Alp

Definition: Alp

Alp

Noun

1. Any high mountain.

Date "alp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Alp

Domain	Definitions
Computing	ALP A list processing extension of Mercury Autocode. ["ALP, An Autocode List-Processing Language", D.C. Cooper et al, Computer J 5:28-31, 1962]. (1995-01-24). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Literature	Alp The Adrian renegade, a Venetian by extraction, who forswore the Christian faith to become a commander in the Turkish army. He led the host to the siege of Corinth, while that country was under the dominion of the Doge. He loved Francesca, daughter of Minotti, governor of Corinth, but she died of a broken heart because he deserted his country and was an apostate. The renegade was shot in the siege. - Byron: Siege of Corinth. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Alp

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ALP	English	Arithmetic Logic Processor	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Alp

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Height	Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Alp

English words defined with "alp": Mussite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alp": TLAs. (references)

Etymologies containing "alp": Albion, Alpenstock. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Alp" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (alp, mountain pasture), Scottish (also ealp), Swedish (alp), Turkish (alp, Alps, hero).

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Commercial Usage: Alp

Domain	Title
Books	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Reader's Guide (Amsco Literature Program Series Grade 7 12, R 120 ALP) (reference) Algebraic and Logic Programming: 4th International Confernence, Alp '94, Madrid, Spain, September 14-16, 1994 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer) (reference) Kruger's Alp (reference) Moby Dick With Readers Guide (R 89 ALP) (reference) Once Upon an Alp (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Alp

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Photo Album: Alp

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Vote ALP Blake ISIS.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Alp

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Antigua and Barbuda	The 1999 report of the Commonwealth observer group that monitored the general elections noted that the governing ALP party received the greatest share of political coverage by the government-controlled electronic media. (references)
	Turkey	Dr. Alp Ayan, a psychiatrist with the HRF Izmir Treatment and Rehabilitation Center; Gunseli Kaya, who also works at the Center; and 66 others face charges of "holding an unauthorized demonstration" for participating in the funeral procession in October 1999 of one of the prisoners killed in the September 1999 Ulucanlar incident. (references)
Economic History	Australia	Although embracing some leftists, the ALP traditionally has been moderately socialist in its policies and approaches to social issues. (references)
Political Economy	Australia	The ALP maintains close ties to the trade union movement, and many of its leading lights are former trade union leaders. (references)
	Australia	Liberalizing trade and enhancing economic integration with Asia-Pacific countries were hallmarks of the ALP, and the current coalition government has maintained and strengthened these initiatives. (references)
	Antigua and Barbuda	Prime Minister Lester B. Bird's Antigua Labour Party (ALP) has controlled the Government and Parliament since 1976. In the 1999 elections, which observers described as free but not fair, the ALP retained power by winning 12 of 17 parliamentary seats. (references)
Political Rights	Andorra	The ALP, (the head of Government's Party), retained its absolute majority, winning 15 of the 28 seats in Parliament. (references)
	Antigua and Barbuda	In the 1999 elections, the ALP retained power by winning 12 of 17 parliamentary seats, 2 more than it had won in the previous elections in 1994. The Governor General appoints the 15 senators in proportion to the parties' representation in Parliament and with the advice of the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. (references)
Worker Rights	Antigua and Barbuda	The ATLU is associated with the ruling ALP, while the larger and more active AWU is allied rather loosely with the opposition. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Alp

"Alp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.79% of the time. "Alp" is used about 58 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)	63.79%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	32.76%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.72%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	1.72%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	58	N/A

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

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Expressions: Alp

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "alp": alp-dominated, alp-green, Alp-horn, alp-like, alp-watchers.
	Ending with "alp": non-alp, pre-alp.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alp

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
alp	105	alp mountaineering	4
alp printer	40	trinity alp wilderness	4
alp travel	24	alp holiday skiing	3
alp mountain	24	alp germany	3
alp insideticket nba.com schedule.html	24	rhone alp	3
alp.php ancestry.cfg ancestry.custhelp.com bin cgi enduser php std	14	alp spa	3
alp rea	14	alp printer cartridge	3
alp lighting	10	200 alp beta	3
alp beta	8	alp auto.net	3
alp.com rea	8	alp honda trans	3
bavarian alp	7	teva alp	3
alp printer supply	7	french alp accommodation	3
alp switch	7	alp sandal	2
alp paper	5	alp map mountain	2
alp pro sandal teva	5	alp industry	2
alp.php answers.hhs.gov bin cgi enduser hhs.cfg php std	5	46 alp	2
alp auction	5	alp printer ribbon	2
alp d huez	4	alp enzymes liver test	2
ski the alp	4	alp md5000 printer	2
alp electronic	4	4.0 alp beta	2
		alp keyboard	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alp

