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Definition: SIDS |
SIDSNoun1. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "SIDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
"SIDS" is a common misspelling or typo for: side, sides, sis, skids, suds. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SIDS | English | Stellar inertial Doppler system | N/A |
SIDs | Greek | αποθηκευμένη αναγνώριση ταυτότητας συστήματος | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SIDSSynonyms: cot death (n), crib death (n), infant death (n), sudden infant death syndrome (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cot death (public administration, medicine), crib death, Screening Information Data Set (chemistrycomputing, chemistry), Small Island Developing States (public administration, geographygeography, politics & international affaires), static inspirable dust spectrometer (medicine, mining), Stellar inertial Doppler system (military & defense), sudden infant death syndrome (public administration, medicinemedicine), system identification,stored (post & telecom). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Causal hypotheses for SIDS other than apnea should receive more attention. (references) | |
Sudden death, including SIDS, is a major part of all postneonatal infant deaths. (references) | ||
SIDS occurs at a rate of approximately 2 per 1,000 live births in the United States. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SIDS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SIDS" is used about 19 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 (proper) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "SIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | vuggedød (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sudden-infant-death-syndroom (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome), wiegedood (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | syndrome de mort subite du nourrisson, MSIN, mort subreptice du nourrisson, mort subite inexpliquée du nourrisson, mort subite imprévue du nourrisson, mort soudaine du nourrisson, mort du berceau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | plötzlicher Säuglingstod (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome), Krippentod (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | morte nella culla (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idssay sindrome da morte súbita do recém-nascido (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) muerte súbita del lactante(sindrome de-) (cot death, crib death, sudden infant death syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SIDS": capsids, jassids, mysids, nucleocapsids, resids, sphenopsids, synapsids, therapsids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: diss. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dis, ids, sis. | |
-2 letters: id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-s-s" | |
+1 letter: discs, disks, sadis, saids, sides, silds, skids. | |
+2 letters: asdics, asides, daises, dashis, dassie, deisms, deists, desist, dieses, diesis, dipsas, dipsos, discos, discus, dishes, dismes, dissed, disses, disuse, dossil, hissed, issued, jassid, kissed, midsts, missed, mysids, odists, pissed, resids, sadism, sadist, sayids, seised, sidles, slides, sloids, solids, squids, tsadis, wissed. | |
+3 letters: advises, aidless, apsides, bedsits, besides, biassed, blissed, capsids, cissoid, cuspids, daisies, dalasis, dassies, delists, demises, designs, desires, desists, desmids, despise, devises, dicasts, diesels, digests, digress, dimness, disarms, disbars, disbuds, discase, discuss, disease, diseuse, disgust, dismals, dismast, dismays, dismiss, disowns, dispels, dispose, dissave, disseat, dissect, dissent, dissert, dissing, distils, disused, disuses, divests, dossier, dossils, dossing, duskish, ecdysis, gussied, idlesse, insides, iodises, iodisms, islands, isodose, isopods, jassids, lidless, masjids, misadds, misdoes, missaid, missend, misshod, misused, muscids, musjids, niduses, nudisms, nudists, prissed, psocids, resides, sadisms, sadists, saiyids, salpids, sandhis, sardius, sayyids, seaside, seidels, shairds, shields, shindys, sialids, siddurs, sidings, sidlers, sirdars, skidoos, sliders, smidges, snidest, soddies, sodiums, solidus, sparids, spiders, stadias, strides, studies, studios, stupids, subside, subsidy, sudsier, sudsing, sulfids, swished, syndics, tissued, upsides, vespids, visards, wisdoms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 44 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01001001 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 0044 0053 |
| 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)53433853 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, danese, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francês, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemão, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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