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Definitions: Scull |
ScullNoun1. A long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward. 2. One of a pair of short-handled oars. 3. A racing shell propelled by one or two oarsmen pulling two oars. Verb1. Propel (a boat) with skulls. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | SCULL. A head of a house, or master of a college, at the universities. SCULL, or SCULLER. A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
SCULL | English | Serial Communication Unit for Long Links | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intellect | Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, |
Navigation | Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scull |
| English words defined with "scull": Sculled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scull": OLIVER'S SCULL ♦ PAPER SCULL ♦ SCULL THATCHER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I could crush your scull - like a nut - but I'm not going to - because I need you. (The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew; writing credit: Rick Moranis; Dave Thomas) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mr. Frank Barnett and his son. Negro farmer near Scull Shoals who is part Cherokee Indian. Greene County, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Scull Shoals (vicinity), Greene County, Georgia. Farmer Frank Barnett and his sons with their team of oxen. They are part Negro and part Cherokee Indian.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The remains of an old cotton mill at Scull Shoals. Greene County, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Scull" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Scull" is used about 17 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "scull" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Scull | Last name | 1,000 | 9,285 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "scull": fracture of the base of the scull ♦ single scull. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scull": scull-duggery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
scull | 65 |
rowing scull | 14 |
boat scull | 9 |
bones scull | 9 |
cow scull | 9 |
scull cap | 8 |
picture scull | 5 |
scull tattoo | 4 |
scull and crossbones | 4 |
bones cross scull | 4 |
pic scull | 4 |
bull scull | 3 |
human scull | 3 |
crosse scull | 3 |
scull tatoophotos | 3 |
art scull | 2 |
robert scull | 2 |
drake scull | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scull"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrem tek, purtekë (perch, pole, rod, roost), lopatë (shovel, spade, vane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجداف خلفي, تجديف مجدافين, سير مركبا بمجذاف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | arraun (oar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скул, карам лодка с весла, весло (oar), малка гребна лодка, лодка с весла (sculler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 短桨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veslovat párovým veslem, krátké veslo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stoebningsrest, vrikkeaare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wrikriem, achtergebleven glasrest in de scheplepel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاروی عقب کشتی , پاروزدن (Oar, Paddle, Row). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuupparästi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | godille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rudern (boating, oars, paddle, pull, row, rowing, to row, to scull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κωπή (oar), στράγγισμα (dewatering, drainage, wring), μικρή λέμβοσ, πρυμναία κώπη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משוט (oar, paddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | evezõlapát (oar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vogare a bratto, residuo del cucchiaio, bratto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 橈 (oar, paddle), 櫂 (oar, paddle), スカッシング関数 (scalar, scallop, scalp treatment, scampi, scandium, Scaramouche, scatology, scholarship, sculpture, skiing, skunk, squashing function). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth), スカル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스컬. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scolley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | rem (oar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullscay resíduo da concha, remo leve e curto, ginga, catraia. (various references) ялик (dingey, dinghy, funny, skiff, wherry, yawl), кормовое весло. (various references) skif (skiff), veslo (oar, paddle), veslati (paddle, pull, row, wave), krmeno veslo. (various references) remo (oar, paddle, rowing), remar (pull, row), impulsar con el remo, fondo del cazo, espadilla (swingle), barco de remo (sculler). (various references) vickåra, ro (oar, peace, pull, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, Romania, row, tranquility, tranquillity). (various references) เรือกรรเชียง, การกรรเชียงเรือ, กรรเชียงเ"ี่ยวที่หางเรือ, กรรเชียง. (various references) kürek çekmek (go boating, oar, paddle, pull, pull oar, row, tub), kürek (hard labor, hard labour, oar, scoop, shovel, spade), boyna kürekli bot (sculler), boyna küreği, boyna etmek. (various references) кормове весло, гребти кормовим веслом, гребти парними веслами, веслування (oarage, rowing), парне весло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scull": sculled, sculler, sculleries, scullers, scullery, sculling, scullion, scullions, sculls. (additional references) | |
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"Scull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scalz, Sceli, scell, schul, schull, scioll, scol, Scoli, scoll, Scollo, scoul, scrul, scul, sculi, scully, scult, Scuole, seuill, shull, skol, skoll, skul, skulle, skulu, squl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scull" (pronounced sku"l) |
| 4 | s k u" l | skull. |
| 3 | -k u" l | cull. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: culls. | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cull. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: callus, cullis, sculls, sulcal. | |
+2 letters: callous, clausal, cullays, cullers, cullets, cullies, locules, loculus, mollusc, ocellus, sculled, sculler, subcell. | |
+3 letters: bacillus, bullaces, bullocks, calculus, callused, calluses, casually, causally, cellules, chillums, clueless, clumsily, colludes, columels, crullers, cullions, cullises, halluces, locustal, luckless, molluscs, mullocks, nucellus, occlusal, scullers, scullery, sculling, scullion, scutella, silicula, skullcap, subcells. | |
+4 letters: brucellas, bullnecks, calculous, calloused, callouses, callously, callusing, calyculus, caudillos, caulicles, cellulase, cellulose, claustral, closetful, cloudless, cloudlets, clubhauls, collogues, colluders, collusion, collusive, coquilles, cruellest, cultishly, cupellers, duckbills, floccules, flocculus, fullbacks, fullfaces, lodicules, molecules, molluscan, musically, nucleoles, nucleolus, pullbacks, scullions, scungilli, scutellar, scutellum, secularly, siliculae, siliculas, skullcaps, slouchily, subcellar, wellcurbs. | |
+5 letters: alliaceous, buckyballs, calculates, calculuses, calendulas, callousing, cancellous, cellulases, cellulites, cellulitis, celluloids, celluloses, cellulosic, churlishly, cliquishly, closetfuls, cloudlands, colleagues, collegiums, colloquies, colloquist, collusions, colluviums, collyriums, counselled, counsellor, cuadrillas, cullenders, curveballs, fallacious, guilloches, hellacious, lackluster, lenticules, leucoplast, lusciously, milliluces, muscularly, portcullis, punchballs, quillbacks, rustically, satchelful, scornfully, sculleries, sculptural, scungillis, scutellate, secludedly, sepulchral, specularly, subcellars, subcollege, subglacial, subvocally, suicidally, surgically, ultraslick, umbilicals, unscalable, unsocially. | |
| 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)53 63 75 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. ..- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c u l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0075 006C 006C |
| 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)5369877878 |
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