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Definition: Tightrope |
TightropeNoun1. Tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tightrope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Tightrope |
| English words defined with "tightrope": high wire. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One thing I know, is good tightrope walking (Jackass: The Movie; writing credit: Jeff Tremaine; Spike Jonze) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tightrope (1974) Walk a Tightrope (1964) Tightrope (1959) Man on a Tightrope (1953) Tightrope Tricks (1933) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Brumbaugh balancing clown holding barrels of rum and Standard Oil on tightrope of "public opinion" being frayed by "Anti-Penrose sentiment". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tightrope performers at 4-H Club fair, Cimarron, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tightrope Walkers 1" by Gary McCord Commentary: "Circus Image." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Botswana | Indeed, the Botswana Government is attempting to walk a narrow tightrope on the issue. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tightrope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tightrope" is used about 80 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% | 80 | 37,112 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tightrope": tightrope walker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tightrope": tightrope-dancer, tightrope-walked, tightrope-walker, tightrope-walkers. | |
Ending with "tightrope": liveon-a-tightrope. | |
| 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 |
tightrope | 37 |
tightrope walker | 13 |
circus tightrope | 5 |
walking on a tightrope | 5 |
burning man tightrope | 3 |
lyrics tightrope | 3 |
silver tightrope | 2 |
pole tightrope walker | 2 |
firewater tightrope | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tightrope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | litar i tendosur. (various references) | |
Arabic | حبل مشدود, حبل البهلوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опнато въже, опнато жица. (various references) | |
Czech | visuté lano provazolezce. (various references) | |
French | funiculaire, corde raide. (various references) | |
German | Seil (cable, cord, high-wire, rope, string, wire). (various references) | |
Greek | ακροβατικό σχοινί. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חבל מתוח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kifeszített kötél (rope, tight-rope). (various references) | |
Italian | corda stretta, cavo (cabel, cable, concave, hawser, hollow, robe, rope, sunken, trunk, wire). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 綱渡り (tightrope walking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つなわたり (tightrope walking). (various references) | |
Manx | tead chionn. (various references) | |
Maya | thuthlah (tightrope performer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightropetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corda esticada. (various references) | |
Russian | туго натянутый канат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u kritičnoj situaciji, nategnuto uže, kritična situacija. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuerda de equilibrista. (various references) | |
Swedish | spänd lina. (various references) | |
Thai | ลวดขึงตึง (ใช้เดินไต่ลวด). (various references) | |
Turkish | ip (cord, halter, lanyard, lap, rope, string, tether, twist), gerili ip. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | туго натягнутий канат. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tightrope": tightropes. (additional references) | |
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"Tightrope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tightroped, Tythrop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tightrope" (pronounced tī"trō'p) |
| 4 | -t r ō' p | allotrope, heliotrope. |
| 3 | -r ō' p | misanthrope. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: gothite, pottier, thorite, tighter. | |
-3 letters: ephori, ghetto, goiter, goitre, gopher, heriot, hitter, hogtie, hotter, ophite, pother, potter, protei, righto, thorpe, tiptoe, tither, tother. | |
-4 letters: eight, ephor, ergot, girth, griot, gripe, gript, grith, grope, hoper, ither, other, otter, petit, petti, petto, pirog, repot, right, rotte, their, thorp, thrip, throe, tiger, tight, titer, tithe, titre. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tightropes. | |
+4 letters: herpetologist, trothplighted. | |
+5 letters: herpetologists. | |
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