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Definition: Turtleneck |
TurtleneckAdjective1. Having a high tubular collar fitting closely around the neck. Noun1. A sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TurtleneckSynonyms: turtlenecked (adj), polo-neck (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Sweater, jersey; cardigan; turtleneck, pullover; sweater vest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Luther is silent for a moment, as he stares at my little bishop in a turtleneck. (Hedwig and the Angry Inch; writing credit: John Cameron Mitchell; Stephen Trask) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Affected Turtleneck Trio (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Turtleneck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turtleneck" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "turtleneck": turtleneck collar ♦ turtleneck sweater. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "turtleneck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pulovër (jumper, pullover, slipover, sweater, turtleneck sweater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 高领衫. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rolák (polo neck sweater, turtleneck sweater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | garbónyak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urtlenecktay ворот-стойка. (various references) rolka (turtleneck sweater), džemper sa rolkragnom (turtleneck sweater). (various references) balıkçı yaka (polo neck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turtleneck": turtlenecked, turtlenecks. (additional references) | |
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"Turtleneck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: turtkleneck, turtledeck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turtleneck" (pronounced ter"tulne'k) |
| 6 | -t u l n e' k | bottleneck. |
| 3 | -n e' k | breakneck, redneck, ringneck, roughneck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-k-l-n-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: relucent. | |
-3 letters: clunker, clutter, curette, lectern, lecture, lettuce, lucerne, lunette, nettler, truckle. | |
-4 letters: center, centre, crenel, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, eluent, kelter, kernel, kettle, letter, lucent, lucern, lunker, necker, netter, nettle, neuter, nutlet, nutter, recent, relent, reluct, retune, ruckle, runkle, runlet, telnet, tenrec, tenter, tenure, tercel, tercet, tucker, tucket, tureen, turtle, unreel. | |
-5 letters: centu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-k-l-n-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: turtlenecks. | |
+2 letters: turtlenecked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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