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Definition: Viper |
ViperNoun1. Venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "viper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Viper \Vi"per\, noun. [French expression vip[`e]re, from Latin expression vipera, probably contr. from vivipera; vivus alive parere to bring forth, because it was believed to be the only serpent that brings forth living young. Compare to Quick, adjective, Parent, Viviparous, Wivern, Weever.]. (references) |
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Bible | Viper In Job 20:16, Isa. 30:6; 59:5, the Heb. word eph'eh is thus rendered. The Hebrew word, however, probably denotes a species of poisonous serpents known by the Arabic name of 'el ephah. Tristram has identified it with the sand viper, a species of small size common in sandy regions, and frequently found under stones by the shores of the Dead Sea. It is rapid in its movements, and highly poisonous. In the New Testament _echidne_ is used (Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33) for any poisonous snake. The viper mentioned in Acts 28:3 was probably the vipera aspis, or the Mediterranean viper. (See ADDER.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a viper, foretells that calamities are threatening you. To dream that a many-hued viper, and capable of throwing itself into many pieces, or unjointing itself, attacks you, denotes that your enemies are bent on your ruin and will work unitedly, yet apart, to displace you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A viper is a venomous snake, belonging to the family Viperidae (consisting of roughly 150 species). A viper is characterised by its long erectile fangs, which are folded back when not in use. They also have triangle-shaped heads with a distinctly narrower neck. (The broad areas of the head house the venom glands.) Their eyes have iriseses like a cat's eye (but if you're close enough to see that, you're probably too close!) Being 0.3-3 m long, vipers feed on small animals, which are injected with venom and then dragged along until they die.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Viper."
| 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 |
VIPER | English | Versatile Intermedical Pulsed Experimental Reactor | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur; snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick. |
Bad Man | Villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, basilisk, urchin; tiger, monster; devil; (demon); devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell. |
Bane | Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon. |
Evil doer | Snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Viper |
| English words defined with "viper": adder, Agkistrodon contortrix, Ammodyte ♦ Bitis arietans, Bitis gabonica, Bothrops atrops ♦ cerastes, Cerastes cornutus, common viper, copperhead ♦ Daboia, Death adder ♦ fer-de-lance ♦ gaboon viper ♦ Hognosesnake, horned asp, horned viper ♦ Plumed adder, Puff adder ♦ rattler, rattlesnake ♦ sand viper, Solenoglypha ♦ Ticpolonga, Tropidonotus viperinus ♦ Vipera berus, Viperine, Viperine snake, Viperish, Viperous, Viper's grass. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "viper": Ancrod ♦ Deaf Adder ♦ Elapid Venoms ♦ HALF ♦ Ill Omens ♦ Viper and File. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "viper": Weever. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Viper" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (adder, viper, vipers). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The longest relationship you ever had was in the bathroom stall at the Viper Room (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) | |
Lyrics | I crawl like a viper (Deacon Blues; performing artist: STEELY DAN) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Im Netz der gelben Viper - Das FBI schlägt zu (1964) The Viper (1938) Nursing a Viper (1909) The Black Viper (1908) Viper (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Viper moray eel - Enchelycore nigricans. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | How we tag a viper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper. |
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| "Viper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Viper" is used about 48 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% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "viper": asp viper ♦ carpet viper ♦ cherish a viper in one's bosom ♦ common viper ♦ gaboon viper ♦ horned viper ♦ nourish a viper in one's bosom ♦ pit viper ♦ red viper ♦ Russell's Viper ♦ sand viper ♦ viper fish ♦ viper grass ♦ Viper Venoms ♦ water viper ♦ yellow viper. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "viper": sand-viper. | |
| 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 |
dodge viper | 4,425 | viper snake | 82 |
viper | 2,892 | black viper | 73 |
