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Definition: OVER-BUSY |
OVER-BUSYAdjective1. Too busy; officious. |
| "OVER-BUSY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OVER-BUSY" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "OVER-BUSY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 在繁忙. (various references) | ||||
Italian | troppo occupato, che si intromette. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 에 "쁜. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | over-busyay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overbusy, overbuys. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
-1 letter: overbuy, voyeurs. | |
-2 letters: bevors, bourse, buyers, rebuys, survey, voyeur. | |
-3 letters: bevor, bores, bouse, bousy, brose, brosy, buoys, burse, buyer, byres, euros, obeys, overs, oyers, rebus, rebuy, robes, roues, rouse, roves, rubes, servo, sober, suber, verbs, verso, yores, yours, youse. | |
-4 letters: bevy, beys, bore, boys, bros, buoy, burs, bury, busy, buys, byes, byre, eros, euro. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
+3 letters: obtrusively. | |
+5 letters: obstructively, subventionary, subversionary, unobtrusively. | |
| 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 56 45 52 2D 42 55 53 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000010 01010101 01010011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R - B U S Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 002D 0042 0055 0053 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)495639521536555359 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , cinese, 중국 |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiano, 이탈리아 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , inglese, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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