CRIM

  

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CRIM

Date "CRIM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1796. (references)

"CRIM" is a common misspelling or typo for: cram, crib, crime, crimp, scrim.


Specialty Definition: CRIM

DomainDefinition

Census

(Council on Regulatory and Information Management) An organization representing businesses, especially small businesses, which desire more carefully crafted Federal information collections and the release of data collected in a timely and more readily understandable manner. Formerly the Business Council on the Reduction of Paperwork (BCORP). (references)

Slang in 1811

CRIM. CON. MONEY. Damages directed by a jury to be paid by a convicted adulterer to the injured husband, for criminal conversation with his wife. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: CRIM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impurity

Prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim. coNoun: free love.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CRIM

English words defined with "CRIM": Criminal conversation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CRIM": CON. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CRIM

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: CRIM

"CRIM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.64% of the time. "CRIM" is used about 127 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
Noun (proper)97.64%12428,785
Lexical Verb (base form)1.57%2245,945
Noun (singular)0.79%1339,140
                    Total100.00%127N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: CRIM

The following table summarizes the usage of "CRIM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CrimLast name2,0006,877
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRIM

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

crim

62

mort crim

11

crim puerto rico

6

crim high school

6

crim race

6

crim festival race

5

al crim

4

crim flint

3

chuck crim

3

communication crim mort

3

crim race road

2

crim travis

2

bobby crim

2

crim true

2

crim property puerto rico tax

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

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Ancestral Language Translations: CRIM

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

crimen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: CRIM

Derivations

Words beginning with "CRIM": crime, crimeless, crimes, criminal, criminalistics, criminalities, criminality, criminalization, criminalizations, criminalize, criminalized, criminalizes, criminalizing, criminally, criminals, criminate, criminated, criminates, criminating, crimination, criminations, criminological, criminologically, criminologies, criminologist, criminologists, criminology, criminous, crimmer, crimmers, crimp, crimped, crimper, crimpers, crimpier, crimpiest, crimping, crimple, crimpled, crimples, crimpling, crimps, crimpy, crimson, crimsoned, crimsoning, crimsons. (additional references)

Words ending with "CRIM": scrim. (additional references)

Words containing "CRIM": acrimonies, acrimonious, acrimoniously, acrimoniousness, acrimoniousnesses, acrimony, anticrime, antidiscrimination, becrime, becrimed, becrimes, becriming, decriminalization, decriminalizations, decriminalize, decriminalized, decriminalizes, decriminalizing, discriminabilities, discriminability, discriminable, discriminably, discriminant, discriminants, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, discriminatingly, discrimination, discriminational, discriminations, discriminative, discriminator, discriminatorily, discriminators, discriminatory, encrimson, encrimsoned, encrimsoning, encrimsons, incriminate, incriminated, incriminates, incriminating, incrimination, incriminations, incriminatory, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, indiscriminateness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CRIM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-m-r"

-1 letter: mir, rim.

-2 letters: mi.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-m-r"
 

+1 letter: chirm, crime, crimp, micra, micro, scrim.

 

+2 letters: bromic, cerium, chimar, chimer, chirms, chrism, corium, crimes, crimps, crimpy, crinum, curium, dermic, formic, karmic, metric, micron, micros, mincer, myrica, racism, scrimp, scrims, smirch, uremic.

 

+3 letters: aciform, acromia, becrime, cambric, campier, carmine, ceramic, ceriums, charism, chimars, chimera, chimere, chimers, chirmed, chrisma, chrisms, chrisom, chromic, claimer, climber, comfier, confirm, coremia, cormoid, crampit, cranium, crimmer, crimped, crimper, crimple, crimson, crinums, crissum, crummie, cumarin, curiums, czarism, dharmic, dimeric, dormice, empiric, excimer, fumaric, grimace, incomer, keramic, mantric, mercies, meropic, metrics, mickler, micrify, microbe, microhm, microns, mimicry, mincers, mincier, minicar, minorca, miracle, moronic, morphic, mortice, motoric, muckier, murices, myricas, myrrhic, narcism, numeric, omicron, primacy, pumicer, racemic, racisms, reclaim, rheumic, rhombic, rimrock, scrimps, scrimpy, spermic, thermic, trismic, uraemic, viremic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CRIM


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

43 52 49 4D

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)

01000011 01010010 01001001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#73 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0049 004D

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

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

37524347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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