Whipcord

Definitions: Whipcord

Whipcord

Noun

1. Closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips.

2. A strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib.

Date "whipcord" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	A rugged cotton, worsted, man-made fiber or blended fabric with sharply defined upright warp twill. . . A clear finish gives the twill cord-like appearance. The fabric is very durable. . Source: European Union. (references)
	A term applied to fabric covering a wide range of qualities and commonly made of cotton or worsted. The characteristic feature is a more or less bold upright warp twill(often 63o steep twill), which is accentuated by suitable weave structure, more ends per unit length than picks, and a clear finish to an extent which causes the twill or warp threads to form a cord-like effect. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Filament	Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Whipcord

Specialty definitions using "whipcord": Man of Whipcord. (references)

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

Swedish (whipcord).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	House of Whipcord (1974)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	House of Whipcord (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Whipcord" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whipcord" 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

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "whipcord": whipcord-hard.
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 "whipcord"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		litar i fortë për kamzhik. (various references)

Bulgarian		габардин (gabardine, gaberdine), връв от катгут, вид морско водорасло (sea furbelow, tangle). (various references)

Czech		provázek (cord, string, twine, twist, whip-cord), šòùra bièe. (various references)

Danish		whipcord. (various references)

Dutch		whipcord. (various references)

French		whipcord, whipc rd. (various references)

German		Peitschenschnur (thong). (various references)

Greek		σχοινίο μάστιγοσ, είδοσ υφάσματοσ (chamberay, sharkskin), διαγωνάλ (twill, twill weave). (various references)

Hungarian		ostorvég (cracker). (various references)

Italian		whipcord. (various references)

Pig Latin		ipcordwhay

Portuguese		whipcord, cordel de chicote. (various references)

Romanian		sfoarã pentru bici. (various references)

Russian		бечевка (packthread, string, twine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bič (lash, scourge, whip). (various references)

Spanish		gabardina fija de estambre con rayas de sarga pronunciadas. (various references)

Swedish		whipcord, pisksnärt (thong, whiplash). (various references)

Turkish		sırım (thong), fitilli kumaş (rep, reps, twill). (various references)

Ukranian		шнур (cord). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-h-i-o-p-r-w"
	-2 letters: orchid, orphic, rhodic.
	-3 letters: chiro, chirp, choir, chord, crowd, ichor, porch.
	-4 letters: chid, chip, chop, chow, coir, cord, crop, crow, dhow, dorp, drip, drop, odic, prod, prow, rich, whid, whip, whir, whop, wich, word.
	-5 letters: chi, cod, cop, cor, cow, dip, doc, dor, dow, hic, hid, hip, hod, hop, how, ich, orc, phi, pic.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-h-i-o-p-r-w"
	+1 letter: whipcords.
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