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Definition: Ricochet |
RicochetNoun1. A glancing rebound. Verb1. Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ricochet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
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Literature | Ricochet [rikko-shay]. Anything repeated over and over again. The fabulous bird that had only one note was called the ricochet; and the rebound on water termed ducks and drakes has the same name. Marshal Vauban (1633-1707) invented a battery of rebound called the ricochet battery, the application of which was ricochet firing. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: RicochetSynonyms: carom (n), bounce (v), bound (v), rebound (v), recoil (v), resile (v), spring (v), take a hop (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recoil | Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet. |
Noun: recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; Verb: elasticity; reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation; (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ricochet |
| English words defined with "ricochet": free radical ♦ Parados ♦ radical, Ricochetted, Ricochetting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ricochet" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (rebound, ricochet). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ricochet (1963) Terminal City Ricochet (1990) | |
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 | Thud; thump; bounce; ricochet; rebound; missed; miss. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But there was no ricochet. |
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| "Ricochet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Ricochet" is used about 15 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) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ricochet": ricochet firing. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ricochet": mid-ricochet. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "ricochet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rikoshet (rebound), shket (float, flow, sail, skid, subside). (various references) | |
Arabic | تنبو القذيفة, إرتداد القذيفة, شظية مرتدة, شظية (fragment, scrap, shiver, sliver, spall, splint, splinter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рикошет, рикоширам (drift, glance, glance off, rebound, skip), отскок (hop, rebound, spring), отплесвам се (digress, go stray, stray). (various references) | |
Chinese | 跳弹. (various references) | |
Czech | odskoèit (bounce, rebound, recoil), odrazit (beat, beat off, fend, fend off, fight off, force back, hold off, intercept, push off, rebut, repel, repulse, return, shove off, strike back, throw back, ward off), odraz (bounce, rebound, reflection, reflexion, reverberation, take off, takeoff). (various references) | |
Danish | prelskud (ricochet wound), anslagsvæg (impact wall, ricochet wall). (various references) | |
Dutch | schampschot (ricochet wound, tangential wound), inslagwand (impact wall, ricochet wall). (various references) | |
Farsi | کمانه کردن , کمانه , باگلوله کمانه دارزدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kimmota (be elastic, bounce back, rebound). (various references) | |
French | ricochet, ricocher. (various references) | |
German | abprallen (bounce back, bounce off, carom, glance off, rebound, recoil, to recoil, to ricochet). (various references) | |
Greek | αναπήδηση βλήματοσ, αποστρακισμόσ, αποστρακίζομαι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תיז (slosh, spatter, splatter, spray, sputter), ריקושט, רסיס חוזר, תיר, תז (jet of water, sprinkle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | geller. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengambul (bounce, rebound), membalik (reverse, turn, turn around, turn over), melantun (rebound, reflect). (various references) | |
Italian | rimbalzo (bounce, rebound, rebound effect), rimbalzare (bounce, bounce back, rebound), colpire di rimbalzo. (various references) | |
Manx | aaskinney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icochetray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ricochetear (bound, rebound), ricochete (glance, rebound, resilience, resiliency), fazer ricochete. (various references) | |
Romanian | ricoşeu (bounce, bound, rebound), ricoşare. (various references) | |
Russian | рикошет (rebound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rikošet, odskok (bounce, rebound), odskočiti (bounce back, jump off, rebound, recoil, snap, snap up, start aside). (various references) | |
Spanish | rebote (rebound, skip). (various references) | |
Swedish | rikoschett. (various references) | |
Thai | เ"้งกลับ, การเ"้งกลับ. (various references) | |
Turkish | zıplamak (bounce, bound, capriole, cavort, dap, gambol, hop, jump, leap, prance, skip), sekmek (bounce, hop, leap, rebound, skim, skip, trip), sekme (bounce, bound, hop, hopping, leap, rebound, ricochetting, skipping, trip), sekerek gitme, keman yayını zıplatarak çıkarılan ses. (various references) | |
Turkmen | зawmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рикошет (rebound), рикошевати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ném thia lia, sự bắn thia lia. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ricochet": ricocheted, ricocheting, ricochets, ricochetted, ricochetting. (additional references) | |
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"Ricochet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rabochii, Rabochiy, Rabochy, recochet, rekochet, riccochet, richocet, richoched, richochet, rickochet, ricocchet, ricocket, ricothet, Robochef. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: cerotic, choicer, choreic, crochet, orectic. | |
-2 letters: chicer, choice, choric, cicero, cither, coheir, cretic, crotch, echoic, erotic, hectic, hector, heriot, heroic, rochet, rotche, thoric, thrice, tocher, troche. | |
-3 letters: cerci, ceric, chert, chico, chiro, choir, chore, citer, croci, ethic, ichor, ither, ocher, ochre, other, recti, recto, retch, rotch, their, throe, torch, toric, trice. | |
-4 letters: cero, chic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ricochets. | |
+2 letters: crocheting, escharotic, octarchies, ricocheted, theocratic. | |
+3 letters: chocolatier, cholesteric, ectomorphic, ectothermic, ectotrophic, escharotics, euchromatic, pyrotechnic, ricocheting, ricochetted, theocentric, theocracies. | |
+4 letters: cataphoretic, chalcopyrite, chocolatiers, chronicities, chronometric, erythrocytic, ethnocentric, heliocentric, heterocyclic, mesothoracic, metathoracic, microtechnic, nonarchitect, phenocrystic, psychometric, pyrotechnics, ricochetting, technetronic, technocratic, theocratical, thermotactic, trochanteric. | |
+5 letters: architectonic, cephalometric, chalcopyrites, chromonematic, collectorship, crotchetiness, cytochemistry, electrophilic, heterocyclics, hydroelectric, metachromatic, microswitches, microtechnics, nonarchitects, petrochemical, phallocentric, photoelectric, psychometrics, psychrometric, pyrotechnical, technocracies, trichothecene. | |
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