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Definitions: Lapel |
LapelNoun1. Lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lapel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Note: Lapel \La*pel"\, noun. [Dim. of lap fold.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fold | Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication. |
Jewelry | Necklace, bracelet, anklet; earring; locket, pendant, charm bracelet; ring, pinky ring; carcanet; chain, chatelaine; broach, pin, lapel pin, torque. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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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 "Lapel, Indiana."
Crosswords: Lapel |
| English words defined with "lapel": Revere, revers. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lapel": 46051 ♦ BASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, BLINDSTITCH SEWING MACHINE ♦ COLLAR BASTER, JUMPBASTING ♦ FRONT-EDGE-TAPE SEWER, LOCKSTITCH ♦ lapel microphone, LAPEL PADDER, BLINDSTITCH ♦ PROOF-COIN COLLECTOR. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | David B. Hill with "Ways & Means" lapel ribbon holding string with "revenue from customs" monkey.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cover of American Druggist, Aug. 1929, showing waiter, carrying three ice cream floats, looking in fear at bee in his lapel; calendar for August 1929 in lower left corner.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | National Education Association. Lapel button of National Education Association.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
O. Henry Porter | She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Lapel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.96% of the time. "Lapel" is used about 96 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) | 98.96% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Lapel, IN (town, FIPS 42228) |
Expressions using "lapel": lapel microphone ♦ lapel pin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lapel": lapel-badge, lapel-badges. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
lapel pin | 768 |
lapel | 68 |
lapel pin wholesale | 43 |
lapel pin manufacturer | 43 |
lapel pin company | 34 |
lapel pin online | 32 |
lapel microphone | 31 |
lapel pin police rescue service | 17 |
lapel pin jewelry | 10 |
lapel button | 9 |
lapel indiana | 8 |
lapel mic | 7 |
lapel pin rush | 6 |
lapel mics | 5 |
lapel in | 5 |
lapel badge | 4 |
lapel high school | 4 |
badge enamel lapel | 4 |
lapel watch | 4 |
army button lapel | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lapel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jakë xhakete. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طية صدر السترة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 翻领. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | klopa (flap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opslag (notice, placard, poster, run-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oplegsel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | برگردان یقه , برگردان (Refrain, Revers, Turnover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rintakäänne, käänne (bend, change, crisis, curve, fold, reversal, turn, turning-point, turn-up cuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revers (lappet), parement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufschlag (crash, cuff, extra charge, facing, gross profit, impact, increase, kicker, markup, overrun, over-run, percussion, price supplement, rise, serve, service, surcharge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γιακάσ ενδύματοσ, πετό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ש (flap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hajtóka (cuff, facings, flap, handcar, lappet, turn up, turn-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risvolto (cuff, facing, fly, jump, turned in), paramano (cuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 襟 (collar, neck, neckband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たれ (adjectival suffix for a person, gravy, hanging, pocket flap, skirts of a coat, soy sauce, straw curtain), おりかえし (chorus, cuffs, flap, refrain, repetition), おりえり (turned-down collar), ラペル , えり (collar, neck, neckband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | filltag (wrapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | jakkeslag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apellay enfeite (anklet, broidery, caparison, decking, dressing, embellishment, fallals, finery, garnish, garniture, Gill, offset, ornament, ornate, pretty, trimming), cãozinho de salão. (various references) rever (backhand). (various references) лацкан (lappet). (various references) rever (lappet), posuvratak. (various references) solapa (flap, lap, lift-up drawer front, revers). (various references) slag (action, bang, battle, beat, bilge, blow, bust, clip, clout, cuff, cut, day, description, diaclase, dye, fashion, fight, fissure, flapping, fracture, genre, genus, hit, impact, impingement, jab, joint, joints, kidney, kind, knock, lape, larrup, lash, lay, leg, lick, moment, nature, order, percussion, quality, scuffle, shock, slap, smack, species, stamp, strike, stroke, struggle, tack, tap, thump, turn, type, warbling, wham, whang). (various references) ส่วนของเสื้อที่ต่อจากปกเสื้อ. (various references) yaka dökümü, klapa. (various references) вилога (revers), лацкан (revers). (various references) ve áo. (various references) llabed (flap, lappet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lapel": lapeled, lapelled, lapels. (additional references) | |
