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Definition: Tropic |
TropicAdjective1. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit". 2. Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather". Noun1. Either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tropic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Tropic \Trop"ic\, noun. [French tropique, Latin tropicus of or belonging to a turn, i. e., of the sun, Greek of the solstice, (scilicet) the tropic or solstice, turn. See Trope.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TROPIC | English | Traffic optimisation by the integration of information and control | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tropic, Utah."
Synonym: TropicSynonym: tropical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tropic |
| English words defined with "tropic": Amphiscians ♦ Egg-bird ♦ North Temperate Zone ♦ South Temperate Zone ♦ Temperate Zone, tropic bird, Tropic year. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tropic": Misnomers ♦ tropical timber. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tropic": trope, Tropical. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tropic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (tropic). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tropic of Passion (1971) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fountain. Tropic, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old Mormon house at Tropic, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Main store. Tropic, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Home of Mormon farmer. Tropic, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Play | Caption |
 | Tropics; equatorial; hot; humid; lush; steamy; sticky; stifling; sultry; sweat box; sweltering; torrid; tropic; vacation; relaxation; . |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Benin | Benin, a narrow, north-south strip of land in West Africa, lies between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. (references) |
Bangladesh | Straddling the Tropic of Cancer, Bangladesh has a subtropical monsoonal climate characterized by heavy seasonal rainfall, moderately warm temperatures, and high humidity. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tropic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.17% of the time. "Tropic" is used about 46 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 52.17% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 47.83% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Tropic, UT (town, FIPS 77560) |
Expressions using "tropic": continental tropic air masses ♦ tropic bird ♦ Tropic month ♦ tropic of cancer ♦ tropic of capricon ♦ tropic of capricorn ♦ tropic tide ♦ Tropic year. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tropic": tropic-blue. | |
Ending with "tropic": T-cell-tropic. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hawaiian tropic | 790 | hawaiian pageant tropic | 18 |
hawaiian tropic girl | 231 | hawaiin miss tropic | 17 |
tropic | 175 | bikini contest hawaiian tropic | 16 |
tropic of cancer | 108 | hawaiian kid tropic | 16 |
hawaiian miss tropic | 92 | tropic utah | 15 |
hawaiian model tropic | 76 | hawiian model tropic | 15 |
hawaiin tropic | 67 | 1999 hawaiian tropic | 15 |
tropic heat | 63 | girl hawaian tropic | 14 |
hawiian tropic | 56 | hawaii and tropic | 14 |
tropic star | 52 | hawaian miss tropic | 14 |
hawian tropic | 46 | tropic sun | 13 |
hawaiin tropic girl | 38 | tropic sun tower | 13 |
tropic of capricorn | 35 | girl tropic | 12 |
girl hawiian tropic | 32 | tropic isle | 12 |
hawaian tropic | 32 | hawiian miss tropic | 11 |
tropic air | 29 | tropic ut | 11 |
island tropic | 27 | hawaiin model tropic | 11 |
girl hawian tropic | 25 | tropic shore | 10 |
contest hawaiian tropic | 24 | girl hawain tropic | 10 |
bingo tropic | 21 | hawaiian model search tropic | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tropic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tropikal (tropical), tropik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المدار الإستوائي, المدار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тропически (tropical), тропичен (tropical), тропик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 熱帶 (tropical), 回'线. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slunovrat (solstice), obratník. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vendekreds. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | keerring. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kääntöpiiri (inverter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tropique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wendekreis (lock, tropics, turning circle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροπικόσ (modal, tropical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"פך (change over, reverse, revolution, shake up, upheaval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tropikus (tropical), forró égövi (tropical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tropico, tropicale (tropical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 北回帰線 (Tropic of Cancer), 南回帰線 (Tropic of Capricorn), 冬至線 (the Tropic of Capricorn), 夏至線 (Tropic of Cancer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きたかいきせ" (Tropic of Cancer), 'しせ" (Tropic of Cancer), みなみかいきせ" (Tropic of Capricorn), とうじせ" (the Tropic of Capricorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | grianchryss, chyndaa ny greiney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opictray trópico (tropics). (various references) tropic. (various references) тропик. (various references) tropski pojas (tropics), tropski (manatee, torrid, tropical), povratnik (backspace, recuperator, repatriate, repeater, returnee), žarki (ardent, bright, fervent, fervid, hot, torrid, zealous). (various references) trópico. (various references) tropik, vändkrets (tropical circle). (various references) tropika, dönence. (various references) яoda (tropical). (various references) тропічна зона, тропічний (tropical), тропік. (various references) vùng nhiệt đới. (various references) trofan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | tropikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tropicus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | tropicus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tropic": tropical, tropicalize, tropicalized, tropicalizes, tropicalizing, tropically, tropics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tropic": adrenocorticotropic, allotropic, ametropic, anisometropic, anisotropic, antientropic, diageotropic, entropic, geotropic, gonadotropic, heliotropic, hydrotropic, hypermetropic, inotropic, isentropic, isotropic, lipotropic, luteotropic, neurotropic, pantropic, phototropic, plagiotropic, pleiotropic, psychotropic, semitropic, subtropic, thermotropic, thixotropic, thyrotropic, xenotropic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tropic": anisotropically, entropically, geotropically, intertropical, isentropically, neotropics, nontropical, pantropical, phototropically, psychotropics, semitropical, semitropics, subtropical, subtropics. (additional references) | |
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"Tropic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atropia, atropic, Chrompac, Krpovic, ropic, topice, topick, toric, torric, trepak, Tribick, Trofim, troik, Trompeau, Tronix, troopie, tropa, tropar, trophic, Tropicarr, tropice, tropicl, tropin, tropio, Tropix, tropoic, Tropsch, tropy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tropic" (pronounced trÄ"pik) |
| 6 | t r Ä" p i k | geotropic. |
| 5 | -r Ä" p i k | philanthropic. |
| 4 | -Ä" p i k | endoscopic, gyroscopic, isotopic, microscopic, myopic, topic. |
| 3 | -p i k | epic, laparoscopic, monocarpic, phenotypic, philippic, telescopic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: optic, picot, topic, toric. | |
-2 letters: coir, crop, otic, port, riot, roti, tiro, topi, torc, tori, trio, trip, trop. | |
-3 letters: cop, cor, cot, opt, orc, ort, pic, pit, poi, pot, pro, rip, roc, rot, tic, tip, top, tor. | |
-4 letters: it, op, or, pi, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: apricot, aprotic, parotic, portico, trophic, tropics. | |
+2 letters: apricots, atrophic, coscript, depictor, dioptric, entropic, impactor, inceptor, leprotic, operatic, outprice, periotic, petrolic, piscator, porticos, protatic, protonic, strophic, tripodic, tropical. | |
+3 letters: ametropic, anthropic, capacitor, captopril, catoptric, conscript, coprolite, copyright, coscripts, courtship, croupiest, depictors, eurytopic, eutrophic, geotropic, hypocrite, impactors, inceptors, incorrupt, inotropic, inspector, intercrop, isotropic, nephrotic, operatics, orthoepic, outpriced, outprices, pantropic, patriotic, peridotic, pictogram, pictorial, piscators, piscatory, pitchfork, plethoric, podiatric, porticoes, preatomic, prebiotic, precocity, precoital, predictor, proactive, proclitic, prolactin, proleptic, prophetic, prostatic, prothetic, psoriatic, pyrolytic, reception, subtropic, tropistic. | |
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