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Definition: ECLIPSED |
ECLIPSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Eclipse |
Date "ECLIPSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: ECLIPSED |
| English words defined with "ECLIPSED": eclipse ♦ Lunar ecliptic limit ♦ partial eclipse ♦ S.O.P., S/N, SA, Solar ecliptic limit, Storm Troops, Sturmarbeiteilung ♦ total eclipse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ECLIPSED": Bolts ♦ Kick the Beam ♦ Moon-maker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A&E Biography: Eclipsed by Death - The Life of River Phoenix (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade erected on this spot and eclipsed elsewhere by the barricade of Saint Merry. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kenya | Arab dominance on the coast was eclipsed by the arrival in 1498 of the Portuguese, who gave way in turn to Islamic control under the Imam of Oman in the 1600s. The United Kingdom established its influence in the 19th century. (references) |
Switzerland | The principal factor, however, which eclipsed Fairchild-Dornier's proposal in favor of the Brazilian jet maker, called for the possibility of a package solution, whereby large commuter airplanes (70-seat ERJ 170 and the 108-seat ERJ-190) as well as the smaller ERJ-135 and ERJ-145 (37 to 50-seat market segment) could be secured. (references) | |
Political Economy | Albania | Transparency and corruption have eclipsed public order as the key issues affecting the business climate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ECLIPSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 76.80% of the time. "ECLIPSED" is used about 125 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 participle) | 76.8% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20.8% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.4% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ECLIPSED": be eclipsed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ECLIPSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 蚀 (ECLIPSE, Eclipsing). (various references) | |
French | conformation éclipsée (eclipsed conformation). (various references) | |
German | verfinstert (obfuscates). (various references) | |
Italian | eclissare (be eclipsed, disappear, eclipse, obscure, outshine, overshadow). (various references) | |
Korean | 가리ëŠ" (Screened, Shrouded). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eclipseday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gidim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coniventes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"ECLIPSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecclipse, eclampsia, eclipes, eclips, ecllipse, elipsot, recollapsed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ECLIPSED" (pronounced ikli"pst or ēkli"pst) |
| 3 | -p s t | collapsed, elapsed, glimpsed, lapsed, relapsed. |
| 3 | -p s t | collapsed, elapsed, glimpsed, lapsed, relapsed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pedicels, pedicles. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: deciles, eclipse, pedicel, pedicle, speiled, spieled, spliced. | |
-2 letters: ceiled, cleped, clepes, decile, deices, diesel, dispel, ediles, elides, espied, lisped, peised, pieced, pieces, sedile, seidel, sliced, sliped, specie, spiced, spiled, splice. | |
-3 letters: cedes, cedis, ceils, cepes, clepe, clips, deeps, deice, deils, deles, delis, dices, edile, elide, epics, idles, isled, pedes, peels, peise, peles, piece, piled, piles, plied, plies, sepic, sidle, siped, sleep, slice, slide, slipe, speed, speel, speil, spice, spied, spiel, spile. | |
-4 letters: cede, cedi, cees, ceil, cels, cepe, ceps, clip, deep, dees, deil, dele, deli, dels, dice, diel, dies, dips, disc, eels, eide, elds, else, epic, iced, ices, ides, idle, isle, lees, leis, lice, lids, lied, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, pecs, peds, peed, peel, pees, pele, pice, pics, pied, pies, pile, pled, plie, seed, seel, seep, sice, side, sild, sipe, sled, slid, slip, spec, sped, spic. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, cep, cis, dee, del, die, dip, dis, eds, eel, eld, els, ice, ids, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lip, lis, pec, ped, pee, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, see, sei, sel, sic, sip. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: chelipeds, presliced, respliced. | |
+2 letters: despicable. | |
+3 letters: fieldpieces, pediculates, pediculoses, predicables, psychedelia, psychedelic, specialised, specialized, supercoiled, velocipedes. | |
+4 letters: displaceable, displacement, kaleidoscope, peccadilloes, pitchblendes, placidnesses, psychedelias, psychedelics, reduplicates, stepchildren. | |
+5 letters: depoliticizes, descriptively, diencephalons, displacements, disrespectful, encyclopedias, encyclopedism, encyclopedist, glycopeptides, kaleidoscopes, pickerelweeds, plerocercoids, predilections, prescheduling, reproducibles, sextuplicated, supercollider, unspecialized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 43 4C 49 50 53 45 44 |
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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)01000101 01000011 01001100 01001001 01010000 01010011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E C L I P S E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0043 004C 0049 0050 0053 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)3937464350533938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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