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Definitions: Seahorse |
SeahorseNoun1. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber. 2. Small fish with horselike heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SEAHORSE | English | Support,empowerment and awareness for HIV/AIDS | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SeahorseSynonyms: sea horse (n), walrus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seahorse |
| English words defined with "seahorse": assurgent. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the ...Credit: NASA. |  | Seahorse fathers rear their young in a pouch, like kangaroos. Hippocampus erectus.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Seahorse - Hippocampus sp.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Seahorse - Hippocampus sp.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Seahorse - Hippocampus sp.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Inspects USS Quincy (CA-71) at Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, 18 May 1944, shortly the Normandy Invasion. Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk is following immediately behind. Note Fleet Marine Force "seahorse" shoulder patch worn by the Marine at right.Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Seahorse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Seahorse" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "seahorse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | seepferdchen (sea horse, seahorses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csikóhal (hippocampus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ippocampo (Ammon's horn, hippocampus), cavalluccio marino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シーホース . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eahorsesay hipocampo (Ammon's horn, hippocampus, Morse), cavalo-marinho (hippodrome, Morse, walrus). (various references) hipocampo, caballo de mar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: seashore. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: hearses, reshoes, serosae. | |
-2 letters: ahorse, ashore, erases, eroses, haeres, hearse, heroes, hoarse, horses, rashes, reshes, reshoe, sarees, serosa, shares, shears, sheers, shoers, shores. | |
-3 letters: arose, arses, ashes, eases, erase, erose, erses, hares, hears, heres, heros, hoars, hoers, horas, horse, hoses, oases, rases, rheas, roses, saree, saros, sears, seers, seres, share, shear, sheas, sheer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: rheobases, seashores, soreheads. | |
+2 letters: hoarseness, horsebeans, horseraces, housewares, lakeshores, racehorses, seborrheas, semaphores, shoemakers, trehaloses, warehouses. | |
+3 letters: anchoresses, arthrodeses, atmospheres, authoresses, broadsheets, diaphoreses, heatstrokes, hoarinesses, housebreaks, housemaster, peashooters, showerheads, southeaster, warehousers, wholesalers. | |
+4 letters: archdioceses, barrelhouses, cataphoreses, hearthstones, hoarsenesses, homesteaders, horseplayers, houseboaters, housefathers, housemasters, houseparents, hydrogenases, leaseholders, mesothoraces, mesothoraxes, northeasters, orchestrates, overemphases, overemphasis, overharvests, shareholders, slaveholders, southeastern, southeasters, spirochaetes, stakeholders, steatorrheas, stereographs, stratosphere, whoremasters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 61 68 6F 72 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .- .... --- .-. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100001 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e a h o r s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0061 0068 006F 0072 0073 0065 |
| 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)5371677481848571 |
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