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Definition: Up-to-the-minute |
Up-to-the-minuteAdjective1. 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-minuteSynonym: 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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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "up-to-the-minute": bang-up-to-the-minute. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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)
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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)U p - t o - t h e - m i n u t e |
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 |
| 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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