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Definition: Loupe |
LoupeNoun1. Small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Any small magnifying glass or lens mounted for use in the hand, held in the eye socket, or attached to spectacles and used to study minerals androcks. Also spelled lupe, loup, loop. (references) |
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Synonym: LoupeSynonym: jeweler's loupe (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Loupe |
| Specialty definitions using "loupe": Berger's loupe. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Loupe" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (gnarl, knur, magnifying glass, snag, wart, Wen). |
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| "Loupe" by Alan Cameron Commentary: "Style shot of printers loupe with reflection & refraction." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Give off even the faintest whisper of crime, suffering, or sordid doings, and we all pop in the jeweler's loupe of pain and start admiring the precision of the cut. |
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| "Loupe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Loupe" is used about 5 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 (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "loupe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Loupe | Last name | 300 | 28,701 |
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Expressions using "loupe": Berger's loupe ♦ binocular loupe ♦ jeweler's loupe. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
loupe | 95 |
jeweler loupe | 24 |
jewelry loupe | 6 |
eye loupe | 6 |
loupe roxanne | 5 |
loupe zeiss | 4 |
folding loupe | 4 |
peak loupe | 4 |
10x loupe | 4 |
loupe schneider | 3 |
screen loupe | 3 |
30x loupe | 3 |
gif loupe | 3 |
loupe magnetique | 3 |
loupe macro nikon | 2 |
bausch lomb loupe | 2 |
loupe magnifier | 2 |
loupe surgical | 2 |
30x jeweler loupe | 2 |
loupe spectacle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "loupe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Lupë (magnifying glass, reading glass). (various references) | |
Chinese | 寸镜. (various references) | |
Danish | lup-briller (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set), Harman-lup (Bishop Harman loupe), Berger's lup (Berger lens, Berger's loupe). (various references) | |
Dutch | loep van Harman (Bishop Harman loupe), loep van Berger (Berger lens, Berger's loupe), binoculaire loep (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular magnifying glass, binocular magnifying glasses, binocular magnifying-loupe, binocular-magnifier set). (various references) | |
French | lunettes à loupes bilatérales (telescope loupe), loupe montée sur lunettes (binocular loupe), loupe de von Eicken (von Eicken binocular loupe, von Eicken loupe), loupe de Harman (Bishop Harman loupe), loupe de Berger (Berger's loupe), loupe binoculaire de von Eicken (von Eicken binocular loupe, von Eicken loupe). (various references) | |
German | Harman Lupe (Bishop Harman loupe), Fernrohrlupenbrille (telescope loupe), Eicken Lupe (von Eicken binocular loupe, von Eicken loupe), Brillenlupe (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set), binokulare Lupe fuer Augenaerzte (Berger lens, Berger's loupe), Berger Lupe (Berger lens, Berger's loupe). (various references) | |
Greek | κυρτός φακός του Berger (Berger lens, Berger's loupe), μεγεθυντικές διόπτρες (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set), διοπτρικοί φακοί (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Nagyítóüveg (glass, magnifier, magnifying glass). (various references) | |
Italian | lente di Harman (Bishop Harman loupe), lente di Berger (Berger lens, Berger's loupe), occhiale a cannnocchiale (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 拡大鏡 (magnifying glass). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かくだいきょう (magnifying glass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oupelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lupa de Berger (Berger lens, Berger's loupe), lente de Bishop Harman (Bishop Harman loupe). (various references) | |
Russian | увеличительное стекло (magnifier, magnifying glass, reading glass, reading-glass), лупа (magnifier, magnifying glass), Лупа. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lupa (hand-glass, magnifier, magnifying glass, reading glass). (various references) | |
Spanish | lupa de Harman (Bishop Harman loupe), lentes binoculares (binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set), lente de Berger (Berger lens, Berger's loupe). (various references) | |
Swedish | Lupp. (various references) | |
Turkish | Pertavsız (magnifying glass). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kính lúp (magnifier, magnifying glass). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loupe": louped, loupen, loupes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "loupe": cantaloupe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "loupe": cantaloupes. (additional references) | |
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"Loupe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joupe, laube, lauph, Leipe, Leupena, Leuxe, loipe, lompe, loope, loopey, lopa, lopen, Lopex, lopey, lopie, loppe, loub, Loubet, louce, loude, loue, Louen, Louey, louge, Loule, loupen, louper, louph, loure, Lupa, lupe, lupo, olup, Oupo, poupe, Poupee, Rouppe, sloupe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "loupe" (pronounced luw"p) |
| 3 | l uw" p | loop, Loup, sloop. |
| 2 | -uw" p | coop, coupe, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, Goop, group, hoop, intergroup, poop, recoup, regroup, scoop, snoop, soup, stoop, stoup, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: lope, loup, pole, pule. | |
-2 letters: leu, lop, ole, ope, pol, pul, upo. | |
-3 letters: el, lo, oe, op, pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: couple, louped, loupen, loupes, pueblo, pumelo, tupelo. | |
+2 letters: ampoule, apolune, closeup, copulae, coupled, coupler, couples, couplet, eelpout, euploid, gluepot, hopeful, leprous, nonuple, octuple, opulent, outleap, outyelp, pelorus, pileous, pleuron, plumose, pollute, poulter, pueblos, pumelos, pummelo, sporule, tupelos. | |
+3 letters: ampoules, apologue, apolunes, closeups, clupeoid, copulate, couplers, couplets, cupolaed, decouple, eelpouts, epilogue, espousal, euploids, euploidy, fourplex, gluepots, hopefuls, nonuples, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, opaquely, opercula, opercule, opulence, opulency, opuscule, outleaps, outleapt, outsleep, outslept, outspell, outspelt, outyelps, overplus, papulose, perilous, petalous, pleuston, ploughed, plougher, pluviose, polluted, polluter, pollutes, populace, populate, postlude, poularde, poulters, poultice, pourable, powerful, prologue, promulge, prunello, pullover, pulsojet, pummelos, recouple, scopulae, sepalous, sporules, sulphone, uncouple, unpeople, unplowed, unpolite, unpolled, upboiled, upcoiled, upflowed, upfolded, upholder, uploaded. | |
| 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. | |
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