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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Carpe Diem Enjoy yourself while you have the opportunity. Seize the present day. (Horace: 1 Odes, xi. 8.) "Dum vivimus, vivamus." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Phrase: carpe diem; (opportunity); nulla dies sine linea; nec mora nec requies; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done; (early); "veni vidi vici"; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig; dictum ac factum; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter; "the busy hum of men ". |
Occasion | Phrase: carpe diem; occasionem cognosce; one's hour is come, the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it; bien perdu bien connu; e sempre l'ora; ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius; nosce tempus; nunc aut nunquam. |
Time | D calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion "; " rich with the spoils of time"; tempus edax rerum; "the long hours come and go"; "the time is out of joint"; "Time rolls his ceaseless course"; "Time the foe of man's dominion"; "time wasted is existence, used is life"; truditur dies die; volat hora per orbem; carpe diem. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! (Dead Poets Society; writing credit: Tom Schulman.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carpe Diem (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Carpe diem hora adest vespertina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-p-r" | |
-1 letter: medicare, premedic. | |
-2 letters: amerced, campier, capered, cramped, creamed, crimped, deciare, demirep, epiderm, impeder, peracid, pierced, premade, racemed. | |
-3 letters: admire, aeried, amerce, ampere, apiece, camped, camper, caried, carped, craped, creped, damper, dearie, decamp, decare, deicer, deperm, dermic, diaper, empire, epimer, impede, mediae, paired, pardee, pardie, peaced, perdie, pereia, permed, pieced, piecer, pierce, premed, premie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-p-r" | |
+1 letter: imprecated, premedical. | |
+2 letters: predicament. | |
+3 letters: predicaments, predominance. | |
+4 letters: intercompared, interpandemic, predominances. | |
+5 letters: predominancies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 50 45      44 49 45 4D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010010 01010000 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001001 01000101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R P E   D I E M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0050 0045      0044 0049 0045 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3735525039238433947 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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