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Definitions: Tearaway |
TearawayAdjective1. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic). Noun1. (British) a reckless and impetuous person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TearawaySynonyms: brainish (adj), hotheaded (adj), impetuous (adj), impulsive (adj), madcap (adj), tearaway(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: breakaway capacity (mechanical engineering), breakout force, extraction power, tearaway force, tearout force. |
| "Tearaway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.30% of the time. "Tearaway" is used about 37 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) | 97.3% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
tearaway pants | 6 |
tearaway | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tearaway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i vendosur, i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, darting, dashing, drastic, explosive, impetuous, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, sweeping, tearing, thrifty, vehement, vigorous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стремителен (brash, headlong, heady, impetuous, puffy, slashing, soaring, torrential, vehement), хулиган (bully, butch, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, lout, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, yob), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild). (various references) | |
Farsi | ازروی بیمیلی جداشدن از. (various references) | |
French | casse-cou. (various references) | |
Greek | νεαρόσ κακοποιόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תוקפן (aggressor, go getter), פרחח (brat, hoodlum, hooligan, ragamuffin, roughneck, rowdy, urchin, youngster), בריון (bully, hoodlum, hooligan, outlaw, plug ugly, punk, rebel, ruffian, terrorist, thug). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elrohanás (scuttle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earawaytay.(various references) | |
Russian | стремительный (darting, impetuous, rash, rathe, sweeping), сорвиголова (desperado, madcap, swashbuckler). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otcepljeno parče, otcepljen. (various references) | |
Spanish | alborotador (brawler, rioter, troublemaker). (various references) | |
Swedish | värsting (bad boy), bråkstake (troublemaker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tearaway": tearaways. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-r-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: areaway. | |
-2 letters: aweary, watery. | |
-3 letters: aware, reata, tawer, teary, twyer, warty, water, weary. | |
-4 letters: aery, area, arty, away, awry, eyra, rate, raya, tare, tear, tray, trey, twae, tyer, tyre, ware, wart, wary, wear, wert, wyte, yare, year. | |
-5 letters: are, art, ate, awa, awe, aye, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, raw, ray, ret, rya, rye, tae, tar, taw, tea, tew, try, twa, tye, wae, war, wat, way, wet, wry, wye, yar, yaw, yea, yet, yew. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-r-t-w-y" | |
+1 letter: tearaways. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 61 72 61 77 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .- .-. .- .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e a r a w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0061 0072 0061 0077 0061 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471678467896791 |
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