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Definitions: Tambour |
TambourNoun1. A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering. 2. A drum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tambour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Synonyms: TambourSynonyms: embroidery frame (n), embroidery hoop (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tambour |
| English words defined with "tambour": Tamboured, Tambouring. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tambour" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (drum, drummer, spool, tambour), German (drummer). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Tambour du Bief (1971) Tambour battant (1953) Sans tambour ni trompette (1949) Tambour battant (1933) Fifi tambour (1915) | |
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| "Tambour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tambour" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Israel | Tambour Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "tambour": tambour work. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
tambour | 43 |
tambour door | 30 |
furniture tambour | 6 |
frein tambour | 4 |
door lock tambour | 4 |
tambour clock | 4 |
door system tambour | 3 |
beading tambour | 3 |
moteur tambour | 3 |
hardware tambour | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tambour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | daulle (drum, kettle drum, trommel). (various references) | |
Arabic | طارة التطريز, طارة أداة موسيقية, دف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тамбур (portal), шия на гергеф, гергеф (frame), бродирам на гергеф, барабан (barrel, cylinder, drum, revolver, roll, sleeve, swift). (various references) | |
Chinese | 繃子 (embroidery frame, hoop). (various references) | |
Dutch | jalousiedeurtje (gliding tambour). (various references) | |
French | tambour. (various references) | |
German | Stickrahmen (tambour frame). (various references) | |
Greek | τύμπανο (barrel *, beater, coiling drum *, cylinder, drum, eardrum, graduated drum, rope barrel *, rope drum *, sheathing, sheeting, swift, threshing drum, timpano, tympanum). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagydob (bass drum, big drum). (various references) | |
Italian | telaio (bed, bent, brace, case, casing, chase, chassis, equipment shelf, frame, framework, framing, loom, mounting, portal, rack, spider, underframe ( of a railway carriage )), tamburo (barrel, barrel *, coiling drum *, drum, magnetic drum, rope barrel *, rope drum *). (various references) | |
Manx | dollan (bodhran, drum, tray, winnowing fan). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ambourtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tambor (barrel, barrel *, bass drum, coiling drum *, contra-rotating drums, cylinder, drum, drum set, drumhead, drummer, feed drum, pulley, reel, roll, roller, rope barrel *, rope drum *, steam drum, swift, tined pick-up head), quebra-vento (windbreak), peixe-tambor, capitel coríntio, bumbo (bass drum), bastidor de bordar (embroidery machine, tabouret). (various references) | |
Romanian | tobã mare, tambur (cylinder, drum, drummer, reel, roller), marchizã (awning, marchioness, marquee, marquess, marquise, porch roof), gherghef rotund, gherghef (loom, tabouret). (various references) | |
Russian | пяльцы (tabouret). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tambur (drum, vestibule), dobošar (drummer), doboš (drum), bubanj (drum, drumstick, kettle drum, kettledrum, tympanum). (various references) | |
Swedish | sybåge. (various references) | |
Turkish | silindir şeklindeki parça, kasnak (cylinder, embroidery frame, hoop, pulley, rim, stretcher, taboret, tabouret), kasnağa gerip işlemek, gergef (embroidery frame, tenter), davul (drum, timpani, timpano). (various references) | |
Ukranian | круглі п'яльці, вишивати на п'яльцах, барабан (barrel, beater, cylinder, drum, revolver, tympanum). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái trống khung thêu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tambour": tamboura, tambouras, tamboured, tambourer, tambourers, tambourine, tambourines, tambouring, tambours. (additional references) | |
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"Tambour" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dambor, gaybour, Kambou, Mambour, sambhur, Sambou, Shambhu, Stamboul, taimour, tamber, Tambiah, tamboo, Tambora, tambur, tamor, tanbor, timbor, Timour, Tjaebourg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-m-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rubato, tabour, tambur. | |
-2 letters: abort, about, amort, amour, boart, rumba, tabor, tumor, turbo, umbra. | |
-3 letters: abut, ambo, arum, atom, auto, barm, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bout, brat, brut, bura, mart, maut, moat, mora, mort, mura, rato, roam, rota, rout, tabu, taro, tomb, tora, tour, tram, tuba, umbo. | |
-4 letters: abo, amu, arb, arm, art, bam, bar, bat, boa, bot, bra, bro, bum, bur, but, mar, mat, moa, mob, mor, mot, mut, oar, oat, ora, orb, ort, our, out, ram, rat, rob, rom, rot, rub, rum, rut, tab, tam, tao, tar, tau, tom, tor, tub, urb, uta. | |
-5 letters: ab, am, ar, at, ba, bo, ma, mo, mu, om, or, ta, to, um, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-m-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: marabout, tamboura, tambours. | |
+2 letters: arboretum, marabouts, tambouras, tamboured, tambourer. | |
+3 letters: ambulatory, arboretums, tambourers, tambourine, tambouring. | |
+4 letters: adumbration, burgomaster, fibromatous, masturbator, multicarbon, rambouillet, tambourines. | |
+5 letters: adumbrations, ambidextrous, ambulatories, ambulatorily, backcourtman, backcourtmen, blabbermouth, burgomasters, masturbation, masturbators, masturbatory, microtubular, nimbostratus, obscurantism, perambulator, rambouillets, rambunctious, subnormality, surmountable, troublemaker. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6D 62 6F 75 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- -... --- ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a m b o u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006D 0062 006F 0075 0072 |
| 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)54677968818784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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