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Definition: Anorak |
AnorakNoun1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Originally invented by the Inuit, who needed clothing which protected them from windchill and wet, while hunting and kayaking in the arctic region. Underneath the anorak the Inuit wear warm clothes. Inuit anoraks have to be regularly soaked with train oil (fish oil) to keep their water resistance. Today, the jacket is named after it because it attempts to be just as waterproof.
In British slang, anorak has come to mean "geek" or "nerd", on the principle that only a geek would wear something so unfashionable. Anorak is also the name of a British parody on a tabloid. Its slogan is "Keeping an eye on the tabloids". Some claim Anorak is a real newspaper.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anorak."
Synonyms: AnorakSynonyms: parka (n), windbreaker (n), windcheater (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anorak |
| Non-English Usage: "Anorak" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (anorak, wind cheater, windbreaker, wind-breaker), German (anorak, parka), Spanish (anorak, parka), Swedish (anorak, parka), Turkish (anorak, wind cheater, windcheater). |
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| "Anorak" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Anorak" is used about 183 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) | 98.36% | 180 | 23,046 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 183 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anorak": anorak-type, anorak-wearing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
anorak | 51 |
anorak jacket | 21 |
anorak marmot precip | 5 |
anorak canvas | 4 |
anorak bus doggy star | 3 |
anorak jacket man | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anorak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhup me kapuç. (various references) | |
Arabic | معطف مشمع مع قبعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | анорак (wind-jammer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 滑雪衫. (various references) | |
Czech | vìtrovka (wind cheater), bunda (jacket). (various references) | |
Danish | anorak (parka, ski jacket, wind-jacket). (various references) | |
Dutch | anorak (parka, ski jacket, wind-jacket), jekker (parka, ski jacket, wind-jacket). (various references) | |
French | anorak. (various references) | |
German | Anorak (parka). (various references) | |
Greek | άνορακ (parka, ski jacket, windcheater, wind-jacket), ανοράκ, αλεξίνεμο (parka, ski jacket, windcheater, wind-jacket), αδιάβροχο σακάκι με κουκούλα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעיל 'שם קצר, א ורק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | anorák (parka, windbreaker, windcheater), orkándzseki (parka). (various references) | |
Italian | giacca a vento (windcheater). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アネロイド気圧計 (about, aneroid barometer, anode, anonym, anonymous, anorexia). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アノラック . (various references) | |
Korean | 아노락. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anorakay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anoraque (parka, ski jacket, wind-jacket), anorack (parka, ski jacket, wind-jacket), casaco de pele (fur). (various references) | |
Russian | анорак. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kaput za vetar. (various references) | |
Spanish | anorak (parka). (various references) | |
Swedish | anorak (parka). (various references) | |
Turkish | anorak (wind cheater, windcheater), yağmurluk (Macintosh, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, slicker, trench coat, waterproof). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | анорак. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anorak": anoraks. (additional references) | |
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"Anorak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahora, Amorbach, anarak, ancora, andora, Anfora, Ankrah, anoa, anor, anora, anoraked, anore, anorec, Anuak, Anupam, anuria, anuric, Aonack, Aoraki, avora, Bangrak, Fangorak, Naoac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-k-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: krona. | |
-2 letters: anoa, arak, kana, kaon, karn, knar, koan, nark, okra, rank, roan. | |
-3 letters: ana, ark, koa, kor, nor, oak, oar, oka, ora, ran. | |
-4 letters: aa, an, ar, ka, na, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-k-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: anoraks. | |
+2 letters: kangaroo. | |
+3 letters: kangaroos. | |
+4 letters: ankylosaur, markswoman. | |
+5 letters: aerobraking, ankylosaurs, debarkation, embarkation. | |
| 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. | |
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