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| Domain | Definition |
Military & Defense | A designated area in a hostile or threatened territory which, when seized and held, ensures the continuous air landing of troops and material and provides the manoeuvre space necessary for projected operations. Normally it is the area seized in the assault phase of an airborne operation 2. a designated location in an area of operations used as a base for supply and evacuation by air. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AIRHEAD |
| Specialty definitions using "AIRHEAD": bolthole. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lesbian, airhead, ballbuster, whichever one of these disgusts you the most, take your pick. (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander) I can't believe you're encouraging your daughter to join the Airhead Squad. (8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; writing credit: Stig Blyme; Lars Ellegaard) | |
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| "AIRHEAD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "AIRHEAD" is used about 14 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 (proper) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | 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 |
airhead | 40 |
airhead bmw | 8 |
airhead candy | 6 |
airhead tube | 6 |
airhead total | 4 |
airhead force g | 4 |
airhead rip | 4 |
airhead slice | 3 |
airbrush airhead | 3 |
airhead hockey | 3 |
airhead slash | 3 |
airhead towables | 3 |
airhead bmw part | 2 |
airhead slide | 2 |
airhead ii rip | 2 |
airhead ii slash | 2 |
headroom airhead | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AIRHEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | Légi Hídfõ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | あの方 (ah, ambiguous, cartoon character, contrary, farewell, fool, frankly, good-bye, he, inverse, kind of cookie, oaf, oh, opposite, saw-edged perch, she, that gentleman, to dandle, to fail in getting a job, uncertain, vague), アート紙 (almond, amen, arbiter, arbitration, arm, arm warmer, armchair, armlet, armor, army, army blue, army look, art paper, coated paper, dumb woman, Early American, evening, urban, urban design, urban life, urban renewal, urban sprawl, urbanity). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あほ" ら (fool, oaf), アーパー (dumb woman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 공두보. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | airheaday плацдарм для воздушного десанта. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AIRHEAD": airheaded, airheads. (additional references) | |
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"AIRHEAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airea, airread, airshed, Aughfad, Ayeshea, Ayurveda, Fairhead, Saighead. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AIRHEAD" (pronounced e"rhe'd) |
| 4 | -r h e' d | spearhead, warhead. |
| 3 | -h e' d | arrowhead, beachhead, bridgehead, bulkhead, bullhead, copperhead, Deadhead, dragonhead, drumhead, egghead, figurehead, flathead, Godhead, hardhead, letterhead, Loggerhead, masthead, redhead, skinhead, steelhead, thickhead, trailhead, wellhead, Whitehead. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-r" | |
-1 letter: haired. | |
-2 letters: aahed, ahead, aider, aired, deair, hared, heard, hider, hired, irade, redia. | |
-3 letters: aide, area, aria, arid, dare, dear, dire, haar, hade, haed, hair, hard, hare, head, hear, heir, herd, hide, hied, hire, idea, ired, raia, raid, read, rhea, ride. | |
-4 letters: aah, aha, aid, air, are, dah, die, ear, edh, era, had, hae. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-r" | |
+1 letter: airheads, diarrhea, railhead. | |
+2 letters: airheaded, apartheid, archaised, archaized, diarrheal, diarrheas, diarrhoea, railheads, trailhead. | |
+3 letters: antheridia, apartheids, brachiated, chairmaned, charladies, diaphorase, diarrhoeas, headachier, headwaiter, icosahedra, maidenhair, rainwashed, saccharide, trailheads. | |
+4 letters: antheridial, brainwashed, cantharides, chairmanned, chambermaid, diaphorases, exhilarated, hairbreadth, handicapper, harebrained, headwaiters, hydralazine, icosahedral, maidenhairs, saccharides. | |
+5 letters: achromatized, archdiocesan, chambermaids, disaccharide, fainthearted, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, handicappers, handicrafter, harlequinade, heraldically, hereditarian, holidaymaker, hydralazines, multiwarhead, radiographed, radiotherapy, saccharified, spearheading, withdrawable. | |
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