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Definition: Sinbad |
SinbadNoun1. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Sinbad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | SINBAD, an old tar whose yarns are still on the distaff. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sinbad is the name used by an actor and stand-up comedian from the United States of America, born November 10, 1956 as David Adkins Sinbad.After his time of college in 1974 to 1978, his film career began in 1985 and he appeared on The Redd Foxx Show in 1986.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sinbad."
Synonym: SinbadSynonym: Sinbad the Sailor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sinbad |
| English words defined with "Sinbad": Sinbad the Sailor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Sinbad": Nursery Tales ♦ Old Man of the Sea ♦ SINBAD. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) Sinbad Jr. (1965) Roc-a-Bye Sinbad (1964) Son of Sinbad (1958) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dutchmans Arch, Head of Sinbad in the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |  | Head of Sinbad in the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |
 | Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lili St. Cyr, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, portraying the Queen of the Khalif of Bagdad's harem in "Son of Sinbad". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sinbad" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sinbad" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Sinbad": Sinbad the Sailor. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: bands, basin, binds, nabis, sabin. | |
-2 letters: aids, ains, ands, anis, bads, band, bani, bans, bias, bids, bind, bins, dabs, dais, dibs, dins, isba, nabs, nibs, sadi, said, sain, sand, snib. | |
-3 letters: abs, ads, aid, ain, ais, and, ani, bad, ban, bas, bid, bin, bis, dab, dib, din, dis, ids, ins, nab, nib, sab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: bandies, bandits, basined, disband, indabas, ribands. | |
+2 letters: bandaids, banished, bankside, beadings, bedsonia, blandish, brandies, brandish, brigands, debasing, dingbats, disbands, inboards, misbrand, obsidian, ribbands, sideband, tabanids, unbiased, unbraids, windbags. | |
+3 letters: abidances, abstained, adsorbing, anybodies, badinages, banksides, bastinade, bastinado, bastioned, baudekins, bawdiness, bedsoniae, bedsonias, bilanders, blindages, blinkards, boardings, bondmaids, botanised, braconids, braidings, dabblings, disabling, disbanded, endbrains, hairbands, handbills, hangbirds, mandibles, midbrains, misbrands, obsidians, rabidness, rainbands, rainbirds, sidebands, signboard, snakebird, urbanised, waistband, windblast, wristband. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6E 62 61 64 |
| 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 01101001 01101110 01100010 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i n b a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006E 0062 0061 0064 |
| 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)537580686770 |
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