Velocipede

Definitions: Velocipede

Velocipede

Noun

1. Any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel.

2. A cycle with three wheels.

Date "velocipede" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Etymology: Velocipede \Ve*loc"i*pede\, noun. [Latin expression velox, -ocis, swift pes, pedis, foot. See Velocity, and Foot.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Velocipede

Synonyms: tricycle (n), trike (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Velocipede

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Velocipede

English words defined with "velocipede": Velecipedist. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Velocipede" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (bicycle, bike).

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Commercial Usage: Velocipede

Domain	Title
Books	Josh and Jennie and George's Velocipede (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Velocipede

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Photo Album: Velocipede

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	J. D. Crichton Demonstrating inclined tripod mounted on velocipede.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		William Scaife on motor velocipede south of Fairbanks Triangulation party of William M. Scaife.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	First order leveling Mechanized leveling with velocipede Party of M. E. Lutz.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Showing how line of sight clears recorder with inclined tripod Mechanized leveling with velocipede Party of J. D. Crichton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Recording instrument mounted on left side of velocipede Party of J. D. Crichton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Working along the Southern Pacific Railroad Rodman at benchmark Observing crew even with engine on right Velocipede removed from tracks Level party of C. A. Egner.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Observing from level mounted on velocipede Level center-mounted on velocipede Crossing trestle on Southern Pacific Railroad Level party of C. A. Egner.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Entering a tunnel on motor velocipede Sure hope nobody's coming the other way Level party of Herman Odessey.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Setting the velocipede back on the tracks after train passes Level party of Herman Odessey.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Speeder and trailer Motor velocipede leveling Level party of Ernst Stohsner.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Velocipede

"Velocipede" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Velocipede" is used about 4 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 (proper)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Velocipede

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
velocipede	23
railroad velocipede	3
cassidy hopalong velocipede	2
sheffield velocipede	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Velocipede

Language		Translations for "velocipede"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Vagonetë (handcar, tram, trolley), Triçikël (tricycle). (various references)

Bulgarian		�"етско �'елосипедче С Три Колела, �'елосипед, Стар Тип �'елосипед. (various references)

Czech		Velocipéd. (various references)

Danish		trehjulet banecykel, cykel (bicycle, bike, cycle). (various references)

Dutch		rijwiel (bicycle, bike). (various references)

Finnish		polkupyörä (bicycle, bike, cycle). (various references)

French		velocipède. (various references)

German		Dreirad (three wheeler, three-wheeler, tricycle, trike). (various references)

Greek		ποδήλατο (bicycle, bike, cycle), Τρίτροχο � οδήλατο. (various references)

Hungarian		Háromkerekû Bicikli. (various references)

Pig Latin		elocipedevay

Portuguese		velocípede (bicycle). (various references)

Russian		�"резина, �'елосипед. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		velosiped, bicikl (bicycle, bike, pushbicycle). (various references)

Spanish		velocípedo. (various references)

Swedish		cykel (bicycle, bike, cycle, double stroke, roadster, time cycle). (various references)

Turkish		Bisiklet (bicycle, bike, cycle, push bicycle, push-bike, roadster, wheel), Üç Tekerlekli Bisiklet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Velocipede

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

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Rhyming with "Velocipede"

Words rhyming with "velocipede" (pronounced 'Ve*loc"i*pede'): Expede, impede, Octopede. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Velocipede

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-o-p-v"
	-2 letters: develope.
	-3 letters: deceive, develop, devoice, pedicel, pedicle, policed.
	-4 letters: ceiled, cleped, coiled, copied, decile, device, diploe, dipole, docile, eloped, leveed, levied, peeled, peeved, pelvic, pieced, police, veiled, veloce, voiced.
	-5 letters: clepe, clove, coled, coped, coved, deice, delve, devel, devil, dolce, dolci, edile, elide, elope, epode, levee, lieve, lived, loped, loved, oiled, oldie, oleic, olive, peeve, piece, piled, plied, poled, viced, video, voice, voile, voled.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-o-p-v"
	+1 letter: velocipedes.
	+5 letters: overspecialized.
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