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Definition: Headset |
HeadsetNoun1. Receiver consisting of a pair of headphones. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | An assembly of one or two earphones on a headband. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An assembly of a microphone and one or two earphones on a headband. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Headset."
Crosswords: Headset |
| Specialty definitions using "headset": associate director ♦ production assistant, production coordinator, PROGRAM ASSISTANT. (references) |
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 | Shown is a black woman with sage-colored jacket, and wearing a phone headset. CIS information specialists answer questions from the public, patients and health professionals about the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |  | WAVE Aerographer's Mate 3rd Class Dorothy J. Baroch stands ready to launch a weather balloon from a theodolite platform, circa 1944-45. She is wearing a communications headset.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Morty [Marty?] Gross using Western Electric headset to listen in on Man in the Moon stories, Ritz Apartments, Newark, N.J.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Parents should exercise special care in supervising the use of personal headset listening devices, and adults and children alike should learn to operate them at safe volume settings. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Headset" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Headset" is used about 48 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% | 48 | 49,194 |
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 |
headset | 1,209 |
phone headset | 594 |
wireless headset | 327 |
blue tooth headset | 313 |
aviation headset | 199 |
plantronics headset | 163 |
cordless headset | 137 |
cellular phone headset | 127 |
headset microphone | 102 |
computer headset | 87 |
david clark headset | 85 |
usb headset | 80 |
wireless phone headset | 73 |
noise cancelling headset | 67 |
socom headset | 65 |
headset radio | 60 |
lightspeed headset | 54 |
nokia headset | 51 |
motorola headset | 50 |
motorcycle headset | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "headset"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kufje (earphone, earpiece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слушалки (headphone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sluchátka (headphones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hovedtelefonsæt, hovedtelefoner med mikrofon, hovedtelefon (earphone, headphone, receiver), headset. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoofdtelefoon (earphone, headphone, receiver), hoofdstel, koptelefoon (earphone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuulokkeet (headphone), kuulokemikrofoni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ensemble compose des écouteurs avec microphone, casque radio, casque micro-téléphone, casque d'écoute (headphone), casque écouteurs (headphones), casque (headcap, headgear, headphone, headpiece, helmet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hör-Sprech-Garnitur, Kopfhörer mit Mikro, Kopfhörer (earphone, ear-phone, earphones, headphone, headphones), Kopfgarnitur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κράνος με ραδιοεπικοινωνία, σύστημα κεφαλής,μικρόφωνο-ακουστικό κεφαλής, ακουστικό κεφαλής (headphone), ακουστικά κεφαλής, ακουστικά (earphones, headphones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fejhallgató (earphone, headphone, headphones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cuffia (bonnet, cap, casing, coif, cowling, earphone, earphones, headphone, headphones, helmet, honeycomb bag, hood, reticulum, second stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadsethay auscultadores (earphones, headphone), auscultador com microfone incorporado, apoio para a cabeça (head-rest). (various references) головной телефон (earphone, headphone). (various references) slušalice (headphone, headpiece). (various references) casco telefónico, casco radio, casco de auriculares (headphone), casco con micrófono, casco (ambit, body, broken glass, cullet, empty, hat body, headphone, helmet, hood, hoof, hoove, hulk, hull, potsherd, rump, shard, shell, sherd, trunk), auriculares de cabeza, auriculares (headphones), audífonos (headphones). (various references) huvudmikrofon, huvudhörtelefon (headphone), talgarnityr. (various references) kulaklık (deaf aid, ear muffs, earmuff, earphone, earpiece, headphone). (various references) головний телефон (earphone, headphone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "headset": headsets. (additional references) | |
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"Headset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haraldseth, heardst, Hedensted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "headset" (pronounced he"dse't) |
| 4 | -d s e' t | handset, mindset. |
| 3 | -s e' t | asset, avocet, backset, heavyset, inset, onset, outset, Somerset, subset, sunset, typeset, videocassette. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deaths, hasted, heated, seated, sedate, teased. | |
-2 letters: aedes, ashed, dates, deash, death, deets, eased, hades, hadst, haets, haste, hated, hates, heads, heats, heeds, sadhe, sated, setae, shade, sheet, stade, stead, steed, tease, these, tsade. | |
-3 letters: ates, dahs, dash, date, dees, deet, ease, east, eath, eats, edhs, etas, eths, hade, haed, haes, haet, hast, hate, hats, head, heat, heed, hest, hets, sade, sate, seat, seed, seta, shad, shat, shea, shed, tads, teas, teds, teed, tees, thae, thee. | |
-4 letters: ads, ash, ate, dah, dee, eat, edh, eds, eta, eth, had, hae, has, hat, hes, het, sad, sae, sat, sea, see, set, sha, she, tad, tae, tas, tea, ted, tee, the. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, as, at, de, ed, eh, es, et, ha, he, sh, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bethesda, detaches, hastened, headiest, headrest, headsets, sacheted, sheathed. | |
+2 letters: adherents, bethesdas, chastened, deathbeds, deathless, deathsmen, detachers, diatheses, enswathed, escheated, exhausted, harvested, headgates, headnotes, headrests, headstone, hesitated, homestead, meatheads, neatherds, rethreads, shattered, slathered, steelhead, threaders, watershed. | |
+3 letters: broadsheet, dehydrates, despatched, despatches, dishearten, empathised, ensheathed, fatshedera, headmaster, headstones, headstream, headwaters, homesteads, insheathed, mastheaded, megadeaths, methadones, rehydrates, softheaded, steelheads, threadiest, threadless, unsheathed, watersheds, whiteheads. | |
+4 letters: arthrodeses, atmosphered, breadthwise, broadsheets, deadweights, deathlessly, decathletes, detachments, diathermies, dimethoates, disheartens, established, fatshederas, featherbeds, headachiest, headhunters, headmasters, headstreams, headwaiters, heathendoms, hepatitides, heulandites, homesteaded, homesteader, letterheads, nearsighted, schematized, slaughtered, softhearted, spreadsheet, stakeholder, stonewashed, superheated, threadiness, timberheads, turtleheads, unharvested, whitebeards, whitewashed. | |
+5 letters: anesthetized, apotheosized, daughterless, deathwatches, detachedness, disenchanted, disenchanter, disheartened, ethionamides, featheredges, featherheads, headforemost, headmistress, headquarters, hemihydrates, hexahydrates, homesteaders, homesteading, housetrained, hydrogenates, leatherwoods, neanderthals, orchestrated, pentahedrons, semidetached, softheadedly, spreadsheets, stakeholders, stepdaughter, stonyhearted, stouthearted, straightedge, straightened, tetrahedrons, thermostated, thunderheads. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 64 73 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- -.. ... . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a d s e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 0065 0074 |
| 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)42716770857186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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