Thumbprint

Definition: Thumbprint

Thumbprint

Noun

1. Fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb).

Date "thumbprint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

Commercial Usage: Thumbprint

Domain	Title
Books	Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thumbprint

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Morocco	El-Kihal claimed that his jailers wrote a false police report, which they forced him to endorse with his thumbprint without first allowing him to read. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thumbprint

"Thumbprint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thumbprint" is used about 12 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%	12	101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thumbprint

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
thumbprint cookie	29
thumbprint	21
art thumbprint	17
cookie recipe thumbprint	8
craft thumbprint	6
animal thumbprint	6
picture thumbprint	4
scanner thumbprint	3
cherry thumbprint	3
necklace thumbprint	3
almond cookie thumbprint	3
picture thumbprint tit	3
cookie jam thumbprint	3
drawing thumbprint	2
clipart thumbprint	2
program signature thumbprint	2
king thumbprint	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thumbprint

Language		Translations for "thumbprint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بصمة الإبهام. (various references)

Czech		otisk palce. (various references)

Farsi		اثرشست گذاشتن , اثرشست . (various references)

French		empreinte. (various references)

German		daumenabdruck. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		母印 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼいん (thumb print, vowel). (various references)

Pig Latin		umbprintthay

Serbo-Croatian		otisak palca (thumb mark). (various references)

Spanish		impresión del pulgar. (various references)

Turkish		başparmak izi (thumbmark). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Thumbprint

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thumbprint": thumbprints. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Thumbprint

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-h-i-m-n-p-r-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: triumph, turbith.
	-4 letters: turbit, turnip, untrim.
	-5 letters: birth, britt, bruin, bruit, brunt, bumph, burin, burnt, input, mirth, print, purin, putti, rhumb, rutin, thrip, thrum, thumb, thump, trump, truth, unhip, unrip.
	Words containing the letters "b-h-i-m-n-p-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: thumbprints.
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