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Cadet

Definition: Cadet

Cadet

Noun

1. A military trainee (as at a military academy).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cadet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Cadet

DomainDefinitions

Computing

CADET Computer Aided Design Experimental Translator. [Sammet 1969, p. 683]. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Cadet Younger branches of noble families are called cadets, because their armorial shields are marked with a difference called a cadency.
Cadet is a student at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, or in one of her Majesty's training ships, the Excellent and the Britannia. From these places they are sent (after passing certain examinations) into the army as ensigns or second lieutenants, and into the navy as midshipmen. (French, cadet, junior member of a family.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cadet

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

CADET

EnglishComputerised analysis of data on external tradeComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Cadet

Synonym: plebe (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cadet

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Combatant

Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Master

Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cadet

English words defined with "cadet": Cadet midshipman, cadetshipspace cadet. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cadet": 63630CADET, DECK, College ColoursIBM 1620. (references)
Etymologies containing "cadet": Cad. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cadet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cadet, junior, younger brother, younger sister), Latin (abate, be slain, cease, decay, die, drop, end, fall, plummet, sink, topple), Romanian (cadet).

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Modern Usage: Cadet

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You had impressive moves for a cadet. (Police Academy 3: Back in Training; writing credit: Gene Quintano)

Movie/TV Titles

Air Cadet (1951)

Cadet Holiday (1951)

Space Cadet Tom Corbett (1950)

Cadet Rousselle (1947)

A Cadet Cavalry Charge (1900)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cadet

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cadet

Computer Images:
Cadet

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Photo Album: Cadet

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[Dorothy McGuire in "Reward Unlimited" looking at a copy of a magazine with a cadet nurse on the cover] / National Archives.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C. : Cadet Nurse adjusting traction.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and a Cadet Nurse].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[The new Cadet Nurse Corps uniform is modeled at the White House for Mrs. Winston Churchill] / Office of War Information.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A Cadet Nurse in her grey and scarlet outdoor uniform.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Two Cadet Nurses in uniform ...Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Cadet Nurse : The Girl With A Future / Distributed by OWI.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Enlist in a Proud Profession... : Join The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps / Distributed by OWI for the Federal Security Agency.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Cadet nurses, Adelphi College, Garden City, New York.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cadet

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

El Salvador

In May Air Force flight school cadets Carlos Mauricio Melara and Cesar Humberto Dorat beat Erick Mauricio Pena Carmona, a junior cadet, in front of his classmates, allegedly for showing them a lack of respect. (references)

Guatemala

In May the authorities arrested two instructors of the military academy, Captain Hugo Rigoberto Orozco Pu and Lieutenant Angel Boanerges Carrera Sandoval, in connection with the November 1999 death of cadet Danilo Cardona Mejia, who died after being required to perform excessively rigorous physical exercise. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cadet

"Cadet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "Cadet" is used about 132 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)86.36%11430,294
Noun (proper)11.36%1590,616
Lexical Verb (base form)2.27%3202,518
                    Total100.00%132N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Cadet

The following table summarizes the usage of "cadet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CadetLast name1,00014,106
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Cadet


1. Cadet, MO
Zip Code(s): 63630
Country: USA

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Expressions: Cadet

Expressions using "cadet": air cadet army cadet cadet corps Cadet midshipman cadet school military cadet naval cadet officer cadet pilot cadet space cadet. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "cadet": paymaster-cadet, space-cadet.

Containing "cadet": space-cadet keyboard.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cadet

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cub cadet

1,827

cadet kelly

263

the cadet

256

cadet pinball space

129

cadet command

121

sea cadet

112

air cadet

71

space cadet

67

international cub cadet

59

cadet club

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cadet

Language Translations for "cadet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kursant i shkollës ushtarake, kadet. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تلميذ عسكري, ‏طالب في كلية حربية, ‏أخ أصغر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

юнкер (junker), сводник (bully, decoy, go between, pander, pimp, procurer), курсант, кадет, най-малкият син, по-малък син, по-малък брат. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

军 学". (various references)

   

Czech

  

mladší syn nebo bratr, kadet. (various references)

   

