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Definition: Terrapin |
TerrapinNoun1. Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "terrapin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Note: Terrapin \Ter"ra*pin\, noun. [Probably of American Indian origin.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | Any of the various edible North American turtles of the family Testudinidae living in fresh or brackish water. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Terrapin |
| English words defined with "terrapin": Alligator terrapin ♦ Diamond-back, diamondback terrapin ♦ genus Pseudemys ♦ Mud terrapin ♦ Painted terrapin, Pseudemys ♦ red-bellied terrapin ♦ Salt-marsh terrapin, Speckled terrapin ♦ Terapin ♦ yellow-bellied terrapin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "terrapin": FISHER, TERRAPIN ♦ soul. (references) |
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Clever | 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tragedy to Triumph: The Maryland Terrapin Odyssey (2003) The Terrapin (2002) | |
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 | A female Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, puts the final touches on her freshly laid nest of eggs.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A female diamondback terrapin, probably looking for a good place to deposit her eggs.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A crab pot collection containing a diamondback terrapin and Atlantic croaker. The turtle was revived and released.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The diamond-back terrapin is a year-round resident in estuaries and feeds on fiddler crabs and snails. This female terrapin is returning to the water after successfully nesting above the tide line.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Mississippi diamondback terrapin in Weeks Bay.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Diamond-back terrapin.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
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| "Terrapin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Terrapin" is used about 11 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) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "terrapin": Alligator terrapin ♦ diamondback terrapin ♦ mud terrapin ♦ painted terrapin ♦ speckled terrapin. 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 |
terrapin | 142 |
terrapin turtle | 34 |
present terrapin | 30 |
terrapin station | 28 |
terrapin ftp | 27 |
diamondback terrapin | 26 |
terrapin times | 24 |
terrapin logo | 22 |
terrapin tape | 16 |
back diamond terrapin | 9 |
restaurant terrapin | 9 |
terrapin trader | 7 |
lyrics station terrapin | 7 |
picture terrapin | 6 |
club terrapin | 6 |
creek terrapin | 4 |
hurricane terrapin | 4 |
maryland terrapin | 4 |
terrapin football | 4 |
hill terrapin | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "terrapin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | breshkë uji (loggerhead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سلحفاة المستنقعات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сладководна костенурка, вид сглобяема едноетажна сграда. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 水龟. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Noordamerikaanse prachtschildpad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لاک پشت خوراکی سواحل فلوریدا(ج.ش.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tortue d'eau douce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sumpfschildkröte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | είδοσ χελώνησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צב "ביצות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dobozpáncélú teknõs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shligganagh awin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | errapintay водяная черепаха, автомобиль-амфибия. (various references) barska kornjača. (various references) tortuga de agua dulce. (various references) sumpsköldpadda. (various references) tatlısu kaplumbağası. (various references) водяна черепаха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "terrapin": terrapins. (additional references) | |
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"Terrapin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: herapin, merapi, terepin, Tetramin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "terrapin" (pronounced 'Ter"ra*pin'): Breastpin, Candlepin, Chinquapin, Clothespin, Coppin, Crispin, Driftpin, Gallopin, hairpin, Inchipin, Inchpin, Inocarpin, Jalapin, Limpin, linchpin, Mainpin, Outspin, Overspin, Pippin, Pushpin, Rolling-pin, Rufiopin, sculpin, Skulpin, Tailpin, Terpin, Thoroughpin, Turlupin, Turpin, underpin, unpin, Unspin, Yoncopin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pretrain. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: painter, partier, partner, pertain, printer, repaint, reprint, retrain, terrain, trainer. | |
-2 letters: arpent, artier, enrapt, entrap, errant, irater, panier, pantie, parent, patine, pineta, pirate, prater, pterin, ranter, rapier, rapine, ratine, repair, retain, retina, trepan. | |
-3 letters: airer, antre, apter, arpen, atrip, entia, inapt, inept, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, paint, parer, paten, pater, patin, peart, pieta, pinta, prate, prier, print, raper, rater, repin, reran, retia, riant, ripen, riper, taper, tapir, tarre, tenia, terai, terra, tinea, train, trier, trine, tripe. | |
-4 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, aper, earn, etna, nape, neap, near, neat, nipa, nite, pain, pair, pane, pant, pare, parr, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, pein, pent, peri, pert, pian, pier, pina, pine, pint, pirn, pita, prat, rain, rani, rant, rape, rapt, rare, rate, reap, rear, rein, rent, ripe, rite, tain, tape, tare, tarn, tarp, tear, tepa, tern, tier, tine, tire, trap, trip. | |
-5 letters: ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, err, eta, ire, nae, nap, net, nip, nit, pan, par, pat, pea, pen, per, pet, pia, pie, pin, pit, ran, rap, rat, rei, rep, ret, ria, rin, rip, tae, tan, tap, tar, tea, ten, tie, tin, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: pretorian, pretrains, terrapins, transpire. | |
+2 letters: interparty, partnering, parturient, perorating, peroration, praetorian, pretorians, pretrained, printmaker, reparation, transpired, transpires. | |
+3 letters: carpentries, chiropteran, enrapturing, impregnator, incorporate, interparish, partitioner, partnership, parturients, peregrinate, perforating, perforation, perorations, platyrrhine, praetorians, preparation, preromantic, preterminal, pretraining, pretreating, printmakers, probationer, procreating, procreation, proletarian, proteinuria, reapportion, recapturing, recarpeting, reoperating, reoperation, reparations, repartition, reprobating, reprobation, rerepeating, respiration, springwater, trampoliner, transpierce. | |
+4 letters: antipredator, arsenopyrite, carpentering, chiropterans, copartnering, impersonator, impregnators, incorporated, incorporates, intercompare, interpleader, interpolator, intrapreneur, partitioners, partnerships, peregrinated, peregrinates, perforations, perorational, perpetrating, perpetration, perspiration, perturbation, platyrrhines, practitioner, precentorial, preferential, preformation, prehistorian, premarketing, premigration, preparations, presbyterian, preservation, privateering, probationers, procreations, proletarians, proteinurias, reapportions, recuperating, recuperation, reoperations, repartitions, repatriating, repatriation, repatterning, replastering, repristinate, reprobations, respirations, springwaters, trampoliners, transpierced, transpierces, trichopteran. | |
+5 letters: anticorporate, antipredators, arsenopyrites, containerport, copartnership, expropriating, expropriation, hyperrational, hyperromantic, impersonators, inappropriate, incorporative, intercompared, intercompares, interoperable, interparticle, interpellator, interpermeate, interpersonal, interpleaders, interpolators, interpretable, interproximal, intertropical, intrapersonal, intrapreneurs, nonparametric, overoperating, parametrizing, parliamentary, peregrinating, peregrination, perpetrations, perseverating, perseveration, perspirations, perturbations, practitioners, precautionary, predestinator, prefiguration, preformations, preformatting, prehistorians, preindustrial, premarketings, preordainment, preordination, preservations, prevaricating, prevarication, procrastinate, proliferating, proliferation, proportionate, protonotaries, reapportioned, reciprocating, reciprocation, recuperations, reexportation, reimportation, reincorporate, repartitioned, repatriations, repristinated, repristinates, reprivatizing, superordinate, superromantic, temporariness, terpsichorean, transcriptase, transpiercing, trichopterans, waterproofing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 72 72 61 70 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-. .-. .- .--. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110010 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e r r a p i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0072 0072 0061 0070 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)5471848467827580 |
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