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Definition: DESISTED |
DESISTEDImperative & past participle1. Of Desist |
Date "DESISTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: DESISTED |
| Etymologies containing "DESISTED": Desist. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | BOLIVIA | The past two governments attempted to revise the Labor Code but desisted in the face of COB opposition. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DESISTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "DESISTED" is used about 15 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
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 |
desisted | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DESISTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 停止 (Cease, Ceased, Ceasing, Cessation, Descend, Descended, Descending, Desist, Desisting, stoppage, stopped, stopped-up, stopping, Stopping-out). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | désistai, désistâmes, désistèrent, désista. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | ließ ab (surceased). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esistedday desistido. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DESISTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desiate, desista, d'exister. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: teddies. | |
-2 letters: deists, desist, dieses, dieted, dissed, eddies, edited, seised, steeds. | |
-3 letters: deeds, deets, deist, didst, diets, dites, edits, seeds, seise, sided, sides, sited, sites, steed, stied, sties, tided, tides. | |
-4 letters: deed, dees, deet, died, dies, diet, diss, dite, dits, edit, eide, eses, ides, seed, sees, seis, sets, side, site, sits, teds, teed, tees. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disseated, dissected, dissented, disserted. | |
+2 letters: dermestids, distressed. | |
+3 letters: desiderates, disesteemed, disinfested, disinvested, dissertated, eisteddfods, sidestepped, splendidest, studiedness. | |
+4 letters: desensitized, detailedness, dipeptidases, directedness, disquietudes, disrespected, disseminated, indebtedness, understudies. | |
+5 letters: delightedness, desiderations, disendowments, disinterested, dislodgements, studiednesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 53 49 53 54 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ... .. ... - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E S I S T E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0053 0049 0053 0054 0045 0044 |
| 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)3839534353543938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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