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Definition: ACTON |
ACTONNoun1. A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. |
Date "ACTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Acton \Ac"ton\, noun. [Old French expression aketon, auqueton, French hoqueton, quilted jacket, from Spanish alcoton, algodon, cotton. Compare to Cotton.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Acton A taffeta, or leather-quilted dress, worn under the habergeon to keep the body from being chafed or bruised. (French, hocqueton.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Crosswords: ACTON |
| English words defined with "ACTON": Aketon ♦ Hacqueton, Haketon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ACTON": 01720, 04001 ♦ 46259 ♦ 59002 ♦ 93510. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Wonderful John Acton (1953) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lord Acton | Praise is the shipwreck of historians. |
| Advice to Persons About to Write History -- Don't. | |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | |
| The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. | |
| A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. | |
| Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. | |
| Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. | |
Lord Acton. | Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. |
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| "ACTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACTON" is used about 153 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 (proper) | 100% | 153 | 25,427 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ACTON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Acton | Last name | 2,000 | 6,720 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Acton, CA (CDP, FIPS 212) 2. Acton, IN 3. Acton, MA 4. Acton, ME 5. Acton, MT |
| 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 |
acton ma | 530 |
acton | 152 |
acton ca | 90 |
acton toyota | 30 |
acton ontario | 28 |
acton realty | 27 |
real estate acton | 26 |
acton massachusetts | 24 |
lord acton | 20 |
acton kingdom united | 20 |
acton california | 19 |
acton maine | 19 |
acton contact | 18 |
acton discovery museum | 16 |
acton cafe jazz | 14 |
acton ford | 14 |
acton indoor sports | 13 |
acton mt | 12 |
acton institute | 12 |
acton town | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACTON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 阿克屯. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | actyn. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | actonay актон. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "ACTON": lactone, lactones, lactonic. (additional references) | |
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"ACTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accion, acctcom, Acot, Acott, acten, Acteon, Actron, Akoto, Arcton, Arctons, Aucctu, Auton, Aytoun, Catan, Eciton, Ectona, Eshton, Nacton, Octon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ACTON" (pronounced 'Ac"ton'): Barton, Baston, Batton, Boston, Burton, Carton, Caxton, Chiton, Croton, Emplecton, Homoioptoton, Incanton, Jetton, krypton, Melton, Monton, Moton, Mutton, Panton, Phlogiston, Phyton, Piston, Plankton, Polyptoton, Protiston, Santon, Seton, Sexton, Tetraspaston, Teuton, Triton, unbutton. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: canto, cotan, octan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: cant, coat, nota, taco. | |
-2 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, cot, not, oat, oca, tan, tao, ton. | |
-3 letters: an, at, na, no, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: action, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, cantos, carton, cation, contra, cotans, craton, octane, octans, octant, toucan. | |
+2 letters: account, acetone, aconite, actinon, actions, atonics, auction, botanic, cantdog, cantons, cantors, caption, carotin, cartons, cartoon, cations, caution, centavo, chantor, coagent, coating, coenact, cognate, conatus, connate, contact, contain, contras, coolant, coranto, courant, cratons, enactor, faction, jaconet, lactone, nonfact, octagon, octanes, octanol, octants, paction, sacaton, tachyon, tacnode, taction, toucans, zacaton. | |
