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Greasepaint

Definition: Greasepaint

Greasepaint

Noun

1. A greasy substance used as makeup by actors.

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


Modern Usage: Greasepaint

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Greasepaint Indians (1913)

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

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Commercial Usage: Greasepaint

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Greasepaint

Computer Images:
Greasepaint

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Usage Frequency: Greasepaint

"Greasepaint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Greasepaint" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Greasepaint

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crowd greasepaint roar smell

4

greasepaint

3

roar of the greasepaint

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Greasepaint

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

Bulgarian 

  

грим (paint, war paint). (various references)

   

Czech

  

olejové barvy (oil colors, oil colours, oil paint, oil paints). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easepaintgray

   

Russian 

  

грим (grease paint, grease-paint, make up, war paint). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

šminka (makeup). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smink (make up, make-up, paint, rouge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Greasepaint

Derivations

Words beginning with "greasepaint": greasepaints. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Greasepaint

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pageantries.

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: asperating, parentages, separating.

-2 letters: agentries, aperients, gratinees, paginates, parentage, pestering, pistareen, repasting, repeating, reseating, sparteine, stingaree, trapesing.

-3 letters: aerating, agenesia, anergias, anergies, angaries, angriest, antirape, antisera, aperient, arenites, arginase, arsenate, arsenite, asperate, aspirant, aspirate, astringe, estrange, ganister, gantries, gentries, gesneria, granitas, granites, grantees, grapiest, gratinee, greatens, ingrates, integers, interage, naperies, negaters, paganise, paganist.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: exasperating, greasepaints.

 

+2 letters: disparagement.

 

+3 letters: disparagements, exasperatingly, septuagenarian.

 

+4 letters: septuagenarians.

 

+5 letters: cinematographers, cinematographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Greasepaint


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

47 72 65 61 73 65 70 61 69 6E 74

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)

01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 01110000 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#101 &#112 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0072 0065 0061 0073 0065 0070 0061 0069 006E 0074

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

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

4184716785718267758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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