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Definition: Clappers |
ClappersNoun1. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ClappersSynonyms: bones (n), castanets (n), finger cymbals (n), maraca (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Clappers |
| English words defined with "clappers": Butterfly valve. (references) |
| "Clappers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Clappers" is used about 18 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 (plural) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "clappers": go like the clappers. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
ass clappers | 7 |
clappers | 6 |
hand clappers | 3 |
clappers wedding | 2 |
bell brass clappers | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clappers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 拍板 (Clapper). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Beifallklatscher (clapper). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 拍子木 (wooden clappers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょうしぎ (wooden clappers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | appersclay correr como vagabundo (go like the clappers), correr como un tonto (go like the clappers), correr como un loco (go like the clappers), marchar sin razón (go like the clappers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Clappers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capparis, Chappers, Clappison, clavpes, Clippens, Colepeper, Klapper, Klappert, Kloppers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scrapple. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cappers, carpels, clapper, clasper, lappers, parcels, placers, rappels, reclasp, scalper, slapper. | |
-2 letters: appels, apples, capers, capper, carles, carpel, clears, crapes, escarp, lacers, lapper, lapser, pacers, papers, parcel, parles, parsec, pearls, placer, places, rappel, recaps, sapper, scaler, sclera, scrape, secpar, spacer. | |
-3 letters: acres, alecs, apers, appel, apple, apres, arles, asper, caper, capes, cares, carle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: preplaces, scrapples. | |
+2 letters: applecarts, curlpapers. | |
+3 letters: backslapper, laparoscope, paraplegics, participles, polariscope. | |
+4 letters: backslappers, clapperclaws, copperplates, craftspeople, hyperplastic, laparoscopes, perspectival, pilocarpines, planispheric, plecopterans, polariscopes, preeclampsia, superplastic, superspecial. | |
+5 letters: cephalosporin, cyclopropanes, hyperphysical, laparoscopies, precapitalist, preceptorials, preeclampsias, prosencephala, superphysical, superspecials, upperclassman, upperclassmen. | |
| 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)43 6C 61 70 70 65 72 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000011 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a p p e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 0070 0070 0065 0072 0073 |
| 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)3778678282718485 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chino |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemán |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, inglés |
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