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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Dips balloons in vats of dye and soap solutions to color and polish them: Pours specified dyes into dye box receptacles. Immerses dye spreader (handled top from which spikes protrude) in dye box and passes it over tank of running water to form crisscross colored pattern of swirls on water. Lifts form pan (pan of molded balloons) from curing oven and places it on tank rack with molds immersed in dye water to form varicolored swirling pattern on balloons. Transfers pan to draining rack. Dips specified form pans in soap solution to impart glossy appearance to balloons and places them on conveyor, preparatory to stripping from molds. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Ware Shoals, South Carolina. Detail of soaper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
richard soaper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOAPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | мыловар (soap-boiler). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | торговець милом, мелодрама (melodrama, thriller), миловар. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SOAPER": soapers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: operas, pareos. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: apers, apres, arose, asper, opera, pareo, pares, parse, paseo, pears, pores, poser, praos, prase, presa, proas, prose, psoae, rapes, reaps, repos, ropes, sapor, spare, spear, spore. | |
-2 letters: aero, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, epos, eras, eros, oars, opes, ores, osar, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peso, pore, pose, prao, proa, pros. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: apposer, esparto, paroles, persona, presoak, proteas, reposal, saprobe, seaport, soapers, soapier. | |
+2 letters: adopters, aparejos, aphorise, apposers, approves, apterous, aspersor, capsomer, compares, copperas, diaspore, eardrops, espartos, exocarps, forepast, forepaws, jeopards, leopards, manropes, meropias, mesocarp, operands, operants, operates, overlaps, overpass, overpast, overpays, padrones, pamperos, pandores, parodies, parolees, passover, pastored, pelorias, pergolas, personae, personal, personas, petrosal, pharoses, phorates, poachers, polarise, polestar, portages, postrace, praetors, presoaks, probates, profanes, prolapse, pronates, propanes, prophase, prorates, prostate, protases, proteans, protease, psoralea, psoralen, pyranose, rampoles, readopts, reposals, responsa, rhapsode, ropeways, saprobes, sapropel, scorepad, seaports, trappose, upsoared, vaporers, vaporise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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