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"ACADEMICS" is a plural of: academic. |
Date "ACADEMICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Academics The followers of Plato were so called, because they attended his lectures in the Academy, a garden planted by Academos. "See there the olive grove of Academus, Plato's retreat."Milton: Paradise Lost, Book iv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ACADEMICS |
| English words defined with "ACADEMICS": academic gown, academic robe ♦ judge's robe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ACADEMICS": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ University of Edinburgh. (references) |
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Screenplays | Coach, I've been thinking ahead, and I've decided to quit the team and concentrate on the academics. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) | |
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Business | Foreign academics with contacts with China's dissident community have also been refused entry visas. (references) | |
These education and advocacy efforts have also enlisted prominent Japanese academics, including Dr. Okada, University of Osaka Medical School, probably the leading authority on HIT in Japan. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Jordan | Some academics claim that they receive frequent threats of dismissal. (references) |
Colombia | Investigations continued into four 1999 attacks against prominent academics. (references) | |
Jordan | The academics were protesting the absence of employment opportunities at local universities. (references) | |
Economic History | Philippines | English, the most important nonnative language, is used as a second language by many, including nearly all professionals, academics, and government workers. (references) |
Italy | With the Italian economy losing steam, some academics have suggested the need for tax incentives to promote greater labor mobility and prevent labor shortages. (references) | |
Senegal | Judicial--Constitutional Council (appointed by the President from senior magistrates and eminent academics and attorneys), Court of Final Appeals, Council of State. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | The registration process has been criticized by some human rights groups and academics as a restriction on freedom of information. (references) |
Indonesia | Throughout the year in Aceh, armed separatist groups killed dozens of civil society leaders, academics, politicians, and other local residents, as well as civil servants, police, and soldiers. (references) | |
Italy | The nongovernmental organization (NGO) Antigone, which is composed mainly of lawyers, magistrates, and academics, promotes the rights of detainees, works closely with the European Commission for Prevention of Torture, and monitors the prison system. (references) | |
Minorities | Brazil | During the year, the public debate over the best means for addressing the problem, such as affirmative action, intensified between the Government, academics, NGO's, community leaders, and journalists. (references) |
Political Economy | Vietnam | The number and variety of official and private exchanges continue to broaden, including exchanges between officials, academics and businesspeople. (references) |
Spain | ETA sympathizers also conducted a campaign of street violence and vandalism in the Basque region intended to intimidate politicians, academics, and journalists. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saudi Arabia | In general journalists, academics, and businessmen believe that institutionalized avenues of domestic criticism of the regime are closed. (references) |
Qatar | The constitutional committee was inaugurated in July 1999 and includes 36 government officials, academics, and prominent business leaders. (references) | |
Women | Brazil | A national study of rape cases carried out by a group of Sao Paulo academics indicated that family members committed roughly 70 percent of rapes within their own homes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ACADEMICS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACADEMICS" is used about 807 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 (plural) | 100% | 807 | 8,635 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ACADEMICS": non-academics. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACADEMICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | академични аргументи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | akademický úbor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | akademische (academical, scholastical), Akademiker (academic, graduate, person with a university education, university graduate, university graduates, university man, university student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tudományos szőrszálhasogatás, előírásos főiskolai viselet, álokoskodás (chicanery, sophistication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | accadèmico (academic, academically, university graduate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | academicsay академик (academic, academician, university graduate). (various references) academicas, académica (academician). (various references) akademik kıyafet (academic costume, academic dress, Academicals). (various references) суто теоретичні суперечки, суто теоретичні міркування, суто теоретичні аргументи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ACADEMICS": antiacademics, nonacademics. (additional references) | |
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"ACADEMICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acaademics, academi, academica, academicus, academjic, academyish, acadmic, accademic, acedemic, achademic, acidemic, anaemics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ACADEMICS" (pronounced a'kude"miks) |
| 7 | -u d e" m i k s | epidemics. |
| 5 | -e" m i k s | polemics. |
| 4 | -m i k s | aerodynamics, ceramics, comics, dynamics, economics, electrodynamics, ergonomics, gimmicks, hemodynamics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, mimics. |
| 3 | -i k s | acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, anorexics, antibiotics, antics, apparatchiks, appendix, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, avionics, ballistics, basics, batiks, beatniks, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, bishoprics, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, catholics, cervix, characteristics, charismatics, civics, classics, clerics, clinics, conics, cosmetics, Criminalistics, critics, cynics, demographics, diabetics, diagnostics, diuretics, domestics, eccentrics, econometrics, electrics, electronics, epics, ethics, ethnics, eugenics, exotics, fabrics, fanatics, forensics, generics, genetics, geometrics, geopolitics, geriatrics, graphics, gymnastics, harmonics, helix, heroics, hieroglyphics, histrionics, hydraulics, hypnotics, hysterics, informatics, ionics, italics, kibbutzniks, kinetics, limericks, linguistics, logistics, lyrics, Magnetics, mathematics, matrix, mavericks, mechanics, medics, metaphysics, metrics, microelectronics, micrographics, mnemonics, mosaics, mystics, narcotics, Nucleonics, numismatics, obstetrics, onomastics, onyx, optics, orthodontics, oryx, panics, paramedics, Pediatrics, Phenix, Phoenix, phonetics, phonics, photovoltaics, physics, plastics, prefix, prosthetics, psychics, publics, pyrotechnics, refuseniks, relics, reprographics, republics, robotics, romantics, semantics, semiotics, skeptics, sonics, specifics, sputniks, statistics, stoics, suffix, synthetics, systematics, tactics, Technics, tectonics, theatrics, therapeutics, thermoplastics, tonics, topics, toxics, tropics, workaholics. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-s" | |
-1 letter: academic, camisade. | |
-2 letters: acedias, amidase, cascade, cicadae, cicadas, saccade. | |
-3 letters: acedia, amices, amides, cadmic, camisa, camise, caseic, cicada, meccas, medias, medics, sicced. | |
-4 letters: acids, acmes, acmic, aecia, aides, aimed, amias, amice, amide, amids, amies, asdic, aside, cacas, cades, cadis, caeca, caids, camas, cames, cased, cedis, daces, dames, deism, dices, dimes, disme, ideas, maced, maces. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-s" | |
+2 letters: academicism. | |
+3 letters: academicians, academicisms, acclimatised, nonacademics. | |
+4 letters: antiacademics, decalcomanias, miscalculated. | |
+5 letters: monosaccharide. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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