Danish

  

officers-aspirant (apprentice officer), kadet. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

leerling (apprentice, apprentice officer, learner, ships boy, trainee), adelborst (middy, midshipsman, naval cadet). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

midŝipmano (middy, midshipsman, naval cadet). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دانشجوی دانشکده افسری . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kadetti. (various references)

   

French

  

cadet (caddie), traitement automatisé des statistiques du commerce extérieur, TRACE, eleve officier, débutant, aspirant (candidate), élève officier, élève militaire. (various references)

   

German

  

kadett (apprentice officer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δόκιμος (apprentice). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צוער (assistant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kadét, kisebbik fiú, hadapród, gyakornok (apprentice, assistant lecturer, junior clerk, trainee, volunteer). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

taruna. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cadetto (midshipman). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

曹司 , 候補" . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうし (books, copybook, copy-book, creation, fiction, founding, initiating, mutual affection or love, notebook, ruffian, small shrine, Song poetry, storybook, swaggerer, young man in his prime), "うほせい. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ynseydagh (didactic, disciple, instructive, learner, pupil, scholar), mac saa, doltey (adopt, adopted child, foster, initiate, initiation, protege, pupil, ward). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adetcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cadete, professor-estagiário, filho mais novo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cadet, mezin, fiul cel mai mic, începãtor (a, abecedarian, apprentice, beginner, beginning, fledgeling, novice, raw hand, suckling, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кадет. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pitomac, kadet, akademac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cadete (apprentice, footboy, officeboy, trainee). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

yngre son, kadett. (various references)

   

Thai

  

นักเรียนทหาร. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

polis akademisi öğrencisi, oğul (a cluster of bees, boy, cion, cluster, descendant, junior, son, swarm, swarm of bees), harp okulu öğrencisi (officer cadet), erkek kardeş (brother), askeri öğrenci (officer cadet), aday (applicant, aspirant, candidate, contestant, entrant, nominee, postulant, remainderman). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

юнкер (younker), сутенер (bully, gigolo, ponce), курсант війскового училища, кадет, молодший син, молодший брат, звідник (go between, pander, pimp, procurer, ruffian), представник молодшої лінії. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Cadet

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 13, Verse 17
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintBasileuV qrasuV empeseitai eiV kaka aggeloV de pistoV rusetai auton
Latin405VulgateNuntius impii cadet in malum legatus fidelis sanitas
Middle English1395WyclifThe messager of the vnpitous shal falle in to euel; the feithful sent is helthe.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Victorian English1833WebsterA wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful embassador is health.
Basic English1964OgdenA man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Cadet

LanguageProverbs Chapter 13, Verse 17
BulgarianЛошият пратеник изпада в зло, А верният посланик дава здраве.
Cebuano¶ Ang usa ka dautan nga sinugo mahulog ngadto sa kadaut; Apan ang usa ka matinumanon nga sinaligan maoy makaayo.
Chinese奸 惡 的 使 者 、 必 陷 在 禍 患 裡 . 信 的 使 臣 、 乃 醫 人 的 良 藥 。
CroatianZao glasnik zapada u zlo, a vjeran poslanik donosi spasenje.
DanishGudløs Budbringer går det galt, troværdigt Bud bringer Lægedom.
DutchEen goddeloze bode zal in het kwaad vallen; maar een trouw gezant is medicijn.
FinnishJumalaton sanansaattaja suistuu turmioon, mutta uskollinen lähetti on kuin lääke.
FrenchUn envoyé méchant tombe dans le malheur, Mais un messager fidèle apporte la guérison.
GermanEin gottloser Bote bringt Unglück; aber ein treuer Bote ist heilsam.
Haitian Creole¶ Yon move komisyonè ap mete moun nan ka. Men, yon komisyonè serye ap bay moun kè poze.
HungarianAz istentelen követ bajba esik; a hívséges követ pedig gyógyulás.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariUtusan yang tak becus mendatangkan celaka; utusan yang dapat dipercaya menjamin keberhasilan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaUtusan yang jahat itu mendatangkan celaka, tetapi seorang pesuruhan yang setiawan itu seumpama obat adanya.
ItalianUn cattivo messaggero causa sciagure, un inviato fedele apporta salute.
Korean훈 계 를 버 리 " 자 에 게 " 궁 핍 과 수 욕 이 이 르 거 니 와 경 계 를 지 키 " 자 " 존 영 을 얻 느 니 라
Maori¶ Ka hinga te karere kino ki te kino; ko te karere pono ia, ano he rongoa.
NorwegianEt ugudelig sendebud faller i ulykke, men et trofast bud er lægedom.
PortugueseO mensageiro perverso faz cair no mal; mas o embaixador fiel traz saúde.   
RumanianUn sol rqu cade kn nenorocire, dar un sol credincios aduce tqmqduire. -
RussianиХ"ПК ПУПМ П Б"БЕФ Ч 'Е"Х, Б ЧЕТОЩК ПУМБООЙЛ--У БУЕОЙЕ.
SpanishEl mensajero impío caerá en el mal, pero el enviado fiel es como medicina.
SwedishEn ogudaktig budbärare störtar i olycka, men ett tillförlitligt sändebud är en läkedom. >Ords. 25,13.
Thaiผู้สื่อสารที่ชั่วร้ายหลงไปในความร้าย แต่ทูตที่สัตย์ซื่อนำการรักษามาให้
Ukrainian¶ Безбожний посол у нещастя впаде, а вірний посол немов лік.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cadet

