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Definitions: Paraplegic |
ParaplegicAdjective1. Suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord. Noun1. A person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Paraplegic |
| Non-English Usage: "Paraplegic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (paraplegic). |
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Children | China | Deng Pufang, son of the late national leader Deng Xiaoping, is a paraplegic and heads the China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped and the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), government-affiliated organizations tasked with assisting persons with disabilities. (references) |
Women | Brazil | In April the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued its first decision on the issue of violence against women in a case brought by Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, a woman who in 1983 repeatedly was beaten by her husband and left paraplegic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Paraplegic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paraplegic" is used about 23 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
paraplegic | 147 |
association canadian paraplegic | 26 |
paraplegic woman | 15 |
paraplegic sex | 8 |
paraplegic devotee | 8 |
paraplegic picture | 6 |
paraplegic model | 4 |
canadian paraplegic | 4 |
paraplegic sexuality | 4 |
nude paraplegic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paraplegic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | paraplegisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | paraplegisch. (various references) | |
Finnish | alaraajahalvauksen saanut. (various references) | |
French | praplégique, paraplégique. (various references) | |
German | paraplegisch, paraplegiker. (various references) | |
Greek | παραπληγικόσ, παραπληγικός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | deréktól lefelé bénult. (various references) | |
Italian | paraplegico. (various references) | |
Manx | neulheiltagh (inert, paralysed, paralytic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | araplegicpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paraplégico. (various references) | |
Romanian | paraplegic. (various references) | |
Russian | больной параплегией. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paraplegičar, paraplegičan. (various references) | |
Spanish | parapléjico. (various references) | |
Swedish | paraplegiker. (various references) | |
Turkish | yarım felçli, belden aşağısı felçli. (various references) | |
Ukranian | хворий на параліч ніг. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "paraplegic": paraplegics. (additional references) | |
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"Paraplegic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parapalegic, paraphlegic, parapleghic, paraplegiac, paraplegiv. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "paraplegic" (pronounced pe'ruplē"jik) |
| 8 | -r u p l ē" j i k | quadriplegic. |
| 4 | -ē" j i k | nonstrategic, strategic. |
| 3 | -j i k | allergic, analogic, biologic, demagogic, geologic, gynecologic, illogic, lethargic, logic, magic, neurologic, nostalgic, pelagic, technologic, tragic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-l-p-p-r" | |
-3 letters: agapeic, apparel, applier, caliper, carpale, clapper, clipper, crappie, cripple, epicarp, gappier, glacier, gracile, grapple, gripple, paprica, pelagic, regalia, replica. | |
-4 letters: aecial, aerial, agaric, aglare, alegar, apical, appeal, appear, argali, cagier, capper, carpal, carpel, earlap, eclair, epical, garlic, gipper, glaire, grappa, grippe, laager, lacier, lapper, lipper, palace, palier, parcel, picara, pipage, placer, plaice, plicae, racial, rappel, realia, ripple. | |
-5 letters: acari, aecia, agape, agile, agria, algae, apace, appal, appel, apple, areal, areca, areic, argal, argil, argle, ariel, cager, caper, carle, carpi, ceria, cigar, clear, craal, crape, cripe, erica, galea, gaper, glace, glair, glare, graal, grace, grail, grape, gripe, ileac, laari, lacer, lager, large, liger, pacer, pager, palea, paler, palpi, papal, paper, parae, parge, parle, pearl, pepla, peril, pical, pilar, pilea, pipal, piper, place, plage, plica, plier, price, recap, regal, relic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-l-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: paraplegics. | |
+2 letters: epigraphical, paleographic. | |
+4 letters: clapperclawing, epigraphically, paleographical, petrographical. | |
+5 letters: paleogeographic. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 70 6C 65 67 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- .--. .-.. . --. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a p l e g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 0070 006C 0065 0067 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678467827871737569 |
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