Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

UNDER-ARM

Definition: UNDER-ARM

UNDER-ARM

Adjective

1. Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms: UNDER-ARM

Synonyms by domain: support bracket (mechanical engineering), under arm.

Top     

Usage Frequency: UNDER-ARM

"UNDER-ARM" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "UNDER-ARM" 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
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

Top     

Modern Translation: UNDER-ARM

Language Translations for "UNDER-ARM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

alulról (from below, from under, underarm, underhand). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

의 밑에 ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

er-armunday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: UNDER-ARM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: underarm, unmarred.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-u"

-1 letter: duramen, eardrum, manured, manurer, maunder, unarmed.

-2 letters: armure, damner, darner, errand, manure, marred, murder, remand, remuda, unmade, unread.

-3 letters: admen, amend, armed, armer, darer, demur, denar, derma, dream, drear, dunam, durra, madre, maned, maund, menad, mudra, mured, murra, murre, named, namer, nuder, ramen, rared, rearm, redan, reman, reran, rerun, ruder, rumen, unarm, under.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: maunderer, unarmored, underarms, unmarried.

 

+2 letters: maunderers, unmarrieds, unremarked.

 

+3 letters: remunerated, rudimentary, ultramodern, unearmarked.

 

+4 letters: barramundies, undergarment, unprogrammed.

 

+5 letters: rudimentarily, undergarments, unembarrassed, untransformed.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: UNDER-ARM


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

55 4E 44 45 52 2D 41 52 4D

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

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

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000001 01010010 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#65 &#82 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 002D 0041 0052 004D

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

554838395215355247

Top     

Non-English Dictionaries with "UNDER-ARM"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar, 헝가리

Korean

번역, 사 , 의koreai, 한국

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol, 영국
 


INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.