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Definition: Mascot |
MascotNoun1. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mascot" was first used: 1881. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MASCOT Modular Approach to Software Construction Operation and Test: a method for software design aimed at real-time embedded systems from the Royal Signals and Research Establishment, UK. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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A mascot is a person or a thing designed to represent a group or company. These are often sports teams, student unions and software developers.
Here is a list of several known mascots:
Here is a list of formerly used mascots:
- Darwin BSD's Hexley the platypus
- FreeBSD's demon
- KFC's Colonel Sanders
- Linux's Tux the penguin
- McDonald's Ronald McDonald
- Nintendo's Mario
- SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog
Crash Bandicoot was made the unofficial mascot for the Sony Playstation by several videogamers until his games appeared on other systems.
- Alex Kidd for SEGA
- Bonk for Nippon Electric Corporation's gaming system
- Gidget for Taco Bell
- Joe Camel for Camel cigarettes
- Johnny Turbo for Turbo Technologies Incorporated, an arm of NEC
Wikipedia is currently having a vote to decide its mascot. [1]
Mascot is also a district of Sydney, Australia. It contains the city's main international airport, which is sometimes referred to as Mascot. See Mascot, Australia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mascot."
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Mascot, New South Wales, Australia is a suburb of Sydney. Mascot contains the Kingsford Smith International Airport, which is Sydney's principal airport.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mascot, Australia."
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Mascot is a town located in Knox County, Tennessee. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,119.Geography
Mascot is located at 36°4'2" North, 83°45'17" West (36.067257, -83.754678)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 18.4 km² (7.1 mi²). 18.0 km² (6.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.39% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,119 people, 877 households, and 612 families residing in the town. The population density is 117.7/km² (304.7/mi²). There are 934 housing units at an average density of 51.9/km² (134.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 95.89% White, 2.41% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.47% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. 0.47% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 877 households out of which 29.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.2% are married couples living together, 10.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% are non-families. 25.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.41 and the average family size is 2.90. In the town the population is spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $29,717, and the median income for a family is $36,705. Males have a median income of $25,888 versus $21,032 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,717. 6.6% of the population and 2.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.4% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mascot, Tennessee."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MASCOT | English | Multi-environment advanced system for colour treatment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Noun: chance; lot, fate; (necessity); luck; good luck; (good); mascot. |
Spell | Talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei; furcula, madstone; mascot, mascotte; merrythought; Om, Aum; scarab, scarabaeus; sudarium, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot, gammadion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mascot |
| Specialty definitions using "mascot": dancing frog. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mascot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (mascot). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Billy, you really want a mascot, baby (Eddie; writing credit: Steve Zacharias; Jeff Buhai) | |
Lyrics | Secured the services of the University volleyball mascot, a llama by the (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Army Mascot (1942) Cafe Mascot (1936) | |
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Jack" the mascot of the GEDNEY There is no record of how he got along with Billy the Bear. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | [Army nurses with their mascot Zuzu at General Hospital in England]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [The company mascot, a goat, Gungalin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Theatrical production by the ship's crew, assistance by a mascot dog, circa 1907-1909. Cleveland was then en route to, or serving in, the Far East. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sailors and Marines on the cruiser's forecastle, with mascot goat, 1898. Note details of pilothouse and bridge, improvised gunport shields on her forward 8" gun turret, and very odd "flathat" worn by one sailor. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card, copyright by C.L. Wasson, 1899. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mascot presented to Smith Independent League of Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mascot "Maine", Cavite, P.I. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and "Pitch" the mascot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pitch, the ship's mascot. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Soldier and eagle mascot beside "H" Troop flag. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bike racer's mascot" by L L Commentary: "Motorbike racer's lucky charm, at Olivers Mount, Scarborough, UK." | "Tentacles 3" by Cerys Jones Commentary: "Originally a jar of pickled octopus bought a few years ago as a mascot (don't ask); I eventually decided to photograph these before they became a health hazard...." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Mascot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.52% of the time. "Mascot" is used about 73 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) | 94.52% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mascot" 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 |
