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Definition: Pace Car |
Pace CarNoun1. (auto racing) a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | Alright. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car. (Days of Thunder; writing credit: Robert Towne; Tom Cruise) | |
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| 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 |
pace car | 28 |
indy pace car | 21 |
1978 corvette pace car | 17 |
corvette pace car | 10 |
indy 500 pace car | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pace car"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | acepay arcay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-p-r" | |
-2 letters: apace, areca, caeca, caper, crape, pacer, parae, recap. | |
-3 letters: acre, aper, area, caca, cape, care, carp, ceca, crap, paca, pace, para, pare, pear, race, rape, reap. | |
-4 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cap, car, cep, ear, era, pac, par, pea, pec, per, rap, rec, rep. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-p-r" | |
+1 letter: carapace. | |
+2 letters: carapaces. | |
+3 letters: backpacker, crawlspace, pancreatic, scapegrace, spacecraft. | |
+4 letters: backpackers, catchphrase, clapperclaw, coparcenary, crawlspaces, malpractice, practicable, scapegraces, spacecrafts, spectacular. | |
+5 letters: archetypical, archipelagic, cacographies, capercaillie, capercailzie, cataphoretic, catchphrases, clapperclaws, malpractices, overcapacity, preclearance, spectaculars. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 63 65 43 61 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a c e   C a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0063 0065 0043 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506769712376784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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