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HEADTEACHER

Specialty Definition: HEADTEACHER

DomainDefinition

Public Administration

Teacher who is the academic and executive head of a school. The US equivalent is principal. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: HEADTEACHER

Synonym by domain: headmistress (public administration, education).

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Usage Frequency: HEADTEACHER

"HEADTEACHER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.40% of the time. "HEADTEACHER" is used about 232 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
Noun (singular)94.4%21920,419
Noun (proper)5.6%1397,576
                    Total100.00%232N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HEADTEACHER

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

headteacher performance review

6

headteacher

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HEADTEACHER

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

Dutch

  

rectrix (head, headmaster, headmistress), rector (rector). (various references)

   

French

  

recteur (head, headmaster, headmistress), censeur. (various references)

   

German

  

rektor (headmaster, master, principal, rector, vice-chancellor, warden), Direktor (company director, director, governor, headmaster, manager, principal, rector, warden). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadteacherhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HEADTEACHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: cathedrae, heartache.

-3 letters: acerated, cathedra, deaerate, detacher, headache, headrace, hetaerae, reheated, tracheae.

-4 letters: acerate, aerated, catered, cathead, cerated, chaetae, charade, charted, cheated, cheater, cheered, cheetah, created, earache, earthed, erected, hardhat, hatched, hatcher, hearted, heather, hectare, hetaera, reached, reacted, recheat, retched, reteach, teacher, trachea.

-5 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, arcade, arched, carate, carted, cerate, chadar, chaeta.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEADTEACHER


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

48 45 41 44 54 45 41 43 48 45 52

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)

....    .    .-    -..    -    .    .-    -.-.    ....    .    .-.

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

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 01010100 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044 0054 0045 0041 0043 0048 0045 0052

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

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

4239353854393537423952

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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