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Definitions: Redcap |
RedcapNoun1. (British) a member of the military police. 2. A railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Carries baggage for passengers of airline, railroad, or motorbus by hand or handtruck, to waiting or baggage room, onto train or bus, or to taxicab or private automobile. Performs related services, such as calling taxicabs, directing persons to ticket windows and rest rooms, and assisting handicapped passengers upon their arrival or departure. May clean terminal floors; wash walls, windows and counters; and dust furniture. When employed in airline terminal, is designated Skycap (air trans.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RedcapSynonym: porter (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Redcap (1964) | |
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 |
redcap | 19 |
redcap uniform | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "redcap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | polic ushtarak, hamall (coolie, drudge, loader, lumper, porter, roustabout, stevedore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | военен полицай, вид сипка, носач (bearer, heaver, porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αχθοφόροσ σιδηροδρομικού σταθμού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שוטר (constable, copper, minion of the law, officer, official, policeman), סבל (bearer, carrier, lumper, porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hordár (carrier, porter, porterage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 赤帽 (porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あかぼう (porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edcapray военный полицейский, носильщик (baggage-man, carrier, porter, skycap, train porter), полицейский (constable, copper, cops, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, patrolmen, peeler, police, police constable, police officer, policeman, policemen, police-officer, runner, slop, speed-cop, traffic cop, traffic manager, traffic officer). (various references) vojna policija (constabulary), nosač (atlas, bellboy, bellhop, cantilever, carrier, girder, porter, tranter, truss). (various references) policía militar (military police), mozo de estación. (various references) militärpolis. (various references) บริกรยกกระเป๋า. (various references) bagaj hamalı, askeri polis. (various references) кардинал, носильник (baggage man, carrier, porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redcap": redcaps. (additional references) | |
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"Redcap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Raudsepp, recao, Redab, redack, redap, redca, redcu, Redha, Redknap. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carped, craped. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-p-r" | |
-1 letter: acred, arced, cadre, caped, caper, cared, cedar, crape, drape, paced, pacer, padre, pared, raced, raped, recap. | |
-2 letters: aced, acre, aped, aper, cade, cape, card, care, carp, crap, dace, dare, dear, pace, pard, pare, pear, race, rape, read, reap. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cad, cap, car, cep, dap, ear, era, pac, pad, par, pea, pec, ped, per, rad, rap, rec, red, rep. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-p-r" | |
+1 letter: capered, cramped, crapped, parched, peracid, pranced, redcaps, scarped, scraped. | |
+2 letters: captured, carpeted, compadre, compared, copyread, endocarp, escarped, parceled, peracids, picrated, preached, preacted, prefaced, recapped, repacked, replaced, respaced, scarphed, scorepad, scrapped. | |
+3 letters: aperiodic, calipered, caprioled, carpooled, chaptered, clepsydra, compadres, comparted, copyreads, deprecate, endocarps, epicardia, hyperacid, pachyderm, paramedic, parcelled, parricide, patricide, pediatric, picadores, placarded, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, prepacked, preplaced, purchased, reclasped, repatched, scampered, scarpered, scorepads, spaceward, upreached. | |
+4 letters: approached, becarpeted, callipered, camelopard, cardplayer, carpetweed, chaperoned, clepsydrae, clepsydras, coappeared, compradore, cooperated, copperhead, copyreader, crepitated, crispbread, cypripedia, deprecated, deprecates, depreciate, discrepant, dispatcher, drupaceous, epicardial, epicardium, fireplaced, hydrospace, imprecated, landscaper, madreporic, outcapered, pachyderms, packthread, paediatric, parachuted, paramedics, parbuckled, parricides, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, peduncular, percolated, pericardia, periodical, picarooned, pockmarked, praelected, precleaned, precleared, precreased, predaceous, predacious, predecease, predicable, predicated, predicates, preenacted, premedical, procedural, proclaimed, procreated, proctodaea, protracted, quadriceps, radarscope, reaccepted, recaptured, recarpeted, repacified, repackaged, replicated, reproached, ropedancer, scorpaenid, uncarpeted, uppercased. | |
+5 letters: apperceived, appreciated, apprenticed, backdropped, camelopards, camphorated, candlepower, caparisoned, cardplayers, cardsharper, carpentered, carpetweeds, caryopsides, clapboarded, compradores, comradeship, copartnered, copperheads, copyreaders, copyreading, crispbreads, decapitator, decrepitate, demographic, deprecating, deprecation, deprecatory, depreciable, depreciated, depreciates, depreciator, diaphoretic, dimercaprol, dipterocarp, discrepancy, dispatchers, handicapper, hydrospaces, ideographic, interspaced, landscapers, operculated, orthopaedic, outpreached, packthreads, paediatrics, paperbacked, paramedical, pericardial, pericardium, periodicals, placeholder, preachified, precanceled, predacities, predeceased, predeceases, prediabetic, predicables, predicament, predicating, predication, predicative, predicatory, predictable, predictably, predoctoral, predynastic, prefinanced, preheadache, prejudicial, prepackaged, procedurals, proctodaeum, pterodactyl, radarscopes, recuperated, reduplicate, relandscape, repurchased, ropedancers, ropedancing, scolopendra, scorpaenids, spatterdock, spermicidal, thunderclap, triplicated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 64 63 61 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. -.-. .- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01100011 01100001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d c a p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0063 0061 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527170696782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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