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Definition: STEEPLE CHASE |
STEEPLE CHASE1. A race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids. |
Pursuit | Chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar. |
Velocity | Spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate; Adjective: rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STEEPLE CHASE |
| English words defined with "STEEPLE CHASE": Steeple chaser ♦ welterweight. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STEEPLE CHASE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (steeplechase). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Toronto Steeple Chase (1900) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The great American steeple chase for 1844. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | St. Patrick's Day in the army--The steeple chase / EF. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
steeple chase golf course | 7 |
steeple chase golf club | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: steeplechase. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-h-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: selectees. | |
-4 letters: capelets, celestas, celestes, chaplets, cheapest, chelates, electees, escapees, escheats, heatless, heeltaps, pathless, pectases, pleaches, satchels, selectee, slatches, speeches, steeples, tapeless. | |
-5 letters: apheses, aspects, capelet, capless, caplets, castles, celesta, celeste, chalets, chapels, chaplet, cheeses, chelate, clashes, ectases, elapses, electee, escapee, escapes, escheat, hapless, haslets, hatless, heeltap, hepcats, latches, leaches, leashes, leeches, letches. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-h-l-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: steeplechaser, steeplechases. | |
+2 letters: steeplechasers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 45 45 50 4C 45 43 48 41 53 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000101 01000101 01010000 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T E E P L E   C H A S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0045 0045 0050 004C 0045 0043 0048 0041 0053 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5354393950463923742355339 |
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