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Definition: Camouflaged |
CamouflagedAdjective1. 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) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Adjective: camouflaged, hidden, concealed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Camouflaged |
| Specialty definitions using "camouflaged": AERIAL-PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETER ♦ decoy ship ♦ Q-ship. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cupid Camouflaged (1918) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Special monopoles or camouflaged antennas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 39.19% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.78% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25.68% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "camouflaged": ill-camouflaged, well-camouflaged. | |
| 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 |
animal camouflaged | 6 |
camouflaged horse plate search | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "camouflaged" (pronounced ka"muflÄ'zhd) |
| 3 | -Ä' zh d | sabotaged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 6F 75 66 6C 61 67 65 64 |
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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)01000011 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110101 01100110 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m o u f l a g e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767798187727867737170 |
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