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Meaning of "spycatcher" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPYCATCHER

spycatcher  [ˈspaɪkætʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPYCATCHER

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spycatcher is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPYCATCHER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spycatcher

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer is a book written by Peter Wright, former MI5 officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass. It was published first in Australia. Its allegations proved scandalous on publication, but more so because the British Government attempted to ban it, ensuring its profit and notoriety.

Definition of spycatcher in the English dictionary

The definition of spycatcher in the dictionary is a person who works in counter-intelligence to detect enemy espionage activities.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPYCATCHER


batcher
ˈbætʃə
catcher
ˈkætʃə
cowcatcher
ˈkaʊˌkætʃə
datcha
ˈdætʃə
detacher
dɪˈtætʃə
dispatcher
dɪsˈpætʃə
eye-catcher
ˈaɪˌkætʃə
flycatcher
ˈflaɪˌkætʃə
focaccia
fəˈkætʃə
gnatcatcher
ˈnætˌkætʃə
hatcher
ˈhætʃə
matcher
ˈmætʃə
mole-catcher
ˈməʊlˌkætʃə
oystercatcher
ˈɔɪstəˌkætʃə
patcher
ˈpætʃə
snatcher
ˈsnætʃə
stature
ˈstætʃə
Thatcher
ˈθætʃə
viscacha
vɪsˈkætʃə
vizcacha
vɪsˈkætʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPYCATCHER

sputter
sputterer
sputteringly
sputtery
sputum
spy
spy camera
spy out
spy plane
spy ring
spy satellite
spy ship
Spy Wednesday
spy-in-the-sky
spyglass
spyhole
spying
spying charge
spymaster
spyware

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPYCATCHER

bird-watcher
body snatcher
butcher
ditcher
dog-catcher
dowitcher
fetcher
fletcher
notcher
pitcher
purse snatcher
relief pitcher
sketcher
spotted flycatcher
stitcher
stretcher
switcher
teacher
twitcher
watcher
weight watcher

Synonyms and antonyms of spycatcher in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spycatcher» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPYCATCHER

Find out the translation of spycatcher to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spycatcher from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spycatcher» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

spycatcher
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

spycatcher
570 millions of speakers

English

spycatcher
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

spycatcher
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

spycatcher
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

SpyCatcher
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

SpyCatcher
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

spycatcher
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chasseur d´espions
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spycatcher
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spycatcher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

spycatcher
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

spycatcher
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spycatcher
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

SpyCatcher
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

spycatcher
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पायचरर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

spycatcher
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

SpyCatcher
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Spycatcher
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

SpyCatcher
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

SpyCatcher
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Spycatcher
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spycatcher
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Spycatcher
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Spycatcher
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spycatcher

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPYCATCHER»

The term «spycatcher» is normally little used and occupies the 124.915 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPYCATCHER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spycatcher

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPYCATCHER»

