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Definition: Daoism |
DaoismNoun1. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DaoismSynonym: Taoism (n). (additional references) |
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Due to fundamental differences between Chinese and English phonology, neither d nor t can be considered adequate representations for the consonant at the beginning of the word Dao/Tao. The Chinese pronunciation is voiceless (like t and not like d), but it is also unaspirated (without the puff of air which is normally a part of English t but which is never a part of English d). Thus, both transliterations are equally close (or far) from the Mandarin pronunciation of Dao/Tao.
Some people think that existing words in English which come from Chinese words should be remodeled after the Pinyin transliteration scheme, claiming that it has several important benefits over older transliteration schemes. Other people think that the older forms should be retained because the older spellings have now become assimilated English words in their own right, and are not Chinese anymore, while new borrowings should be written according to the official transliteration scheme.
See also: Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Romanization, Chinese language
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Daoism versus Taoism."
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| "Daoism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Daoism" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
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 |
daoism | 85 |
daoism taoism | 5 |
daoism depot | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Daoism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "教 (Taoism). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aoismday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Daoism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dakoum, Daoust. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: adios, amido, amids, maids, misdo. | |
-2 letters: ados, aids, aims, amid, amis, dais, dams, dims, doms, mads, maid, mids, miso, moas, modi, mods, sadi, said, sima, soda, soma. | |
-3 letters: ado, ads, aid, aim, ais, ami, dam, dim, dis, dom, dos, ids, ism, mad, mas, mid, mis, moa, mod, mos, ods, oms, sad, sim, sod, som. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, am, as, do, id, is, ma, mi, mo, od, om, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: amidols, daimios, daimons, daimyos, diatoms, domains, mastoid, mikados. | |
+2 letters: admonish, ambroids, amidones, amyloids, atomised, camisado, coadmits, daimones, diamonds, digamous, dioramas, diplomas, halidoms, mastoids, mattoids, melodias, miradors, monacids, monadism, nomadism, plasmoid, saintdom, salmonid, sesamoid, sodamide, sympodia, toadyism. | |
+3 letters: admission, airdromes, amberoids, amidogens, ammonoids, amortised, amphipods, bondmaids, camisados, chamoised, coadmires, comedians, demoniacs, diabolism, diplomats, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, dominants, dominates, dopamines, halidomes, housemaid, humanoids, ideograms, impastoed, kaiserdom, maidhoods, mandiocas, mandolins, manifolds, marigolds, mediators, melanoids, melodicas, middorsal, midrashot, misatoned, monadisms, monoacids, moralised, mosaicked, myriapods, nomadisms, olympiads, plasmodia, plasmoids, rhodamins, romanised, saintdoms, salmonids, salmonoid, seminomad, sesamoids, sigmoidal, sodamides, spasmodic, sympodial, toadyisms, villadoms, womanised. | |
+4 letters: admissions, admonished, admonisher, admonishes, anatomised, armadillos, audiograms, badmintons, bromeliads, caddisworm, camisadoes, chromatids, damnations, demagogies, demantoids, dermatosis, diabolisms, diadromous, diatomites, diazoniums, dichromats, dicumarols, diplomates, dipsomania, disharmony, dogmatisms, dogmatists, dogmatizes, dominances, dominators, doomsaying, dormancies, emulsoidal, endogamies, formalised, formamides, glamorised, gormandise, harmonised, housemaids, hybridomas, imidazoles, kaiserdoms, macedoines, mandolines, mastodonic, medaillons, medallions, mediations, meditators, menadiones, mendacious, metalloids, midrashoth, mislabored, mislocated, modalities, monandries, mordancies, normalised, plasmodium, polyamides, prismatoid, prismoidal, psalmodies, radiograms, randomizes, rhodamines, salmonoids, seminomads, solidarism, staminodia, sudatorium, warlordism. | |
+5 letters: admirations, admonishers, admonishing, admonitions, adoptianism, adoptionism, amphiploids, amygdaloids, amyloidoses, amyloidosis, antimoderns, antimonides, audiometers, auditoriums, bombardiers, caddisworms, calamondins, calmodulins, cardiograms, caudillismo, coatimundis, codominants, comraderies, comradeship, confirmands, daunomycins, decimations, defamations, democracies, demoralizes, denominates, dichogamies, dichogamous, dichromates, dicoumarins, dicoumarols, dimensional, dimethoates, diplomacies, diplomatist, dipsomaniac, dipsomanias, disaccustom, dogmatizers, domesticate, dominations, doomsayings, dromedaries, duodecimals, emendations, endoplasmic, eudaemonism, eudaemonist, eudaimonism, gadoliniums, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandism, impassioned, landlordism, maidenhoods, mandatories, mandolinist, manifestoed, mastoiditis, medications, meditations, meridionals, microfarads, misdemeanor, misdiagnose, moderations, modulations, mustachioed, myocarditis, nematocides, nonadmirers, ordainments, palindromes, prismatoids, radiometers, randomizers, readmission, sardonicism, seminomadic, sigmoidally, sodomitical, solidarisms, somatomedin, staminodium, subdominant, sudatoriums, sulfonamide, vagabondism, warlordisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6F 69 73 6D |
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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)01000100 01100001 01101111 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a o i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006F 0069 0073 006D |
| 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)386781758579 |
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