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Hairgrip

Definition: Hairgrip

Hairgrip

Noun

1. A flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place; "in England they call a bobby pin a grip".

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

Synonyms: Hairgrip

Synonyms: bobby pin (n), grip (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Hairgrip

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

Czech

  

spon do vlasù. (various references)

   

German

  

haarklemme (bobby pin), haarklammer (barrette, hair slide), klemmchen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τσιμπιδάκι (hairpin, hairslide). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hullámcsat (bobby pin, hair-grip), hajcsipesz (hairclip), díszcsat (barrett). (various references)

   

Italian

  

molletta (clamp, clip, clothes peg, clothespin, dental burr, hairpin, peg, pincers, tweezers). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airgriphay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

заколка для волос (hair slide, hair-slide). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toka (bobby pin, buckle, clasp, clip, fastener, fibula, grip, handshake, hasp, ouch, slide), saç tokası (hair clip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Hairgrip

Misspellings

"Hairgrip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hargrim. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Hairgrip

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-i-p-r-r"

-2 letters: gharri.

-3 letters: graph.

-4 letters: grip, hair, harp, pair, parr, prig, ragi.

-5 letters: air, gap, gar, ghi, gip, hag, hap, hip, pah, par, phi, pia, pig, rag, rah, rap, ria, rig, rip.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-i-p-r-r"
 

+2 letters: hairspring, trigraphic.

 

+3 letters: hairsprings.

 

+4 letters: chirographic, micrographic, radiographic, serigraphies.

 

+5 letters: bibliographer, cardiographic, chirographies, micrographics, micrographing, radiographies, radiographing, stratigraphic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hairgrip


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

48 61 69 72 67 72 69 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100111 01110010 01101001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#103 &#114 &#105 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0069 0072 0067 0072 0069 0070

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

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

4267758473847582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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