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Definition: Tapis |
TapisNoun1. A heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tapis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Synonym: TapisSynonym: tapestry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Eventuality | Adjective: happening; v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question; incidental. |
Idea | Adverb: under consideration; in question, in the mind; on foot, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis; relative to. |
Intention | Adjective: intended; Verb: intentional, advised, express, determinate; prepense; bound for; intending; Verb: minded; bent upon; (earnest); at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis; in view, in prospect, in the breast of; in petto; teleological |
Plan | Adjective: planned; Verb: strategic, strategical; planning; Verb: prepared, in course of preparation; under consideration; on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tapis |
| Specialty definitions using "tapis": bath set. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tapis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (baize, carpet, mat), Indonesian (filter), Ruanda (carpet). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Tapis brûle (1994) | |
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Expressions using "tapis": come on the tapis ♦ on the tapis ♦ the tapis ♦ upon the tapis. 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 |
roulant tapis | 20 |
bain de tapis | 14 |
tapis | 9 |
papel tapis | 9 |
publicitaires souris tapis | 9 |
de publicitaires souris tapis | 8 |
tapis de souris | 8 |
caoutchouc en tapis | 7 |
rouge tapis | 7 |
tapis souris | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tapis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | поставен на разглеждане (on the tapis), поставен на обсъждане (on the tapis). (various references) | |
Czech | přijít na přetřes (come on the tapis). (various references) | |
Greek | επί τάπητασ (on the tapis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apistay.(various references) | |
Russian | скатерть (cloth, tablecloth, table-cloth), ковер (carpet, rug), покрывало (bedspread, carpet, counterpane, cover, covering, coverlet, coverlid, overlay, spathe, spread, throw, veil). (various references) | |
Thai | พรม (rug). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tấm thảm được đưa ra b n. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tapis": tapises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pitas, spait. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aits, past, pats, pias, pita, pits, sati, spat, spit, taps, tips. | |
-2 letters: ais, ait, apt, asp, its, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, psi, sap, sat, sip, sit, spa, tap, tas, tip, tis. | |
-3 letters: ai, as, at, is, it, pa, pi, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: paints, papist, pastie, pastil, pastis, patins, patios, patois, petsai, pietas, pintas, pitsaw, plaits, ptisan, rapist, spaits, spital, tapirs. | |
+2 letters: airpost, aplites, apostil, armpits, aseptic, atopies, baptise, baptism, baptist, catnips, dispart, harpist, hatpins, impacts, imparts, impaste, impasto, mispart, opiates, paliest, palmist, pandits, panties, papists, parties, pastier, pasties, pastils, pastime, pastina, pasting, patinas, patines, patsies, patties, petsais, pianist, piaster, piastre, pinatas, pirates, pissant, pitmans, pitsaws, plaints, plastic, plastid, platies, psoatic, ptisans, rapists, sandpit, sapient, spastic, spathic, spatial, spaviet, spicate, spinate, spirant, spitals, taipans, talipes, tapises, tawpies, tipcats, topsail, traipse, upstair, utopias, wapitis. | |
+3 letters: adscript, airports, airposts, airstrip, alpinist, antiship, antislip, apathies, apatites, aphorist, apiarist, aplastic, apomicts, apostils, appoints, apposite, apricots, asperity, aspirant, aspirata, aspirate, atropins, atropism, autopsic, baptised, baptises, baptisia, baptisms, baptists, baptizes, bepaints, campiest, campsite, cantrips, capitals, capitols, captains, captions, captious, captives, chapatis, coalpits, crampits, crispate, depaints, dioptase, diptycas, disparts, dispatch, displant, dystopia, ectopias, epiblast, epinasty, epistasy, epitaphs, epitases, epitasis, escapist, expiates, fleapits, galipots, gappiest, grapiest, haplites, happiest, harpists, hepatics, hospital, hospitia, impaints, impasted, impastes, impastos, implants, lapidist, maintops, mateship, misadapt, mispaint, misparts, mispatch, misplant, nappiest, nuptials, opuntias, pacifist, pactions, paganist, painters, palliest, palmiest, palmists, panelist, pantiles, pantries, pantsuit, papistic, papistry, pappiest, parasite, paretics, parfaits, parietes, parities, parodist, parotids, partials, partiers, partings, partisan, partitas, pasticci, pastiche, pastiest, pastille, pastimes, pastinas, pastises, pastrami, pastries, pastromi, patients, patriots, pawkiest, peakiest, peatiest, periapts, pertains, petunias, phallist, pianists, piasters, piastres, picrates, pigboats, pigtails, pilaster, pinaster, pintadas, pintados, pintails, pintanos, piscator, pissants, pistache, pitapats, pitfalls, pitheads, plainest, plaister, plaiters, plastics, plastids, platiest, platinas, platings, plaudits, playlist, playsuit, postpaid, potassic, practise, primates, pristane, privates, prosaist, protasis, psalmist, psammite, ptomains, ptyalins, ptyalism, puissant, puritans, rapidest, raspiest, repaints, sandpits, sapidity, saponite, sapphist, sappiest, satinpod, scotopia, septaria, septical, shipmate, soapiest, spaciest, sparsity, spastics, spatting, speciate, spicated, spiccato, spirants, spitball, spoliate, stamping, stapelia, stapling, starship, steapsin, stipular, subtopia, supinate, synaptic, tailspin, talipeds, talipots, tampions, tankship, tapiocas, tappings, thespian, tieclasp, tilapias, tipcarts, tipstaff, topsails, traipsed, traipses, trampish, tranship, tripacks, triphase, unplaits, upstairs, utopians, waspiest, wiretaps, zappiest, zaptiahs, zaptiehs. | |
+4 letters: adaptions, adiposity, adoptions, adscripts, agitprops, airstrips, alpinists, anapestic, antipasti, antipasto, antiphons, antipodes, antipoles, antipopes, antipress, antipyics, antisleep, antitypes, anviltops, aperients, aperitifs, apetalies, aphanites, aphorists, apiarists, apologist, apoptosis, apostolic, appetiser, appetites, aptitudes, arhatship, asphaltic, aspirants, aspiratae, aspirated, aspirates, aspirator, assumpsit, atrophias, atrophies, atropines, atropisms, autopsied, autopsies, baptisias, baptising, baptismal, baptistry, baptizers, basipetal, cadetship, campsites, cantraips, cathepsin, chapaties, chapattis, chapiters, chappatis, cisplatin, cityscape, copasetic, crappiest, cuspidate, depilates, dioptases, diplomats, dipterans, disparate, disparity, disparted, displants, disputant, dissipate, dystopian, dystopias, egyptians, empathies, empathise, epiblasts, epistases, epistasis, epistatic, epistaxes, epistaxis, epitaxies, escapists, eupatrids, expiators, firetraps, fishplate, flappiest, gallipots, giftwraps, graphites, hepaticas, hepatitis, hepatizes, hospitals, hypotaxis, impacters, impactors, imparters, impasting, impastoed, impatiens, inaptness, interlaps, isophotal, lapidates, lapidists, livetraps, mateships, misadapts, mispaints, misparted, misplants, nightcaps, opacities, operatics, oppilates, optatives, opticians, optionals, outpaints, pacifists, paganists, paginates, paintiest, paintings, palatines, palletise, palliates, palmistry, palmitins, paltriest, panelists, pantheism, pantheist, pantsuits, parakites, parasites, parasitic, parataxis, parietals, parodists, parotitis, parotoids, particles, partisans, partizans, passivate, passivist, passivity, pastelist, pasticcio, pastiches, pastilles, pastiness, pastorali, pastoring, pastramis, pastromis, pasturing, patchiest, patencies, patiences, patinates, patinizes, patissier, patooties, patristic, patronise, paucities, peachiest, pearliest, pearlites, penalties, peptidase, perianths, periostea, peripatus, periplast, phallists, philistia, photopias, phratries, phthalins, pianistic, pieplants, pikestaff, pilasters, pilotages, pinasters, pintadoes, piscators, piscatory, pistaches, pistachio, pistareen, pittances, plaisters, plaitings, plantains, plantings, plashiest, plasmatic, plasticky, plastisol, platinums, platyfish, playlists, playsuits, playtimes, pluralist, poachiest, ponytails, portraits, postaxial, posttrial, potassium, potations, practices, practised, practises, pratiques, preadmits, preaudits, pretrains, pretrials, primatals, priorates, prismatic, pristanes, privatest, privatise, privatism, prosaists, prostatic, prostomia, protamins, protistan, psalmists, psalteria, psaltries, psammites, psoriatic, ptomaines, ptyalisms, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pupations, rainspout, rebaptism, repasting, saintship, sapiently, saponites, sapphists, saprolite, satinpods, satrapies, scapolite, sceptical, scotopias, septarium, shipmates, simpatico, sincipita, skeptical, slapstick, snappiest, sociopath, spacesuit, spaghetti, sparkiest, sparriest, sparteine, spatially, spearmint, specialty, speciated, speciates, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, spiccatos, spiritual, spitballs, splatting, spoliated, spoliates, spoliator, spritsail, standpipe, stapedial, stapelias, starships, steamship, steapsins, stipulate, strapping, subtopias, supinated, supinates, supinator, suppliant, swampiest, sympathin, sympatric, taillamps, tailpipes, tailspins, talapoins, tankships, tapelines, terrapins, thaneship, therapies, therapist, therapsid, thespians, thiotepas, tieclasps, timpanist, timpanums, tinplates, tipstaffs, tipstaves, topiaries, traipsing, tranships, transpire, transship, trapesing, trapezist, trapezius, traplines, trappings, trigraphs, triplanes, triptanes, triptycas, troopials, troupials, tympanies, tympanist, upcasting, upstaging, upstaring, vanaspati, whiptails, whitecaps. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 70 69 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .--. .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a p i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0070 0069 0073 |
| 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)5467827585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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