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Carroty

Definition: Carroty

Carroty

Adjective

1. Resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant; "a boy with carroty hair".

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

Synonyms: Carroty

Synonyms by domain: brash fracture (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), brittle fracture, carroty fracture.

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Crosswords: Carroty

Specialty definitions using "carroty": carroty fracture. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Carroty

"Carroty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carroty" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Expression: Carroty

Expression using "carroty": carroty fracture. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Carroty

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

Albanian

  

portokalli, flokëkuq (carrots). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

червен (erubescent, gules, red, rubric, scarlet). (various references)

   

French

  

carotte (cane, carrot). (various references)

   

German

  

kupferrot (auburn, copper, copper-red, ginger), fuchsrot (chestnut, foxy red, ginger, Sorrel). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sárgásvörös (Aurora, nude). (various references)

   

Manx

  

carradjagh, buigh-ruy (bay, bay colour, fulvous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrotycay

   

Portuguese

  

ruivo (auburn, gingham, gurry, large-scaled gurnard, mullet, redhead, ruddy, rufous). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

roşu (ablush, aglow, blood red, blushing, color, colour, copper-colored, copper-coloured, florid, fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, hearts, incarnadine, lurid, red, red-cheeked, rouge, scarlet, Sorrel), roşcat (fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, red haired, reddish, russet, Sorrel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

морковного цвета. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u obliku šargarepe. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pelirrojo (judas-colored, judas-coloured, red head, redheaded). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rödhårig (redhead), morotsröd. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızıl saçlı (ginger, red haired, red head, red-headed), havuç renginde. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

рудоволосий (red head), рудий (foxy, judas-colored, judas-coloured, red head, rufous), морквяного кольору. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đỏ hoe; có tóc đỏ hoe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Carroty

Misspellings

"Carroty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caprotti, caroti, Carratu, Carretti, carty, cerrutty, Crotty, Scardroy. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Carroty"

Words rhyming with "carroty" (pronounced 'Car"rot*y'): Parrotry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Carroty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-y"

-1 letter: carrot, rotary, trocar.

-2 letters: actor, carry, taroc, tarry.

-3 letters: arco, arty, carr, cart, coat, cory, orca, orra, racy, rato, roar, rota, ryot, taco, taro, tora, torc, torr, tory, tray, troy, tyro.

-4 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, cay, cor, cot, coy, cry, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, rat, ray, roc, rot, rya, tao.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: carryout, contrary.

 

+2 letters: carryouts, courtyard, crematory, precatory.

 

+3 letters: castratory, clearstory, contrarily, courtyards, cryptogram, procaryote, refractory, trajectory.

 

+4 letters: aristocracy, arthroscopy, calorimetry, cartography, celebratory, circulatory, contrariety, corporality, corporately, craniometry, crashworthy, cryotherapy, cryptograms, cryptograph, cryptomeria, declaratory, deprecatory, imprecatory, lachrymator, meritocracy, oracularity, predicatory, procaryotes, prokaryotic, reactionary, stratocracy, subcontrary.

 

+5 letters: accretionary, appreciatory, articulatory, carbohydrate, confirmatory, consecratory, conservatory, contemporary, corporeality, counterrally, cryptographs, cryptography, cryptomerias, depreciatory, gerontocracy, hyperreactor, lachrymators, microcrystal, microgravity, oratorically, orchestrally, postcoronary, purificatory, refractorily, renunciatory, rhetorically, secretionary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Carroty


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

43 61 72 72 6F 74 79

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 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#111 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0072 006F 0074 0079

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

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

37678484818691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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