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Ninety-four

Definition: Ninety-four

Ninety-four

Adjective

1. Being four more than ninety.

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

Date "ninety-four" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)



Synonym: Ninety-four

Synonym: xciv (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Ninety-four

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat)

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Commercial Usage: Ninety-four

DomainTitle

Books

  • Nineteen Ninety-Four, Or, the Changeless Change (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Ninety-four

Computer Images:
Ninety-four

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Photo Album: Ninety-four

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Cub Ryman, ninety-four year-old native of Bear Hill, Maryland. Garrett County.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ninety-four

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Economic History

Hungary

Ninety-four percent of Internet stores use the Hungarian Postal service for home delivery of their products. (references)

Netherlands

In 2000, ninety-four new foreign direct investment projects were registered with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency with a value of $435 million, creating more than 5,000 new jobs. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Ninety-four

"Ninety-four" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ninety-four" is used about 72 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
Cardinal Number100%7239,377

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

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Expression: Ninety-four

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ninety-four": ninety-four-man, ninety-four-year-old.

Ending with "ninety-four": nineteen-ninety-four.

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Modern Translations: Ninety-four

Language Translations for "ninety-four"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

九十四. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inety-fournay

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Anagrams: Ninety-four

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-n-o-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: neutrino, renotify.

-3 letters: fenuron, fortune, funnier, inferno, intoner, introfy, neutron, outfire, reunify, reunion, routine, ternion, tourney.

-4 letters: ferity, finery, forint, fruity, funner, intern, intone, intron, inturn, neuron, ninety, nitery, norite, notify, orient, tenour, tinner, tonier, tonner, triune, turnon, uniter, unrent, untorn.

-5 letters: ennui, entry, feint, fenny, ferny, fetor, fiery, finer, finny, forte, forty, fount, foyer, front, fruit, funny, futon, inert, infer, inner, inter, intro, inure, inurn, irone, irony, nifty, niter, niton, nitre, nitro, nonet, noter, often, ofter, onery, ourie, outer, outre, refit, reify, renin, rouen, route, runny, runty, rutin, tenon, tenor, tinny, toner, toney, tonne, toyer, trine, trone, tuner, tunny, turfy, tuyer, unfit, unify, union, unite, unity, untie, urine, uteri, yourn.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-n-o-r-t-u-y"
 

+3 letters: hyperfunction.

 

+4 letters: hyperfunctions.

 

+5 letters: hyperfunctional, uninformatively.

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Alternative Orthography: Ninety-four


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

4E 69 6E 65 74 79 2D 66 6F 75 72

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

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

01001110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100110 01101111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#116 &#121 &#45 &#102 &#111 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 006E 0065 0074 0079 002D 0066 006F 0075 0072

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

4875807186911572818784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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