Derivations

Words beginning with "cadet": cadets, cadetship, cadetships. (additional references)

Words ending with "cadet": muscadet. (additional references)

Words containing "cadet": muscadets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cadet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adet, Caade, cabet, Cada, Cadden, cadea, cadec, cadeo, Cadex, cado, Cadoc, caduc, caduto, Cadwa, caedo, caget, cajet, camet, candet, candit, capet, Casdec, Caset, catet, cathet, cavet, cawet, cayent, cayet, Cdev, cdt, cedent, cedit, cindet, clade, Codot, cudit, dacet, icazet, jadet, Kadett, Kaydet, madeth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cadet"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cadet" (pronounced kude"t)
4-u d e" tvedette.
3-d e" tdebt.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cadet

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acted.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-t"

-1 letter: aced, cade, cate, dace, date, tace.

-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cad, cat, eat, eta, tad, tae, tea, ted.

-3 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, et, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-t"
 

+1 letter: advect, cadent, cadets, canted, carted, catted, coated, crated, decant, detach, redact, tacked, talced, traced.

 

+2 letters: advects, batched, bracted, candent, castled, catered, cathead, cathode, caudate, cerated, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, citadel, cleated, coacted, coapted, coasted, cordate, crafted, created, curated, decants, dejecta, deltaic, descant, detract, dialect, dictate, edacity, edictal, educate, enacted, exacted, faceted, fracted, hatched, latched, located, matched, pandect, patched, reacted, redacts, redcoat, scanted, scarted, scathed, scatted, stacked, tackled, tacnode, talcked, thacked, tracked, traduce, tranced, unacted, vacated, watched, yachted.

 

+3 letters: abdicate, abducent, abducted, abductee, acaudate, accented, accepted, accident, accosted, accredit, accreted, acerated, acetamid, acetated, acridest, actinide, actuated, acylated, addicted, adducent, adducted, adjacent, aduncate, advected, advocate, aeroduct, affected, anecdota, anecdote, antecede, anticked, aqueduct, arcuated, articled, attached, attacked, autocade, baccated, backdate, cacheted, cadaster, cadastre, cantered, cantoned, captured, carpeted, cartoned, caseated, casketed, catenoid, catheads, cathedra, cathodes, caudated, caudates, caveated, cavitied, cavorted, ceratoid, chaunted, chelated, chordate, ciliated, citadels, citrated, clodpate, coattend, collated, combated, cratered, cremated, crenated, ctenidia, cuneated, cuspated, deathcup, decadent, decanted, decanter, decimate, decorate, decretal, dedicate, defecate, delicate, democrat, descants, despatch, detached, detacher, detaches, detracts, diabetic, diacetyl, dialects, dicentra, dictated, dictates, distance, ecaudate, educated, educates, educator, endocast, facetted, factored, falcated, furcated, impacted, incanted, incudate, indicate, jacketed, lacertid, lactated, lanceted, latticed, maledict, medicate, misacted, muscadet, nictated, outacted, outdance, outfaced, outpaced, outraced, packeted, pandects, pedantic, picrated, placated, plicated, preacted, racketed, radicate, raticide, readdict, recanted, recrated, redacted, redactor, redcoats, retacked, retraced, sacheted, scandent, snatched, spicated, stanched, starched, stockade, sulcated, tacnodes, tendance, terraced, tetracid, tetradic, thatched, thwacked, timecard, tracheid, trachled, traduced, traducer, traduces, uncoated, uncrated, underact, untacked, untraced, vaticide, wauchted.

