Vertigo

Definition: Vertigo

Vertigo

Noun

1. A reeling sensation; feeling about to fall.

Date "vertigo" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Vertigo \Ver"ti*go\, noun; plural English Vertigoes, from Latin expression Vertigines. [Latin expression, from vertere to turn. See Verse.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Vertigo

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	The sensation that the outer world is revolving about the patient ( objective vertigo ) or that he himself is moving in space ( subjective vertigo ).The word frequently is used erroneously as a synonym for dizziness or giddiness to indicate an unpleasant sensation of disturbed relations to surrounding objects in space. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you have vertigo, foretells you will have loss in domestic happiness, and your affairs will be under gloomy outlooks. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Health	An illusion of movement; a sensation as if the external world were revolving around the patient (objective vertigo) or as if he himself were revolving in space (subjective vertigo). The term is sometimes erroneously used to mean any form of dizziness. (references)
Medicine	Giddiness, swimming in the head, a sense of instability, often with a sensation of rotation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Vertigo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vertigo is a form of dizziness often associated with balance disorder.
Vertigo is the title of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Vertigo, a subsidy of DC Comics, is a publisher of comic books.

Vertigo (movie)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vertigo is a 1958 film thriller by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of a detective, afraid of heights, who is hired to follow the straying wife of an old friend, but falls in love with her -- he thinks. It stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones and Raymond Bailey.

The movie was adapted by Samuel A. Taylor and Alec Coppel from the novel d'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

The final script was entirely written by Samuel Taylor from notes by Hitchcock. However, a number of elements survive from an earlier script by Alec Coppel, including the opening rooftop sequence, the Cypress Point kiss, the two visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to take sole credit for the screenplay, Coppel protested to the Writers Guild, who determined that both writers were entitled to credit.

Vertigo was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color and Best Sound. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2002 it was chosen the second greatest film of all time (behind Citizen Kane) by the Sight & Sound critic's poll.

Vertigo is notable for the first use of the "Hitchcock zoom", an in-camera perspective distortion special effect, created by Hitchcock to suggest the dizzying effect of disorientation that gives the film its title.

Francois Truffaut suggested the novel d'Entre les Morts was specifically written for Hitchock by Boileau and Narcejac after Hitchcock was unable to buy the rights for their previous novel, Celle qui n'était plus, which was made into the movie Les Diaboliques. However, Narcejac has subsequently denied that this was their intention.

After a year-long restoration effort by Robert Harris and James Katz, the film was re-released to theaters in 1996. The new print featured restored color and an enhanced soundtrack with digital sound. It was also exhibited for the first time in 70mm.

Vertigo (publisher)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vertigo is a publishing company owned and operated by DC Comics. It operates under the "Vertigo" name in order to separate itself from the more mainstream "comic book" image -- namely, so as not to appeal directly to children and younger readers.

Vertigo publishes comic book stories aimed at a more "mature" audience. Many of the comics published by Vertigo contain mature themes, including graphic violence, sex, and controversial topics.

Vertigo was founded in the wake of DC's successful "mature" comics of the late 1980s, beginning with Swamp Thing and continuing with The Sandman. DC founded the Vertigo line to attract writers who wanted to publish "mature" comics of this sort, without having to worry about offending parents and young children.

Notable comic book series published under the Vertigo line have included The Invisibles, Preacher, Lucifer, and Hellblazer.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vertigo."

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Synonyms: Vertigo

Synonyms: dizziness (n), giddiness (n), lightheadedness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vertigo

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insanity	Vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis.
Rotation	Centrifugal force; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; coriolus force.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vertigo

English words defined with "vertigo": Cascarilla bark, Cerebro-spinal sclerosis, Cinchonism, Coenurus ♦ Gid ♦ labyrinthitis ♦ Meniere ♦ otitis interna ♦ Prosper Meniere ♦ Ramsay Hunt syndrome ♦ Vertigines, Vertigoes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vertigo": Amaurosis Fugax, amaurosis partialis fugax, aviators'vertigo ♦ Bárány chair ♦ cervical vertigo syndrome, Coriolis, coriolis effects ♦ Flunarizine ♦ narks ♦ partial fugacious amaurosis, pilots'vertigo ♦ spacial disorientation ♦ vertebral artery compression, vestibular vertigo, Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vertigo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (vertigo), Dutch (vertigo), German (vertigo), Latin (dizziness, vertigo), Spanish (dizziness, swindle), Swedish (vertigo).

