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Definition: Fingerspelling |
FingerspellingNoun1. An alphabet of manual signs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Fingerspelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Fingerspelling" is used about 20 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fingerspelling | 35 |
asl fingerspelling | 11 |
american fingerspelling language sign | 4 |
fingerspelling practice | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fingerspelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | brug af haandalfabet (dactyl speech, dactylology, finger-language). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | vingerspraak (dactyl speech, dactylology, finger-language), dactylologie (dactyl speech, dactylology, finger-language). (various references) | ||||
French | dactylologie (finger-language). (various references) | ||||
German | Fingersprache (dactyl speech, dactylology, finger-language), Daktylologie (dactyl speech, dactylology, finger-language). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ingerspellingfay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-p-r-s" | |
-3 letters: fingerlings. | |
-4 letters: energising, fingerings, fingerling, gingellies, greenlings, preselling, respelling, springeing. | |
-5 letters: elegising, enserfing, filigrees, fingering, frillings, gingelies, gingellis, greenings, greenling, infringes, lifelines, lingeries, lingering, perilling, piggeries, pilfering, prefiling, refelling, refilling, repelling, reselling, resigning, springing. | |
| 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)46 69 6E 67 65 72 73 70 65 6C 6C 69 6E 67 |
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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)01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i n g e r s p e l l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 0073 0070 0065 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)4075807371848582717878758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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