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Tapis

Definition: Tapis

Tapis

Noun

1. 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: Tapis

Synonym: tapestry (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tapis

ContextSynonyms 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.

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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).

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Modern Usage: Tapis

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Tapis brûle (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tapis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dans les coulisses du Mobilier national : Mobilier national et Manufactures nationales de tapisserie et de tapis (Gobelins, Beauvais, Savonnerie) (reference)

  • Impair et passe : un oursin sur les tapis verts (reference)

  • L'art du tapis dans le monde (reference)

  • Le tapis rouge (reference)

  • Petit déjeuner sur un tapis rouge : roman (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Tapis

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tapis

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Tapis

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.

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Derivations: Tapis

Derivations

Words beginning with "tapis": tapises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tapis

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tapis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 70 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    .--.    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#115

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467827585

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INDEX

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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