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Definition: Sampan |
SampanNoun1. An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sampan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1929. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sampan |
| Non-English Usage: "Sampan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (sampan), French (sampan), German (sampan), Indonesian (boat, dinghy, gondola, kayak), Italian (sampan), Swedish (sampan). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sampan (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Army nurses on a Sampan trip].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Sampan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sampan" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sampan": sampan-crowded, sampan-ladies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sampan | 21 |
restaurant sampan | 6 |
boat sampan | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sampan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | varkë kineze. (various references) | |
Arabic | السمبان زورق صيني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | плоскодънна китайска лодка (junk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 舢 , 舨 . (various references) | |
Czech | sampan. (various references) | |
French | sampan. (various references) | |
German | Sampan. (various references) | |
Greek | κινέζικο πλοιάριο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szampan, kínai lakócsónak, kínai csónak. (various references) | |
Italian | sampan. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 三板 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さ"ぱ". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampansay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sampana. (various references) | |
Russian | сампан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lak kineski čamac. (various references) | |
Spanish | sampán. (various references) | |
Swedish | sampan. (various references) | |
Thai | เรือสำปั้น. (various references) | |
Turkish | altı düz nehir kayığı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сампан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuyền tam bản, thuyền ba ván. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sampan": sampans. (additional references) | |
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"Sampan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asempa, ashpan, Campan, Kampmann, Sakmann, samain, Samawna, Sambetn, samjan, Samland, samoan, sampana, Sampanena, Sampe, Sampha, sanaan, sanpoa, sapa, Sazmane, sepan, skaman, smmap, soman, stampa, stampen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sampan" (pronounced sa"mpan) |
| 3 | -p a n | Chopin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: manas. | |
-2 letters: amas, amps, anas, ansa, mana, mans, maps, naps, pams, pans, samp, snap, spam, span. | |
-3 letters: aas, ama, amp, ana, asp, man, map, mas, nam, nap, pam, pan, pas, sap, spa. | |
-4 letters: aa, am, an, as, ma, na, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: napalms, panamas, sampans, tampans. | |
+2 letters: mantraps, paeanism, paganism, pampeans, pangrams, phantasm, spaceman, spearman. | |
+3 letters: ampersand, apimanias, campaigns, empanadas, marzipans, paeanisms, pagandoms, paganisms, panmixias, panoramas, paraments, pearmains, phantasma, phantasms, plainsman, plantsman, swampland. | |
+4 letters: airmanship, ampersands, amphibians, anabaptism, apartments, campaniles, campanulas, champagnes, champaigns, dipsomania, hypomanias, mapmakings, marchpanes, mascarpone, melphalans, menopausal, mercaptans, nameplates, palmations, paramnesia, paramounts, paranymphs, pentagrams, phantasmal, phantasmic, plasmagene, ptarmigans, pyromanias, rampancies, seamanship, swamplands. | |
+5 letters: accompanies, accompanist, adoptianism, airmanships, amphisbaena, amputations, anabaptisms, anemographs, appeasement, campaigners, complaisant, dipsomaniac, dipsomanias, elecampanes, emancipates, hypermanias, managership, manipulates, mascarpones, misadapting, oarsmanship, pacemakings, pancratiums, panjandrums, paramagnets, paramnesias, paranormals, parenchymas, parliaments, paronomasia, paternalism, phanerogams, phantasmata, plasmagenes, playmakings, pyromaniacs, seamanships, spermagonia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6D 70 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -- .--. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a m p a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006D 0070 0061 006E |
| 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)536779826780 |
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