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Definition: Scallop |
ScallopNoun1. One of a series of rounded teeth formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth etc.). 2. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces. 3. Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled. 4. Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions. Verb1. Decorate an edge with scallops, as of a dress. 2. Form scallops in. 3. Fish for scallops. 4. Shape or cut in scallops, as of the edge of a garment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scallop" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | SCALLOP A medium-level language for CDC computers, used to bootstrap the first Pascal compiler. (1994-11-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Industry | Curves or indentations along the edge of the lace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Eng. To cut or break off the sides of a heading without holing or using powder. b. Eng. To get or hew coal off the face c. One of a mosaic of small shallow intersecting hollows formed on the surface of soluble rock by turbulent dissolution. They are steeper on the upstream side, and smaller sizes are formed by faster-flowing water.Syn:flute; solution ripple. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A scallop is a type of shellfish widely used in both Eastern and Western cooking. Characterised by two types of meat in one shell: the scallop (white, meaty) and its coral (orange, soft) which is its roe. Dried scallop is known in Oriental cuisine as conpoy.
Scalloped edges or ridges refers to a wavy pattern reminiscent of the edge of a scallop's shell.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scallop."
Synonyms: ScallopSynonyms: crenation (n), cutlet (n), escallop (n), scollop (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross). |
Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone. | |
Notch | Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke. |
Embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scallop |
| English words defined with "scallop": bay scallop ♦ coquille, coquilles Saint-Jacques ♦ Escalop ♦ giant scallop ♦ Pecten, Pecten irradians, Pecten magellanicus ♦ Saint James's shell, scallop shell, Scalloped oysters, Scalloping, sea scallop ♦ Zebra parrakeet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scallop": Apostles ♦ PROFILE-SAW OPERATOR ♦ Shells. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scallop": Escalop. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The O'Neil fleet of scallop dredgers. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Independent scallop dredgers at Seaford Scallop Company. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Billy Wells' scallop dredgers tied up at the Seaford Scallop Company pier. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A bay scallop in its natural habitat, eelgrass or Zostera marina. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Crushed lobster left in the path of a scallop drag. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Gravel-cobble bottom off Maine coast is favored scallop ground. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Bamboo oyster-culture rafts for Japanese oyster Crassotrea gigas. Ca. 1972. Scallop shell used for cultch for suspended oyster culture. Lines of shells called ren and are suspended from the bamboo rafts. Credit: Small World. |  | Scallop, acorn, and yellow straightneck squash. Credit: USDA. |
 | Closeup of a variety of squash, butternut, zucchini, scallop, acorn, and yellow straightneck. Credit: USDA. | ||
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| "Lonely seashell" by Jim Robinson Commentary: "Isolated scallop shell at sunrise with minor brightness/contrast adjustments. ** if you download, please leave a comment, I would love to know what I'm doing right or wrong. I'm new at this photog thing." |
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| "Scallop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Scallop" is used about 40 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) | 87.5% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scallop": bay scallop ♦ giant scallop ♦ scallop parrot ♦ scallop shell ♦ sea scallop. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scallop": scallop-shape, scallop-shaped, scallop-shell. | |
| 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 "scallop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbukuroj me fiston, pjek me guaskë, gocë deti (mollusc, mollusk, oyster, scollop, shellfish), fiston (scallops). (various references) | |
Arabic | سرطان البحر (lobster), صدفة (accident, accidentally, at a venture, chance, coincidence, contingency, haphazard, happening, incidentally, seashell, shell), الأسقلوب محار مروحي الشكل, إكليل (corona, crown, tiara, trophy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съд във форма на раковина, раковина (carapace, cockle, cockleshell, conch, shell, valve), фестонирам, кръгла раковина (scallop shell, scollop), готвя във раковина, вид мида (gaper, limpet, scollop). (various references) | |
Chamorro | lapbla. (various references) | |
Chinese | 扇贝. (various references) | |
Czech | zoubkování (serration), zapékat, lastura (seashell, shell), hřebenatka (scollop), gratinovat. (various references) | |
Danish | kæmpekammusling (common scallop, coquille St-Jacques), hundemusling (comb shell, dog cockle, little neck, mottled combshell, orbicular ark), en art kammusling (bay scallop, common scallop, coquille St.Jacques). (various references) | |
