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Hierarchal

Definition: Hierarchal

Hierarchal

Adjective

1. Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first".

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

Date "hierarchal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

 

Synonyms: Hierarchal

Synonyms: hierarchic (adj), hierarchical (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: nonhierarchical (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Hierarchal

"Hierarchal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hierarchal" is used about 2 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hierarchal

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

hierarchal

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hierarchal

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

Hungarian

  

hierarchikus (hierarchic, hierarchical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ierarchalhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Hierarchal

Misspellings

"Hierarchal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heirarchal, heirarchial, hierarcal, hierarchial, hirearchal. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Hierarchal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-h-i-l-r-r"

-2 letters: hierarch.

-3 letters: charier, charlie, rachial, railcar.

-4 letters: achier, aecial, aerial, archer, archil, cahier, carrel, chalah, chaleh, chiral, chirre, eclair, hailer, heliac, irreal, lacier, racial, racier, railer, realia, richer.

-5 letters: acari, aecia, airer, areal, areca, areic, ariel, carer, carle, ceria, chair, chare, charr, chela, chiel, chile, chirr, clear, craal, crier, erica, haler, hilar, hirer, ileac.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-h-i-l-r-r"
 

+2 letters: hierarchical.

 

+4 letters: hierarchically.

 

+5 letters: nonhierarchical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hierarchal


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

48 69 65 72 61 72 63 68 61 6C

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)

01001000 01101001 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0065 0072 0061 0072 0063 0068 0061 006C

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

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

42757184678469746778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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