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Definition: OSTENSION |
OSTENSIONNoun1. The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants. |
Etymology: Ostension \Os*ten"sion\, noun. [Latin expression ostensio showing: compare to the French expression ostension. See Ostend.]. (Websters 1913) |
"OSTENSION" is a common misspelling or typo for: ascension, extension, intension, stemson. |
| "OSTENSION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OSTENSION" 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 "OSTENSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukranian | піднесення дарів. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "OSTENSION" (pronounced 'Os*ten"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-o-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: isotones, tensions. | |
-2 letters: intones, ionones, isotone, nosiest, notions, sennits, sonnets, sonnies, soonest, tension. | |
-3 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, insets, intone, ionone, nitons, noesis, noises, nonets, nooses, notion, onions, onsets, ossein, otiose, sennit, setons, snoots, sonnet, sonsie, steins, stenos, stones, tennis, tenons, tonnes. | |
-4 letters: eosin, inset, neist, neons, nests, nines, nites, niton, noise, nones, nonet, noons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-o-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ironstones, nonstories, serotonins, snootiness. | |
+2 letters: congestions, nonsteroids, ontogenesis, posttension. | |
+3 letters: consecutions, copingstones, endodontists, hypotensions, nondomestics, ostentations, outgoingness, personations, posttensions, snootinesses, soothingness. | |
+4 letters: compensations, condensations, conscientious, consecrations, conservations, contestations, conversations, decongestions, empoisonments, endosymbionts, frontogenesis, introgression, introversions, nonassociated, noneconomists, normotensives, posttensioned, tenosynovitis. | |
+5 letters: considerations, constellations, consternations, contagiousness, contiguousness, continuousness, coordinateness, countinghouses, demonstrations, disconnections, ethnobotanists, foundationless, immunosorbents, impersonations, interpositions, introgressions, introspections, misconceptions, misconnections, modernisations, motionlessness, neonatologists, nondepositions, nonmonetarists, nonsecretories, nonsensational, noteworthiness, outgoingnesses, overextensions, plastoquinones, posttensioning, remonstrations, solemnizations, soothingnesses, stonemasonries, unostentatious. | |
| 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)4F 53 54 45 4E 53 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ... - . -. ... .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O S T E N S I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0053 0054 0045 004E 0053 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)495354394853434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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