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Headrest

Definitions: Headrest

Headrest

Noun

1. A cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash.

2. A rest for the head.

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



Specialty Definitions: Headrest

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

By gentle but definite pressure towards the -- the operator can, with his left hand, stabilize the patient's head. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Headrest

Synonym: head restraint (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: head restraint (transportation).

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Crosswords: Headrest

Specialty definitions using "headrest": AEROSPACE PHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNICIAN. (references)

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Modern Usage: Headrest

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was bound up in a straightjacket, and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with, like, wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lodlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them, no matter how hard I tried. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

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

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Commercial Usage: Headrest

DomainTitle

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Headrest

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Headrest

"Headrest" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Headrest" is used about 14 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
Adjective (superlative)100%1493,893

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Headrest

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

headrest monitor

100

headrest tv

34

headrest

34

headrest lcd

18

dvd headrest

16

headrest tvs

14

video headrest

12

epik headrest

12

headrest lcd monitor

12

headrest cover

11

bracket headrest

9

headrest install monitor

8

headrest monitor vizualogic

8

dvd epik headrest

8

headrest lcd screen

7

vizualogic headrest

7

car cover headrest

5

headrest mount

5

headrest video monitor

5

headrest screen

5
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Modern Translations: Headrest

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

Chinese 

  

垫头之物. (various references)

   

Czech

  

opìrka hlavy. (various references)

   

French

  

repose-tête. (various references)

   

German

  

Kopflehne (head-rest). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στήριγμα του κεφαλιού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fejtámla (headboard). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kalang hulu (pillow). (various references)

   

Italian

  

poggiatesta, poggiacapo, appoggiatesta (head-rest). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thackish king. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadresthay

   

Portuguese

  

procedência (origin, origination, provenance, provenience). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

naslon za glavu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reposacabezas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

huvudstöd, nackstöd. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kafalık, araba koltuğu kafa dayanağı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

підголовник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Headrest

Derivations

Words beginning with "headrest": headrests. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Headrest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: headrent, heardst, hearest, hederas, Phaedrus. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Headrest"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "headrest" (pronounced he"dre'st)
4-r e' s tarmrest, backrest.
3-e' s taccessed, alkahest, incest, inquest, manifest, protest, slugfest, unprocessed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Headrest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-r-s-t"

-1 letter: adheres, aethers, dearest, dearths, derates, earthed, hardest, hardset, hatreds, headers, headset, hearsed, hearted, heaters, redates, reheats, sedater, sheared, threads, trashed.

-2 letters: adhere, aether, aretes, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, derate, derats, desert, deters, earths, easter, eaters, erased, ethers, haeres, hasted, haters, hatred, header, hearse, hearts, heated, heater, heders, hereat, redate, reheat, reseat, reseda, rested, seared, seated, seater, sedate, shader, shared, stared, teared, teased, teaser, theres, thread, threes, trades, treads.

-3 letters: aedes, arete, ashed, aster, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deash, death, deers, deets, derat, deter, drats, drees, drest, eared, earth, eased, eater, erase, ester, ether, hades, hadst, haets, hards, hared, hares, harts, haste, hated, hater, hates, heads, heard, hears, heart, heats, heder, heeds, herds, heres, rased, rated, rates, rathe, reads, redes, reeds, reest, reset, rheas, sadhe, saree, sated, seder, sered, setae, shade, shard, share, shear, sheer, sheet, sherd, shred, stade, stare, stead, steed, steer, stere, tahrs, tared, tares, tears, tease, terse, there, these, three, trade, trash, tread, treed, trees, tsade.

-4 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, dahs, dare, dart, dash, date, dear, deer, dees, deet, dere, drat, dree, ears, ease, east, eath, eats, edhs, eras, erst, etas, eths, hade, haed, haes, haet, hard, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, head, hear, heat, heed, herd, here, hers, hest, hets, rads, rase, rash, rate, rath, rats, read, rede, reds, reed, rees, resh, rest, rete, rets, rhea, sade, sard, sate, sear, seat, seed, seer, sera, sere, seta, shad, shat, shea, shed, star, tads, tahr, tare, tars, tear, teas, teds, teed, tees, thae, thee, trad, tree, tsar.

-5 letters: ads, are, ars, art, ash, ate, dah, dee, ear, eat, edh, eds, era, ere, ers, eta, eth, had, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, rad, rah, ras, rat, red, ree, res, ret, sad, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, sha, she, tad, tae, tar, tas, tea, ted, tee, the.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: adherents, detachers, harvested, headrests, neatherds, rethreads, shattered, slathered, threaders, watershed.

 

+2 letters: broadsheet, dehydrates, dishearten, fatshedera, headmaster, headstream, headwaters, rehydrates, threadiest, threadless, watersheds.

 

+3 letters: arthrodeses, atmosphered, breadthwise, broadsheets, diathermies, disheartens, fatshederas, featherbeds, headhunters, headmasters, headstreams, headwaiters, homesteader, letterheads, nearsighted, slaughtered, softhearted, spreadsheet, stakeholder, superheated, threadiness, timberheads, turtleheads, unharvested, whitebeards.

 

+4 letters: daughterless, disenchanter, disheartened, featheredges, featherheads, headforemost, headmistress, headquarters, hemihydrates, hexahydrates, homesteaders, housetrained, hydrogenates, leatherwoods, neanderthals, orchestrated, pentahedrons, spreadsheets, stakeholders, stepdaughter, stonyhearted, stouthearted, straightedge, straightened, tetrahedrons, thermostated, thunderheads.

 

+5 letters: creaturehoods, dechlorinates, dermatophytes, disenchanters, disenthralled, disheartening, hemichordates, hereditaments, hereditarians, metamorphosed, nearsightedly, overharvested, parenthesized, reestablished, softheartedly, stepdaughters, stereographed, straightedges, tetrahedrites, thermostatted, threadinesses, weatherboards.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Headrest


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

48 65 61 64 72 65 73 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)

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

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

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0072 0065 0073 0074

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

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

4271677084718586

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INDEX

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


  

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