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Definitions: Scourer |
ScourerNoun1. Someone who cleanses by scouring. 2. Someone who travels widely and energetically; "he was a scourer of the seven seas". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Cleans and finishes bisque ware by hand preparatory to glazing: Examines ware for visible defects. Fills cracks, pinholes, and scratches with liquid clay, using brush. Grinds down rough spots with abrasive stones, smooths ware surfaces with sandpaper, and cleans ware with airhose. Holds surface of earthenware against sanding wheel to remove warps, grog (clay fragments), and scratches. Verifies dimensional accuracy of ware to ensure correct fit of lids on such items as compotes and teapots, using templates. Discards substandard pieces. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Scourer |
| Specialty definitions using "scourer": DAMME BOY ♦ LAST SCOURER. (references) |
| "Scourer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scourer" is used about 3 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scourer": pot scourer. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "scourer": oven-scourer. | |
| 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 |
scourer | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scourer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtupë për fërkim, zbulues (contriver, detector, discoverer, explorer, guide, intelligencer, inventor, reconnaissance, scout), pluhur për fërkim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سدادة مطهرة, بودرة مطهرة (scouring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чистач (cleaner, duster, scrubber), тел за чистене, прах за чистене. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 去壳机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | drátìnka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaskeanlæg/affedtningsanlæg, oliefisk (oilfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | olievis (oilfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پشم شو, تمیزکننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | öljykala (oilfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tampon abrasif, rouvet, escolier espagnol, colonne de lavage, \OIL. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlangenmakrele (oilfish), Wollwaschmaschine, topfkratzer, Rizinusöl-Fisch (oilfish), Ölfisch (oilfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηχανή πλυσίματος μαλλιού, μαυρόψαρο (blackfish, oilfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hántolókészülék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ruvetto (oilfish), paglietta (boater, chaff, sequin, Spangle, straw hat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수세미 (scrubber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scooireyder (polisher, scrubber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ourerscay vadio (apache, bohemian, bummer, cadger, gadder, highboy, hood, hoodoo, hooligan, landloper, landlouper, lazy guy, loafer, loon, lour, peddlar, Ranger, rowdy, ruffian, runabout, slothful, sluggard, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, Woodward), purgante (abstergent, aperient, depletive, purgative, purge), polidor (bloodstone, bloodstone burnisher blood, burnisher, finisher, polisher, polishing disc, polishing machine), pessoa que limpa, esfrega ou areia, escolar (academical, educational, oilfish, scholastic), desordeiro (plum, rioter, riotous, rough neck, rowdy, ruffianly, termagant), desengordurador (cleaner), coluna de lavagem, chocolate (cannabis resin, charas, chocolate, hashish, oilfish). (various references) крупорушка, обдирочная мельница, зернообдирочный аппарат. (various references) razbojnik (bandolero, brigand, desperado, haiduk, robber), čistač (cleaner, sweeper). (various references) estropajo (dishcloth, scouring pad, scrubber, steelwool, swab, swob), escolar (academic, academical, escolars, greater forkbeard, greater fork-beard, oilfish, scholar, scholastic, school, schoolboy), buvego (oilfish). (various references) skurboll, tvättmaskin för kamband, oljefisk (oilfish). (various references) клейтух, міздрильник, металева мочалка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ruvettus pretiosus, Ruvettus pretiosus (Cocco). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scourer": scourers. (additional references) | |
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"Scourer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schoukerk, Schurer, scorrer, Scouler, scoure, scouter, scowrer, socerer, Stohrer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scourer" (pronounced 'Scour"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser, Amender, Amuser, Animadverter, Annealer, Annexer, Annoyer, Anointer, Another, Antiburgher, Anticoherer, Antirenter, Aper, Appeacher, Appealer, Appearer, Appeaser, Applauder, Applier, Appointer, Apposer, Appraiser, Apprehender, Apprizer, Approacher, Archer, Arraigner, Arrayer, Arrester, Arriver, Ascertainer, Asperser, Aspirer, Assailer, Assaulter, Assayer, Assenter, Asserter, Assever, Assigner, Assister, Assizer, Assumer, Assurer, Atafter, Atoner, Attacker, Attempter, Attender, Attirer, Attracter, Augmenter, Autocoherer, Autotransformer, Averter, Avoider, Avoucher, Avower, Avoyer, Awarder, Aweather, Backer, Backslider, Baiter, Baker, Ballooner, Bander, Banker, Baptizer, Barricader, Bather, Bawler, Beaker, Bearer, Beater, Becker, Bedewer, Beflower, Begrimer, Beguiler, Behither, Beholder, Belcher, Beleper, Believer, Bemoaner, Bencher, Bender, Bereaver, Beseecher, Beslaver, Besmearer, Bespeaker, Bestower, Betrayer, Bewailer, Bewitcher, Bewrayer, Binder, Birder, Biter, Blamer, Blasphemer, Blaster, Bleacher, Bleater, Bleeder, Blencher, Blender, Blesser, Blinder, Blinker, Bloater, Blockader, Bloomer, Bluffer, Blusher, Boarder, Booker, Booser, Booster, Boozer, botcher, Bounder, Bourder, Bouser, Boyer, Braiser, Brancher, Brander, Brawler, Brawner, Breaker, Breather, Breeder, Brewer, Briber, Bringer, Broacher, Broider, browser, Bruiser, Brusher, Budger, buffer, Builder, Bulker, Burgher, Burler, Burner, Burster, Buyer, Buzzer, Cajoler, Calciner, Caloyer, Campaigner, Camper, Carder, Carouser, Carper, Carver, Cashierer, Catcher, Causer, Cawker, Cementer, Champer, Charmer, Chastiser, Chaunter, Cheater, Cheerer, Cherimoyer, Chewer, Chicaner, Chider, Chimer, Chirper, Choker, Choler, Chooser, Circumscriber, Citer, Clacker, Claimer, Clamper, Clasper, Cleanser, Cleaver, Clever, Clicker, Clincher, Clinker, Clumper, Coacher, Coaster, Coaxer, Codger, Coherer, Coincider, Coiner, Colluder, Combiner, Come-outer, Comer, Comether, Commander, Commender, Commuter, Compacter, Comparer, Compiler, Complainer, Complier, Composer, Compounder, Compter, Comptroler, Computer, Concealer, Conceiver, Concluder, Concocter, Condenser, Conder, Condoler, Confeder, Confesser, Confider, Confirmer, Conformer, Confounder, Confrier, Confronter, Confuter, Conniver, Consenter, Conserver, Consoler, Conspirer, Constrainer, Constructer, Consulter, Consumer, Container, Contender, Contradicter, Contravener, Contriver, Convener, Converser, Converter, Conveyer, Cooter, Coplaner, Corer, Corrupter, Cosher, Coucher, Cougher, Courser, Courter, Cowalker, Coworker, cracker, Craker, Craver, crawler, Creeper, Crier, Crimper, Crisper, Croaker, Crocker, Crofter, Crusader, Crusher, Cryer, Culler, Curer, Curler, Curser, Curtailer, Dansker, Darer, Darner, Dasher, Dater, Dauber, Daunter, Dealer, Debaser, Debater, Debaucher, Decanter, Decayer, Deceiver, Decider, Decker, Declaimer, Declarer, Decliner, Decoherer, Decoyer, Decreer, Decrier, Defamer, Defaulter, Defender, Defenser, Defier, Defiler, Definer, Deflourer, Deflower, Deformer, Deforser, Defrauder, Defrayer, Dehorter, Dejecter, Delayer, Delighter, Deluder, Delver, Demander, Depainter, Departer, Depender, Deposer, Depraver, Depriver, Derider, Deriver, Descanter, descender, Describer, Descrier, Deserter, Deserver, Designer, Desirer, Despairer, Despiser, Despoiler, Desponder, Detailer, Detainer, Detecter, Detester. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: courser. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cerous, corers, course, crores, crouse, cruors, curers, curser, cursor, recurs, rouser, scorer, source, sourer. | |
-2 letters: ceros, corer, cores, corse, crore, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, currs, curse, ecrus, euros, recur, roues, rouse, ruers, score, scour, sorer, sucre, surer. | |
-3 letters: cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curr, curs, ecru, ecus, eros, errs, euro, orcs, ores, ours, recs, rocs, roes, rose, roue, ruer, rues, ruse, sore, sour, suer, sure, user. | |
-4 letters: cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, err, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, our, rec, res, roc, roe, rue, sec, ser, sou, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: carouser, corulers, couriers, coursers, courters, obscurer, procures, recourse, reoccurs, resource, scourers, scourger, succorer. | |
+2 letters: brochures, carousers, carrousel, coinsurer, colourers, conjurers, courtiers, croupiers, cruzeiros, curiouser, fourscore, mercurous, overcures, precursor, procurers, producers, recourses, recursion, reductors, resources, scourgers, scrounger, sorcerous, succorers, trouncers, verrucose. | |
+3 letters: carrefours, carrousels, coinsurers, conquerors, cornhusker, corrugates, corrupters, corruptest, courseware, couturiers, covertures, discourser, fluorescer, forecourts, occurrents, operculars, overstruck, persecutor, precarious, precursors, precursory, procedures, prosecutor, racecourse, raconteurs, reconquers, recontours, recounters, recursions, renouncers, reproduces, retouchers, scroungers, scroungier, supercargo, supermicro, underscore, urochromes. | |
+4 letters: carburetors, chirurgeons, churchgoers, colporteurs, concurrents, coproducers, cornhuskers, corruptness, coursewares, couturieres, crossruffed, cruciferous, cryosurgeon, cryosurgery, cupriferous, cursoriness, discourager, discoursers, encouragers, fluorescers, foreclosure, intercourse, introducers, microcuries, nonrecourse, occurrences, persecutors, persecutory, procedurals, procrustean, pronouncers, prosecutors, quercitrons, racecourses, reconstruct, rencounters, reproducers, resourceful, subdirector, supercargos, supermicros, surrogacies, terricolous, treacherous, undercrofts, underscored, underscores, watercourse. | |
+5 letters: archesporium, broncobuster, carburetions, carburettors, chemosurgery, cloudberries, concurrences, conjecturers, contractures, countercries, counterfires, counterparts, counterraids, crematoriums, crosscurrent, cryosurgeons, discouragers, foreclosures, insurrection, intercourses, lacquerworks, macropterous, mercurations, meretricious, microsurgery, overproduces, peritrichous, postfracture, precancerous, precariously, precomputers, procurements, provocateurs, reconfigures, reconstructs, reencounters, reintroduces, renovascular, repercussion, resurrection, resuscitator, stringcourse, subdirectors, supercargoes, superorganic, underscoring, urethroscope, urochordates, watercourses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 75 72 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- ..- .-. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o u r e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 006F 0075 0072 0065 0072 |
| 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)53698187847184 |
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