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Modern Usage: Vertigo

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. (Persona; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) And vertigo. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)
Lyrics	The Vertigo is gonna grow ("One Week"; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)
Movie/TV Titles	Vertigo (1958) David Blaine: Vertigo (2002) 4 Vertigo (2000) Obsessed with Vertigo (1997)
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Commercial Usage: Vertigo

Domain	Title
Books	Mr. Vertigo (reference) Tokyo Vertigo (reference) Vertigo (reference) Vertigo Explained (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Vertigo (reference) Vertigo - Collector's Edition (reference) The Best of Hitchcock - Volume 2 (The Birds, Vertigo, Torn Curtain, Marnie, The Trouble With Harry, Saboteur, Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents #2) (reference) Vertigo (Widescreen Edition) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Trance Vertigo (reference) Vertigo (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Vertigo

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Luke Whoozis. "Poor woman, a case of vertigo, I guess".Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vertigo

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Vertigo may be treated with the drug diazepam. (references)
		A sensation of dizziness or vertigo (spinning). (references)
		Symptoms include vertigo, double vision, and poor muscular coordination. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vertigo

"Vertigo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vertigo" is used about 59 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
Noun (singular)	100%	59	44,010

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

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Expressions: Vertigo

Expressions using "vertigo": cervical vertigo syndrome ♦ vestibular vertigo. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "vertigo": vertigo-inducing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vertigo

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
vertigo	2,538
benign positional vertigo	112
cause of vertigo	85
symptom of vertigo	83
positional vertigo	62
vertigo treatment	58
dizziness vertigo	57
in restaurant vertigo	49
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo	47
restaurant vertigo	44
vertigo movie	43
vertigo comic	36
vertigo tarot	25
gillette vertigo	22
movie restaurant vertigo	22
de download vertigo	21
in movie restaurant vertigo	21
vertigo cure	18
benign vertigo	17
vertigo medical	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vertigo

Language		Translations for "vertigo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marramenth, marramendje (dizziness, giddiness, reel, swimming). (various references)

Arabic		‏دوخة (dizziness, spell), ‏دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, voluble). (various references)

Bulgarian		световъртеж, замайване (dizziness, giddiness, spin, swim). (various references)

Chinese		眩晕. (various references)

Danish		vertigo. (various references)

Dutch		duizeligheid (dizziness), vertigo, duizeling (dizziness). (various references)

Esperanto		vertiĝo (dizziness). (various references)

Farsi		چرخش بدور, سرگیجه , دوارسر, دوران (Race, Rotation, Season). (various references)

Finnish		pyörrytys (dizziness, giddiness), pyörryttää (dizziness, giddiness), huimaus (dizziness, giddiness). (various references)

French		vertige. (various references)

German		Schwindel (bogus, con, con trick, confidence game, dizziness, dodge, fake, fakes, fraud, fraud in mortgage dealings, giddiness, goldbrick, imposture, lie, quackery, skin game, swindle), Vertigo. (various references)

Greek		ζάλη (confusion, dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, swim, tizzy, whirl). (various references)

Hebrew		�"סתובבות �"ראש (dizziness), סחרחורת (dizziness, giddiness, stagger, swirl). (various references)

Hungarian		szédülés (dizziness, giddiness, swim). (various references)

Indonesian		rasa pusing, kegamangan (dizziness, nervousness). (various references)

Italian		vertigine (dizziness, giddiness). (various references)

Manx		thollaneys (dizziness, giddiness, headiness, stupefaction, stupor), eddrymid king, chingys cassee. (various references)