viper alarm | 323 | viper pic | 72 |
car alarm viper | 276 | gaboon viper | 67 |
dodge viper picture | 273 | 2003 viper | 67 |
viper car | 269 | 2004 dodge viper | 64 |
the viper room | 214 | rom viper | 59 |
2003 dodge viper | 181 | viper wallpaper | 58 |
viper racing | 161 | used dodge viper | 57 |
diamond viper | 160 | viper fish | 57 |
dodge viper pic | 158 | hentai viper | 56 |
dodge viper gts | 123 | pit viper | 56 |
viper gts | 121 | club viper | 55 |
dodge viper for sale | 116 | viper racing cheat | 55 |
bot viper | 109 | america club viper | 54 |
viper picture | 95 | diamond driver viper | 53 |
doge viper | 94 | venom viper | 52 |
dodge viper wallpaper | 93 | diamond viper v770 | 50 |
viper sale | 83 | viper v770 | 48 |
tennessee valley viper | 82 | viper alarm system | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "viper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | adder (adder). (various references) | |
Albanian | nepërkë (adder), nëpërkë (adder, asp), gjarpër (asp, ophidian, serpent, snake). (various references) | |
Arabic | الخبيث, أفعى سامة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усойница (horned adder), змия (adder, asp, ophidian, serpent, snake), пепелянка (adder, cerastes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛇蝎, '蛇 . (various references) | |
Czech | zmije (adder, cat). (various references) | |
Danish | sand viper (desert viper, sand viper). (various references) | |
Dutch | adder (adder). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vipuro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | høggormur (adder). (various references) | |
Farsi | تیرمار, تیره مار, شریر (Bad, Heinous, Infernal, Naughty, Nefarious, Vicious, Villain, Villainous, Wicked), دم خاءن وبدنهاد. (various references) | |
Finnish | kyykäärme (adder). (various references) | |
French | couleuvre. (various references) | |
Frisian | njirre (adder). (various references) | |
German | Natter (adder, asp, asps, serpent, snake), Viper (adder, vipers), Kreuzotter (adder). (various references) | |
Greek | έχιδνα (adder), οχιά (puff adder). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | nepërkë (adder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפיפון (horned viper), פתן (adder, cobra), אפע" (adder, asp, baselisk, rattlesnake), צפע. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vipera (adder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ular berbisa (adder, asp, rattler), beludak (outburst), bedudak. (various references) | |
Italian | vipera (adder). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蝮 (adder, asp), 真虫 (adder, asp), バイキング料理 (bicology, bicycle motocross, bike, binary, binary dump, binary file, bin-aural, binder, bisexual, bite, bypass, byte, byte swap, byte-code, byte-compile, motorcycle, smorgasbord, vitality, work). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バイパー , まむし (adder, asp). (various references) | |
Manx | naaer (creeper), aernieu (adder), aarnieu (adder, serpent, snake). (various references) | |
Maya | kookob-kaan. (various references) | |
Papiamen | vibora (adder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipervay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | víbora (adder, asp, shrew), cobra (adder, expert, ophidian, serpent, snake). (various references) | |
Romanian | viperã (adder, asp, aspic, serpent, snake), nãpârcã (asp, grass snake, skunk). (various references) | |
Russian | курильщик марихуаны (pothead), гадюка (adder, asp), ехидна (echidna, spiny anteater). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zmija otrovnica (aspic, cockatrice), zlobna osoba, poskok, guja (adder, ophidian, serpent, snake), šarka (adder, hinge). (various references) | |
Spanish | víbora (adder, serpent), áspid (adder, asp, aspic). (various references) | |
Swedish | huggorm (adder). (various references) | |
Turkish | yılan (ophido-, serpent, snake), engerek (adder). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | курець марихуани, гадюка (asp, serpent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tráo trở. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwiber (adder). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ekhidna. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aspis, vipera, viperarum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | SustreyantoV de tou paulou fruganwn plhqoV kai epiqentoV epi thn puran ecidna ek thV qermhV exelqousa kaqhyen thV ceiroV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum congregasset autem Paulus sarmentorum aliquantam multitudinem et inposuisset super ignem vipera a calore cum processisset invasit manum eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But whanne Poul hadde gederid `a quantite of kittingis of vines, and leide on the fier, an edder sche cam forth fro the heete, and took hym bi the hoond. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes and put them into the fyre ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | Dhe, ndërsa Pali mblidhte ca shkarpa dhe i vinte mbi zjarr, nga të nxehtit doli një nepërkë dhe iu ngjit te dora. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pablo namunit ug usa ka bangan nga mga igsosugnod, ug sa iya na kining gikatam-ok sa daub, usa ka bitin nga malala miwayway tungod sa kainit ug miukob sa iyang kamot. |