Dutch | Sint-Jacobsschelp (common scallop, coquille St.Jacques, coquille St-Jacques), schulp, vormaad, kamschelp (bay scallop, comb shell, dog cockle, little neck), grote mantelschelp (common scallop, coquille St.Jacques, coquille St-Jacques), gewelfde zijkant, amande (comb shell, dog cockle, little neck). (various references) | |
Farsi | پختن (Bake, Concoct, Cook, Grill, Hatch, Shirr), گوش ماهی , حلزون گرفتن , دوختن لبه تزءینی بلباس . (various references) | |
Finnish | simpukka (clam, mussel), samettisimpukka (comb shell, dog cockle, little neck), kierre (spin, thread, twist, worm), köynnöskoristeinen reuna, isokampasimpukka (common scallop, coquille St-Jacques). (various references) | |
French | coquille saint-jacques (common scallop). (various references) | |
German | Kammuschel, Feston (festoon). (various references) | |
Greek | χτένι (scollop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | slingelés, vékony szelet kicsontozott hús, kagylóhéjban süt (to scallop), kagylóhéj (clam-shell, conch, seashell, valve), kagyló (barnacle, clam, cockle, mussel, seashell, shell), hornyolás (channelling, furrow), fajansz kagyló, fésûkagyló (scollop), fésűkagyló héja (scallop-shell), fésűkagyló, díszítő kivágás, csipkézés, cocotte, cakkozás, cakk (teeth, tooth). (various references) | |
Italian | dentellatura (dentation, indent, indentation, indenture). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 海扇 , 板屋貝 , スカッシング関数 (scalar, scalp treatment, scampi, scandium, Scaramouche, scatology, scholarship, scull, sculpture, skiing, skunk, squashing function), 帆立貝 , 帆立貝 , 帆立 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほたてがい, ほたて, いたやがい, スカラップ . (various references) | |
Korean | 가리비. (various references) | |
Manx | scolb (shiver, sliver), roagan (clam, escallop, intricacy), giarrey ayns camogeyn, craghan, camoge. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allopscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vieira (scollop). (various references) | |
Russian | гребешок (comb, crest, escallop, scollop). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reckav rub, pripremiti u tiganju, mala trava, izreckati ivice, školjka kapica. (various references) | |
Spanish | guisar al gratén (scollop), festón (festoon, scollop). (various references) | |
Swedish | kammussla (scollop). (various references) | |
Turkish | tarak kabuğunda fırınlamak, tarak kabuğu şeklinde yapmak, tarak kabuğu (cockle, cockleshell, scallop shell, scollop), tarak (card, comb, drag, dredger, scollop), deniz kabuğu şeklinde süslemek, deniz kabuğu şeklinde desen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стулчаста черепашка (scollop), фестон (festoon, scollop), гребінець (crest, raker, scollop), гостра страва з устриць (scollop), вирізувати зубці (scollop), зубець (beak, beard, claw, cog, indentation, merlon, prong, scollop, serration, serrature, tine, tooth), запікати у черепашці (scollop), патисон (scollop). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Glycymeris glycymeris, Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus,1767), Pecten maximus, Pecten maximus (Linnaeus,1758), Pectunculus glycymeris. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | escalope. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scallop": scalloped, scalloper, scallopers, scalloping, scallopini, scallopinis, scallops. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "scallop": escallop. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scallop": escalloped, escalloping, escallops. (additional references) | |
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"Scallop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callop, Scalco, scalop, sceolon, schloomp, Scollo, Scolopax, shallop, swallop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scallop" (pronounced ska"lup) |
| 4 | -a" l u p | gallop. |
| 3 | -l u p | develop, dollop, envelop, fillip, Julep, polyp, redevelop, tulip, wallop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: copals, locals. | |
-2 letters: calls, calos, capos, claps, clasp, clops, coals, colas, copal, local, ollas, opals, palls, polls, salol, scall, scalp, spall. | |
-3 letters: alls, alps, also, call, calo, capo, caps, clap, clop, coal, cola, cols, cops, lacs, laps, loca, lops, ocas, olla, opal, pacs, pall, pals, poll, pols, sall, salp, scop, slap, slop, soap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: collapse, escallop, pollacks, scallops. | |
+2 letters: calliopes, collapsed, collapses, escallops, scalloped, scalloper. | |
+3 letters: blackpolls, catchpolls, codswallop, collapsing, escalloped, kilopascal, leucoplast, pillowcase, scallopers, scalloping, scallopini. | |
+4 letters: callipygous, cellophanes, chloroplast, cladophylls, codswallops, collapsible, episcopally, escalloping, eucalyptols, kilopascals, leucoplasts, mycoplasmal, nucleoplasm, peccadillos, pillowcases, plagioclase, plasmolytic, polycrystal, postglacial, prosaically, rapscallion, scallopinis. | |
+5 letters: chloroplasts, cupellations, despotically, diploblastic, episodically, eucalyptoles, isotopically, nucleoplasms, opalescently, oscillograph, peccadilloes, phylloclades, placeholders, plagioclases, plainclothes, polyalcohols, polycrystals, polysyllabic, polyvalences, postbiblical, postcolonial, prosodically, rapscallions, sporadically, synoptically. | |
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