Pig Latin		ertigovay

Portuguese		vertigem (dizziness, dizzy, giddiness, maziness, qualm, stagger, swim), tontura (dizziness, giddiness, mazurka, qualm, stagger, swim). (various references)

Romanian		ameţealã (dizziness, giddiness, intoxication). (various references)

Russian		головокружение (dizziness, giddiness, swimming, wooziness). (various references)

Scottish		stùirt, guairdean. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrtoglavica (dizziness, giddiness). (various references)

Spanish		vértigo (altitude sickness, dizziness, whirl). (various references)

Swedish		svindelanfall. (various references)

Turkish		baş dönmesi (dizziness, giddiness, swim, swimming of the head, whirl). (various references)

Ukranian		запоморочення. (various references)

Welsh		pendro (giddiness, staggers), dot (dot, giddiness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vertigo

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vertigo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vertigo

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vertigo": vertigoes, vertigos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vertigo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bertioga, fertig, fertizol, vaertigo, Vattimo, Verdiger, verdigo, verigo, verio, Verrio, Versteeg, Verteegh, vertico, vertiol, virtigo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vertigo"

Words rhyming with "vertigo" (pronounced 'Ver"ti*go'): AErugo, Ago, Amigo, Arango, Archipelago, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Dingo, Drongo, Ego, Ergo, Eringo, Eryngo, Fandango, Farrago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, Fingrigo, flamingo, forgo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, High-go, Hogo, imago, Imbargo, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, Latigo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Migo, Non-ego, Overgo, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, sapsago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago, Suffrago, supercargo, tango, Tongo, Tschego, undergo, Virago, Vitiligo, Ygo. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vertigo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-o-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: goiter, goitre, grivet.
	-2 letters: ergot, giver, griot, grove, ogive, overt, rivet, tiger, trigo, trove, vigor, vireo, vogie, voter.
	-3 letters: ergo, giro, girt, give, goer, gore, grit, grot, ogre, over, riot, rite, rive, rote, roti, rove, tier, tire, tiro, tore, tori, trig, trio, vert, veto, vier, vote.
	-4 letters: ego, erg, get, gie, git, gor, got, ire, ore, ort, reg, rei, ret, rev, rig, roe, rot, teg, tie, toe, tog, tor, veg, vet, vie, vig, voe.
	-5 letters: er, et, go, it, oe, or, re, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-o-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: overgilt, overgirt, ravigote, revoting, vertigos.
	+2 letters: forgetive, grooviest, obverting, overlight, overnight, oversight, ravigotes, revolting, vectoring, vertigoes.
	+3 letters: converting, derogative, invigorate, outserving, overacting, overbright, overeating, overflight, overhating, overlights, overmighty, overnights, overrating, oversights, overtaking, overtaxing, overtiming, overtiring, overturing, overvoting, overweight, renovating, variegator.
	+4 letters: earthmoving, eigenvector, evaporating, invigorated, invigorates, originative, overbeating, overbetting, overcasting, overcutting, overediting, overemoting, overfatigue, overflights, overheating, overhunting, overletting, overlighted, overmelting, overnighted, overnighter, oversalting, oversetting, overstating, overstaying, overtalking, overtasking, overtighten, overtipping, overtoiling, overtopping, overtrading, overturning, overweights, overwetting, overwriting, prerogative, propagative, revoltingly, sovereignty, stevedoring, variegation, variegators, vertiginous.
	+5 letters: contravening, derogatively, earthmovings, eigenvectors, festivalgoer, introverting, inventorying, investigator, overcastings, overcounting, overexciting, overexerting, overfatigued, overfatigues, overhuntings, overlighting, overmatching, overnighters, overnighting, overplanting, overplotting, overprinting, overreacting, overshooting, overstaffing, overstepping, overstirring, overstocking, overstrewing, overstriding, overstriking, overstuffing, overthinking, overthrowing, overtightens, overtraining, overtreating, overtrimming, overtrumping, overwatering, overweighted, precognitive, prerogatived, prerogatives, reconverting, reconvicting, reinvigorate, remotivating, revegetation, seronegative, variegations, vociferating, volunteering.
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