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Definitions: Gaiter |
GaiterNoun1. A cloth covering (a legging) that provides covering for the instep and ankles. 2. An shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides. 3. Legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gaiter" was first used: 1775. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of gaiters, foretells pleasant amusements and rivalries. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GaiterSynonyms: spat (n), spats (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gaiter |
| English words defined with "gaiter": Bootikin ♦ congress gaiter ♦ Galoshe ♦ Leggin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gaiter": hose gaiter ♦ protective gaiter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gaiter" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (gaiter). |
| "Gaiter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gaiter" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gaiter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gaiter | Last name | 1,000 | 18,220 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "gaiter": congress gaiter ♦ hose gaiter ♦ protective gaiter ♦ woolen gaiter. 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 |
gaiter | 54 |
snake gaiter | 8 |
gaiter proof snake | 3 |
gaiter hiking | 3 |
gaiter leather | 3 |
outdoor research gaiter | 2 |
neck gaiter | 2 |
gaiter rain | 2 |
dotty gaiter | 2 |
gaiter snakeproof | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gaiter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gete (fishnet stockings, hose, leotards, panty hose), këpucë me çafa pa lidhëse, dollakë (leggings, puttee). (various references) | |
Arabic | مدرب على المشي. (various references) | |
Czech | kamaše (leggings, spats, spatterdashes). (various references) | |
Danish | gamache (legging, protective gaiter). (various references) | |
Dutch | slobkous. (various references) | |
Esperanto | gamaŝo, tibiingo (legging). (various references) | |
Finnish | nilkkain (legging, protective gaiter). (various references) | |
French | guêtre, houseau, emplâtre de réparation. (various references) | |
German | gamasche (legging, puttee, putty, spat). (various references) | |
Greek | γκέτα (legging, spat, spats). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוק, קרסולית (anklet, spat, Spatterdash). (various references) | |
Hungarian | porvédő harmonika, lábszárvédő (leggings, pad, pads, puttee, shin guards), kamásli (anklet, leggings, puttees, spat, stocking), bokavédő (ankle pad, leggings, spat), bőrharmonika. (various references) | |
Italian | ghetta, uosa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ゲージ理論 (entering the starting gate, game center, gate, gate array, gate ball, gateway, gauge theory, Godel, Goedel, spat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゲートル (spat). (various references) | |
Manx | gaiter. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gamasje. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aitergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | polaina. (various references) | |
Romanian | gheatã (boot, brogue, galosh, shoe), jambiere (gaiters, leggings, spats, uppers), şoşon (galosh). (various references) | |
Russian | гамаши (leggings). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dokolenica. (various references) | |
Spanish | polaina (legging, puttee). (various references) | |
Swedish | damask (collapsible cover, extensible cover, legging, protective gaiter, spat). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้าพันแข้ง (สำหรับนักไต่เขา / นักเ"ิน), รองเท้าแบบหุ้มข้อเท้าและไม่มีเชือกผูก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tozluk. (various references) | |
Ukranian | крага, гамаша. (various references) | |
Welsh | socas (legging). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | gutre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gaiter": gaiters. (additional references) | |
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"Gaiter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agier, agister, agita, aiter, gadter, Gaeltec, gaete, gafter, gaider, Gaintec, gairer, gaita, Gaitan, gaite, gaither, gaithert, gaitier, gaitor, gamter, ganter, Gantzer, Gasiyev, gater, gatter, gatur, gaufer, Gaulter, Gautam, gaute, Gautel, gauter, Gaviteer, Geater, Geeter, Geier, Geister, Geitel, geniter, ghaoithe, Gibtner, gifter, gitar, gitarr, gitter, Glaisher, gnitteg, Gualter, guater, guite, Guyther, jaite, naiter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gaiter" (pronounced gā"ter) |
| 4 | g ā" t er | gator. |
| 3 | -ā" t er | cater, crater, creator, curator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, Frater, freighter, grater, greater, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, Prater, rater, skater, Slater, stater, straighter, traitor, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aigret, triage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: grate, great, irate, retag, retia, targe, terai, terga, tiger, tragi. | |
-2 letters: ager, airt, gait, gate, gear, geta, girt, grat, grit, rage, ragi, rate, rite, tare, tear, tier, tire, trig. | |
-3 letters: age, air, ait, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, gie, git, ire, rag, rat, reg, rei, ret, ria, rig, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg, tie. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aigrets, cigaret, frigate, gaiters, granite, gratine, ingrate, migrate, ragtime, seagirt, stagier, tangier, tearing, triaged, triages, virgate. | |
+2 letters: aerating, aglitter, agrestic, aigrette, alerting, altering, angriest, argentic, astringe, averting, berating, catering, cigarets, creating, derating, driftage, earthing, emigrant, emigrate, ergastic, ergative, figeater, figurate, frigates, fruitage, ganister, gantries, giftware, glariest, gnattier, gradient, granites, graphite, grapiest, gratinee, grievant, hearting, heritage, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, irrigate, ligature, litharge, magister, migrated, migrates, pterygia, ragtimes, rangiest, ravigote, reacting, rebating, redating, regality, relating, remating, retaking, retaping, retaxing, staggier, sterigma, tabering, tanglier, tapering, thirlage, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vintager, virgates, watering. | |
