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Definition: Shape-up |
Shape-upNoun1. A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Shape-up |
| Specialty definitions using "shape-up": graph shape-up ♦ screen shape-up. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Shape-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shape-up" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "shape-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 形状 (shape). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | munkaerő-válogatás. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | シアン化物 (Caesar, cyanide, schema, scheme, shade, shading, shake, shake hands, shaker, shale oil, share, shared, shareware, sharing, shaver, shaving, shaving cream, shaving foam, shaving lotion, sheik dollar). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | シェープアップ , シェイプアップ . (various references) | ||||
Korean | 모양 위로. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ape-upshay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shapeup, upheaps. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: upheap. | |
-2 letters: ephas, heaps, pause, phase, pupae, pupas, shape. | |
-3 letters: apes, apse, epha, haes, haps, hasp, heap, hues, paps, pase, pash, peas, pehs, peps, pupa, pups, push, shea, spae, spue, supe, upas. | |
-4 letters: ape, ash, asp, eau, hae, hap, has, hep, hes, hue, hup, pah, pap, pas, pea, peh, pep, pes, pup, pus, sae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: shapeups. | |
+3 letters: epiphanous, supersharp, unhappiest. | |
+4 letters: prepurchase, unhappiness. | |
+5 letters: philadelphus, pneumographs, prepurchased, prepurchases, purplehearts. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 61 70 65 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h a p e - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0061 0070 0065 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5374678271158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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