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Definitions: Garotte |
GarotteNoun1. An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation. Verb1. Strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garotte" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: GarotteSynonyms: garrote (n), iron collar (n), garrotte (v), scrag (v). (additional references) |
| "Garotte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garotte" 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.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "garotte": anti-garotte. | |
| 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 |
garotte | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "garotte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | megfojtás (choke, choking, garrotte, smothering, strangling, strangulation), kivégzés nyakszorító vassal (garrotte), csavarófa (garrote, garrotte). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencekik (choke, strangle). (various references) | |
Italian | garrotta (garrotte), strangolare con la garrotta (garrotte). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arottegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garrotear (garrotte), garrote (defect, Esmarch tourniquet, garrotte, kink, tie, top of shoulder, tourniquet, withers), floreado (flowery, twirl), estrangular (choke, emote, garrotte, mug, quell, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), esganar (garrotte, strangle, throttle), assalto (assault, attack, blow, bout, break in, burglary, flaw, garrotte, mugging, onfall, onset, push, raid, robbery, rush, shock). (various references) | |
Spanish | garrote (bludgeon, club, dancer, defect, garrote, garrotte, kink, springer, truncheon, twister), dar garrote a (garrote, garrotte), agarrotar (garrote, garrotte, squeeze tight). (various references) | |
Turkish | boğazlamak (butcher, choke, garrote, slaughter, strangle), boğazlama, boğazını sıkarak boğma, boğarak idam etmek (garrote, garrotte), boğarak idam (garrote, garrotte). (various references) | |
Ukranian | страчувати за допомогою гаротти (garrotte), гаррота (garrotte), задушення з метою пограбування (garrotte), задушити з метою пограбування (garrotte). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình phạt thắt cổ (garrotte). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garotte": garotted, garotter, garotters, garottes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: garote, orgeat, rotate, target, togate. | |
-2 letters: argot, ergot, gator, grate, great, groat, oater, orate, ottar, otter, retag, rotte, targe, tarot, tater, terga, tetra, togae, torte, toter, treat. | |
-3 letters: aero, ager, ergo, gate, gear, geta, goat, goer, gore, grat, grot, ogre, rage, rate, rato, rota, rote, tare, taro, tart, tate, tear, teat, toea, toga, tora, tore, tort, tote, tret, trot. | |
-4 letters: age, ago, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, ego, era, erg, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, goa, gor, got, oar, oat, ora, ore, ort, rag, rat, reg, ret, roe, rot, tae, tag, tao, tar, tat, tea, teg, tet, toe, tog, tor, tot. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ar, at, er, et, go, oe, or, re, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: cottager, frottage, garotted, garotter, garottes, garrotte, tetragon, tutorage. | |
+2 letters: cottagers, frottages, garotters, garrotted, garrottes, greatcoat, larghetto, nontarget, teratogen, tetragons, tetralogy, tutorages. | |
+3 letters: allegretto, altogether, graptolite, greatcoats, integrator, larghettos, negotiator, teratogens, teratology, tetragonal, tolerating. | |
+4 letters: allegrettos, altogethers, autografted, foretasting, forgettable, gastrectomy, geostrategy, gerontocrat, graptolites, heterograft, integration, integrators, interrogate, legitimator, negotiators, negotiatory, orientating, overstating, reallotting, renegotiate, retroacting, scattergood, teratogenic, teratologic, tetralogies, theatergoer. | |
+5 letters: aforethought, afterthought, antiestrogen, battleground, congratulate, counteragent, geostrategic, gerontocrats, gesticulator, heterogamete, heterogamety, heterografts, integrations, interrogated, interrogatee, interrogates, interrogator, investigator, legitimators, magnetometer, magnetometry, nonstrategic, obliterating, overtreating, postgraduate, preallotting, recontacting, reformatting, registration, remotivating, renegotiated, renegotiates, revegetation, scattergoods, stigmasterol, teratologies, teratologist, tetragonally, theatergoers, theatergoing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 72 6F 74 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-. --- - - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a r o t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0072 006F 0074 0074 0065 |
| 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)41678481868671 |
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