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"Lapel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alpalo, Alpkem, apel, apell, Apfel, hapel, Hapoel, Kappel, ladel, Lamel, lapad, lapar, lape, lapew, lapi, lapial, lapo, Lappel, laxel, Lazell, ldpe, Lempel, lepe, Lepen, Lexell, Lipex, lippily, Luapula, Lupeli, lupeol, napel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lapel" (pronounced lupe"l) |
| 4 | -u p e" l | propel, repel. |
| 3 | -p e" l | compel, dispel, expel, impel, misspell, spell. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-p" | |
-1 letter: leal, leap, pale, pall, peal, plea. | |
-2 letters: ale, all, alp, ape, ell, lap, lea, pal, pea. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, el, la, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-p" | |
+1 letter: lapels, paella, paleal, palely, palled, pallet, plexal. | |
+2 letters: clypeal, lapeled, paellas, pallets, pallier, patella, penally, perilla, pillage, playlet, pleural, pliable, scalpel, spalled, spaller. | |
+3 letters: allotype, allspice, alpinely, ampullae, appalled, appellee, appellor, calliope, callipee, calliper, collapse, culpable, epically, escallop, flagpole, flapless, galloped, galloper, helpable, lapelled, lapsable, lapsible, paleosol, pallette, palliate, palliest, palmlike, palpable, panelled, papillae, parallel, pastille, patellae, patellar, patellas, pedalled, peelable, pelagial, pellagra, pelletal, perillas, petalled, pillaged, pillager, pillages, pillared, placable, planless, plantlet, planulae, plateful, platelet, playable, playless, playlets, playlike, plowable, preallot, prelegal, prunella, scalpels, sepalled, spadille, spallers, spillage, splenial, teleplay, volplane, walloped, walloper. | |
+4 letters: allophane, allophone, allotrope, allotypes, allspices, alpenglow, aphyllies, appellant, appellate, appellees, appellors, bipedally, calliopes, callipees, callipers, collapsed, collapses, epochally, escallops, flagpoles, flappable, gallopade, gallopers, halophile, haplessly, hypallage, lampshell, laypeople, leadplant, melphalan, oedipally, paillette, palatable, paleosols, palletise, palletize, pallettes, palliasse, palliated, palliates, palmately, palpebral, panelling, papillate, papillose, papillote, paralegal, parallels, parcelled, pastilles, patrolled, patroller, pedalling, pellagras, pellagrin, perorally, petallike, phalluses, philately, pillagers, placeable, placeless, placental, planeload, plantable, plantlets, plantlike, plasmagel, platefuls, platelets, platelike, platesful, plausible, playfield, pleadable, pleatless, pluralize, polemical, pollarded, pollinate, popliteal, preallots, prunellas, pullulate, pulsatile, pupillage, rappelled, repellant, sailplane, scalloped, scalloper, sleepwalk, soleplate, spadilles, spallable, specially, speedball, spillable, spillages, spiralled, spoilable, tailplane, teleplays, volplaned, volplanes, wallopers, wallpaper. | |
+5 letters: allophanes, allophones, allotropes, allotypies, alpenglows, apparelled, appealable, appellants, applicable, aspergilla, aspergilli, ballplayer, callipered, carpellary, carpellate, cellophane, chapfallen, chopfallen, depletable, deplorable, deplorably, deployable, elliptical, empanelled, employable, epiglottal, episomally, epithelial, escalloped, espadrille, especially, eucalyptol, expellable, explicable, explicably, flapdoodle, floatplane, gallopades, halophiles, hypallages, impalpable, impanelled, imperially, implacable, inculpable, lampshells, leadplants, leucoplast, lightplane, malapertly, maxilliped, melphalans, paclitaxel, paddleball, paillettes, painfuller, painkiller, painlessly, palatalize, pallbearer, palletised, palletises, palletized, palletizer, palletizes, palliasses, palliative, pallidness, panellings, papillotes, paralegals, parallaxes, paralleled, parcelling, parentally, pastellist, paternally, patrollers, peacefully, peccadillo, peculiarly, pellagrins, pellagrous, penicillia, perihelial, permillage, personally, petulantly, phalangeal, philatelic, phyllaries, phylloxera, pilferable, pillarless, pillowcase, pistillate, pixillated, placentals, planeloads, planetlike, plangently, planlessly, plasmagels, plasmolyze, plateglass, platterful, playfellow, playfields, pleadingly, pleasantly, pleasingly, plebeianly, pluralized, pluralizes, poetically, pollinated, pollinates, polyhedral, polyvalent, portabella, portabello, potentilla, precalculi, prelogical, premaxilla, prenatally, primevally, propellant, pullulated, pullulates, pulverable, pupillages, rappelling, repanelled, repealable, repellants, replicable, sailplaned, sailplaner, sailplanes, scallopers, sepulchral, sleepwalks, smallpoxes, soleplates, spancelled, spectrally, specularly, speedballs, spurgalled, superalloy, supernally, tailplanes, temporally, tripletail, unplayable, wallpapers. | |
| 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)4C 61 70 65 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .--. . .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110000 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a p e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0070 0065 006C |
| 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)4667827178 |
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