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Ninety-three

Definition: Ninety-three

Ninety-three

Adjective

1. Being three more than ninety.

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

Date "ninety-three" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)



Synonym: Ninety-three

Synonym: xciii (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Ninety-three

DomainUsage

Screenplays

When one considers the Moon is 240,000 miles away and the Sun ninety-three million, it is an extraordinary thing that astronomers can tell with such a degree of accuracy what their movements will be many years ahead. (The Day the Earth Caught Fire; writing credit: Wolf Mankowitz; Val Guest)

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Commercial Usage: Ninety-three

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Books

  • Ninety-Three (reference)

  • Gazebos and Other Garden Structure Designs: Ninety-Three New Ideas for Leisure Time Enjoyment (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Ninety-three

Computer Images:
Ninety-three

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ninety-three

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Egypt

Ninety-three percent of children enter primary school and about one-quarter drop out after the sixth year; in 1994-95, 87% entered primary school and about half dropped out after the sixth year. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Ninety-three

"Ninety-three" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ninety-three" is used about 90 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%9034,744

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

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Modern Translations: Ninety-three

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

Chinese 

  

九十三. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

닌얻y-thr어어. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inety-threenay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ninety-three

Misspellings

"Ninety-three" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ninetythree. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ninety-three

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: entirety, eternity, inherent, internee, renitent, retinene, thirteen.

-4 letters: entente, hennery, hyenine, interne, neither, nettier, teenier, teether, tentier, therein, thinner.

-5 letters: either, entire, entity, entree, eterne, ethene, ethyne, herein, hinter, hitter, inhere, intent, intern, nether, netter, ninety, nitery, rennet, retene, retine, retint, teener, teeter, teethe, tenner, tenter, tentie, terete, tether, theine, thirty, tinner, tinter, tither, triene.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-t-t-y"
 

+5 letters: antihypertensive, hyperintelligent, triphenylmethane.

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Alternative Orthography: Ninety-three


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

4E 69 6E 65 74 79 2D 74 68 72 65 65

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

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

01001110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00101101 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#116 &#121 &#45 &#116 &#104 &#114 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 006E 0065 0074 0079 002D 0074 0068 0072 0065 0065

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

487580718691158674847171

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INDEX

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


  

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