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Up-to-the-minute

Definition: Up-to-the-minute

Up-to-the-minute

Adjective

1. Up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date; "the news is up-to-the-minute"; "the very latest scientific discoveries".

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


Synonym: Up-to-the-minute

Synonym: latest (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: system of broadcasting up-to-the-minute details (computing, post & telecom), to draw up the minutes of a meeting (general), to write the minutes of a meeting.

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Commercial Usage: Up-to-the-minute

DomainTitle

Books

  • The 99% Fat Free Cookbook: More Than 125 Up-To-The-Minute Recipes With No More Than 1 Gram of Fat (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Up-to-the-minute

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Services offered by BT and others include call-baring, line splitting to use a fax or modem, last number identifier, call waiting, answer phone services, etc. On the billing side, fully itemized bills can be provided monthly or quarterly with up-to-the-minute running totals available on request. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

You will receive up-to-the-minute privileged market intelligence, trade leads, insights and major projects news or developments. (references)

Korea

Seoul also touts the largest trade show venue in Korea, the Convention and Exhibition Center, popularly known as "COEX." Covering 36,027 square meters of exhibition space, COEX is a full-service trade organization offering multi-lingual simultaneous translation, world-class audio-visual equipment, state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems, and up-to-the-minute information services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Up-to-the-minute

"Up-to-the-minute" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Up-to-the-minute" is used about 47 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%4749,740

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

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Expression: Up-to-the-minute

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "up-to-the-minute": bang-up-to-the-minute.

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

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Modern Translation: Up-to-the-minute

Language Translations for "up-to-the-minute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

включващ най-новите сведения, включващ най-последните новини, най-нов (last, latest), най-моден, по последна мода. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

最新 (Newest, up-to-date). (various references)

   

German

  

hochmodern (ultramodern, ultra-modern), allerneuste, alleletzte. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

allra senaste. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

son modayı izleyen, son haberleri bilen, son gelişmelerden haberdar. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mới giờ chót, hết sức hiện đại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Up-to-the-minute

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-m-n-o-p-t-t-t-u-u"

-4 letters: euphonium, umpteenth.

-5 letters: impotent, monteith, teetotum, totemite, umteenth.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Up-to-the-minute


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

55 70 2D 74 6F 2D 74 68 65 2D 6D 69 6E 75 74 65

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

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

01010101 01110000 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01110100 01101000 01100101 00101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01110101 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#45 &#116 &#111 &#45 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#45 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#117 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 002D 0074 006F 002D 0074 0068 0065 002D 006D 0069 006E 0075 0074 0065

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

55821586811586747115797580878671

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INDEX

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


  

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