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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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: CRIM |
| English words defined with "CRIM": Criminal conversation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRIM": CON. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.64% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 127 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crim | Last name | 2,000 | 6,877 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
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. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crimen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 52 49 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000011 01010010 01001001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R I M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 0049 004D |
| 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)37524347 |
| 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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