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Definition: Sandpiper |
SandpiperNoun1. Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sandpiper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Crosswords: Sandpiper |
| English words defined with "sandpiper": Actitis hypoleucos, Actitis macularia ♦ Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper ♦ Calidris canutus, Calidris Ferruginea, Calidris melanotos, Crocethia alba, curlew, curlew sandpiper ♦ dowitcher, dunlin ♦ Erolia alpina, Erolia minutilla, European sandpiper ♦ family Scolopacidae ♦ grayback, greenshank ♦ jacksnipe ♦ knot ♦ least sandpiper ♦ pectoral sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax, Purple sandpiper ♦ red-backed sandpiper, Robin snipe, Rock snipe, ruff ♦ Sand lark, Sand snipe, sanderling, Sanny, Scolopacidae, Sea sandpiper, Sea snipe, Shadbird, Shore snipe, snipe, spotted sandpiper, stint ♦ Teeter-tail, Tringa nebularia, Tringoid ♦ upland plover, upland sandpiper, Uplander ♦ Water junket, Water laverock, Weet-weet, woodcock. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Sandpiper (1965) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Western Sandpiper. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | A Sandpiper standing in some body of water. Credit: Unknown. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Seagull; caw; water; wave; tide; soothing; soothe; coast; coastland; seashore; curlew; sandpiper; sand; waterfront; ocean; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sandpiper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.73% of the time. "Sandpiper" is used about 55 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) | 92.73% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.27% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sandpiper": Bartramian sandpiper ♦ Curlew sandpiper ♦ european sandpiper ♦ least sandpiper ♦ pectoral sandpiper ♦ Pectorial sandpiper ♦ purple sandpiper ♦ sea sandpiper ♦ solitary sandpiper ♦ spotted sandpiper ♦ stilt sandpiper ♦ upland sandpiper. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sandpiper": curlew-sandpiper, stilt-sandpiper. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sandpiper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lloj zogu. (various references) | |
Arabic | عصفور زمار الرمل, الطيطوي طائر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | късокрак кюкавец, вид бекас. (various references) | |
Danish | stribet ryle (pectoral sandpiper), tyknaebbet dvaergryle (semipalmated sandpiper), terekklire (terek sandpiper), hvidrygget ryle (Bonaparte's sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper), bartramsklire (upland sandpiper), Bairdsryle (Baird's sandpiper), almindelig ryle (dunlin, Usa: red-wacked sandpiper). (various references) | |
Dutch | terekstrandloper (terek sandpiper), terekruiter (terek sandpiper), kleine grijze strandloper (semipalmated sandpiper), gestreepte strandloper (pectoral sandpiper), bonte strandloper (dunlin, Usa: red-wacked sandpiper), Bonaparte's strandloper (Bonaparte's sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper), bartram's strandloper (upland sandpiper), bartram's ruiter (upland sandpiper). (various references) | |
Farsi | یلوه(ج.ش.), نوعی مارماهی کوچک . (various references) | |
Finnish | vikla. (various references) | |
French | bécasseau. (various references) | |
German | strandläufer, Flussuferläufer, Flußuferläufer. (various references) | |
Greek | νεροκότσυφοσ (ousel, ouzel), θαλασσοπούλι (sea bird). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárjáró libuc. (various references) | |
Italian | beccaccino (snipe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鴫 (snipe), 磯鷸 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しぎ (city assemblyman, conference, conjecture, consultation, criticism behind one's back, developments, guess, outcome, personal opinion, practice jump, situation, snipe), いそしぎ. (various references) | |
Manx | looyran (common sandpiper). (various references) | |
Papago | chiwi-chuhch. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andpipersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maçarico (blowtorch, burner, tattler, torch). (various references) | |
Russian | кулик, песочник, перевозчик (ferryman, mover, moving company). (various references) | |
Scottish | curcag. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta ptice (bobolink, cassowary, dunlin, ringtail, skua, solitaire). (various references) | |
Spanish | lavandera (laundress, washer, washerwoman), andarrios. (various references) | |
Swedish | snäppa (snipe). (various references) | |
Turkish | çulluk (curlew). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кулик (greenback, tattler), перевізник (carrier, conveyer, conveyor, ferryman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | chatouille, Lampetra planeri, lamproie de planer, VE Lampreta planeri, VE petite lamproie. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sandpiper": sandpipers. (additional references) | |
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"Sandpiper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sandwip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: apprised, snappier, sprained. | |
-2 letters: appends, apprise, aspired, despair, diapers, dippers, nappers, nappier, nappies, nippers, panders, pandies, paniers, pardine, parsnip, pinders, pinesap, praised, prepaid, randies, rapines, sandier, sappier, sardine, snapped, snapper, snipped, snipper. | |
-3 letters: aiders, append, arisen, arpens, arsine, aspire, dapper, deairs, denari, denars, diaper, dinars, diners, dipper, drains, drapes, irades, nadirs, napped, napper. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: drainpipes, kidnappers, sandpipers. | |
+2 letters: transhipped. | |
+3 letters: disappearing, handicappers, misapprehend, sandpapering, transshipped. | |
+4 letters: disappearance, eavesdropping, lepidopterans, misapprehends, propagandizes. | |
+5 letters: disappearances, misapprehended, perpendiculars, preadaptations, propagandizers. | |
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