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Scrapheap

Definitions: Scrapheap

Scrapheap

Noun

1. An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.

2. Pile of discarded metal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Scrapheap

Synonyms: garbage heap (n), junk heap (n), junk pile (n), refuse heap (n), rubbish heap (n), trash heap (n), trash pile (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Scrapheap

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Scrapheap (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Scrapheap

"Scrapheap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrapheap" is used about 20 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scrapheap

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

challenge scrapheap

8

scrapheap

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scrapheap

Language Translations for "scrapheap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

انبارکالای قراضه . (various references)

   

Manx

  

carnane trustyr (kitchen midden). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apheapscray

   

Russian 

  

свалка (dumping ground, dumpster, dust-hole, junk yard, laystall, melee, rough and tumble, scramble, scrap heap, scrapyard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Scrapheap

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrapheap": scrapheaps. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Scrapheap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-p-p-r-s"

-2 letters: apaches, appears, cappers, eparchs, paraphs, parches, perhaps, schappe.

-3 letters: apache, appear, arches, arecas, caesar, capers, capper, chapes, charas, chares, chaser, cheaps, crapes, eparch, escarp, eschar, pacers, pachas, papers, paraph, parsec, phrase, preach, raphae, raphes, recaps, sapper, sarape, scarph, scrape, search, secpar, seraph, shaper, sherpa, spacer.

-4 letters: aches, acres, apace, apers, apres, areas, areca, asper, caper, capes, caphs, cares, carps, carse, chape, chaps, chare, chars, chase, cheap, crape, craps, crash, ephas, escar, haars, hares, harps, heaps, hears, pacas, pacer, paces, pacha, papas, paper, parae, paras, parch, pares, parse, pasha, peach, pears, pechs, perch, perps, phase, prase, preps, presa, races, rapes, raphe, reach, reaps, recap, repps, rheas, sacra, scape, scare, scarp, scrap, serac, shape, share, sharp, shear, space, spare, spear.

-5 letters: aahs, aces, ache, acre, aper, apes, apse, arch, arcs, area, ares, arse, asea, cape, caph, caps, care, carp, cars, casa, case, cash, ceps, chap, char, crap, each, ears, epha, eras, haar, haes, haps, hare, harp, hasp, heap, hear, hers, paca, pace, pacs, papa, paps, para, pare, pars, pase, pash, pear, peas, pech, pecs, pehs, peps, perp, prep, race, rape, raps, rase, rash, rasp, reap, recs, repp, reps, resh, rhea, scar, sear, sera, shea, spae, spar, spec.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-p-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: approaches, scrapheaps.

 

+3 letters: handicappers, hypercapnias.

 

+4 letters: pharmacopeias, prosencephala.

 

+5 letters: apocryphalness, archiepiscopal, hepatopancreas, hyperparasitic, pharmacopoeias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scrapheap


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 72 61 70 68 65 61 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    .-    .--.    ....    .    .-    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0061 0070 0068 0065 0061 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536984678274716782

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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