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Definition: Porc |
PorcNoun1. Meat from a domestic hog or pig. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PORC | English | Puppets Orchestrated in Real time by Computer | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PorcSynonym: pork (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Porc |
| Specialty definitions using "porc": clay thrower ♦ DECAL APPLIER, decal transferrer, design transferrer ♦ fettler, filler-in tinter ♦ handle sticker ♦ jigger operator ♦ kiln maintenance laborer, KILN WORKER ♦ MODEL MAKER ♦ PAINTER, HAND, pot maker, POTTERY-MACHINE OPERATOR, print applier ♦ SUPERVISOR, DECORATING ♦ TOOL FILER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "porc": Porket. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Porc" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (hog, pig, swine), French (hog, pig, pork, swine), French Canadian (pork), Hungarian (cartilage), Romanian (boar, grunter, hog, pig, swine). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Le chirurgien nègre ; Boutique d'un marchand de viande de porc / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succ. de Engelmann. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Porc" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Porc" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
porc | 95 | marinade porc pour | 3 |
de nutrition porc | 38 | de porc roti | 3 |
de filet porc | 14 | de porc travers | 3 |
du porc quebec | 8 | de porc rôti | 3 |
porc recettes | 7 | de filet porc recette | 3 |
fix porc | 7 | du porc québec | 2 |
epic porc | 6 | 3 omega porc | 2 |
de porc recette | 5 | du le porc québec | 2 |
porc recette | 4 | de porc recettes | 2 |
porc épic | 4 | cotelettes de porc recettes | 2 |
porc rillettes | 4 | cotelette de porc | 2 |
du le porc quebec | 4 | fix.com porc | 2 |
le porc | 3 | de filets porc | 2 |
barbecue de filet porc | 3 | ||
de filets porc | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "porc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | foliepakkede svinekødsretter (foil sealed porc dishes). (various references) | ||||
French | viande de porc. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | orcpay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "porc": porcelain, porcelainize, porcelainized, porcelainizes, porcelainizing, porcelainlike, porcelains, porcelaneous, porcellaneous, porch, porches, porcine, porcini, porcino, porcupine, porcupines. (additional references) | |
Words containing "porc": semiporcelain, semiporcelains, sunporch, sunporches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crop. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: cop, cor, orc, pro, roc. | |
-2 letters: op, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: coper, copra, corps, crops, croup, porch. | |
+2 letters: captor, carhop, cartop, cooper, copers, copier, copper, coppra, coprah, copras, copter, corpse, corpus, crepon, croupe, croups, croupy, crypto, orphic, picaro, recopy, recoup, scroop, tropic. | |
+3 letters: apocarp, apricot, aprotic, caltrop, camphor, caporal, caprock, captors, carhops, carpool, carport, charpoy, chomper, chopper, compare, compart, compeer, compere, comport, coopers, coopery, copiers, coppers, coppery, coppras, coprahs, copters, copular, corpora, corpses, corrupt, coupler, coverup, crampon, crepons, cropped, cropper, croppie, croupes, cryptos, cuprous, exocarp, forceps, meropic, morphic, outcrop, parodic, parotic, peloric, percoid, pibroch, picador, picaros, poacher, pochard, pockier, popcorn, porches, porcine, porcini, porcino, porrect, portico, pouncer, precode, precook, precool, precoup, prerock, princox, procarp, proceed, process, proctor, procure, produce, product, project, prosaic, prosect, protect, pyloric, recoupe, recoups, ripcord, scooper, scroops, trophic, tropics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01101111 01110010 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 0063 |
| 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)50818469 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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