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TOUCH-PAPER

Definition: TOUCH-PAPER

TOUCH-PAPER

Noun

1. Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: TOUCH-PAPER

"TOUCH-PAPER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TOUCH-PAPER" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: TOUCH-PAPER

Language Translations for "TOUCH-PAPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

接触纸. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

만지 종이. (various references)

   

Manx

  

pabyr aile. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouch-papertay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOUCH-PAPER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-p-r-t-u"

-1 letter: outpreach.

-2 letters: copperah, outcaper, outreach.

-3 letters: capture, chapter, chopper, couther, outhear, outpace, outrace, patcher, phorate, poacher, precoup, prophet, repatch, retouch, toucher, upreach.

-4 letters: acuter, apercu, author, capote, capper, captor, carhop, carpet, cartop, cheapo, chorea, coater, copper, coppra, coprah, copter, coteau, couter, croupe, cupper, curate, eparch, hector, hepcat, hopper, ochrea, orache, pauper, pother, pouter, preach.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-p-r-t-u"
 

+4 letters: computerphobia.

 

+5 letters: computerphobias, pithecanthropus.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOUCH-PAPER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 55 43 48 2D 50 41 50 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 00101101 01010000 01000001 01010000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#85 &#67 &#72 &#45 &#80 &#65 &#80 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0055 0043 0048 002D 0050 0041 0050 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449553742155035503952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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