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Paperknife

Definition: Paperknife

Paperknife

Noun

1. Dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books.

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

Synonym: Paperknife

Synonym: letter opener (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Paperknife

"Paperknife" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paperknife" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Paperknife

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

Finnish

  

paperiveitsi. (various references)

   

German

  

brieföffner (letter opener). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aperknifepay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Paperknife

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-k-n-p-p-r"

-3 letters: firepan, knapper, nappier, peakier, perinea, ranpike.

-4 letters: faerie, fainer, fakeer, feriae, ferine, frappe, infare, keppen, kippen, kipper, knifer, napper, nappie, nipper, panier, pereia, pinker, rapine, rappee, rappen, refine, repine.

-5 letters: aerie, afire, akene, apeek, arpen, faker, fakir, feria, finer, frank, freak, frena, infer, infra, inker, kafir, kefir, kenaf, kerne, knife, kreep, nappe, paper, pekan, pekin, perea, piker, piper, prank, preen, prink, rakee, ranee, reink, repin, ripen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Paperknife


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

50 61 70 65 72 6B 6E 69 66 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101011 01101110 01101001 01100110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0070 0065 0072 006B 006E 0069 0066 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

50678271847780757271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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