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Definitions: Thrasher |
ThrasherNoun1. A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw. 2. Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs. 3. Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thrasher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonyms: ThrasherSynonyms: fox shark (n), mocking thrush (n), thresher (n), thresher shark (n), threshing machine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thrasher |
| English words defined with "thrasher": brown thrasher ♦ Crissal ♦ Foxfish ♦ Sage thrasher, Sea ape, Sea fox, song thrush, Swingletail ♦ Thrasher whale, thresher shark. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thrasher": rag-willow operator ♦ THRASHER FEEDER. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Thrasher (2001) | |
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 | Plate 250. The Thrasher Shark. Alopias vulpes, (Gmel.) Bonap. The Horned Dogfish. Squalus acanthias, L. The Tope or Oil Shark. Galeorhinus galeus, (L.) Blainville.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Brown thrasher.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cooperative oat thrasher, purchased by E.H. Lester through FSA (Farm Security Administration) community co-op service loan. West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Thrasher" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thrasher" is used about 5 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 (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "thrasher" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Thrasher | Last name | 5,000 | 2,529 |
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Expressions using "thrasher": brown thrasher ♦ sage thrasher ♦ thrasher shark ♦ Thrasher whale. 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. |
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Albanian | makinë shirëse (separator, thrashing machine, thresher, threshing machine), ai që rrah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вършач (thresher), вид пойна птица (chat), побойник (bruiser, bully, ruffian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mlatec (thresher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | almindelig roeddrossel (brown thrasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rosse spotlijster (brown thrasher), bruine krombeklijster (brown thrasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | moqueur roux (brown thrasher), moqueur des armoires (sage thrasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Drescher (threshed, thresher, threshers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοπανίζων, αλωνιστήσ (thresher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csép (flail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mimo rosso (brown thrasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asherthray trilhador, peixe-zorro, peixe-alecrim, máquina de debulhar (thrashing machine), debulhadora (thrashing machine, threshing machine), batedor (bat, batsman, beater, coiner, escort, feeler, knocker, picker, scout, scutch, scutcher, Stamper, tracker, walloper). (various references) treierãtor (thresher), treierãtoare (thresher), maşinã de treierat (thresher), batozã (thresher). (various references) морская лисица, молотилка (thresher, threshing machine, threshing-machine). (various references) buailtear. (various references) vršalica (thrashing machine, thresher, threshing machine), morska lisica, batinač. (various references) sinsonte castaño (brown thrasher). (various references) นกหางยาวจำพวก Toxostoma. (various references) sapan balığı, harmancı (blender), harman dövücü (thresher), batöz (thresher, threshing machine). (various references) той, хто б'є (thresher), молотник (barnman, thresher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Toxostoma rufum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thrasher": thrashers. (additional references) | |
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"Thrasher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trasher. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thrasher" (pronounced thra"sher) |
| 4 | -r a" sh er | brasher. |
| 3 | -a" sh er | basher, dasher, flasher, lasher, slasher, smasher. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: harsher, hearths. | |
-2 letters: arrest, earths, haters, hearth, hearts, heaths, rarest, rasher, raster, raters, rather, rehash, sharer, sheath, starer, tarres, terras, thrash, thresh. | |
-3 letters: aster, earth, haets, hares, harsh, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heath, heats, heths, rares, raser, rater, rates, rathe, rears, rheas, share, shear, stare, tahrs, tares, tarre, tears, terra, trash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: thrashers. | |
+3 letters: earthshaker, heartthrobs, shorthaired, waterthrush. | |
+4 letters: earthshakers, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, sharpshooter, shortchanger, thermographs, thitherwards. | |
+5 letters: arthropathies, breakthroughs, ethnographers, hairsbreadths, horsefeathers, hydrothoraces, hydrothoraxes, hyperthermias, lithographers, mythographers, orthographies, photographers, rephotographs, sharpshooters, shortchangers, thoroughfares, waterthrushes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 72 61 73 68 65 72 |
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