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Definition: Sweatband |
SweatbandNoun1. A band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat. 2. A band of material tied around the forehead or wrist to absorb sweat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Labor | A sponge device with elastic band worn on the forehead to absorb sweat and prevent it from running into the eyes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sweatband |
| Specialty definitions using "sweatband": BEAD-MACHINE OPERATOR, BEVELING-MACHINE OPERATOR, burring-machine operator ♦ flanging-machine operator ♦ gold marker, gold stamper, gold-leaf printer ♦ HAT TRIMMER, hot stamper ♦ leaf stamper, lettering-machine operator, LINING CEMENTER ♦ size cutter, skiver-machine operator, STAMPING-PRESS OPERATOR, sweatband drummer, SWEATBAND FLANGER, SWEATBAND SEPARATOR, SWEATBAND-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ wired-sweatband cutter. (references) |
| "Sweatband" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sweatband" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sweatband | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweatband"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصابة الرأس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نوارچرمی دورکلاه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | bandeau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schweißleder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | fascia (band, bandage, diaper, envelope, nappy, sash, section, strip, wrapper, zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | boandey ollish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatbandsway svettrem, svettband. (various references) şapka içindeki ter tutucu bant, şapka içi bantı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweatband": sweatbands. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-n-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: ansated, seawant, weasand. | |
-3 letters: abased, abated, abates, absent, adnate, ansate, basted, bwanas, dewans, nawabs, seawan, snawed, staned, tawsed, wadset, wanted, wasted. | |
-4 letters: abase, abate, abets, ansae, antae, antas, anted, antes, awned, baaed, bands, baned, banes, based, baste, bated, bates, bawds, beads, beans, beast, beats, bends, bents, betas, bwana, dates, dawen, dawns, dawts, deans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: sweatbands. | |
| 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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