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Paper Chase

Definition: Paper Chase

Paper Chase

Noun

1. An outdoor game; the hares start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and the hounds try to catch them before they reach a designated spot.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Paper Chase

Synonym: hare and hounds (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Paper Chase

Specialty definitions using "paper chase": chase pointers, country printerDIE MAKERembossing-machine operator, EMBOSSING-PRESS OPERATORfinished-leather pressergold marker, gold stamper, gold-leaf printerhot stamperleaf stamper, lettering-machine operatorMARKING-MACHINE OPERATORplating-press operatorsmooth plater, STAMPING-PRESS OPERATOR, steel-rule die maker. (references)

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Modern Usage: Paper Chase

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Paper Chase (1973)

Bingle at the Paper Chase (1921)

The Toyland Paper Chase (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Paper Chase

DomainTitle

Books

  • Paper Chase (reference)

  • Paper chase : the press under investigation (reference)

  • The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paper Chase

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the paper chase

79
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Paper Chase

Language Translations for "paper chase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

schnitzeljagd. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aperpay asechay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

snitseljakt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Paper Chase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-p-p-r-s"

-1 letter: scrapheap.

-2 letters: appeaser, earaches, peachers, preaches, preshape.

-3 letters: apaches, appears, appease, cappers, cheaper, earache, eparchs, escaper, paraphs, parches, peacher, peaches, perches, perhaps, rappees, reaches, reshape, respace, schappe.

-4 letters: apache, appear, arches, arecas, caesar, capers, capper, chapes, charas, chares, chaser, cheaps, cheeps, cheers, crapes, crease, creeps, creesh, crepes, eparch, escape, escarp, eschar, haeres, hearse, herpes, pacers, pachas, papers, paraph, parsec, peaces, phrase, preach, raphae, raphes, rappee, recaps, sapper, sarape, scarph, scrape, search, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sherpa, spacer, spahee, speech, sphere.

-5 letters: aches, acres, apace, apers, apres, areae, areas, areca, asper, caper, capes, caphs, cares, carps, carse, cease, cepes, ceres, chape, chaps, chare, chars, chase, cheap, cheep, cheer, crape, craps, crash, creep, crepe, eches, ephas, erase, escar, haars, hares, harps, heaps, hears, heres, pacas, pacer, paces, pacha, papas, paper, parae, paras, parch, pares, parse, pasha, peace, peach, pears, pease, pechs, peeps, peers, perch, perea, perps, perse, phase, prase, prees, preps, presa, prese, races, rapes, raphe, reach, reaps, recap, repps, rheas, sacra, saree, scape, scare, scarp, scrap, scree, serac, shape, share, sharp, shear, sheep, sheer, space, spare, spear, speer, spree.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-p-p-r-s"
 

+3 letters: prosencephala.

 

+4 letters: hepatopancreas.

 

+5 letters: archiepiscopate, encephalographs, parthenocarpies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Paper Chase


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 70 65 72      43 68 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0070 0065 0072      0043 0068 0061 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506782718423774678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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