| Chinese | 那 時 、 保 羅 拾 起 一 捆 柴 、 " 在 火 上 、 有 一 條 ' 蛇 、 為 熱 了 出 來 、 ' 住 他 的 手 。 |
| Croatian | Pavao nakupi naramak granja i baci na krijes kadli zbog vruæine izaðe zmija i pripije mu se za ruku. |
| Danish | Men da Paulus samlede en Bunke Ris og lagde på Bålet, krøb der en Øgle ud på Grund af Varmen og hængte sig fast ved hans Hånd. |
| Dutch | En als Paulus een hoop rijzen bijeengeraapt en op het vuur gelegd had, kwam er een adder uit door de hitte, en vatte zijn hand. |
| Finnish | Mutta Paavali kokosi kasan risuja, ja kun hän pani ne nuotioon, tuli kyykäärme kuumuuden tähden esiin ja kävi kiinni hänen käteensä. |
| French | Paul ayant ramassé un tas de broussailles et l`ayant mis au feu, une vipère en sortit par l`effet de la chaleur et s`attacha sa main. |
| German | Da aber Paulus einen Haufen Reiser zusammenraffte, und legte sie aufs Feuer, kam eine Otter von der Hitze hervor und fuhr Paulus an seine Hand. |
| Hungarian | Mikor pedig Pál nagy sok venyigét szedett és a tûzre tette, egy vipera a melegbõl kimászva, az õ kezére ragada. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Paulus mengumpulkan kayu, dan menaruh kayu-kayu itu di atas api. Sementara ia melakukan itu, seekor ular keluar, karena panasnya api itu, lalu memagut tangannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi apabila Paulus sudah memungut seberkas ranting-ranting dan meletakkan ke atas api itu, maka keluarlah seekor ular, sebab hangat itu, memagut tangannya. |
| Italian | Mentre Paolo raccoglieva un fascio di sarmenti e lo gettava sul fuoco, una vipera, risvegliata dal calore, lo morse a una mano. |
| Maori | Na ka kohikohia e Paora he pupu wahie, a maka ana e ia ki te kapura: heoi puta mai ana he neke i te wera, ka mau ki tona ringa. |
| Norwegian | Men da Paulus sanket sammen en hop tørre kvister og kastet dem på ilden, krøp en orm ut på grunn av heten og bet sig fast i hans hånd. |
| Portuguese | Ora havendo Paulo ajuntado e posto sobre o fogo um feixe de gravetos, uma víbora, fugindo do calor, apegou-se-lhe mão. |
| Rumanian | Pavel strknsese o grqmadq de mqrqcini, wi -i pusese pe foc; o nqpkrcq a iewit afarq din pricina cqldurii, wi s`a lipit de mkna lui. |
| Russian | лПЗ"Б ЦЕ рБЧЕМ ОБ'ТБМ НОПЦЕУФЧП ИЧПТПУФБ Й ЛМБМ ОБ ПЗПОШ, ФПЗ"Б ЕИЙ"ОБ, ЧЩК"С ПФ ЦБТБ, ПЧЙУМБ ОБ ТХЛЕ ЕЗП. |
| Shuar | Pápruka jinia kukarun ikiaanak jinium pataamiayi. Túmawai napi tsuéran ashamak jiinki, Papru uwején nemaramiayi. |
| Swahili | Paulo aliokota mzigo mdogo wa kuni akawa anazitia motoni. Hapo, kwa sababu ya lile joto la moto, nyoka akatoka katika kuni akamnasa Paulo mkononi na kujishikilia hapo. |
| Swedish | När Paulus då tog upp ett fång torra kvistar som han lade på elden, kom, i följd av hettan, en huggorm fram därur och högg sig fast vid hans hand. |
| Uma | Paulus mporumpu kaju pai' nalobu. Bula-na mpodampa kaju hi lolo apu, hangaa mehupa' hama'a ule ngkai rala kaju, apa' morani' -hawo nanene apu. Ule toe mpotilo' pale-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "viper": viperine, viperish, viperous, viperously, vipers. (additional references) | |
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"Viper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ieprc, vape, vaper, vapet, vayer, verper, viber, Vibert, vider, viep, vier, vierd, vifer, viger, Vihear, viker, vipa, vipe, viped, viperr, vippe, vipper, virer, viseer, viser, viter, viver, vope, vpe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "viper" (pronounced vī"per) |
| 3 | -ī" p er | diaper, Hyper, Piper, sniper, striper, wiper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-v" | |
-1 letter: peri, pier, ripe, rive, vier. | |
-2 letters: ire, per, pie, rei, rep, rev, rip, vie. | |
-3 letters: er, pe, pi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-v" | |
+1 letter: privet, vipers. | |
+2 letters: deprive, improve, overtip, parvise, paviser, predive, prevail, preview, previse, private, privets, privier, privies, provide, purview, upriver, vampire. | |
+3 letters: deprival, deprived, depriver, deprives, disprove, eruptive, improved, improver, improves, livetrap, overpaid, overripe, overslip, overspin, overtips, parvises, pavisers, perceive, pervious, prelives, prevails, previews, previous, prevised, previses, previsor, prevuing, primeval, privater, privates, priviest, provided, provider, provides, province, purviews, repaving, replevin, reprieve, slipover, sorptive, sportive, uprivers, vampires, vaporise, vaporize, vespiary, viperine, viperish, viperous. | |
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