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Escallop

Definitions: Escallop

Escallop

Noun

1. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces.

2. Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled.

3. Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions.

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

 

Synonyms: Escallop

Synonyms: cutlet (n), scallop (n), scollop (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Escallop

"Escallop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Escallop" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Escallop

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

Albanian

  

skallop. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψήνω με σάλτσα κρέμασ ή ψίχουλα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fésûs csiga. (various references)

   

Manx

  

roagan (clam, intricacy, scallop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

escallopay

   

Portuguese

  

escada rolante (electric stairway, escalator, moving staircase, moving stairway, mow), peixe (bisk, fish), concha de romeiro, castanhola (castanets, clam, knacky). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гребешок (comb, crest, scallop, scollop). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pečenje (baking, broiling, roast). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escalope (scallop, scollop). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ริมผ้าที่เป็นรูปคลื่น. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стулка черепашки. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Escallop

Derivations

Words beginning with "escallop": escalloped, escalloping, escallops. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Escallop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Escalus. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Escallop"

Words rhyming with "escallop" (pronounced 'Es*cal"lop'): Collop, Dallop, Keslop, lollop, Orlop, Shallop, trollop. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Escallop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: collapse.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: callose, escalop, locales, scallop, scalpel.

-2 letters: aslope, cellos, copals, lapels, locale, locals, places, solace.

-3 letters: alecs, aloes, calls, calos, capes, capos, cella, cello, cells, claps, clasp, clops, close, coals, colas, coles, copal, copes, copse, laces, lapel, lapse, leaps, local, lopes, losel, ollas, opals, paces, pales, palls, paseo, peals, place, pleas, poles, polls, psoae.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: calliopes, collapsed, collapses, escallops, scalloped, scalloper.

 

+2 letters: escalloped, leucoplast, pillowcase, scallopers.

 

+3 letters: cellophanes, collapsible, episcopally, escalloping, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, nucleoplasm, peccadillos, pillowcases, plagioclase.

 

+4 letters: cupellations, despotically, episodically, eucalyptoles, nucleoplasms, opalescently, peccadilloes, phylloclades, placeholders, plagioclases, plainclothes, polyvalences.

 

+5 letters: ceruloplasmin, colleagueship, compellations, electroplates, geophysically, leptocephalus, nucleoplasmic, politicalizes, polydactylies, porcellaneous, psephological, semipolitical, speleological, supercolossal, valpolicellas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Escallop


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

45 73 63 61 6C 6C 6F 70

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)

01000101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0063 0061 006C 006C 006F 0070

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

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

3985696778788182

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INDEX

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


  

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