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Definition: Bearcat |
BearcatNoun1. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BearcatSynonym: binturong (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Texas Bearcat (1925) When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) | |
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![]() | A Grumman F8F "Bearcat" fighter landing on board the carrier at sunset, 4 November 1948, during operations in the western Pacific area.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Four F8F "Bearcat" fighters fly past the ship, 28 April 1948.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | View of the carrier's island, with members of the American Ordnance Association visiting on board, while the ship was operating near Long Beach, California, 27 April 1949. An F8F-2 "Bearcat" fighter is parked alongside the island. Note large SX radar antenna atop the tripod mast, and many onlookers standing on the island walkways.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Entering Gibraltar harbor in April 1948, with a deckload of aircraft, including AT-6 training planes to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force. Photographed from USS Valley Forge (CV-45), which was then on her 'round the World cruise. Note Grumman F8F "Bearcat" fighters in the foreground.Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Bearcat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bearcat" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
bearcat scanner | 274 |
bearcat | 214 |
uniden bearcat | 80 |
bearcat stutz | 28 |
bearcat cosmo | 24 |
f8f bearcat | 19 |
bearcat betty | 19 |
bearcat chipper | 17 |
bearcat ruger | 15 |
bearcat scanner frequency | 13 |
bearcat getaway | 10 |
grumman bearcat | 10 |
bearcat police scanner | 9 |
bearcat scanner modification | 8 |
bearcat scanner code | 8 |
bearcat scanner manual | 8 |
210 bearcat | 8 |
250d bearcat | 6 |
animal bearcat | 6 |
55 bearcat | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bearcat": bearcats. (additional references) | |
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"Bearcat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barakat, barca, Barkat, beara, Bearcoat, berakah, Bercuit, bharati, bourcart, Brancati, Burachati, Erakat, Jeaurat, meerkat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abreact, cabaret. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-r-t" | |
-1 letter: abater, carate. | |
-2 letters: abate, acerb, aceta, areca, brace, bract, caber, carat, caret, carte, cater, crate, rabat, react, reata, recta, taber, trace. | |
-3 letters: abet, acre, acta, area, bare, bate, bear, beat, beta, brae, brat, carb, care, cart, cate, crab, race, rate, tace, tare, tear. | |
-4 letters: aba, ace, act, arb, arc, are, art, ate, baa, bar, bat, bet, bra, cab, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, reb, rec, ret, tab, tae, tar, tea. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ar, at, ba, be, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-r-t" | |
+1 letter: abreacts, acerbate, bacteria, bearcats, bracteal, cabarets, cabresta, cabretta, cartable, crabmeat. | |
+2 letters: abreacted, acerbated, acerbates, aerobatic, ascorbate, backwater, bacterial, bacterias, brachiate, bracteate, cabrestas, cabrettas, calibrate, carbamate, carbonate, carpetbag, crabmeats, fabricate, trabecula, traceable, tractable. | |
+3 letters: abacterial, abreacting, abreaction, abstracted, abstracter, acerbating, acetabular, aerobatics, ascorbates, backwaters, bacteremia, blackheart, blackwater, brachiated, brachiates, bureaucrat, calibrated, calibrates, carbamates, carbonated, carbonates, carpetbags, charitable, exacerbate, fabricated, fabricates, factorable, tabernacle, trabeculae, trabecular, trabeculas. | |
+4 letters: abreactions, absorptance, abstracters, abstractest, abstractive, antechamber, articulable, azotobacter, backscatter, backstabber, backtracked, bacteremias, bacterially, bacteriuria, bicarbonate, blackhearts, blackwaters, broadcasted, broadcaster, bureaucrats, carboxylate, collaborate, decarbonate, exacerbated, exacerbates, extractable, intractable, leatherback, practicable, quarterback, racquetball, rebroadcast, recalibrate, relocatable, retractable, tabernacled, tabernacles, trabeculate, trafficable, untraceable. | |
+5 letters: absorptances, abstractable, abstractedly, abstractness, accreditable, antechambers, azotobacters, backscatters, backstabbers, bactericidal, bacteriostat, bacteriurias, bicarbonates, broadcasters, bureaucratic, cabinetmaker, carbohydrate, carboxylated, carboxylates, carpetbagger, circulatable, collaborated, collaborates, contrabasses, contrastable, correlatable, decarbonated, decarbonates, distractable, exacerbating, exacerbation, forecastable, leatherbacks, merchantable, mycobacteria, nonbacterial, overabstract, prefabricate, quarterbacks, racquetballs, rebroadcasts, recalibrated, recalibrates, scatterbrain, secobarbital, semiabstract, tabernacling, tabernacular, traceability, uncalibrated, uncapturable, uncharitable. | |
| 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 65 61 72 63 61 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- .-. -.-. .- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a r c a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0072 0063 0061 0074 |
| 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)36716784696786 |
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