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Definition: Ninety-seven |
Ninety-sevenAdjective1. Being seven more than ninety. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ninety-seven" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Synonym: Ninety-sevenSynonym: xcvii (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Imagine that, Christ wasn't even born on this day. Maybe not even ninteen hundred ninety-seven years ago. So no one knows for sure when the millennium really begins. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven. See, I told you! Less than a hundred steps from our place to here. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Machinery standing in open for lack of adequate shelter. Nelson Brothers farm, one hundred ninety-seven acres, near Dickens, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Among rodents trapped as part of the initial investigation of the Four Corners outbreak in 1993, the overall prevalence rate of hantavirus antibody in P. Maniculatus was 30.4%. Almost ninety-seven percent of the mice with detectable antibodies had amplifiable genetic sequences in their tissues, suggesting viral persistence in this host species. (references) | |
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| "Ninety-seven" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ninety-seven" is used about 24 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 |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
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Beginning with "ninety-seven": ninety-seven-piece. | |
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| Language | Translations for "ninety-seven"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 九十七. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inety-sevennay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-n-n-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: nineteens. | |
-3 letters: nineteen. | |
-4 letters: evenest, intense, invents, seventy, syenite, tennies, tensive, venines. | |
-5 letters: envies, events, evites, invent, invest, nieves, ninety, sennet, sennit, steeve, teensy, tennis, venine, venins, vestee, yentes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 6E 65 74 79 2D 73 65 76 65 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00101101 01110011 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i n e t y - s e v e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 006E 0065 0074 0079 002D 0073 0065 0076 0065 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487580718691158571887180 |
| 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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