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Definition: Racquet |
RacquetNoun1. A sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: RacquetSynonym: racket (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The frame is traditionally made of wood, but most rackets are now made of synthetic ceramics or alloys.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Racquet."
Crosswords: Racquet |
| English words defined with "racquet": badminton racquet ♦ snowshoe, squash racquet ♦ table-tennis racquet, tennis racquet, two-handed backhand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "racquet": Racquet Sports. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Columbia World of Sports: Racquet Wizards (1954) Tennis Racquet (1949) Racquet (1979) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Racquet ball hitting the wall. |
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Economic History | Ireland | Penn Racquet Sports Co., Black & Decker, Bose Products BV and Hasbro all have manufacturing operations in Ireland. (references) |
South Africa | The few prominent deals included the acquisition of the Health and Racquet Club by the UK group Virgin Active for R319.6 million; British Airways' acquisition of 18 percent of Comair for R168 million; and the acquisition of a 22 percent stake in Automated Identification Technologies (AIT) by a U.S. consortium for about R120 million (AIT is involved in developing security systems for tracking and managing assets). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Racquet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Racquet" is used about 45 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) | 95.56% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "racquet": badminton racquet ♦ Racquet Sports ♦ squash racquet ♦ tennis racquet. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
tennis racquet | 1,996 |
carried racquet | 84 |
racquet | 61 |
head tennis racquet | 32 |
badminton racquet | 31 |
racquet ball | 31 |
squash racquet | 29 |
racquetball racquet | 25 |
prince tennis racquet | 21 |
racquet club | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "racquet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | raketë (battledore, missile, projectile, racket, rocket), tenis në gjysmë fushe (racket, rackets). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضرب التنس (racket), الراكيت اللعبة. (various references) | |
Asturian | raqueta. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | снежна обувка (racket), ракета (projectile, racket, rocket, skyrocket). (various references) | |
Cebuano | raketa. (various references) | |
Chinese | 球拍 (Racket). (various references) | |
Czech | raketa (racket, rocket). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ketsjari. (various references) | |
French | raquette (racket, tennis racket), jeu de paume (rackets). (various references) | |
German | rakett (racket), schläger (basher, bat, batsman, batter, beater, bumper, club, fighter, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker, mallet, paddle, puncher, racket, rackets, rouge, roughneck, rowdies, ruffian, scrapper, slugger, stick, thug). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחבט (carpet beater, racket, willow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teniszütő (racket, tennis racket), ütő (bat, beater, club, hammer, mallet, racket, to toe). (various references) | |
Macedonian | raket. (various references) | |
Manx | baghyl (bishop's crozier). (various references) | |
Maori | raakete. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acquetray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raqueta (battledore). (various references) | |
Provencal | raqueta. (various references) | |
Russian | ракетка (racket). (various references) | |
Samoan | pate tenisi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reket (paddle, protection, racket). (various references) | |
Spanish | raqueta (bat, battledore, racket, regulator). (various references) | |
Swedish | utpressning (blackmail, chantage, exaction, extorsion, extortion, racketeering, shakedown). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม้ตีลูกในการเล่นกีฬา (เช่น เทนนิส, แบ"มินตัน ฯลฯ) (racket). (various references) | |
Turkish | raket (bat, racket), kar raketi (racket), kar ayakkabısı (racket, snowshoes). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розгул (debauch, orgy), шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, hoity toity, hubbub, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, pother, racket, row, ruction, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), гуркіт (alarm, brattle, clatter, crash, detonation, din, drumming, growl, noise, peal, roar, thunder, thunder-clap, wallop), пиятика (binge, booze, carousal, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, nosedive, whoopee). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "racquet": racquetball, racquetballs, racquets. (additional references) | |
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"Racquet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grecques, Jacquot, jaquet, packquet, racqet, racquel, Racquin, raquet, Rasquin, recques, requet, Ricquier, risquet, Rouquet, sacque. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "racquet" (pronounced ra"kut) |
| 5 | r a" k u t | racket. |
| 4 | -a" k u t | jacket, packet. |
| 3 | -k u t | advocate, affricate, aftermarket, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, hypermarket, indelicate, intricate, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-q-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acuter, curate, quarte, quatre. | |
-2 letters: acute, caret, carte, cater, crate, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, quare, quart, quate, react, recta, recut, trace, truce, urate. | |
-3 letters: acre, care, cart, cate, cure, curt, cute, ecru, race, rate, tace, tare, tear, true, urea. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cue, cur, cut, ear, eat, eau, ecu, era, eta, qat, qua, rat, rec, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, uta. | |
-5 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-q-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: racquets. | |
+2 letters: acquitter. | |
+3 letters: acquitters, reacquaint, requiescat. | |
+4 letters: acquirement, aquaculture, aquiculture, equivocator, quarterback, quarterdeck, racquetball, reacquaints, requiescats. | |
+5 letters: acquirements, aquacultures, aquicultures, equivocators, quarterbacks, quarterdecks, quattrocento, racquetballs, reacquainted. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 63 71 75 65 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.-. --.- ..- . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100011 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a c q u e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0063 0071 0075 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52676983877186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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