Discover the use of spycatcher in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spycatcher and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior ...
The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence, including his work on the Ring of Five and exposing Soviet espionage and the conspiracy to oust Harold Wilson from the office of Prime Minister in the 1970s
Peter Wright, 1987
2
The Spycatcher
Its existence is no more than a rumour - a ghost force unbound by rules.
Matthew Dunn, 2011
3
Slingshot
Master spy Will Cochrane returns in this action-packed follow-up to Spycatcher and Sentinel, written by real-life former field officer Matthew Dunn.
Matthew Dunn, 2014
4
Sentinel: A Spycatcher Novel
Now it's up to Will - with the help of the top-secret joint CIA-MI6 Spartan Section - to uncover the true meaning of Svelte's message and discover the identity of the legendary operative known only as 'Sentinel'.
Matthew Dunn, 2013
5
Spycatcher
Young Damian Drooth goes after an industrial spy when a local inventor reveals that his ideas are being stolen from the shed where he works, perhaps by another inventor who has no ideas of his own.
Barbara Mitchelhill, 2006
6
Conspiracy Encyclopedia
The Thatcher government's dread of Spycatcher derived from the fear that an intelligence "insider" was drawing aside the veil of secrecy behind which the security services were accustomed to work. The book had already been a publishing ...
Thom Burnett, 2006
7
Internet Law and Regulation
established practice to include on-line intermediary provisos (whether along the lines of Bulger or in any other form) in Spycatcher injunctions. This can create great uncertainty for the on-line intermediary in knowing what it has to do to avoid  ...
Graham J. H. Smith, 2007
8
A Web of Deception: The Spycatcher Affair
Denne bogs forfatter, der har et langt og omfattende kendskab til omstændigheder i forbindelse med retssagen om bogen "Spycatcher" uddyber - som advarsel mod misforstået "hemmelighedsmageri" - denne sag med forstemmende oplysninger om, ...
Chapman Pincher, 1987
9
British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials
(b) The 'Spycatcher' cases A constraint on freedom of expression may result from the equitable doctrine of breach of confidence, which has been fashioned and refined by the courts over many years. We saw in chapter 3 that in Attorney ...
Colin Turpin, Adam Tomkins, 2007
10
InfoWorld
I like the ultra-small resource footprint, and the browser- accessible reporting engine is nice, but its management interface takes some getting used to. Tenebril SpyCatcher 4.0 Beta I reviewed SpyCatcher 3.0 last October, and even though the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPYCATCHER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spycatcher is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stubby the spycatcher and the hero animals of World War I
Sergeant Stubby the spycatcher and the hero animals of World War I. by: Greg Dunlop; From: News Corp Australia Network; 2 months ago May 18, 2015 1:30PM. «NEWS.com.au, May 15»
2
'Spycatcher' Harry Chapman Pincher dies aged 100
The veteran investigative journalist, Harry Chapman Pincher, known for unearthing military secrets, has died aged 100. For more than 30 years, Pincher was the ... «BBC News, Aug 14»
3
Now Spycatcher is free to catch David Miranda too
You may, like many campaigning groups around the world, lament last week's high court verdict that it was quite OK to detain David Miranda, partner of Glenn ... «The Guardian, Feb 14»
4
Spycatcher sighting speaks volumes
Rusbridger had been "papped" walking into a British parliamentary hearing clutching a copy of Spycatcher, the book that was at the centre of a failed effort more ... «The Australian, Dec 13»
5
Ferguson Smith: Amazing story of real life James Bond who cracked …
Last night spy expert Neil Root said the nation owed a huge debt to spycatcher Smith – who must have been a master of mind games and tough James Bond ... «Mirror.co.uk, Sep 13»
6
Made-To-Order Branched Proteins
By placing the peptide sequences, SpyTag (red triangle) and SpyCatcher (purple ... SpyTag and SpyCatcher link up through a covalent bond formed between ... «The Biological SCENE, Sep 13»
7
Engineered protein from flesh-eating bacteria acts as molecular …
Abbreviating S. pyogenes as "Spy," they named the small peptide "SpyTag" and the larger protein "SpyCatcher." The gluing action occurs when SpyTag and ... «News-Medical.net, Apr 13»
8
Annabel Crabb turns spycatcher in Canberra Confidential …
Annabel Crabb turns spycatcher in Canberra Confidential documentary. Melissa Hoyer. by: Melissa Hoyer, Entertainment Editor At Large; From: news.com.au ... «NEWS.com.au, Mar 13»
9
Aunty's amusing spycatcher
The controversy over Wright's memoir Spycatcher was all down to the British government trying to stop us reading about how hopeless Her Majesty's trench ... «The Australian, Mar 13»
10
The Queen Mother...spycatcher: She rumbled traitor Blunt a decade …
Spycatcher: The Queen Mother sitting in the garden at Windsor with her terrier dog. She suspected that notorious Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt was a ... «Daily Mail, Oct 12»

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