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Barber Chair

Definition: Barber Chair

Barber Chair

Noun

1. A large fixed adjustable chair in which barbers seat their customers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Barber Chair

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A high slab-like splint, resembling a chair-back, left standing on a stump above the undercut as a result of the faulty felling, or heavy lean, of the tree. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Barber Chair

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Spoken Usage: Barber Chair

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

In the eighties, Taylor had a twice-weekly segment on a Denver television station, and the clip shown in an ad run by Democrats shows Taylor applying lotions to the face of a man sitting in the barber chair with Taylor discussing techniques.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Barber Chair

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

barber chair

187

antique barber chair

42

koken barber chair

26

used barber chair

17

barber chair shop

10

barber chair sale

8

barber chair old

4

barber chair koch

4

belmont barber chair

4

barber chair koken sale

3
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Modern Translations: Barber Chair

Language Translations for "barber chair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

flaek (barber's chair, split, tombstone). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

baard (barber's chair, beard, bit, outside hawse flange, outside hawse stiffening, sloven, tombstone). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tyvirepeämä (barber's chair, beard, sloven, tombstone). (various references)

   

French

  

barbe (barb, barbel, barber's chair). (various references)

   

German

  

Waldhieb (barber's chair, tombstone), Waldbart (barber's chair, tombstone). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θύσανος (barber's chair, cirrus, tassel, tombstone, tuft). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scosciatura alla ceppaia (barber's chair, tombstone). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arberbay airchay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

falhas de abate (barber's chair, tombstone). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tacón en silla (barber's chair, tombstone). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fällkam på stubben (barber's chair, beard, sloven, tombstone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Barber Chair

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-e-h-i-r-r-r"

-3 letters: barbaric, charrier, crabbier, herbaria.

-4 letters: babiche, barrier, brachia, carrier, charier, crabber, cribber, harrier.

-5 letters: achier, arabic, archer, arrear, barber, bicarb, bracer, breach, briber, cabbie, cahier, caribe, chirre, racier, ribber, richer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Barber Chair


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

42 61 72 62 65 72      43 68 61 69 72

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

    

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

01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#97 &#105 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 0062 0065 0072      0043 0068 0061 0069 0072

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

36678468718423774677584

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Quotations: Spoken
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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