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Definition: Letter Opener |
Letter OpenerNoun1. Dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Letter OpenerSynonym: paperknife (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Letter Opener |
| Specialty definitions using "letter opener": OFFICE HELPER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I seem to have stabbed myself with the letter opener. (A Shot in the Dark; writing credit: Marcel Achard; William Peter Blatty) | |
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 |
letter opener | 179 |
electric letter opener | 14 |
sword letter opener | 10 |
zippy letter opener | 7 |
blackie collins letter opener | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "letter opener"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | coupe papier. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Brieföffner (paperknife). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | etterlay openeray abrecartas (paper knife). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-l-n-o-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: leptotene. | |
-4 letters: entrepot, letterer, petronel, potterer, reletter, repenter, rottener, teleport. | |
-5 letters: enterer, nettler, plotter, portent, potteen, preener, preteen, proette, reenter, replete, terpene, terreen, terrene, torrent, treetop. | |
| 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 65 74 74 65 72 4F 70 65 6E 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01001111 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e t t e r   O p e n e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072 004F 0070 0065 006E 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671868671842498271807184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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