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Definition: Hairpiece |
HairpieceNoun1. A covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HairpieceSynonyms: false hair (n), postiche (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hairpiece |
| English words defined with "hairpiece": switch ♦ toupe, toupee, toupeed ♦ wig. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hairpiece": blocker and sewer ♦ FOUNDATION MAKER ♦ WIG MAKER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You may be able to buy a wig or hairpiece at a specialty shop just for cancer patients. (references) | |
Some health insurance policies cover the cost of a hairpiece needed because of cancer treatment. (references) | ||
Get your wig or hairpiece before you lose a lot of hair. That way, you can match your current hair style and color. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Also I don't trust anything said by a news anchor who doesn't have a believable hairpiece. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hairpiece" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hairpiece" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
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 |
hairpiece | 42 |
hairpiece small | 8 |
hairpiece wig | 8 |
hairpiece tape | 5 |
hairpiece ponytail | 5 |
clip on hairpiece | 4 |
man hairpiece | 4 |
hairpiece supply | 3 |
affleck ben hairpiece | 3 |
hairpiece online | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hairpiece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parukë (grizzle, periwig, peruke, switch, transformation, wig). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | частична перука (scratch-wig), изкуствена коса. (various references) | |
Czech | tupé (toupee), příèesek (toupee). (various references) | |
Danish | paryk (postiche, wig). (various references) | |
Dutch | pruik (postiche, wig). (various references) | |
Esperanto | peruko (wig). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hárkollur (wig), parúkkur (wig). (various references) | |
French | perruque. (various references) | |
Frisian | prûk (wig). (various references) | |
German | haarteil, toupet (toupee), Perücke (periwig, peruke, wig). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paróka (periwig, peruke, wig). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鬘 (wig), プロ野球 (10^2, hair, hair band, hair care, hair cream, hair curler, hair dresser, hair dryer, hair liquid, hair manicure, hair oil, hair spray, hairbrush, hairdye, hairpin curve, hairstyle, haste, header, heading, heather, hectare, hecto-, hectopascal, hedge, hedgehog, hedging, hegemony, intense smell, professional baseball, state of being furious or angry). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヘア"ース , かつら (Japanese Judas tree, wig). (various references) | |
Manx | mwashag (periwig, wig). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tupè, parykk. (various references) | |
Papiamen | peluka (wig). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airpiecehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peruca (periwig, perusal, toupee, wig). (various references) | |
Russian | шиньон (chignon, hair-piece). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umetak (bushing, filler, gusset, inlay, insert, insertion, inset, parenthesis, tab), perika (periwig, peruke, taupe, toupee, wig), šinjon. (various references) | |
Swedish | postisch (postiche), peruk (jasey, periwig, peruke, wig). (various references) | |
Thai | วิกผม (syrup of figs). (various references) | |
Turkish | takma saç (postiche, wig), postiş (postiche), peruka. (various references) | |
Ukranian | шиньйон. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caliandrum, caliendrum, capillamentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hairpiece": hairpieces. (additional references) | |
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"Hairpiece" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hayrieye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: peachier. | |
-2 letters: cheaper, cheapie, epeiric, peacher. | |
-3 letters: achier, apiece, cahier, ceriph, cipher, eparch, pereia, piecer, pierce, preach, recipe. | |
-4 letters: aerie, areic, caper, carpi, ceria, chair, chape, chare, cheap, cheep, cheer, chirp, crape, creep, crepe, cripe, erica, icier, pacer, parch, peace, peach, perch, perea, piece, price, raphe, reach, recap. | |
-5 letters: ache, acre, aper, arch, cape, caph, care, carp, cepe, cere, chap, char, chia, chip, cire, crap, each, eche, epha, epic, hair, hare, harp, heap, hear, heir, here, hire, pace, pair, pare, pear, pech, peer, peri, pica, pice, pier, pree, race, rape, reap, rhea, rice, rich, ripe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: hairpieces, perithecia. | |
+2 letters: perithecial, preachified, preachifies. | |
+4 letters: cephaloridine, hemispherical, hyperacuities, hyperuricemia. | |
+5 letters: apprenticeship, cephaloridines, hyperacidities, hyperrealistic, hyperuricemias, hypervigilance, indecipherable, lexicographies, microcephalies, rhinencephalic. | |
| 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)48 61 69 72 70 69 65 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .. .-. .--. .. . -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01110000 01101001 01100101 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a i r p i e c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0069 0072 0070 0069 0065 0063 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)426775848275716971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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