Porpoise

Definition: Porpoise

Porpoise

Noun

1. Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth.

Date "porpoise" was first used: 1310. (references)

Etymology: Porpoise \Por"poise\, noun. [from Old English expression porpeys, Old French porpeis, literally, hog fish, from the Latin expression porcus swine piscis fish. See Pork, and Fish.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Porpoise

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To see a porpoise in your dreams, denotes enemies are thrusting your interest aside, through your own inability to keep people interested in you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms within Context: Porpoise

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Size	Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Porpoise

English words defined with "porpoise": Bay porpoise ♦ Delphin, Dunter ♦ harbor porpoise, herring hog ♦ ichthyosaur ♦ Pellack, Phocaena phocaena, Phocenic, Porpesse, porpoise oil, Porpus ♦ Sea hog, Sea pig, Sperm-whale porpoise. (references)

Specialty definitions using "porpoise": Fat as a Porpoise ♦ Porcus, Porpoise. (references)

Etymologies containing "porpoise": Phocenic, Porpus. (references)

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Modern Usage: Porpoise

Domain	Usage
Song Titles	Porpoise Song, The (performing artist: Monkees)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Porpoise

Domain	Title
Books	Lads Before the Wind: Adventures in Porpoise Training (reference) Math Activities With a Porpoise (reference) My Friend the Porpoise (Schneider, Jeffrey. Ocean Magic Book.) (reference) Poetry with a Porpoise (with CD) (reference) Pudgy, the Porpoise (reference) (more book examples)

Music	At the Edge of Porpoise Bay (reference) Blue Porpoise Avenue (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Porpoise

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Photo Album: Porpoise

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Indian porpoise hunters of Passamaquoddy Bay Canoe, rifle, and lance for capture of porpoise From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Passamaquoddy Bay Indians lancing and securing a porpoise From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	Plate 4. The Cowfish or Grampus. Grampus griseus (Less.) Gray. The Harbor Porpoise, or Herring Hog. Phocoena Brachycion, Cope. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Plate 5. The High-Finned Killer. Orca rectipinnis, Cope. The Skunk Porpoise or Bay Porpoise. Lagenorynchus gubernator, Cope (L. perspicillatus, Cope). Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	Photographed circa 1917-18, with Maine Central Rail Road markings on her bow. This ship was acquired by the Navy on 28 March 1918 as USS Moosehead (ID # 2047). On 11 August 1920, she was renamed Porpoise and reclassified as a ferryboat with hull number YFB-2047. Stricken on 30 December 1930, she was sold on 24 February 1931. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Porpoise

"Porpoise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.79% of the time. "Porpoise" is used about 76 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)	90.79%	69	40,280
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	6.58%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.32%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	1.32%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	76	N/A

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

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Expressions: Porpoise

Expressions using "porpoise": Bay porpoise ♦ harbor porpoise ♦ porpoise oil ♦ skunk porpoise. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "porpoise": porpoise-hide, porpoise-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Porpoise

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
porpoise	84	porpoise purple	5
cape porpoise	34	dolphin miami porpoise	4
harbor porpoise	18	between difference dolphin porpoise	3
porpoise spit	13	dall porpoise	3
cape porpoise maine	11	porpoise spectacled	3
dalls porpoise	10	porpoise super	3
porpoise picture	10	personal porpoise	3
harbour porpoise	8	porpoise song	2
dolphin porpoise	7	harbor picture porpoise	2
doo personal porpoise sea	6	bay charter porpoise	2
bay porpoise	6	porpoise bay provincial park	2
australia porpoise spit	6	porpoise photo	2
finless porpoise	6	doo porpoise sea	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Porpoise

Language		Translations for "porpoise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		derr deti, delfin (dolphin, grampus). (various references)

Arabic		‏خنزير البحر, ‏دلفين (dolphin). (various references)

Bulgarian		вид дребен кит, вид делфин (grampus, sea-pig). (various references)

Chinese		海豚. (various references)