| Mascot | Last name | 130 | 62,064 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Mascot, TN (CDP, FIPS 46400) 2. Mascot, VA |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mascot": mascot-muse-mannequin. | |
Ending with "mascot": club-mascot. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "mascot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nuskë (doll, fetish). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعويذة (abracadabra, amulet, charm, exorcism, incantation, phylactery, talisman, voodoo), جالب الحظ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | талисман (amulet, charm, medicine, phylactery, talisman), муска (amulet, fetish, medicine), амулет (amulet, phylactery, talisman). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吉祥人. (various references) | |
Czech | maskot (charm), talisman (charm, talisman). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزخوش یمن , نظرقربانی (Juju). (various references) | |
Finnish | maskotti. (various references) | |
French | mascotte. (various references) | |
German | Maskottchen (mascots), talisman (charm, charm lucky, lucky charm, talisman). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρλίτικο πράγμα, γουρλίτικο ζώο, μασκότ, φορέασ καλήσ τύχησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מביא מזל, קמיע (amulet, cameo, talisman), סגולה (merit, peculiarity, property, qualification, qualifications, quality, remedy, trait, treasure, virtue). (various references) | |
Hungarian | talizmán (amulet, charm, luck, talisman), kabala (cabala, cabbala, kabbalah), szerencsetárgy (charm, luck), üdvöske. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jimat (amulet, relic, talisman), azimat (amulet, charm). (various references) | |
Italian | talismano (talisman), portafortuna (lucky charm, talisman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マシン油 (barowner, machine oil, magic, magic glass, magic hand, magic ink marker, magic mirror, magic number, Magic Tape, magical, magician, majolica, Majorca, majority, manager, manipulator, mascara, masculine, mask, masker, masking, mass, mass communication, mass consumption, mass democracy, mass fashion, mass game, mass media, mass production, mass sales, mass screening, Masscomp, mast, master, master course, master file, master key, master plan, master tape, masterpiece, Masters Golf Tournament, masturbation, mazurka, muscat, mustard, proprietor, serious, to jerk off, to masturbate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マスコット . (various references) | |
Korean | 마스코트. (various references) | |
Manx | sonnoge, rhusag (lucky charm, talisman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascotmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mascote. (various references) | |
Romanian | mascotã (amulet), talisman (amulet, charm, Joss, periapt, talisman). (various references) | |
Russian | талисман (amulet, joss, talisman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | maskota. (various references) | |
Spanish | mascota. (various references) | |
Swedish | maskot (talisman), mascot. (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งนำโชค. (various references) | |
Turkish | maskot, uğur (auspiciousness, fortune, good luck). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | талісман (amulet, charm, talisman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật lấy khước người đem lại khước, con vật đem lại khước. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | masca. (various references) |
| Provenal | 1000-Modern | mascoto. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | mascotte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mascot": mascots. (additional references) | |
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"Mascot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macnott, Malcutt, Maqsood, marcot, Mascio, masco, masct, masot, masou, Masoz, Massoth, mastoc, Masucci, mazbout, Mazdoor, Mescit, Mesko, moschoi, moscom, Moscou, Mosport, muscon, Nasscom, nescot, Norscot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mascot" (pronounced ma"skÄ't) |
| 5 | -a" s k Ä' t | Ascot. |
| 3 | -k Ä' t | apricot, boycott. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ascot, atoms, coast, coats, comas, costa, moats, stoma, tacos. | |
-2 letters: acts, atom, cams, cast, cats, coat, coma, cost, cots, macs, mast, mats, moas, moat, mocs, most, mots, oast, oats, ocas, scam, scat, scot, soma, stoa, taco, tams, taos, toms. | |
-3 letters: act, cam, cat, cos, cot, mac, mas, mat, moa, moc, mos, mot, oat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atomics, comates, combats, mascots, osmatic, scotoma, somatic, stomach, tombacs, tomcats. | |
+2 letters: accustom, acrotism, apomicts, atamasco, backmost, coadmits, cocomats, comatiks, comatose, compacts, comparts, costmary, iotacism, massicot, mattocks, monastic, moschate, scotomas, stockman, stomachs, stomachy, stomatic, tombacks. | |
+3 letters: accustoms, achromats, aconitums, acrotisms, ammocetes, amoristic, aromatics, atamascos, atomistic, autoecism, bombastic, castoreum, catacombs, chromates, coatrooms, coinmates, combaters, copemates, cosmonaut, cremators, customary, cytoplasm, democrats, dogmatics, ectoplasm, encomiast, factotums, hecatombs, impactors, iotacisms, macintosh, masochist, massicots, maxicoats, mislocate, mobocrats, monastics, monocrats, mosaicist, motorcars, moustache, mustachio, mycetomas, onomastic, ostracism, outcharms, romantics, sarcomata, scotomata, simpatico, stomached, stomacher, stomachic, subatomic, trachomas, vasectomy. | |
| 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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