Earmuff

  

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Earmuff

Definition: Earmuff

Earmuff

Noun

1. Either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather.

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



Specialty Definitions: Earmuff

DomainDefinitions

Environment

Dispositif qu'on met sur l'oreille ou dans l'oreille et qui protège l'ouvrier contre les bruits dans l'usine. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Earmuff

Specialty definitions using "earmuff": ear defender, ear protectorhearing protector, hearing-protective device. (references)

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Modern Usage: Earmuff

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Max, can you earmuff for me? We are going to get so much ass here, it's going to be sick. (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips)

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

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Commercial Usage: Earmuff

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Earmuff

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

earmuff

6

earmuff with radio

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Earmuff

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

Albanian

  

veshore (earmuffs, earphone). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

御'耳罩. (various references)

   

Czech

  

klapka na uši. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گوش پوش (Lug). (various references)

   

French

  

protecteur d'oreilles. (various references)

   

German

  

Ohrenschützer (earflap, earmark-muffs, earmuffs). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Copri orecchie. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

귀덮개. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earmuffay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

наушник (earflap, earphone, ear-phones, earpiece, headlight phones, headphone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

naušnik. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

orejera. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kulaklık (deaf aid, ear muffs, earphone, earpiece, headphone, headset). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Earmuff

Derivations

Words beginning with "earmuff": earmuffs. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Earmuff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-m-r-u"

-2 letters: femur, feuar, frame, fumer, ruffe.

-3 letters: arum, fame, fare, farm, fear, frae, fume, mare, muff, mura, mure, raff, ream, ruff, urea.

-4 letters: aff, amu, are, arf, arm, ear, eau, eff, emf, emu, era, far, fem, fer, feu, fur, mae, mar, ram, ref, rem, rue, rum.

-5 letters: ae, am, ar, ef, em, er, fa, ma, me, mu, re, um.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-m-r-u"
 

+1 letter: earmuffs.

 

+2 letters: creampuff.

 

+3 letters: creampuffs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Earmuff


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

45 61 72 6D 75 66 66

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)

.    .-    .-.    --    ..-    ..-.    ..-.

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

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

01000101 01100001 01110010 01101101 01110101 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#117 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0061 0072 006D 0075 0066 0066

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

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

39678479877272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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