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Tapotement

Definition: Tapotement

Tapotement

Noun

1. Massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Tapotement

Non-English Usage: "Tapotement" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (tapping).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tapotement

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

tapotement

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tapotement

Language Translations for "tapotement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

tapotement (tapping). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apotementtay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tapotement

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-p-t-t-t"

-1 letter: potentate.

-3 letters: attempt, metopae, potteen, tomenta, tonette.

-4 letters: attent, metate, metepa, metope, notate, omenta, patent, pattee, patten, poteen, potent, potman, potmen, tampon, teapot, teopan, toneme.

-5 letters: ament, atone, eaten, emote, enate, enema, etape, matte, meant, menta, monte, motet, motte, netop, oaten, paeon, panto, paten, petto, tanto, tempo, tempt, tenet, toman, topee, totem.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-p-t-t-t"
 

+3 letters: posttreatment.

 

+4 letters: ultracompetent.

 

+5 letters: anticompetitive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tapotement


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

54 61 70 6F 74 65 6D 65 6E 74

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)

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

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

01010100 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#112 &#111 &#116 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0070 006F 0074 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

54678281867179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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