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WINGTIP

Specialty Definition: WINGTIP

DomainDefinition

Transportation

Outer extremity of wing. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: WINGTIP

Specialty definitions using "WINGTIP": outrigger wheel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WINGTIP

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: WINGTIP

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: WINGTIP

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Destroyers alongside USS Lexington (CV-2) to assist in the carrier's abandonment, after she had been mortally damaged by fires and explosions during the afternoon of 8 May 1942. Photographed from a cruiser (probably USS Minneapolis). Note SOC scouting plane, with a damaged wingtip, on the cruiser's port catapult. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: WINGTIP

"WINGTIP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "WINGTIP" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)94.44%1785,106
Lexical Verb (infinitive)5.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%18N/A

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

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Expression: WINGTIP

Expression using "WINGTIP": wingtip vortices. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WINGTIP

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wingtip shoes

23

wingtip

8

golf shoes wingtip

4

black shoes white wingtip

3

dress man shoes wingtip

3

lama tony wingtip

3

wingtip two tone shoes

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WINGTIP

Language Translations for "WINGTIP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tiphvirvel (wingtip vortices). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vleugeltip (wing tip). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siivenkärkipyörre (wingtip vortices). (various references)

   

French

  

saumon d'extrémité (wing tip). (various references)

   

German

  

Randkappe (wing tip), Randbogen (wing tip), Endkappe (wing tip). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έμμορφο περίβλημα ακροπτερυγίου (wing tip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

estremit alare (wing tip). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kione skian. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingtipway

   

Portuguese

  

extremo da asa (wing tip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

законцовка крыла. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

punta de ala (pinion, wing tip), extremo de ala (wing tip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WINGTIP

Derivations

Words beginning with "WINGTIP": wingtips. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WINGTIP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-p-t-w"

-1 letter: wiping, witing.

-2 letters: piing.

-3 letters: inti, ping, pint, ting, tipi, twig, twin, wing.

-4 letters: gin, gip, git, nip, nit, pig, pin, pit, tin, tip, wig, win, wit.

-5 letters: in, it, pi, ti.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-p-t-w"
 

+1 letter: wingtips.

 

+3 letters: prewriting.

 

+4 letters: playwriting, prewritings, typewriting, wiretapping.

 

+5 letters: giftwrapping, playwritings, typewritings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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