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Incipience

Definition: Incipience

Incipience

Noun

1. Beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency".

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



Synonym: Incipience

Synonym: incipiency (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Incipience

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

Beginning

Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Incipience

English words defined with "incipience": incipiency. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incipience

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

incipience

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Incipience

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

Albanian

  

fillim (beginning, breaking, coming-in, commencement, cradle, dawn, inception, initiation, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, river head, seed, send off, set out, start, term). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بدء (commencement, dawn, onset). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

начало (abc, basis, beginning, dawn, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, source, start), първи признаци. (various references)

   

Czech

  

poèátek (beginning, inception, lead off, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, set out). (various references)

   

French

  

commencement (inception, initiation). (various references)

   

German

  

Anfang (beginning, commencement, departure, entrie, header, inception, init, initial, morning, onset, opening, origin, outset, start, top). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρχή (address constant, base address, basis, beginning, commencement, footing, forepart, inception, incipiency, incunabula, magistracy, onset, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, source, start, starting point, tab). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kezdet (beginning, commencement, conception, dawn, debut, first, inception, initiation, initiative, lead off, onset, origin, outset, parent, prime, rudiment, setout, start). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

incipienceay

   

Portuguese

  

início (first, inception, initiation, morning glory, opening, outset, prime), forno crematório (cremator, crematorium, crematorium furnace, crematory), começo (beginning, birth, commencement, first, inception, initiation, lead off, morning, onset, opening, outset, prime, set out, start, threshold). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

начало (beginning, breaking, commencement, cradle, go off, go-off, inception, kick off, leader, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, prime, proem, set out, start). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

počinjanje, početak (beginning, commencement, exordium, go off, inception, induction, morning, onset, outbreak, outset, set out, start, starter, threshold). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incipiencia, comienzo (beginning, birth, break, commencement, execution, inception, initiative, introduction, onset, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, start, starting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

början (beginning, commencement, first, inception, incipiency, onset, origin, outset, prime, start). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

становлення (becoming), початок (authorship, beginning, breaking, commencement, cradle, dawn, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự phôi thai giai đoạn chớm nở (incipiency), sự mới bắt đầu (incipiency), sự chớm nở (incipiency), sự chớm (incipiency), giai đoạn phôi thai (incipiency), giai đoạn bắt dầu (incipiency). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Incipience

Derivations

Words beginning with "incipience": incipiences. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Incipience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incipienced, incomience. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Incipience

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-i-n-n-p"

-4 letters: picnic, pinene.

-5 letters: niece, pence, penne, penni, piece.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-i-n-n-p"
 

+1 letter: incipiences.

 

+2 letters: incipiencies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Incipience


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

49 6E 63 69 70 69 65 6E 63 65

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)

01001001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110000 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#112 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 0069 0070 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065

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

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

43806975827571806971

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INDEX

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


  

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