Tadpole

Definition: Tadpole

Tadpole

Noun

1. A larval frog or toad.

Date "tadpole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Tadpole

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of tadpoles, foretells uncertain speculation will bring cause for uneasiness in business. For a young woman to see them in clear water, foretells she will form a relation with a wealthy but immoral man. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Post & Telecom	A target on a radar display presented with a comet-like tail, showing direction of travel. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Tadpole

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Embryos (and one tadpole) of
the wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa).

A tadpole is a larval frog or toad. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first lacking legs, and has a finlike tail. As a tadpole matures, it metamorphoses by gradually growing limbs and then absorbing its tail.

Most tadpoles are herbivorous, subsisting on algae. In a few species, some tadpoles turn cannibalistic under harsh conditions and feed on other tadpoles living in the pond.

Tadpole is a 2002 film directed by Gary Winick about a boy who falls in love with an older woman. See: Tadpole (movie).

Tadpole (movie)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tadpole is the title of a movie released in 2002, directed by Gary Wunick. It stars Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter, and Kate Mara.

Plot Summary

Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands.

On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation—he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem—Oscar's true love is his stepmother, Eve. Oscar is certain that he could be a better mate to Eve than his work-obsessed father.

He fails to win Eve's heart and is consequently dejected. Oscar's path to his true love is further crossed by Diane, Eve's best friend who, one night while wearing Eve's borrowed perfumed scarf, offers him temporary comfort in an unconventional tryst. For Diane, Oscar fills a void in her life. For Oscar, Diane is somewhat of a distraction, as his continued pursuit of Eve leads to an unexpected resolution.

External Link

The IMDb entry on Tadpole

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tadpole."

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Synonyms: Tadpole

Synonyms: polliwog (n), pollywog (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tadpole

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Infant	Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tadpole

English words defined with "tadpole": ascidian tadpole ♦ Branchiopoda ♦ Forkbeard ♦ Jakie ♦ Pouched frog ♦ subclass Branchiopoda ♦ tadpole shrimp, Toe biter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tadpole": leviathan ♦ Pepper Gate, Prince Rupert's Drops. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tadpole

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Today is tomorrow's tadpole of opportunity. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)
Movie/TV Titles	Tadpole (2002)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tadpole

Domain	Title
References	Tadpole Technology PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	From Tadpole to Frog (How Things Grow) (reference) Tadpole (reference) Tadpole to Frog (Lifewatch) (reference) The Mysterious Tadpole (reference) Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tadpole (reference) Mysterious Tadpole & Other Stories (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	32MB MEMORY KIT FOR TADPOLE (reference) 64MB MEMORY KIT FOR TADPOLE (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Tadpole

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tadpole

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig -- Maria pseudo-hirsuta. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, Thaddeus of Warsaw.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tadpole

"Tadpole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.94% of the time. "Tadpole" is used about 72 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)	56.94%	41	53,521
Noun (proper)	41.67%	30	63,341
Noun (common)	1.39%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	72	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Tadpole

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Tadpole Technology PLC
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Tadpole

Expressions using "tadpole": ascidian tadpole ♦ tadpole fish ♦ tadpole shrimp. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tadpole": tadpole-like, tadpole-meteor, tadpole-shaped.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tadpole

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
tadpole	469
tadpole frog	47
care tadpole	36
food tadpole	35
picture tadpole	30
farm tadpole	19
identification tadpole	15
cycle life tadpole	13
face north tadpole	9
tadpole movie	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tadpole

Language		Translations for "tadpole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fulterëz. (various references)

Arabic		‏شرغوف فرخ الضفدع. (various references)

Bulgarian		попова лъжичка. (various references)

Chinese		蚪 , 蝌 . (various references)

Czech		pulec. (various references)

Danish		kometspor. (various references)

Dutch		kikkervisje (tad-pole). (various references)

Esperanto		ranido (tad-pole). (various references)

Farsi		بچه قورباغه , بچه وزغ . (various references)

Finnish		sammakonpoikanen. (various references)

French		têtard. (various references)

German		Kaulquappe (polliwog). (various references)

