BELGIC

  

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BELGIC

Definitions: BELGIC

BELGIC

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.

2. Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Belgic \Bel"gic\, adjective. [Latin expression Belgicus, from Belgae the Belgians.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Usage Frequency: BELGIC

"BELGIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BELGIC" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Expression: BELGIC

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BELGIC": gallo-belgic.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BELGIC

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

belgic confession

6

belgic

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BELGIC

Language Translations for "BELGIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

németalföldi (Dutch, netherlander). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elgicbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BELGIC"

Words rhyming with "BELGIC" (pronounced 'Bel"gic'): Antalgic, Antiodontalgic, Demiurgic, Dramaturgic, Fungic, Moringic, Neuralgic, Nostalgic, Odontalgic, Otalgic, Panurgic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BELGIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-g-i-l"

-1 letter: bilge.

-2 letters: bice, bile, ceil, gibe, glib, lice.

-3 letters: beg, bel, big, cel, cig, gel, gib, gie, ice, leg, lei, lib, lie.

-4 letters: be, bi, el, li.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-g-i-l"
 

+2 letters: belching.

 

+3 letters: algebraic, becalming, bleaching, blenching, bricolage, cogitable, corbeling.

 

+4 letters: bechalking, beclasping, becloaking, beclogging, beclothing, beclouding, beclowning, becomingly, becrawling, beflecking, blackening, bricolages, bucklering, clabbering, clambering, clobbering, cognizable, corbelings, corbelling, corrigible, subceiling.

 

+5 letters: backlighted, beclamoring, becudgeling, bellyaching, berascaling, bibliopegic, blackenings, celebrating, cognoscible, consignable, embracingly, goldbricked, linebacking, obsolescing, prebiologic, rebalancing, subceilings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BELGIC


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

42 45 4C 47 49 43

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    .-..    --.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01000101 01001100 01000111 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#76 &#71 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 004C 0047 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

363946414337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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