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Definition: Homestretch |
HomestretchNoun1. (informal) the end of an enterprise; "they were on the homestretch when the computer crashed". 2. The straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homestretch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Homestretch (1947) | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the homestretch | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homestretch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjesë e fundit e korsisë, fazë finale. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | финална линия. (various references) | |
Finnish | loppusuora. (various references) | |
Italian | dirittura d'arrivo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホーミング魚雷 (family doctor, family physician, get home, goal reached, HA, hall, Hands up!, HI, hold, Hold up!, holding, hole, hole in one, hole out, Holmes, home, home automation, home banking, home bar, home comedy, home cooking, home drama, home economics, home electronics, home freezing, home game, home ground, home helper, home improvement, home page, home plate, home reservation, home run, home run derby, home security system, home shopping, home team, home terminal, home trade, home-directory, homemade, homemaker, homeroom, homesick, homespun, homestay, homework, homing torpedo, horn, house dress, party, plain dress for everyday wear, platform, service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments, soap opera, stealing home in baseball, wheel, wheel cap, whip, whipped cream, whistle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホームストレッチ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omestretchhay.(various references) | |
Russian | финишная прямая. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | završna faza, ravna strana pred ciljem. (various references) | |
Turkish | son düzlük, son aşama. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homestretch": homestretches. (additional references) | |
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"Homestretch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hemeistert, homestrech, homestrecht. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-m-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: ectotherms. | |
-2 letters: comethers, ectotherm, thermoset. | |
-3 letters: comether, remotest, theorems, trochees. | |
-4 letters: cermets, cheeros, chromes, coheres, cotters, echoers, emoters, etchers, hectors, heteros, hotches, meteors, mothers, rechose, remotes, retches, rochets, rosette, rotches, schemer, schmeer, smother, stretch, tercets, tethers, theorem, thereto, thermes, thermos, tochers, torches, trochee, troches. | |
-5 letters: cermet, certes, cheero, cheers, chemos, cherts, cheths, chores, chotts, chrome. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-m-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: homestretches, thermochemist. | |
+3 letters: chemotherapist, chrestomathies, thermochemists. | |
+4 letters: chemotherapists, thermochemistry. | |
+5 letters: heterochromatins, histochemistries, photochemistries, phytochemistries. | |
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