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Definition: Frisbee |
FrisbeeNoun1. (trademark) a light plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; sailed with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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While the word Frisbee is claimed as a trademark of the Wham-O toy company, the term is often used generically to describe flying discs similar to those made by that company. They are generally plastic, roughly 8 to 10 inches (20-25 cm) in diameter, with a lip. They are designed to fly aerodynamically when thrown with rotation and can be caught by hand.
The shape and quality of frisbees varies significantly, a high quality frisbee easily flies several times as far as a cheap frisbee. Disc golf disks are usually smaller in diameter but more dense and are tailored for particular flight profiles such as stability or distance. When it was discovered that dogs enjoyed chasing and retrieving the slow moving discs, special frisbees were eventually designed with more pliable material that would more resistant to damage when the dog caught one in its mouth.
Many frisbee-like discs are shaped like a frisbee with a large hole in the centre, such discs known as aerofoils typically fly significantly farther.
The Flyin-Saucer, originally invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and codeveloped and financed by Warren Franscioni in 1948, was unsuccessful, but a later model made by Morrison in 1955 and sold as the "Pluto Platter" was bought by Wham-O in 1957. Wham-O renamed the toy in 1958 to "Frisbee", a (probably deliberate) misspelling of the name of the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, whose pie tins had been used by college students in the area for similar purposes. The first flying disks were produced on January 13, 1957.
Upon his death, Morrison was cremated and his ashes turned into Frisbees.
Frisbee Games
- Ultimate frisbee
- Guts frisbee
- Disc golf
- Durango Boot
- DDC Frisbee
Other
- Frisbeetarianism
- Frisbee, about.com
- Frisbee, A Practitioner's Manual and Definitive Treatise Stancil E.D. Johnson, M.D. Workman Publishing Company, New York (July, 1975) ISBN 0-911104-53-4
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frisbee."
Crosswords: Frisbee |
| English words defined with "Frisbee": ultimate frisbee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Frisbee": Bloody nipple ♦ Tipped it. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Frisbee" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (frisbee). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I threw him like a frisbee (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Antarctic beach party. Football, frisbee, and baseball below the Antarctic Circle. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Happy Face Frisbee" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A discarded happy face frisbee lays on the grass. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ." |
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| "Frisbee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Frisbee" is used about 24 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) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Frisbee" 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 |
| Frisbee | Last name | 1,000 | 9,969 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Frisbee": frisbee finger ♦ ultimate frisbee. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Frisbee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 飞碟 (UFO), 飛盤 . (various references) | |
Hungarian | repülőtányér. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, Fleet Street, flicker, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-hand, free-lancer, fricassee, friction, Friedman, frigate, frigidity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フリスビー . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isbeefray.(various references) | |
Swedish | frisbee. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Frisbee": frisbees. (additional references) | |
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"Frisbee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brisby, Farnsby, Firsby, freesbee, frisbe, frisby, Frizbee, Reysbye, Risbey, Risby. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: briefs, fibers, fibres, frisee. | |
-2 letters: beefs, beers, biers, birse, brees, brief, bries, feres, fiber, fibre, fires, frees, fries, frise, reefs, reifs, ribes, serif, siree. | |
-3 letters: beef, beer, bees, bier, bise, bree, brie, bris, fees, fere, fibs, fire, firs, free, ires, rebs, reef, rees, refs, reif, reis, ribs, rife, rifs, rise, seer, seif, sere. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-f-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: belfries, briefers, briefest, debriefs, firebase, freebies, frisbees. | |
+2 letters: balefires, befingers, befriends, befringes, briefcase, briefless, briefness, fiberizes, firebases, fireboxes, verbifies. | |
+3 letters: benefiters, briefcases, febrifuges, fiberscope, firebreaks, forebodies, freebasing. | |
+4 letters: beautifiers, briefnesses, butterflies, debriefings, fiberscopes, fireballers, refurbished, refurbisher, refurbishes, subfreezing, umbellifers, wolfberries. | |
+5 letters: buffooneries, butterfishes, defibrinates, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, filibustered, filibusterer, forcibleness, insufferable, refurbishers, rubefacients. | |
| 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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