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Definition: Shuttlecock |
ShuttlecockNoun1. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers. Verb1. Send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shuttlecock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A shuttlecock is a projectile used in the sport of Badminton. Traditionally, a shuttlecock is made from a head of cork and a skirt of overlapping goose feathers (See diagram).
__ / \\ - - Head |____| / \\ / \\ / - - Skirt / \\ /____________\\For most casual players, this has been replaced by a shuttlecock made using a plastic head and skirt. The feather shuttlecock is still used by "serious" players and for competitions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shuttlecock."
Synonyms: ShuttlecockSynonyms: bird (n), birdie (n), shuttle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite. |
Barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire,barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo. | |
Irresolution | Waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; butterfly; wimp; doughface. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shuttlecock |
| English words defined with "shuttlecock": badminton, Battledoor ♦ racket, racquet ♦ Shuttlecork. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shuttlecock": CORK GRINDER ♦ FIXING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ grinder operator ♦ shuttlecock assembler ♦ trimmer, machine, TRIMMING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ weight tester. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man and woman playing battledore and shuttlecock on hotel porch. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boys playing shuttlecock, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One day, I gave you a willow battledore, and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue, and green feathers |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Shuttlecock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Shuttlecock" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shuttlecock": battledore and shuttlecock ♦ play at battledore and shuttlecock ♦ shuttlecock fern. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shuttlecock": shuttlecock-like. | |
| 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 |
shuttlecock | 46 |
badminton shuttlecock | 6 |
feather shuttlecock | 4 |
badminton regulation shuttlecock | 3 |
dark glow in shuttlecock | 2 |
racquets shuttlecock | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shuttlecock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pupël (down, eider down, feather, feathering, panache, plumage, plume, quill, vane). (various references) | |
Arabic | الشطكوك لعبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бадминтон (badminton), подмятам напред-назад (shuttle), перце (feather, plumelet, plumule). (various references) | |
Chinese | 板羽球 (battledore and shuttlecock), 毽 . (various references) | |
Czech | pérák. (various references) | |
Danish | fjerbold. (various references) | |
Dutch | pluimball. (various references) | |
Farsi | گوی پردارمخصوص بازی بدمینتن , سردواندن (Tantalize). (various references) | |
Finnish | sulkapallo (badminton). (various references) | |
French | volant. (various references) | |
German | Federball (badminton). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tollaslabdajáték (badminton), tollaslabda (badminton). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kok. (various references) | |
Italian | volano (badminton, battledore, fly wheel, flywheel, shuttle cock). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羽 , 羽子 , シャッポ'脱ぐ (castle, chateau wine, Chateaubriand, shirt, shirt blouse, shirtwaist, shuttle, shuttle bus, shuttle loop, singlet, to take one's hat off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | シャトルコック , は", はね (feather, plume, splashes, wing). (various references) | |
Manx | kiark cholgagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttlecockshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | volante (flying, flywheel, helm, joystick, rudder, steering wheel, volant). (various references) | |
Russian | волан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | loptica (bulb, globule, pellet, spherule), badminton (badminton). (various references) | |
Spanish | volante (balance, balance wheel, bird, flier, flying, flywheel, handbill, handlebars, handout, helm, joystick, rudder, shuttle, steering-wheel, volant, wheel). (various references) | |
Thai | ส่งไปส่งมา, กีฬาแบ"มินตัน, ลูกขนไก่ (bird), ซึ่งลังเลใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ucu tüylü mantar top, badminton topu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | волан (bird), бадмінтон (badminton). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quả cầu lông. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shuttlecock": shuttlecocked, shuttlecocking, shuttlecocks. (additional references) | |
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"Shuttlecock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shuttlecokc, shuttlecook. (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-k-l-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: checkouts. | |
-3 letters: checkout, chuckles, clutches, cockshut, couthest, culottes, cultches, selcouth. | |
-4 letters: chuckle, cloches, clothes, cockles, couches, culches, culotte, cutches, cutlets, cuttles, huckles, lockets, occults, outlets, schlock, scuttle, shuttle, succoth, touches, tuckets. | |
-5 letters: checks, chocks, chokes, chotts, chouse, chucks, chutes, cloche, clocks, closet, clothe, cloths, clouts, clucks, clutch, cockle, coleus, couths, culets, cultch, cutest, cutlet. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-k-l-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: shuttlecocks. | |
+2 letters: shuttlecocked. | |
+3 letters: shuttlecocking. | |
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