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Definition: Lifesaver |
LifesaverNoun1. An attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents. 2. A life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: LifesaverSynonyms: life belt (n), life buoy (n), life ring (n), lifeguard (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lifesaver |
| English words defined with "lifesaver": Life Saver. (references) |
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Screenplays | So keep good behavior, it's your one lifesaver, with Popeye the Sailor Man (Popeye; writing credit: Jules Feiffer; E.C. Segar) | |
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 | Lifesaver. : condoms can protect you from AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Portrait photographs. Photograph of captain of Leviathan holding lifesaver. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lifesaver" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "Howth,co. dublin." |
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Health | For many people with antibody deficiencies, antibody replacement therapy can be a lifesaver. (references) | |
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| "Lifesaver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lifesaver" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "lifesaver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | نجات دهنده زندگانی , عضودسته نجات غریق وامثال ان . (various references) | |
German | rettungsschwimmer (lifeguard), grosse Hilfe, große Hilfe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ifesaverlay.(various references) | |
Russian | спаситель (life saver, redeemer, rescuer, salvager, salvor, savior, saviour). (various references) | |
Spanish | salvador (lifeguard, redeemer, rescuer, saver, savior, saviour). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lifesaver": lifesavers. (additional references) | |
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"Lifesaver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: latesaver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: filarees. | |
-2 letters: faeries, ferlies, filaree, freesia, laveers, leafier, leavers, leavier, leviers, realise, refiles, reflies, reliefs, relives, reveals, reviles, revisal, servile, several, vealers, vealier, veilers. | |
-3 letters: aeries, aivers, ariels, averse, easier, elvers, ervils, eviler, faerie, falser, falsie, farles, feriae, ferial, ferias, ferlie, fevers, filers, fivers, flairs, flares, fleers, fliers, frails, fraise, frisee, larees, laveer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: afterlives, lifesavers. | |
+3 letters: festivalgoer, overinflates. | |
+4 letters: festivalgoers. | |
+5 letters: overclassified, overclassifies, verifiableness. | |
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