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Definitions: Backstop |
BackstopNoun1. A fence or screen (as behind home plate in baseball). Verb1. Act as a backstop, as in baseball. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Backstop |
| Specialty definitions using "backstop": BLOCK-SPLITTER OPERATOR ♦ CONTOUR GRINDER ♦ DRILL-PUNCH OPERATOR ♦ face layer, FOLDING-MACHINE FEEDER ♦ non-underwritten facilities ♦ profile grinder ♦ underwritten facilities ♦ VENEER-STOCK LAYER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Backstop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backstop" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
baseball backstop | 22 |
backstop | 17 |
basketball backstop | 15 |
backstop gymnasium | 10 |
backstop volleyball | 10 |
softball backstop | 3 |
backstop bullet | 3 |
backstop net | 3 |
backstop bearing | 2 |
archery backstop | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backstop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndihmë (aid, assistance, bee, boon, charity, dole, endowment, facilitation, help, relief, stay, subsidy, subvention, succor, succour, support). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оказвам съдействие (help), заслон (penthouse, screen, shelter, wickiup). (various references) | |
Chinese | 止回器. (various references) | |
French | cliquet anti-retour. (various references) | |
German | Fänger (captor, catcher, fielder, Hunter, sealer, trapper, whaler). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszafutás elleni retesz, visszafutás elleni fék, visszaáramlás-gátló, végütköző. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penghalang (barricade). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backhand, backing, backless, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex, Vatican). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バックネット (back screen). (various references) | |
Korean | 안 장치. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackstopbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batente (anvil, batch, cant, detent, dog, doorstep, flap, fold, jamboree, knockout, lathe, lay, leaf, Malleus, sley, stanchion, stop). (various references) | |
Russian | заслон. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaštitna mreža. (various references) | |
Spanish | barrera (bar, barricade, barrier, boundary, bridge, bridgewall, fence, gate, hurdle, Pike, wall), baluarte (bastion, bulwark, citadel, confederacy, housing, rampart, stronghold). (various references) | |
Swedish | understöd (aid, allowance, assistance, encouragement, relief, subsidy, support). (various references) | |
Turkish | toprak atış siperi, saha arkası çit. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backstop": backstopped, backstopping, backstops. (additional references) | |
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"Backstop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backshop, backstopp, Buckstepe, Buckston. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backstop" (pronounced ba"kstÄ'p) |
| 4 | -s t Ä' p | shortstop. |
| 3 | -t Ä' p | blacktop, countertop, desktop, hilltop, laptop, mountaintop, rolltop, rooftop, tabletop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-o-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: coapts. | |
-3 letters: ascot, backs, boast, boats, bocks, botas, capos, coapt, coast, coats, costa, packs, pacts, pocks, sabot, stack, stock, tacks, tacos. | |
-4 letters: abos, acts, atop, back, baps, bask, bast, bats, boas, boat, bock, bops, bosk, bota, bots, cabs, capo, caps, cask, cast, cats, coat, cobs, cops, cost, cots, kabs, kats, koas, kobs, kops, oaks, oast, oats, ocas, okas, opts, pack, pacs, pact, past, pats, pock, post, pots, sack, scab, scat, scop, scot, skat, soak, soap, sock, spat, spot, stab, stoa, stob, stop, tabs, tack, taco, taos, taps, task, tops. | |
-5 letters: abo, abs, act, apt, ask, asp, bap, bas, bat, boa, bop, bos, bot, cab, cap, cat, cob, cop, cos, cot, kab, kas, kat, koa, kob, kop, kos, oak, oat, oca, oka, ops, opt, pac, pas, pat, pot, sab, sac, sap, sat, ska, sob, sop, sot, spa, tab, tao, tap, tas, top, tsk. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: backstops, blacktops. | |
+3 letters: backstopped, picketboats. | |
+4 letters: backstopping. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 73 74 6F 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- ... - --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k s t o p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0073 0074 006F 0070 |
| 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)3667697785868182 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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