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Scrapbook

Definition: Scrapbook

Scrapbook

Noun

1. A album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrapbook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Scrapbook

DomainDefinitions

Education

A blank book in which miscellaneous items. . . may be pasted or inserted. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: Scrapbook

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There's a maniac lives there and he's dangerousI was standing in my yard one day when his Mama come out yelling, 'He's killin' us all.' Turned out that Boo was sitting in the living room cutting up the paper for his scrapbook, and when his daddy come by, he reached over with his scissors, stabbed him in his leg, pulled them out, and went right on cutting the paper. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

Movie/TV Titles

Nude Scrapbook (1964)

Pete Smith Specialties No. S-368: Pete Smith's Scrapbook (1942)

London Scrapbook (1942)

Scrapbook (2000)

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: Scrapbook

DomainTitle

Books

  • Baby Blues: Unplugged: Baby Blues 15 Scrapbook (Kirkman, Rick. Baby Blues Scrapbook, 15.) (reference)

  • Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook (reference)

  • My Life!: Scrapbook Kit: American Girl (reference)

  • The Cher Scrapbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Scrapbook

Photos:
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Usage Frequency: Scrapbook

"Scrapbook" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrapbook" is used about 49 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)100%4948,677

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scrapbook

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

scrapbook

4,493

scrapbook supply

1,174

scrapbook idea

892

scrapbook layout

534

scrapbook paper

349

scrapbook store

299

scrapbook album

255

scrapbook sticker

255

scrapbook layout idea

203

scrapbook page

190

scrapbook saying

145

wedding scrapbook

139

scrapbook poem

135

scrapbook software

113

scrapbook page idea

104

scrapbook quote

103

scrapbook magazine

101

baby scrapbook

100

simple scrapbook

90

free scrapbook

89
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scrapbook

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

Albanian

  

album me copa të ngjitura. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قصاصات الصحف. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

албум за залепване на изрезки. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

剪貼簿 , 剪贴薄. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مجموعه قطعاتی ازکتب مختلف بریده است , مجموعه (Bundle, Caboodle, Collection, Complex, Repertory, Set, Yardage), مرقع , دفتراجناس اوراق . (various references)

   

French

  

album de coupures de journaux, album découpures. (various references)

   

German

  

sammelalbum (collector's album). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιβλίο απορριμμάτων (scrap book), λεύκωμα εικόνων (scrap book), λεύκωμα αποκομμάτων (scrap book). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ספר ""בקות. (various references)

   

Italian

  

album per ritagli. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid), 切り抜き帖 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりぬきちょう (a scrapbook), スクラップブック . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

스크랩북. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lioar ghiarrag. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apbookscray

   

Russian 

  

альбом (album, sketchbook, sketch-book). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

album (album). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

álbum de recortes. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

urklippsalbum, album för tidningsurklipp. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สมุ"ติ"รูปหรือข่าวที่ตั"มาจากสื่อสิ่งพิมพ์ต่างๆ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kupürler albümü, gazete kupürlerinin yapıştırıldığı albüm. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

альбом для газетних вирізок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Scrapbook

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrapbook": scrapbooks. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Scrapbook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scrabo, scragboy, Scraptof. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Scrapbook"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "scrapbook" (pronounced skra"pbuh'k)
3-b uh' kcheckbook, cookbook, guidebook, handbook, hornbook, logbook, matchbook, notebook, overbook, passbook, pocketbook, Schoolbook, sketchbook, sourcebook, storybook, textbook, yearbook.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Scrapbook

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-o-o-p-r-s"

-3 letters: brocks, brooks, carbos, carobs, cobras, copras, croaks, crooks, karoos, pookas, scroop.

-4 letters: backs, barks, boars, bocks, books, boors, boras, brock, brook, broos, capos, carbo, carbs, carks, carob, carps, cobra, cooks, coops, copra, corks, corps, crabs, craps, croak, crook, crops, karoo, kbars, kobos, okras, orcas, packs, parks, pocks, pooka, porks, praos, proas, proso, racks, rocks, rooks, sapor, scarp, scoop, scrap, socko, sopor, spark, spook, spoor.

-5 letters: abos, arbs, arco, arcs, arks, back, baps, bark, bars, bask, boar, boas, bock, book, boor, boos, bops, bora, bosk, bras, broo, bros, cabs, capo, caps, carb, cark, carp, cars, cask, cobs, cook, coop, coos, cops, cork, cors, crab, crap, crop, kabs, kbar, koas, kobo, kobs, kops, kors, oaks, oars, ocas, okas, okra, oops, orbs, orca, orcs, osar, pack, pacs, park, pars, pock, poco, poor, pork, prao, proa, pros, rack, raps, rasp, robs, rock, rocs, rook, sack, sark, scab, scar, scop, soak, soap, soar, sock, sook, sora, sorb, spar.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-o-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: scrapbooks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scrapbook


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 72 61 70 62 6F 6F 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110000 01100010 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#98 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0061 0070 0062 006F 006F 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536984678268818177

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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