Greek		στίγμα στην οθόνη ραντάρ, γυρινόσ, νεογέννητοσ αδιαμόρφωτοσ βάτραχοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ראשן. (various references)

Hungarian		ebihal (bullhead, spawn). (various references)

Indonesian		gerundang. (various references)

Italian		traccia a cometa, girino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蝌蚪 (ladle, musical note), お玉�"子 (ladle, musical note), 御玉�"子 (ladle, musical note). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おたまじゃくし (ladle, musical note), かと (changing old to new, crossing, ferry, ladle, musical note, tame rabbit). (various references)

Manx		torbane, rannag aeg, frog aeg. (various references)

Papago		mo'okwad. (various references)

Pig Latin		adpoletay.(various references)

Portuguese		larva de batráquio, girino. (various references)

Romanian		mormoloc. (various references)

Russian		головастик (polliwog). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		punoglavac. (various references)

Shona		zunguzurwa. (various references)

Spanish		renacuajo (polliwog, pollywog, shrimp). (various references)

Swedish		grodyngel. (various references)

Thai		ลูกอ๊อ�". (various references)

Turkish		kurbağa yavrusu, iribaş. (various references)

Ukranian		личинка асцидії, пуголовок (polliwog). (various references)

Welsh		penbwl (blockhead, booby). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tadpole

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tadpole": tadpoles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tadpole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tadpoled, Tapol, Teepol. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tadpole"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tadpole" (pronounced ta"dpō'l)
4	-d p ō' l	redpoll.
3	-p ō' l	dipole, flagpole, monopole.
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Anagrams: Tadpole

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-o-p-t"
	-1 letter: pedalo, pelota, plated.
	-2 letters: adept, adopt, dealt, delta, depot, dotal, lated, leapt, lepta, loped, opted, padle, paled, palet, pated, pedal, petal, plate, plead, pleat, poled, taped, tepal, toled, toped.
	-3 letters: aloe, alto, aped, apod, atop, dale, date, dato, deal, delt, doat, dole, dolt, dopa, dope, dote, lade, late, lead, leap, lept, load, lode, lope, lota, odea, olea, opal, oped, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, pled, plod, plot, poet, pole, tael, tale, tape, teal, tela, tepa, toad, toea, toed, tola, told, tole, tope.
	-4 letters: ado, ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, dal, dap, del, doe, dol, dot, eat, eld, eta, lad, lap, lat, lea, led, let, lop, lot, oat, ode, old, ole, ope, opt, pad, pal, pat, pea, ped, pet, pod, pol, pot, tad, tae, tao, tap, tea, ted, tel, tod, toe, top.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, at, de, do, ed, el, et, la, lo, od, oe, op, pa, pe, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: clodpate, petalody, petaloid, portaled, tadpoles.
	+2 letters: adoptable, clodpates, copulated, diplomate, doorplate, oppilated, outleaped, outplayed, patrolled, planetoid, platooned, populated, spoliated.
	+3 letters: adoptively, depilation, depilatory, depopulate, deportable, deutoplasm, diplomates, doorplates, methyldopa, outplanned, paddleboat, pentaploid, percolated, petalodies, phenolated, planetoids, pollinated, ponytailed, postulated, potlatched, sporulated, tetraploid.
	+4 letters: blacktopped, complicated, deceptional, depilations, depopulated, depopulates, deutoplasms, lepidoptera, methyldopas, operculated, outsparkled, overplanted, paddleboats, pentaploids, pentaploidy, periodontal, petrodollar, planetoidal, preallotted, predoctoral, promulgated, pterodactyl, repopulated, splayfooted, tetraploids, tetraploidy, trapezoidal, unadoptable.
	+5 letters: conduplicate, contemplated, depilatories, depopulating, depopulation, depositional, despoliation, despotically, expostulated, extrapolated, hospitalised, hospitalized, interpolated, lepidopteran, lithographed, outpopulated, petrodollars, plasterboard, postcardlike, postdeadline, postmedieval, procathedral, proliferated, providential, pterodactyls, temporalized, tradespeople, tropicalized.
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