 

+4 letters: abdicated, abdicates, abductees, abreacted, accidents, accounted, accoutred, accredits, acerbated, acetamide, acetamids, acetified, acidities, acidulate, acidulent, acierated, acquitted, actinides, activated, activized, addictive, adductive, adipocyte, adjective, advecting, advection, advective, advocated, advocates, aeroducts, afflicted, afterdeck, allocated, andesitic, anecdotal, anecdotes, anecdotic, anteceded, antecedes, aqueducts, ascendant, ascendent, astricted, asyndetic, attracted, auctioned, autocades, backdated, backdates, bacteroid, bracketed, bratticed, cadasters, cadastres, cadential, cadetship, candidate, candidest, candlelit, candlenut, canulated, captained, captioned, carinated, cartooned, cartridge, castrated, cataloged, catalyzed, catcalled, catenated, catenoids, cathected, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, catnapped, cautioned, cavitated, chapleted, chaptered, charioted, chartered, chastened, chastised, chattered, chordates, clattered, claughted, clodpates, coadapted, coatdress, coattends, cocreated, coenacted, coequated, cogitated, cohabited, cohobated, colocated, combatted, compacted, comparted, conflated, contacted, contained, copulated, cordately, corelated, coronated, corotated, costarred, creodonta, croustade, cumulated, curtailed, curtained, cuspidate, dacoities, deathcups, decadents, decaliter, decameter, decanters, decanting, decathlon, deciduate, decimated, decimates, declarant, decollate, decorated, decorates, decorator, decretals, decussate, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, dedicator, defalcate, defecated, defecates, deistical, delicates, demarcate, democrats, deprecate, descanted, desecrate, desiccant, desiccate, detachers, detaching, detracted, detractor, diabetics, diacetyls, diaconate, diaeretic, dialectal, dialectic, diametric, diathetic, dicentras, dietician, disaffect, discanted, dislocate, distanced, distances, doctorate, duplicate, ecdysiast, edacities, educating, education, educative, educators, elucidate, emaciated, enchanted, endocasts, entranced, eradicate, eructated, escalated, escheated, evacuated, excavated, execrated, extracted, fasciated, fecundate, fractured, glaciated, hatcheled, headcount, headstock, identical, incubated, indicated, indicates, infarcted, infracted, instanced, invocated, jaculated, lacerated, lacertids, macerated, maculated, maledicts, matricide, medicated, medicates, mendacity, mendicant, mistraced, motorcade, muscadets, mustached, nucleated, obcordate, octahedra, osculated, ostracode, outdanced, outdances, overacted, patricide, peculated, pediatric, playacted, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, radicated, radicates, ratcheted, raticides, readdicts, recharted, recreated, redacting, redaction, redactors, reductant, reductase, reeducate, reenacted, refracted, relocated, rematched, repatched, restacked, retackled, retracked, retracted, scattered, scratched, sidetrack, sonicated, speciated, spectated, staunched, stockaded, stockades, stomached, syndicate, tackified, tendances, tentacled, tetracids, thickhead, tictacked, timecards, tomcatted, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducers, trajected, transcend, transduce, trauchled, truncated, tunicated, ulcerated, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, unhatched, unlatched, unmatched, unscathed, unstacked, urticated, vaticides, vesicated, victualed, vindicate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cadet


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 64 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -..    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0064 0065 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767707186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Cities
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Bible Trace
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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