+3 letters: accentor, accounts, acetones, acetonic, aconites, aconitic, aconitum, acrodont, actinoid, actinons, agnostic, amniotic, anatomic, ancestor, anchoret, anecdota, anecdote, anoretic, anorthic, anticold, antilock, antirock, auctions, botanica, calutron, canoeist, canonist, cantdogs, cantonal, cantoned, canzonet, caponata, capstone, captions, carotene, carotins, carrotin, cartoned, cartoons, cartoony, caryotin, catenoid, cationic, cautions, cenotaph, centavos, chantors, chitosan, cilantro, citation, coacting, coaction, coagents, coapting, coasting, coatings, coattend, cocoanut, coenacts, cognates, coinmate, colorant, conation, conative, conepate, conepatl, conflate, congrats, constant, contacts, contagia, contains, continua, contract, contrail, contrary, contrast, coolants, coparent, copatron, corantos, coronate, corybant, cosecant, cotenant, cotquean, couchant, countian, courante, couranto, courants, covalent, covenant, cratonic, creation, cyanotic, daltonic, diatonic, downcast, ecotonal, ectozoan, enactors, enactory, endocast, exaction, factions, falconet, fraction, hoactzin, inaction, inchoate, invocate, jaconets, lactones, lactonic, locating, location, monastic, monocrat, narcotic, nonactor, nonfacts, notecase, occupant, oceanaut, octagons, octangle, octanols, octantal, octonary, opencast, optician, oscitant, osculant, ostracon, outdance, outrance, pactions, panoptic, platonic, portance, raincoat, reaction, romantic, sacatons, sanction, sonantic, sonicate, stockman, tachyons, tacnodes, taconite, tactions, tornadic, toxicant, traction, turncoat, uncoated, vacation, vocation, wainscot, zacatons. | |
+4 letters: abduction, abjection, accentors, accordant, accosting, accounted, accretion, aconitums, acrodonts, actinoids, actuation, acylation, addiction, adduction, advection, affection, agnostics, agonistic, aitchbone, albinotic, allantoic, ammonitic, ancestors, anchorets, anchorite, anchoveta, anecdotal, anecdotes, anecdotic, ankylotic, anorectic, anoretics, antechoir, anthocyan, anthropic, anticodon, antiknock, antimacho, antinomic, antishock, antitoxic, antonymic, auctioned, autogenic, autonomic, avocation, bandicoot, baronetcy, botanical, botanicas, calutrons, canoeists, canonists, cantaloup, cantoning, cantorial, canzonets, caponatas, capstones, captioned, carbonate, carnation, carnotite, carotenes, carrotins, cartoning, cartooned, caryotins, caseation, catamount, catatonia, catatonic, catenoids, causation, cautioned, cavorting, ceanothus, cenotaphs, cessation, chatoyant, chelation, chitosans, chromatin, chthonian, cilantros, ciliation, citations, clintonia, coactions, coagulant, coalition, coastings, coastland, coastline, coattends, cobaltine, cocaptain, cocoanuts, coenacted, coeternal, cognately, cognation, cognizant, coinmates, coitional, collating, collation, colorants, combatant, combating, complaint, compliant, conations, concavity, concordat, conepates, conepatls, confidant, conflated, conflates, conjugant, conjugate, connately, consonant, consortia, constable, constancy, constants, constrain, consulate, contacted, contactee, contagion, contagium, contained, container, continual, contracts, contrails, contralto, contrasts, contrasty, contumacy, coparents, copartner, copatrons, copayment, corantoes, cormorant, cornstalk, coronated, coronates, corposant, coruscant, corybants, cosecants, cosmonaut, cotangent, cotenants, cotqueans, countable, countably, countians, courantes, courantos, courtesan, covariant, covenants, crayonist, creations, cremation, crenation, creodonta, croissant, custodian, cutaneous, decathlon, diaconate, dictation, dictional, doctrinal, downcasts, ectozoans, education, encomiast, endocasts, evocation, exactions, factional, factoring, falconets, fictional, fornicate, fractions, furcation, geomantic, gluconate, haplontic, headcount, hoactzins, impaction, inactions, incaution, incognita, incubator, indicator, inoculant, inoculate, invocated, invocates, isooctane, lactation, locations, macintosh, manicotti, manticore, melanotic, monastics, monatomic, monocrats, mortician, mucronate, narcotics, narcotize, nectarous, nicotiana, nocturnal, nonacting, nonaction, nonactors, nonaddict, nonatomic, noncoital, noncombat, nonfactor, nonimpact, nostalgic, notchback, notecases, nucleator, obscurant, obstinacy, occupants, oceanauts, octagonal, octangles, officiant, olfaction, onanistic, onomastic, ontically, opticians, outacting, outdanced, outdances, outfacing, outpacing, outracing, outrances, pantropic, placation, plication, portances, procreant, prolactin, raconteur, raincoats, reactions, recontact, redaction, romantics, sanctions, sectional, sonicated, sonicates, stanchion, stonechat, suctional, suctorian, sycophant, syncopate, taconites, taxonomic, tenacious, thornback, tolerance, tonically, townscape, toxicants, tractions, transonic, turncoats, uncoating, undercoat, vacations, vagotonic, vasotocin, vocations, wainscots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 54 4F 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. - --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010100 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C T O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0054 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3537544948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Cities | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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