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Definition: Turps |
TurpsNoun1. Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A)an essential oil obtained by distilling the oleoresin of conifers, particularly Pines, consisting of a mixture of terpenes(mainly Alpha-pinene)boiling at ca. 150-170 Celsius degrees; b)the essential oil, a turpentine, obtained from the "gum"(i. e. oleoresin)of living Pine trees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
TURPS | English | Terrestral Unattended Reactor Power System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TurpsSynonyms: oil of turpentine (n), spirit of turpentine (n), turpentine (n). (additional references) |
| "Turps" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Turps" is used about 18 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 (plural) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
turps | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "turps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | terpentin (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | terpentijnolie (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil), terpentijn (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tärpättiöljy (oil of turpentine), tärpätti (turpentine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | essence de térébenthine (turpentine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Terpentin (turpentine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τερεβινθέλαιον (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trementina (turpentine), essenza di trementina (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooill juys (turpentine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urpstay essência de terebintina (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine, turpentine oil). (various references) terebentinã (pin tar oil, turpentine). (various references) terpentinova esencija. (various references) aguarrás (turpentine). (various references) terpentin (turpentine). (various references) neft yağı (oil of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, turpentine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spurt. | |
| Words within the letters "p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: purs, puts, rust, ruts, spur, tups. | |
-2 letters: pur, pus, put, rut, sup, tup, ups, uts. | |
-3 letters: up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: erupts, purest, purist, sprout, spurts, stupor, trumps, upstir. | |
+2 letters: disrupt, hotspur, irrupts, pasture, petrous, posture, pouters, precuts, proteus, punster, punters, purists, pursuit, putters, reputes, spouter, sprouts, spurted, spurtle, sputter, startup, stirrup, stumper, stupors, subpart, sumpter, support, troupes, turnips, turnups, unstrap, updarts, uprates, uproots, upstair, upstare, upstart, upstirs, uptears, upturns. | |
+3 letters: apterous, captures, corrupts, crumpets, culprits, cuprites, cutpurse, disputer, disrupts, dropouts, dumpster, hotspurs, imputers, outcrops, outdrops, outports, outpours, outprays, outpress, outstrip, parquets, pastural, pastured, pasturer, pastures, permutes, perturbs, pictures, piecrust, plastrum, postburn, postdrug, postural, postured, posturer, postures, poulters, products, protiums, proudest, pruritus, pulsator, punsters, puristic, puritans, purities, purplest, purports, pursiest, pursuant, pursuits, pushcart, pustular, puttiers, pyritous, quipster, raptures, resculpt, resprout, roupiest, ruptures, sculptor, spatular, spectrum, splutter, sportful, spouters, sprouted, sprucest, spurting, spurtles, sputters, startups, stipular, stirrups, strumpet, stumpers, stumpier, stupider, subparts, sumpters, superhit, superhot, superjet, superset, supertax, supports, surprint, tempuras, thruputs, thumpers, trappous, triumphs, troupers, trumpets, turnspit, turpeths, unripest, unstraps, updaters, updrafts, uprights, upsetter, upstairs, upstared, upstares, upstarts, upstater, upstream, upstroke, upthrows, upthrust, uptrends, writeups. | |
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