Danish		marsvin (harbour porpoise, porpoises). (various references)

Dutch		bruinvis (harbour porpoise). (various references)

Faeroese		nísa. (various references)

Farsi		مثل (Adage, Example, Instance, Like, Maxim, Parable, Proverb), گرازماهی (Walrus), گرازدریاءی (Dolphin), خوک دریاءی . (various references)

Finnish		pyöriäinen (harbour porpoise). (various references)

French		marsouin (harbour porpoise). (various references)

German		tümmler (dolphin, tumbler, tumblers). (various references)

Greek		γουρουνόψαρο (hogfish, hogsnapper, Northern puffer, swellfish), μαρσουάνος (harbour porpoise), μαρσουίνος (harbour porpoise), φώκια (sea calf, seal), είδοσ δελφίνιου (grampus). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ולפין (dolphin). (various references)

Hungarian		delfin (dolphin). (various references)

Indonesian		ikan lumba-lumba (dolphin). (various references)

Italian		focena (harbour porpoise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� 海豚 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねずみいるか. (various references)

Korean		돌� 래 (Dolphin). (various references)

Manx		perkyn, muc varrey (rorqual, whale), garmanagh. (various references)

Maori		tuupoupou. (various references)

Pig Latin		orpoisepay

Portuguese		pórfiro (porphyry), golfinho (dolphin), boto (blunt, dolphin, dull, obtuse, tunny-fish). (various references)

Russian		морская свинья. (various references)

Scottish		cana. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		morsko prase. (various references)

Spanish		marsopa (sea hog). (various references)

Swedish		tumlare (tumbler). (various references)

Turkish		yunus ailesinden bir tür balık, domuz balığı. (various references)

Ukrainian		морська свиня. (various references)

Welsh		llamhidydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Porpoise

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cete, ceti, cetum, cetus, Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus,1758), piscis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Porpoise

Derivations
	Words beginning with "porpoise": porpoises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Porpoise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Popovici, porpoised, porpose, porpouse, porpuies, porpuise, porpuse, propolice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Porpoise"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "porpoise" (pronounced pô"rpus)
5	-ô" r p u s	corpus.
3	-p u s	campus, compass, encompass, eohippus, gyrocompass, hospice, Lupus, multipurpose, Opus, pompous, precipice, purpose, tapas.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Porpoise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-o-o-p-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: opposer, propose, soppier.
	-2 letters: oppose, pipers, poiser, pooris, popsie, porose, sipper.
	-3 letters: oorie, osier, pepos, peris, perps, piers, piper, pipes, poise, poops, poori, popes, pores, poser, preps, pries, prise, props, prose, proso, repos, repps, ripes, roose, ropes, sopor, speir, spier, spire, spoor, spore.
	-4 letters: epos, eros, ires, oops, opes, ores, pepo, peps, peri, perp.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-o-o-p-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: porpoises.
	+2 letters: apospories, oppression, pereiopods, propolises, reopposing.
	+3 letters: hippodromes, oppressions, philosopher, phosphorite, polariscope, preportions, preposition, propionates, proprietors.
	+4 letters: apomorphines, apostrophise, apostrophize, coprophagies, coprosperity, lipoproteins, nonpurposive, papyrologies, philosophers, phosphorites, photocopiers, photoperiods, photospheric, pleiotropies, pleomorphism, polariscopes, prepositions, prosopopoeia, reapportions, siphonophore, topographies, tropospheric.
	+5 letters: apostrophised, apostrophises, apostrophized, apostrophizes, cephalosporin, coproprietors, expropriators, laparoscopies, lepidopterous, leptospiroses, leptospirosis, opportunities, paedomorphism, philosophizer, phonographies, photographies, pleomorphisms, pornographies, postoperative, prepositional, prepossession, professorship, propositioned, prosopopoeias, protectorship, prototrophies, pseudomorphic, pyromorphites, repopulations, siphonophores, spectroscopic, sporopollenin, superposition, suppositories.
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