mani di vasaio! |
| Maori | Ko nga tamariki a Hiona, ko nga mea papai, i rite nei ki te koura parakore, taukiri e! kua kiia ratou he haka oneone, he mea hanga na nga ringa o te kaipokepoke. |
| Norwegian | Sions barn, de dyrebare, like i verd med det fineste gull, hvor de er blitt aktet som lerkrukker, et verk av en pottemakers hender! |
| Portuguese | Os preciosos filhos de Sião, comparáveis a ouro puro, como são agora reputados por vasos de barro, obra das mãos de oleiro! |
| Rumanian | Cum sknt priviyi acum fiii Sionului, cei alewi wi preyuiyi ca aurul curat altq datq, cum sknt priviyi acum, vai! Ca niwte vase de pqmknt, wi ca o lucrare fqcutq de mknile olarului! |
| Russian | уЩОЩ уЙПОБ "ТБЗП"ЕООЩЕ, ТБЧОП"ЕООЩЕ ЮЙУФЕКЫЕНХ ЪПМПФХ, ЛБЛ ПОЙ УТБЧОЕОЩ У ЗМЙОСОПА ПУХ"ПА, ЙЪ"ЕМЙЕН ТХЛ ЗПТЫЕЮОЙЛБ! |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PITCHERS": pitchersful. (additional references) | |
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"PITCHERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pecheures, Pecheurs, perchers, perchery, pichers, picters, pilchers, pitahayas, pitchre, pitchur, Pither, Poictiers, putchers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PITCHERS" (pronounced pi"kherz) |
| 4 | -i" kh er z | switchers. |
| 3 | -kh er z | adventures, architectures, benchers, bleachers, butchers, captures, caricatures, catchers, conjectures, creatures, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, features, fixtures, forfeitures, fractures, futures, gestures, indentures, infrastructures, junctures, launchers, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, miniatures, misadventures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pictures, pinchers, poachers, postures, preachers, punctures, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, restructures, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, teachers, temperatures, textures, tinctures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ceriphs, ciphers, cithers, hipster, pitcher, pitches, richest, spheric, triceps. | |
-2 letters: ceriph, cherts, chirps, cipher, citers, cither, cripes, esprit, ethics, itches, perish, precis, prices, priest, reship, riches, ripest, script, septic, spicer, sprite, steric, stripe, theirs, thrice, thrips, trices, tripes. | |
-3 letters: cesti, chert, chest, chips, chirp, chits, cires, citer, cites, crept, crest, cries, cripe, crisp. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chapiters, chirpiest, sphincter. | |
+2 letters: archpriest, dispatcher, hypocrites, nephrotics, parritches, pasticheur, preachiest, prosthetic, rectorship, sphericity, sphincters, spirochete, splotchier, superbitch, superthick. | |
+3 letters: archpriests, atmospheric, birthplaces, champerties, ciphertexts, coppersmith, dispatchers, geostrophic, helicopters, heptarchies, hyperstatic, hypsometric, lectureship, mesotrophic, orthopedics, paresthetic, pasticheurs, pentarchies, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, prehistoric, prosthetics, rectorships, spherulitic, sphincteric, spirochaete, spirochetal, spirochetes. | |
+4 letters: apothecaries, atmospherics, cataphoresis, chemotropism, chiropterans, coppersmiths, diaphoretics, directorship, executorship, hyperactives, hypercritics, hyperostotic, hyperplastic, hypersthenic, interpsychic, lectureships, lithospheric, orthopaedics, patriarchies, periphrastic, peritrichous, phenocrystic, photocopiers, photospheric, phylacteries, psychiatries, psychometric, pulchritudes, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, speechwriter, sphericities, spirochaetes, stenographic, stepchildren, stereophonic, superbitches, therapeutics, tropospheric. | |
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