+3 letters: accreting, adverting, agentries, aigrettes, allergist, antiglare, aragonite, arbitrage, argentine, argentite, argillite, arresting, asserting, astringed, astringes, bantering, bartering, battering, betraying, braggiest, breasting, breathing, cantering, carpeting, cartilage, cartridge, categoric, centigram, cigarette, ciguatera, craggiest, cratering, cremating, curtilage, denigrate, departing, deratting, draggiest, driftages, earthling, emigrants, emigrated, emigrates, estraying, faltering, fathering, featuring, figeaters, fruitages, ganisters, gannister, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, gearshift, geriatric, germinate, ghastlier, giftwares, gigahertz, glairiest, gnarliest, grabbiest, gradients, grainiest, granulite, graphites, grassiest, graticule, gratified, gratifies, gratineed, gratinees, gratitude, gravitate, gravities, greasiest, grievants, haltering, haughtier, heritages, hermitage, immigrate, ingathers, ingrafted, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, irrigated, irrigates, iterating, lathering, lethargic, ligatured, ligatures, litharges, litterbag, magisters, margarite, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nattering, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, operating, orangiest, originate, paltering, parenting, pargeting, partridge, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, purgative, rabbeting, racketing, rattening, ravigotes, rebaiting, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, reflating, registrar, regrating, reheating, repasting, repeating, replating, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, seriating, serrating, signature, sterigmas, stingaree, strategic, streaking, streaming, sugariest, tailgater, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, thirlages, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, tragedies, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, treillage, trialogue, triangles, uptearing, variegate, vintagers, waterings, wreathing, yattering. | |
+4 letters: abreacting, abridgment, absterging, acerbating, acierating, affrighted, afterimage, airfreight, algebraist, allegorist, allergists, antimerger, aragonites, arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitrages, argentines, argentites, argillites, arpeggiate, asperating, astringent, bartending, bighearted, bilgewater, blathering, blattering, bracketing, breathings, brigantine, caretaking, carpetings, cartilages, cartridges, categories, categorise, categorize, centigrade, centigrams, chaptering, chartering, chattering, cigarettes, ciguateras, clattering, cocreating, corelating, curtilages, deaerating, decorating, denaturing, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, depurating, derogating, derogation, derogative, designator, detracting, detraining, dewatering, dogmatizer, draughtier, earthlight, earthlings, emarginate, emigrating, emigration, enervating, engrafting, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, epigastric, eradiating, ergotamine, eructating, estranging, estreating, execrating, extracting, faggotries, farsighted, feathering, federating, figurative, flattering, foredating, freightage, gadgetries, galleryite, gannisters, garmenting, garnierite, garnitures, gatherings, gearshifts, generalist, generality, generating, generation, generative, generatrix, geriatrics, germinated, germinates, glitterati, granulites, grapefruit, graphitize, graptolite, graticules, gratitudes, gratuities, gravimeter, gravimetry, gravitases, gravitated, gravitates, greatening, guarantied, guaranties, gyniatries, harvesting, heartening, hermitages, herniating, iatrogenic, immigrated, immigrates, impregnant, impregnate, inaugurate, inearthing, ingathered, ingratiate, integrable, integrally, integrands, integrated, integrates, integrator, interabang, intergrade, intergraft, interorgan, interregna, interstage, intragenic, intreating, invigorate, isografted, kerygmatic, lacerating, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leathering, legislator, lethargies, liberating, lighterage, litterbags, macerating, magistrate, magnetizer, margarites, margenting, marginated, marginates, marguerite, marketings, martingale, misgrafted, moderating, morganites, multigrade, multirange, negotiator, nightmares, numerating, originated, originates, outearning, outhearing, outreading, outwearing, overacting, overeating, overhating, overrating, overtaking, overtaxing, panegyrist, parentings, pargetting, parqueting, partnering, partridges, patterning, permeating, perorating, pertaining, pigmentary, plastering, precasting, pregenital, preheating, prepasting, pretasting, profligate, purgatives, quartering, ratcheting, readapting, readopting, realtering, recharting, recreating, redbaiting, redrafting, reenacting, refloating, refracting, regalities, regelating, regimental, registrant, registrars, regrafting, regranting, regularity, regulating, regulation, regulative, relegating, relegation, relocating, rematching, renaturing, renovating, repainting, repatching, replanting, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retackling, retailings, reteaching, retracking, retracting, retraining, retreading, retreating, ringmaster, sauntering, scattering, scraggiest, separating, shattering, signatures, slathering, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, spattering, staggering, stammering, starveling, steamering, sterigmata, stewarding, stingarees, stragglier, straighted, straighten, straighter, strategies, strategist, strategize, stravaiged, streakings, streamings, supergiant, tailgaters, tangerines, tardigrade, theurgical, tolerating, tragedians, trailering, trajecting, tramelling, trammeling, transgenic, travelling, traversing, treasuring, treillages, trepanning, trialogues, trigeminal, triggerman, ulcerating, uncreating, unearthing, untreading, urogenital, variegated, variegates, variegator, vegetarian, venerating, watertight, weathering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 69 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a i t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0069 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416775867184 |
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