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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The regeneration of recorded signals in their original form. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | A method of filming musical action in which the music is recorded first and afterwards played back thus enabling the singer or dancers to perform to the music. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The reproduction on a closed circuit of a recorded programme or of recorded programme material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PLAY-BACK |
| Specialty definitions using "PLAY-BACK": cyclic noise ♦ Moving JPEG. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PLAY-BACK" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (playback). |
| "PLAY-BACK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PLAY-BACK" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PLAY-BACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | præsynkronisering (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), playback (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), kontrolafspilning (play-over), afspilning (play back, playback, replay, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | playback (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), weergave (reproduction), terugspelen (play-over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toisto (repetition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | présonorisation (play back, prerecorded playback), présono (play back, prerecorded playback), surjeu (play back, prerecorded playback), lecture (playback), jeu différé (play back, prerecorded playback), contrôle d'enregistrement (play-over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Playbackverfahren (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), Playback (backing track, double-tracking, miming, playback, recording), Wiedergabe (account, description, play back, playback, rendering, rendition, repetition, report, representation, reproduction, return, translation), Rückspielen (play-over), Abspielen (pass, play, play back, replay, sight-read). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλέυ-μπακ (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), αναπαραγωγή προγράμματος από εγγραφή (play-over), αναπαραγωγή (breeding, multiplication, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | presincronizzazione (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), preregistrazione del sonoro (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), playback (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), riproduzione di un programma registrato (play-over), riproduzione (breeding, copy, propagation, replica, replication, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ay-backplay reprodução (copy, procreation, propagation, reflex, representation, reproduction), leitura (lection, perusal, read, reading, readout), controlo de gravação (play-over). (various references) playback (playback), reproducción de sonido pregrabado (play back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization), reproducción (diagram, figure, image, picture, playback, rendering, replica, representation, reproduction), lectura (reading), control de registro (play-over). (various references) uppspelning (audition, playback), avspelning (play back, playback, replay, reproduction), återgivning (play back, playback, replay, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: playback. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-k-l-p-y" | |
-1 letter: capably, payback. | |
-2 letters: packly. | |
-3 letters: aback, alack, balky, black, cabal, kalpa, plack, playa. | |
-4 letters: ably, acyl, alba, alky, baal, back, balk, caky, calk, clap, clay, kapa, lack, lacy, laky, paca, pack, paly, play, yack. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, aby, ala, alb, alp, baa, bal, bap, bay, cab, cap, cay, kab, kay, lab, lac, lap, lay, pac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-k-l-p-y" | |
+1 letter: playbacks. | |
+3 letters: packability. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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