Language		Translations for "alp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		majë (aiguille, apex, cusp, height, nab, naze, Neb, needle, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof). (various references)

Arabic		‏جبل شاهق. (various references)

Bulgarian		висока планина (roof of the world), висок връх, алпийско пасище. (various references)

Chinese		阿�"卑斯 (ALPS). (various references)

Czech		horská pastvina. (various references)

Danish		sæter (mountain pasture). (various references)

Dutch		alpenweide (alpine pasture, mountain pasture), alp (mountain pasture). (various references)

Esperanto		alpo (mountain pasture), alpherbejo (alpine pasture). (various references)

Finnish		alppi. (various references)

German		Alm (mountain pasture). (various references)

Hungarian		havasi levegõ. (various references)

Indonesian		padang rumput (grassland, meadow, pasture, prairie, steppe). (various references)

Pig Latin		alpay

Portuguese		alpes (Alps). (various references)

Russian		горная вершина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		alpska livada, planinski vrh. (various references)

Spanish		montaña (fell, Hill, Mount, mountain). (various references)

Swedish		högfjäll. (various references)

Turkish		alp (Alps, hero), yüksek dağ. (various references)

Ukranian		слон (elephant), гірська вершина, висока гора, демон (demon, incubus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Alp

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alp": alpaca, alpacas, alpenglow, alpenglows, alpenhorn, alpenhorns, alpenstock, alpenstocks, alpha, alphabet, alphabeted, alphabetic, alphabetical, alphabetically, alphabeting, alphabetization, alphabetizations, alphabetize, alphabetized, alphabetizer, alphabetizers, alphabetizes, alphabetizing, alphabets, alphameric, alphanumeric, alphanumerical, alphanumerically, alphanumerics, alphas, alphorn, alphorns, alphosis, alphosises, alphyl, alphyls, alpine, alpinely, alpines, alpinism, alpinisms, alpinist, alpinists, alps. (additional references)
	Words ending with "alp": palp, pedipalp, salp, scalp. (additional references)
	Words containing "alp": analphabet, analphabetic, analphabetics, analphabetism, analphabetisms, analphabets, calpac, calpack, calpacks, calpacs, catalpa, catalpas, cisalpine, coalpit, coalpits, enthalpies, enthalpy, goalpost, goalposts, impalpabilities, impalpability, impalpable, impalpably, kalpa, kalpak, kalpaks, kalpas, malposed, malposition, malpositions, malpractice, malpractices, malpractitioner, malpractitioners, nonalphabetic, palpabilities, palpability, palpable, palpably, palpal, palpate, palpated, palpates, palpating, palpation, palpations, palpator, palpators, palpebra, palpebrae, palpebral. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abp, afp, aip, Ajp, akp, alap, Alip, aln, alop, alpa, Alpe, alph, alpo, Alpuk, Anpp, aop, ap, apl, aplu, appp, aulp, Aup, avp, elp, eplp, ilp, ipl, llp, nlp, Olp, ralp, tlp, ulp, yalp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lap, pal.
	Words within the letters "a-l-p"
	-1 letter: al, la, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-p"
	+1 letter: alps, clap, flap, lamp, laps, leap, lipa, opal, pail, pale, pall, palm, palp, pals, paly, pawl, peal, pial, plan, plat, play, plea, pula, salp, slap.
	+2 letters: aleph, alpha, ample, amply, ampul, appal, appel, apple, apply, aptly, clamp, claps, clapt, clasp, copal, culpa, flaps, galop, haply, jalap, jalop, kalpa, lamps, lapel, lapin, lapis, lapse, layup, leaps, leapt, lepta, limpa, maple, milpa, nopal, opals, padle, pails, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, palls, pally, palms, palmy, palpi, palps, palsy, panel, papal, parle, parol, patly, pawls, peals, pearl, pedal, penal, pepla, petal, phial, phyla, pibal, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pipal, place, plack, plage, plaid, plain, plait, plane, plank, plans, plant, plash, plasm, plate, plats, platy, playa, plays, plaza, plead, pleas, pleat, plena, plica, polar, polka, psalm, pupal, ralph, salep, salpa, salps, scalp, sepal, slaps, spail, spale, spall, splat, splay, tepal, typal, ulpan.
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