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Definition: Tarpaulin |
TarpaulinNoun1. Waterproofed canvas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tarpaulin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Note: Tarpaulin \Tar*pau"lin\, noun. [Tar palling covering, pall to cover. See Pall covering.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Used to protect goods stored in the open or loaded on ships, wagons, lorries etc, against bad weather. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A waterproofed fabric used as covering over wooden hatch covers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A general term for waterproof fabric, especially large pieces used to protect cargo from weather. Originally cotton duck tarpaulin. Also plain jute or hemp fabric, waterproofed with tar. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TarpaulinSynonym: tarp (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tarpaulin |
| English words defined with "tarpaulin": leaky ♦ Paulin ♦ To batten down ♦ Weather cloth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tarpaulin": AMBASSADOR ♦ CAR BLOCKER, CENTRIFUGAL SPINNER ♦ drier operator, DRY-KILN OPERATOR ♦ feeder operator ♦ open top, Open Top Container ♦ Rag Top ♦ spinner, concrete pipe. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tarpaulin (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Suddenly the tarpaulin was thrust aside. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | The country has a capacity to also produce 750 million pieces of woven garments as well as knitwear, towels, tarpaulin and canvas. (references) |
Trade | Pakistan | Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tarpaulin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tarpaulin" is used about 84 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% | 84 | 36,109 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tarpaulin": tarpaulin-covered. | |
| 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 |
tarpaulin | 75 |
product tarpaulin | 14 |
p.e tarpaulin | 6 |
military tarpaulin | 6 |
pvc tarpaulin | 4 |
awning pvc tarpaulin | 3 |
tarpaulin tarp | 2 |
canvas tarpaulin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tarpaulin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pëlhurë gomuar, letër katramat. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشمع (anorganic, coated, linoleum, oilcloth, oilskin, waxed, waxen), قماش (cloth, fabric, textile, texture, tick, tissue, weft), غطاء (bed clothes, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cot, cover, cover up, covering, coverlet, envelope, facing, housing, jacket, lid, overlay, robe, roofing, rug, shroud, tilt, top, vesture, wrapping), دفيئة وقاء للنباتات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | насмолен брезент, мушама (oil, oilcloth, oilskin, slicker, waterproof), моряшко мушамено облекло, моряшко мушамена шапка, моряк (flatfoot, hearty, jolly, mariner, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swab, tar), платнище (canvas, ground sheet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 篷布, 油布 . (various references) | |
Danish | tarpaulin, presenning (awning, paulin, tarp). (various references) | |
Dutch | presenning, persenningdoek, persenning, dekzeil (awning, paulin, tarp), dekkleed (awning, tarp). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه کرباسی قیراندودوعایق اب , باتارپولین پوشاندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | suojapeite, pressu. (various references) | |
French | bâche (tank, tarp). (various references) | |
German | Plane (awning, canopy, tarp), persenning (awning, cover, tarp). (various references) | |
Greek | μουσαμάς. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אברזין (canvas, tilt), ברז ט (canvas), צ"ר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | vitorlavászon (bunting, burlap, canvas, sailcloth, weather cloth), vízhatlan vászon (oil). (various references) | |
Italian | telone (tilt). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雨避け , 雨覆い (rain-cover), 防水 (make watertight, waterproof). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうすい (make watertight, spindle, waterproof), あまおおい (rain-cover), あまよけ. (various references) | |
Manx | carmeish (awning, canvas, dodger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arpaulintay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encerado (awning, cerecloth, polished, tarp, wax cloth). (various references) | |
Romanian | prelatã (canvas), pânzã gudronatã, lup de mare (old salt, sea wolf), hainã de marinar, coviltir (tilt). (various references) | |
Russian | брезент (canvas, sailcloth, tarp). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cerada. (various references) | |
Spanish | toldo (awning, blind, canopy, hood, sunblind, sunshade, tarp, tractor canopy), tarpaulin, lona impermeable, lona embreada o alquitranada, lona alquitranada, encerado (blackboard, burlap, oil baize, oilcloth, oilskin, wax). (various references) | |
Swedish | presenning. (various references) | |
Turkish | tente (awning, canopy, marquee, sun blind, tarp, tester, tilt), muşamba (lino, linoleum, oilcloth, oilskin, tarp, waxcloth), katranlı muşamba (tarp). (various references) | |
Ukranian | штормівка (windbreaker), непромокальний брезент. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải nhựa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tarpaulin": tarpaulins. (additional references) | |
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"Tarpaulin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tarpolin, tarpoulin, taxpaulin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tarpaulin" (pronounced 'Tar*pau"lin'): Berlin, Bilin, Calin, Capelin, Carlin, Cascarillin, Collin, Drumlin, Dunlin, Esculin, Franklin, Gallin, goblin, Hemicollin, Kremlin, Lobelin, Maalin, marlin, Mashlin, Mechlin, Medullin, Merlin, metheglin, Muslin, Parillin, Paulin, Podophyllin, Poplin, Roccellin, Smerlin, Spongiopilin, Stercobilin, urobilin, Vanillin, Vitellin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-n-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: lupanar, natural, nuptial, partial, plantar, platina, puritan, unplait. | |
-3 letters: antiar, antral, anural, anuria, atrial, lariat, latria, narial, nutria, parian, partan, patina, paulin, pinata, pirana, plaint, planar, platan, pliant, purana, purlin, ranula, ratlin, ritual, taipan, tarnal, tarpan, trapan, trinal, turnip, urania, urinal. | |
-4 letters: alant, altar, antra, apart, apian, artal, atria, atrip, aural, inapt, input, laari, lanai, lapin, lauan, laura, liana, lunar, lupin, naira, natal, paint, patin, pilar, pilau, pinta, plain, plait, plant, print, pruta, purin, ratal, ratan, riant, riata, ruana, rutin, talar, tapir, tiara, trail, train, trial, tulip, ulnar, ulpan, ultra, unapt, unlit, unrip, until, uplit, urial. | |
-5 letters: airn, airt, alan, alar, alit, anal, anil, anta, anti, aria, aril, atap, aunt, aura, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lint, lipa, lira, litu, luna, lunt, nail, nipa, nurl, pail, pain, pair, pant, para, part, pial, pian, pina, pint, pirn, pita, plan, plat, prat, prau, pula, puli, puna, punt, puri, purl, raia, rail, rain, rani, rant, rapt, rial, ruin, runt, tail, tain, tala, tali, tapa, tarn, tarp, tirl, trap, trip, tuna, turn, ulan, ulna, unai, unit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-n-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tarpaulins. | |
+2 letters: antipopular, manipulator, planetarium, puritanical, uniparental, unpractical. | |
+3 letters: antipleasure, manipulators, manipulatory, planetariums, reputational. | |
+4 letters: antipleasures, perambulating, perambulation, permutational, pluralization, postinaugural, puritanically, supernational, supranational, suprarational, uniparentally. | |
+5 letters: paralinguistic, perambulations, perturbational, pluralizations, popularization, predevaluation, recapitulating, recapitulation. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 72 70 61 75 6C 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .-. .--. .- ..- .-.. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110010 01110000 01100001 01110101 01101100 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a r p a u l i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0072 0070 0061 0075 006C 0069 006E |
| 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)546784826787787580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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