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Definition: Harelip |
HarelipNoun1. A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "harelip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Synonyms: HarelipSynonyms: cheiloschisis (n), cleft lip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distortion | Distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness; (obliquity); grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness; talipes; teratology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Harelip |
| Specialty definitions using "harelip": toed-in finish ♦ warped finish. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Flower with face and note "Genus Harelip" gazing at bee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Harelip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Harelip" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
harelip | 14 |
harelip picture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "harelip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | buzë të shtrembëra. (various references) | |
Arabic | الشفة الأرنبية, أشرم الشفة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заешка уста. (various references) | |
Czech | zajeèí pysk, rozštìp rtu. (various references) | |
Farsi | لب خرگوشی , لب شکری . (various references) | |
French | bec-de-lièvre (hare-lip), bec de lièvre. (various references) | |
German | Hasenscharte (cleft lip, cocked finish, dipped finish, hare-lip, set-over finish, slack finish, tilted finish). (various references) | |
Greek | σχιστό χείλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפ" שסוע". (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyúlszáj (hare-lip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bibir sumbing. (various references) | |
Italian | leporino (leporine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 兎脣 , 兎 , 兎口 , 兎" , 口"裂 , 三つ口 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いぐち, "うし"れつ, みつくち, とし" (heart, jealousy), とけつ (vomiting of blood). (various references) | |
Manx | barney veill. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hareskår. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | areliphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lbio leporino. (various references) | |
Russian | заячья губа. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zečja usna. (various references) | |
Spanish | labio leporino (cleft lip, hare-lip). (various references) | |
Swedish | harmynthet, harläpp. (various references) | |
Turkish | yarık dudak (hare-lip), tavşan dudağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | заяча губа. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "harelip": harelips. (additional references) | |
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"Harelip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hadejia, hairlip, Harelaw, Harilal, harrel, Khaleeli, Phacelia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-p-r" | |
-1 letter: hailer, hirple, palier. | |
-2 letters: aleph, ariel, haler, hilar, paler, parle, pearl, peril, phial, pilar, pilea, plier, ralph, raphe. | |
-3 letters: aper, aril, earl, elhi, epha, hail, hair, hale, hare, harl, harp, heal, heap, hear, heil, heir, help, herl, hila, hire, ilea, lair, lari, leap, lear, lehr, liar, lier, lipa, lipe, lira, lire, pail, pair. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: earlship, harelips, parhelia, parhelic, plashier. | |
+2 letters: earlships, parhelion, perihelia, philander, planisher, preachily, shapelier, spherical, splashier. | |
+3 letters: alphameric, aspherical, birthplace, dealership, heliograph, leadership, nalorphine, nephridial, perihelial, peripheral, perishable, philanders, phyllaries, planishers, preethical, preholiday, rhizoplane, sphalerite, spheroidal. | |
+4 letters: ailurophile, ailurophobe, archipelago, birthplaces, dealerships, diphtherial, drosophilae, generalship, haloperidol, heliographs, hyperplasia, hypersaline, lamplighter, leaderships, nalorphines, necrophilia, peripherals, perishables, perithecial, philandered, philanderer, philodendra, planisphere, platyrrhine, preachingly, procephalic, prophetical, rhizoplanes, shinplaster, slaphappier, sphalerites, spherically, spirochetal, telegraphic. | |
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