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Camouflaged

Definition: Camouflaged

Camouflaged

Adjective

1. Made invisible by means of protective coloring.

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

Date "camouflaged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Camouflaged

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ambush

Adjective: camouflaged, hidden, concealed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Camouflaged

Specialty definitions using "camouflaged": AERIAL-PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETERdecoy shipQ-ship. (references)

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Modern Usage: Camouflaged

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Cupid Camouflaged (1918)

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

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Commercial Usage: Camouflaged

DomainTitle

Books

  • Camouflaged Aggression: The Hidden Threat to Individuals and Organizations (reference)

  • Camouflaged Uniforms Of The Gulf & North African Forces (reference)

  • Nicki Palin's Hidden Pictures: Find a Feast of Camouflaged Creatures (reference)

  • Searchin' Safari: Looking for Camouflaged Creatures (reference)

  • Searching image in carrion crows Hunting strategy in a predator and some anti-predator devices in camouflaged prey (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Camouflaged

Photos:
Camouflaged

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Photo Album: Camouflaged

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Chick camouflaged in the rocks.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Look hard and you will find a baby giant petrel camouflaged in the rocks.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Almeda Mine, Medford District. Camouflaged Aquafix.Credit: John Craig.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Camouflaged

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Special monopoles or camouflaged antennas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Camouflaged

"Camouflaged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 39.19% of the time. "Camouflaged" is used about 74 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)39.19%2964,444
Lexical Verb (past participle)33.78%2569,787
Lexical Verb (past tense)25.68%1980,337
Noun (proper)1.35%1339,140
                    Total100.00%74N/A

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

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Expressions: Camouflaged

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "camouflaged": ill-camouflaged, well-camouflaged.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Camouflaged

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

animal camouflaged

6

camouflaged horse plate search

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Camouflaged

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

Chinese 

  

伪装 (camouflage). (various references)

   

French

  

éléments camouflés (camouflaged elements). (various references)

   

German

  

tarnte. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוסו" (disguised, masked). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álcázott (ambushed, cloaked). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mascherato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

迷彩服 (camouflaged clothes). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

めいさいふく (camouflaged clothes). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

위장하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuchronnal (garbled, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indistinct, indistinguishable, sketchy, unclear, vague), fo cheiltynys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amouflagedcay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Camouflaged

Misspellings

"Camouflaged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camaouflage, camauflage, camoflage, camoouflage, camoufage, camouflag, camouflague, camouflauge, camourflage, camuflage, comouflage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Camouflaged"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "camouflaged" (pronounced ka"muflÄ'zhd)
3-Ä' zh dsabotaged.

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Anagrams: Camouflaged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-g-l-m-o-u"

-1 letter: camouflage.

-2 letters: guacamole.

-3 letters: glaucoma.

-4 letters: alamode, cageful, coagula, decalog, dogface, faculae, leucoma, maculae, maculed, moulage.

-5 letters: aflame, agleam, alcade, almuce, almude, amadou, caeoma, calmed, caudal, caudle, cedula, coaled, colead, comade, cudgel, culmed, damage, defoam, facade, facula, faecal, faucal, fecula, feudal, flamed, flumed, foaled, foamed, fodgel, fouled, fugled, gaoled, gaumed, gelada, goaled, golfed, gulfed, loafed, loamed, macled, macula, macule, malfed, mauled, module.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Camouflaged


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

43 61 6D 6F 75 66 6C 61 67 65 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    --    ---    ..-    ..-.    .-..    .-    --.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110101 01100110 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#109 &#111 &#117 &#102 &#108 &#97 &#103 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006D 006F 0075 0066 006C 0061 0067 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3767798187727867737170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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