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Definition: Jaeger |
JaegerNoun1. Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jaeger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | JAEGER, Doctor Gustav, claimed his underwear kept him warm. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Jääkari/Jägare are the Finnish/Swedish name of Finnish Jaeger troops.
Jägers is also the name of elite troops of light infantry, originally a Prussian invention, see: Jaegers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jaeger."
Crosswords: Jaeger |
| English words defined with "jaeger": arctic skua ♦ bonxie ♦ coastal diving bird ♦ parasitic jaeger ♦ skua, Stercorarius parasiticus. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Abraham Jacobi] Doris Jaeger. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Surgical Instruments and Apparatus] : Jaeger operating chair, 1858. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Howard A. Kelly] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Doris Jaeger.. |  | Dr. G. Jaeger. / Lith. F. Schorr. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Dr. Michael Jaeger. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | C. C. F. v. Jaeger. : O. Med. R. König Würtemb Leibarzt. / Stirnbrand p. C. Müller del. G. Küstner lithogr. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Louis Jaeger & Sons' new location, Front Street, Greenport, L.I., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Jaeger" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "Jaeger" 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 58.82% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 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 "jaeger" 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 |
| Jaeger | Last name | 4,000 | 3,326 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "jaeger": parasitic jaeger. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "jaeger": jaeger-style. | |
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| 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 "jaeger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | егерова тъкан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mořský pták. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mellemkjove (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), lille kjove (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger), almindelig kjove (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | middelste jager (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), kleinste jager (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger), kleine jager (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مردشکارچی , علاقمندبه شکار, شکارچی (Gunner, Hunter, Woodman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stercoraire pomarin (Usa: pomarine jaeger), stercoraire longicaude (Usa: long-tailed jaeger), labbe pomarin (Usa: pomarine jaeger), labbe parasite (Usa: parasitic jaeger), labbe longue queue (Usa: long-tailed jaeger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spatelraubmöwe (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), Schmarotzerraubmöwe (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger), mittlere Raubmöwe (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), kleine Raubmöwe (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπαθοληστόγλαρος (pomarine skua), γερακοληστόγλαρος (long tailed skua), μικροληστόγλαρος (arctic skua). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vadász (carabinieer, carabinier, chaser, gun, gunner, Hunter, pricker, shooter, tracker, woodsman, woodsmen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stercorario mezzano (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), labbo codalunga (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger), labbo (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aegerjay moleiro-de-cauda-comprida (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger), moleiro pomarino (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), moleiro parasítico (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger). (various references) егеровская ткань. (various references) strelac (archer, bowman, fusilier, marksman, rifleman, sagittarius, shooter, skirmisher, tirailleur). (various references) págalo rabero (long-tailed skua, Usa: long-tailed jaeger), págalo pomarino (pomarine skua, Usa: pomarine jaeger), págalo parásito (arctic skua, Usa: parasitic jaeger). (various references) yünlü bir kumaş. (various references) vải len jêgơ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jaeger": jaegers. (additional references) | |
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"Jaeger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Habegger, jaegar, Jenever, Jerger, Joezer, Saeger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jaeger" (pronounced ye"ger) |
| 3 | -e" g er | beggar, Egger. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-j-r" | |
-1 letter: agree, eager, eagre, jager, ragee. | |
-2 letters: agee, ager, ajee, eger, gear, gree, jeer, rage. | |
-3 letters: age, are, ear, era, ere, erg, gae, gar, gee, jag, jar, jee, rag, raj, ree, reg. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-j-r" | |
+1 letter: jaegers. | |
+2 letters: jaggeder. | |
+3 letters: jaggeries. | |
+4 letters: jaggheries. | |
+5 letters: megaproject, rejacketing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 65 67 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- .- . --. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100101 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a e g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0065 0067 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)446771737184 |
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