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Definitions: REPOSED |
REPOSEDAdjective1. Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Imperative & past participle1. Of Repose |
Date "REPOSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: REPOSED |
| English words defined with "REPOSED": repose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REPOSED": Harlowe. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | First, The legislative acts against the trust reposed in them, when they endeavour to invade the property of the subject, and to make themselves, or any part of the community, masters, or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties, or fortunes of the people. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself, and to the trust I reposed in you. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of united America. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | As to myself, it is my anxious desire so to execute the trust reposed in me as to render the people of the United States prosperous and happy. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | I am deeply impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "REPOSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "REPOSED" is used about 18 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 61.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 38.89% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the reposed | 16 |
car reposed | 10 |
home reposed | 10 |
house reposed | 6 |
boat reposed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "REPOSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 静卧 (Reposing). (various references) | ||||
German | ruhte. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 쉬". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eposedray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"REPOSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redosed, relosed, rempose, reopposed, reopse, repassed, repoke, repos, Reposo, repousse, Repse, repsoe, rerose, resposi, Riposo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deposer. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: depose, dopers, epodes, erodes, pedros, prosed, redoes, repose, speedo, spored. | |
-2 letters: deeps, deers, doers, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, drees, drops, epode, erode, erose, pedes, pedro, peers, perse, pored, pores, posed, poser, preed, prees, prese, prods, prose, redes, redos, reeds, repos, resod, roped, ropes, rosed, seder, sered, speed, speer, spode, spore, spree. | |
-3 letters: deep. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: deplores, deposers, dopester, eyedrops, precodes, proceeds. | |
+2 letters: deplorers, deportees, depressor, desperado, despoiler, dopesters, douzepers, eavesdrop, endosperm, endospore, exploders, oppressed, overspend, pereopods, peroxides, pledgeors, podomeres, ponderers, powderers, preorders, prescored, preshowed, presoaked, presorted, processed, professed, prosected, prospered, proteides, protested, redeploys, redeposit, redispose, reexposed, reimposed, reopposed, reposited, responded, responder, respotted, stoppered, torpedoes. | |
+3 letters: beechdrops, compressed, decomposer, decompress, depression, depressors, desperados, despoilers, developers, eavesdrops, endosperms, endospores, expeditors, expounders, forepassed, hotpressed, interposed, jeopardies, jeopardise, leopardess, madrepores, necropsied, outpressed, overpassed, overpedals, overspends, overspread, oversupped, paloverdes, pedometers, penholders, pereiopods, peroxidase, personated, pewholders, powderless, predaceous, predispose, prednisone, prefocused, prerecords, procedures, progressed, promenades, prophesied, prosecuted, proselyted, prospected, provenders, recomposed, redeposits, redevelops, redisposed, redisposes, repolished, reproduces, respondent, responders, resprouted, ridgepoles, semaphored, supermodel, superorder, superoxide, superposed, temporised, terpenoids, uredospore. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 50 4F 53 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, 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)01010010 01000101 01010000 01001111 01010011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E P O S E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0050 004F 0053 0045 0044 |
| 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)52395049533938 |
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