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Definition: PARADOS |
PARADOSNoun1. An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. |
Etymology: Parados \Par`a*dos\, noun; plural Paradoses. [French expression, from parer to defend dos back, from Latin expression dorsum.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: PARADOS |
| English words defined with "PARADOS": Paradoses. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PARADOS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (unemployed). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PARADOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "PARADOS" is used about 5 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 (plural) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parados | 4 |
parados penes | 3 |
parados pezones | 2 |
culos parados | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PARADOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | spalletta (parapet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aradospay.(various references) | |
Russian | тыльный траверÑ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PARADOS": paradoses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PARADOS" (pronounced 'Par`a*dos'): Botocudos, Epanodos, Extrados, intrados, reredos. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: posada. | |
-2 letters: apods, dopas, dorps, dorsa, drops, paras, pards, praos, proas, prods, roads, sapor, sarod, spado. | |
-3 letters: ados, apod, daps, dopa, dorp, dors, drop, oars, orad, osar, pads, para, pard, pars, pods, prao, proa, prod, pros, rads, raps, rasp, road, rods, sard, soap, soar, soda, sora, sord, spar. | |
-4 letters: aas, ado, ads, ars, asp, dap, dor, dos, oar, ods, ops, ora, ors, pad, par, pas, pod, pro, rad, rap, ras, rod, sad, sap, sod, sop, spa. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ar, as, do, od, op, or, os, pa, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: adaptors, diaspora, pandoras, paradors, podagras, roadmaps. | |
+2 letters: diasporas, lapboards, paradores, paradoses, paradoxes, paradrops, paranoids, strappado, tapaderos. | |
+3 letters: clapboards, diaphorase, packboards, parasitoid, pasteboard, picofarads, radarscope, snapdragon, strappados. | |
+4 letters: aphrodisiac, camelopards, caparisoned, diaphorases, disapproval, paperboards, paraboloids, parasitoids, pasteboards, patchboards, propagandas, psychodrama, radarscopes, radiographs, rhapsodical, shadowgraph, snapdragons, splashboard, strappadoes, wraparounds. | |
+5 letters: aphrodisiacs, cardiographs, decapitators, depravations, disapprovals, endoparasite, madreporians, paddleboards, parathyroids, paratyphoids, plasterboard, postgraduate, postprandial, propagandist, psychodramas, shadowgraphs, shadowgraphy, splashboards, sporadically. | |
| 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)50 41 52 41 44 4F 53 |
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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).--. .- .-. .- -.. --- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000100 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R A D O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 0041 0044 004F 0053 |
| 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)50355235384953 |
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