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Definitions: Sellotape |
SellotapeNoun1. Transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch Tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending. Verb1. Fasten or attach with sellotape; "The hotel manager scotch taped a note to the guest's door". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SellotapeSynonyms: cellulose tape (n), scotch tape (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sellotape |
| English words defined with "Sellotape": cellulose tape ♦ Scotch Tape. (references) |
| "Sellotape" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Sellotape" is used about 45 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) | 80% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.89% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sellotape | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Sellotape"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | скоч (adhesive tape, scotch tape), тиксо (scotch tape). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Tesafilm (Handelsmarke) (Sellotape (Trademark)). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | cellux (cello tape, cellophane tape, scotch tape). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | scotch (scotch, scotch tape), attaccare con il scotch. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellotapesay cinta adhesiva (adhesive tape, isolating tape, scotch tape, sticky tape, tape). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: soleplate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: apostle, oleates, pallets, pellets, pelotas, pollees. | |
-3 letters: allees, allots, asleep, aslope, atolls, elapse, elates, elopes, etapes, lapels, oleate, osteal, palest, palets, pallet, pastel, pellet, pelota, peseta, pestle, petals, plates, please, pleats, pollee, postal, sallet, sapote, septal, solate, staple, stelae, stella, teasel, tepals, topees. | |
-4 letters: allee, allot, aloes, altos, atoll, easel, elate, elope, estop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: soleplates. | |
+3 letters: boilerplates, eucalyptoles, opalescently. | |
+4 letters: allelopathies, electroplates, leptocephalus, metallophones, planetologies. | |
+5 letters: interpellators, paleoecologist, paleontologies, pelletizations, postcollegiate, posterolateral, telencephalons, telescopically. | |
| 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 65 6C 6C 6F 74 61 70 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .-.. .-.. --- - .- .--. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110100 01100001 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l l o t a p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 006C 006F 0074 0061 0070 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537178788186678271 |
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