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Definition: Swatch |
SwatchNoun1. A sample piece of cloth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Swatch \Swatch\, noun. 1. A swath. [Obsolete]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A sample sheet of decorative veneer, generally 3ft(0. 9m)long and the full width of the flitch, and generally taken near its centre so as to represent truly the colour, texture and other characteristics of the flitch. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A collection of samples. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Swatch is a Swiss brand of watches.The first collection of 12 Swatch models was introduced on March 1, 1983 in Zurich, Switzerland. Initially the price ranged from CHF 39.90 to CHF 49.90 but was standardized to CHF 50.- in autumn of the same year. Sales targets were set to 1 million timepieces for 1983 and 2.5 million the year after. With an aggressive marketing campaign and a very resonable price for a Swiss made watch, it gained instant popularity in its home market. Compared to conventional watches a Swatch was 80% cheaper to produce by fully automating assembly and reducing the parts from a usual 91 or more to only 51 components.
In 1994, Swatch entered into a joint venture to produce the Smart car, but later withdrew.
Swatches enjoyed their peak popularity in the US during the mid-1990s, when a series of "Swatch Stores" were founded for the express purpose of selling Swatches. The Swatch Stores folded when the American economy experienced a downturn in the early 2000s.
In 1998, Swatch invented "Swatch Internet Time", which they intended to be used as a global timesystem.
External links
- Swatch website
- Internettime website
- The Real Story Behind Swatch by Jack Freedman
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Swatch."
Crosswords: Swatch |
| Specialty definitions using "swatch": ELECTRIFIER OPERATOR ♦ hummer operator ♦ Pantone, patch developer, PATCH WASHER ♦ SAMPLE CHECKER, SAMPLE CUTTER, sample dyer, sample steamer, SCREEN-PRINTING-EQUIPMENT SETTER, SUPERVISOR, COLOR-PASTE MIXING, SWATCH CLERK ♦ WALLPAPER INSPECTOR AND SHIPPER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Swatch" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (swatch), Portuguese (swatch). |
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| "Swatch macro shot" by Harry De Bruijn Commentary: "This is a macroshot of a Swatch. ." | "Swatch" by Simon Cataudo Commentary: "Colour swatch shots. Taken 27 November 2003." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | These include Swatch, Clinique, Baskin-Robbins, KFC, Texas Chicken, Jollibee (of the Philippines), and Lotteria (of Japan). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Swatch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Swatch" is used about 45 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) | 73.33% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.22% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Switzerland | The Swatch Group of Switzerland |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "swatch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shembull pëlhure. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, ideal, mirror, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, sample, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, type), мостра (exhibit, pattern, sample, scantling, show card, specimen, standard). (various references) | |
Danish | swatch, finerproeve. (various references) | |
Dutch | fineermonster. (various references) | |
French | swatch, coupon, échantillon. (various references) | |
German | Swatch. (various references) | |
Greek | δείγμα υφάσματοσ, δείγμα (handout, sample, specimen, token). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דוגמת אריג. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szövetdarab, mintadarab (mock up, mock-up, sample, specimen). (various references) | |
Italian | swatch, campione di tranciato, campione di stoffa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atchsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | swatch, amostra de folha. (various references) | |
Russian | образчик ткани, образчик (pattern, scantling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzorak (model, pattern, sample, scantling, specimen), mustra (pattern, sample). (various references) | |
Spanish | swatch, muestra de tela, muestra (demonstration, gesture, indication, model, paragons, pattern, piece, point, sample, sampling, sign, specimen, taste, token). (various references) | |
Swedish | fanerprov. (various references) | |
Turkish | parça kumaş (cut, piece goods, remnant), kumaş örneği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зразок (archetype, assay, cast, example, exemplar, exponent, model, nonesuch, norm, number, paragon, pattern, sample, sampler, specimen). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swatch": swatches. (additional references) | |
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"Swatch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saaach, satch, spatch, swact, swanch, swilch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swatch" (pronounced swÄ"kh) |
| 3 | -w Ä" kh | watch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: chats, chaws, schwa, swath, tachs, thaws, watch, whats. | |
-2 letters: acts, cash, cast, cats, caws, chat, chaw, hast, hats, haws, scat, shaw, staw, swat, tach, taws, thaw, twas, wash, wast, wats, what. | |
-3 letters: act, ash, cat, caw, has, hat, haw, sac, sat, saw, sha, tas, taw, twa, was, wat, wha. | |
-4 letters: ah, as, at, aw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: thwacks, watches, wauchts. | |
+2 letters: swatches, watchers. | |
+3 letters: hatchways, stopwatch, switchman, thwackers, washcloth, watchcase, watchdogs, watcheyes, watchouts, whackiest, whinchats, whitecaps, whitracks, woodchats. | |
+4 letters: buckwheats, cartwheels, catchwords, dogwatches, flowcharts, matchwoods, midwatches, outwatches, patchworks, switchable, switchback, switchyard, throwbacks, washcloths, watchables, watchbands, watchcases, watchcries, watchwords, whitefaces, witchgrass, wristwatch. | |
+5 letters: cowcatchers, crashworthy, stopwatches, switchbacks, switchblade, switchboard, switchgrass, switchyards, watchmakers, watchtowers, weathercast, witchcrafts. | |
| 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. | |
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