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"TURNIPS" is a plural of: turnip. |
Date "TURNIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten, and that you will be much elated over your success. To eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you will improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby. To eat turnip greens, is a sign of bitter disappointment. Turnip seed is a sign of future advancement. For a young woman to sow turnip seed, foretells that she will inherit good property, and win a handsome husband. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TURNIPS |
| English words defined with "TURNIPS": Ambury ♦ Black canker, Black flea, Brassica ♦ genus Brassica, gluten-free diet, Green fallow ♦ root crop ♦ turnip bed, Turnip flea, turnip greens. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TURNIPS": Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot ♦ Haricot Mutton ♦ INGERSOLL ♦ Number Nip ♦ Potato-bury ♦ roots and tubers production ♦ SMASH ♦ Turnips. (references) |
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Screenplays | You've got about as much style as a bowl of turnips. (The Cotton Club; writing credit: William Kennedy; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
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 | This image shows a display of healthy foods on a table. Foods include beans, grains, cauliflour, cantelope, pasta, bread, orange, turkey, salmon, carrots, turnips, zucchini, snowpeas, string beans, radishes, asparagus, summer squash, lean beef, tomatoes, and potatoes. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | African American farmer Ben Burkette looks over some turnips at tkhe Indian Springs Coop in Perry County, MS. Burkette helped found the coop and is Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives. Credit: USDA. |
 | Turnips and cabbage raised by Rev. G.B. Burgess. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pumpkins and turnips near Berlin, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roadside display of pumpkins and turnips and other vegetables near Berlin, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Turnips uprooted by the flood. Point Township, Posey County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. John Botello, Portuguese FSA (Farm Security Administration) client cleaning turnips from his truck farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al brought out a handful of little turnips and started to peel them. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The yellow corn and turnips were too late to come to anything. |
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Economic History | Iceland | Agriculture: Products--potatoes, turnips, livestock. (references) |
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| "TURNIPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.87% of the time. "TURNIPS" is used about 79 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 (plural) | 89.87% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.86% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TURNIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Steckrüben, Rüben (beets). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urnipstay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | holera, holeribus, holerum, holus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"TURNIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tornies, Tournus, tugriks, turnups, turpins, turrip, Tursiops, unrips. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TURNIPS" (pronounced ter"nups) |
| 3 | -u p s | amidships, bishops, breakups, develops, envelops, gossips, hiccups, juleps, matchups, polyps, scallops, stirrups, syrups, tulips, wallops, worships. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: inputs, prints, purins, purist, rutins, sprint, turnip, unrips, upstir. | |
-2 letters: input, pints, pirns, print, punts, purin, puris, ruins, runts, rutin, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurn, spurt, stirp, strip, suint, trips, turns, turps, units, unrip. | |
-3 letters: nips, nits, nuts, pins, pint, pirn, pits, puns, punt, puri, purs, puts, rins, rips, ruin, runs, runt, rust. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: puritans, spurting, surprint, turnspit, unripest. | |
+2 letters: eruptions, outsprint, pasturing, posturing, preunites, printouts, rainspout, sprouting, superthin, supinator, surprints, turnpikes, turnspits, upstaring. | |
+3 letters: abruptions, blueprints, disrupting, disruption, importunes, interrupts, irruptions, manuscript, outsprints, paintbrush, posturings, pourpoints, protrusion, punditries, purgations, puritanism, pursuivant, putrescine, rainspouts, resumption, resupinate, sputtering, subreption, supergiant, supertonic, supinators, supporting, surprinted, tarpaulins, unscripted, upstarting, upstirring, usurpation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 55 52 4E 49 50 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- ..- .-. -. .. .--. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010101 01010010 01001110 01001001 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T U R N I P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0055 0052 004E 0049 0050 0053 |
| 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)54555248435053 |
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