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Definitions: Gaelic |
GaelicAdjective1. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts. Noun1. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gaelic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
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Computing | Gaelic For automated test programs. Used in military, essentially replaced by ATLAS. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GaelicSynonyms: Celtic (adj), Erse (n), Goidelic (n). (additional references) |
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Economic History | United Kingdom | Major languages: English, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gaelic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.51% of the time. "Gaelic" is used about 223 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 69.51% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.8% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.69% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 223 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Gaelic": gaelic woman ♦ irish gaelic ♦ Scots Gaelic ♦ Scottish Gaelic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Gaelic": gaelic-english, gaelic-irish, gaelic-medium, gaelic-related, gaelic-speaker, gaelic-speakers, Gaelic-speaking. | |
Ending with "Gaelic": non-gaelic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
gaelic | 398 |
gaelic dictionary | 208 |
gaelic translation | 183 |
gaelic name | 163 |
gaelic translator | 116 |
gaelic language | 99 |
gaelic storm | 86 |
football gaelic | 67 |
irish gaelic | 62 |
english gaelic | 52 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Gaelic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | Kelties (Celtic). (various references) | |
Albanian | gaelishte, gaelik. (various references) | |
Arabic | غيلية لغة في ايرلندا, غيلي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | келтски (celtic). (various references) | |
Chinese | "爾語 , "爾 , 盖". (various references) | |
Czech | gaelština. (various references) | |
Dutch | Keltisch (Celtic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gaela. (various references) | |
Farsi | زبان بومی اسکاتلندی . (various references) | |
French | gaélique. (various references) | |
German | gälisch. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kelta (celt, celtic, Cornish, kelt, keltic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bahasa gael. (various references) | |
Irish | Gaeilge (Gaelic language, Irish language, of Irish language). (various references) | |
Italian | gaelico (Gael). (various references) | |
Manx | Gailckagh, Gaelgagh (highland people, Manx, Scottish Gaelic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aelicgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | celta (celt, celtic, kelt). (various references) | |
Romanian | galic (gallic), celtic (celtic). (various references) | |
Russian | гаэльский язык, гаэльский. (various references) | |
Scottish | g idhlig (nf. the language of the Gaels). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | keltski jezik (celtic), keltski (celtic, keltic). (various references) | |
Spanish | gaélico (erse, Gael), lo gaélico, de gaélico. (various references) | |
Swedish | keltisk (celtic, keltic), gaelisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | keltçe (celtic, cornish, gaulish, keltic), kelt (celt, celtic, Gael, kelt, keltic), iskoçyalı (highlander, scot, scotchman, scotsman, scotswoman, scottish), irlandalı (hibernian, irish, irishman, irishwoman). (various references) | |
Ukranian | гельська мова, гельський. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng Xen-tơ (celtic, keltic). (various references) | |
Welsh | Gaeleg. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gaelic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aeolic, Gablik, Gadelica, Gaeia, gaellic, Galica, Ganelin, Garelli, gelic, Ghellinck, Gianelli, Giulii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l" | |
-1 letter: agile, glace, ileac. | |
-2 letters: alec, cage, ceil, clag, egal, gale, glia, ilea, lace, laic, lice. | |
-3 letters: ace, age, ail, ale, cel, cig, gae, gal, gel, gie, ice, lac, lag, lea, leg, lei, lie. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, el, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l" | |
+1 letter: angelic, anglice, elegiac, galenic, glacier, gracile, pelagic. | |
+2 letters: algicide, allergic, angelica, cageling, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleaving, collegia, elegiacs, enlacing, gestical, glaceing, glaciate, glaciers, glacises, graciles, lacewing, leaching, legacies, mucilage, relacing, teiglach. | |
+3 letters: algaecide, algebraic, algicides, allogenic, analgesic, analgetic, angelical, angelicas, anglicise, anglicize, becalming, bleaching, bricolage, cagelings, calcifuge, canceling, cartilage, cellaring, chelating, cingulate, clavering, cleansing, clearings, clearwing, clientage, cogitable, coleading, coliphage, collegial, collegian, colligate, congenial, coxalgies, curtilage, declaring, declawing, elegiacal, emplacing, evangelic, galenical, gallicize, garlicked, genetical, genically, genitalic, genocidal, glaciated, glaciates, graticule, lacewings, lackering, lackeying, lethargic, lightface, logaoedic, mucilages, neuralgic, parceling, pleaching, recalling, recoaling, regicidal, replacing, rescaling, sacrilege, viceregal, vigilance. | |
+4 letters: algaecides, allegiance, allergenic, allogeneic, analgesics, analgetics, anglicised, anglicises, anglicized, anglicizes, apologetic, bechalking, beclasping, becloaking, becrawling, blackening, bricolages, calcifuges, calipering, cancelling, cartilages, changeling, channeling, clabbering, clambering, clattering, clearwings, clientages, coalescing, cognizable, coliphages, collegians, collegiate, colligated, colligates, concealing, congealing, congenital, corelating, curtilages, declaiming, declassing, delegacies, ecological, egoistical, elegancies, enclasping, enological, epipelagic, escalading, escalating, escaloping, exactingly, exclaiming, exegetical, galenicals, gallicized, gallicizes, geniculate, geodetical, geological, germicidal, glauconite, graticules, hatcheling, inelegance, lacerating, lacquering, lacqueying, lactogenic, legalistic, legitimacy, lightfaced, lightfaces, logaoedics, malignance, marcelling, megalithic, menacingly, nucleating, oligoclase, opalescing, paraplegic, parcelling, peculating, phlegmatic, prelogical, preplacing, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, relocating, retackling, sacrileges, scragglier, slackening, spanceling, theurgical, ulcerating, vigilances. | |
+5 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, acromegalic, affectingly, agriculture, alchemizing, allegiances, allegorical, altercating, angelically, apologetics, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, backlighted, beclamoring, bellyaching, berascaling, blackenings, cakewalking, calendaring, calendering, callipering, candlelight, caressingly, cartelising, cartelizing, categorical, cavaliering, celebrating, centrifugal, challenging, chandelling, changelings, channelling, cleistogamy, cliffhanger, collegially, colligative, congelation, congenially, consignable, correlating, cytomegalic, deadlocking, decollating, defalcating, deglaciated, demiurgical, disgraceful, egomaniacal, egotistical, ejaculating, elegiacally, elucidating, embracingly, encapsuling, enigmatical, enucleating, escalloping, ethological, etiological, eugenically, evangelical, exculpating, explicating, facelifting, flagrancies, freelancing, galactoside, gametically, geanticline, gemological, generically, genetically, geniculated, genotypical, geochemical, geometrical, geophysical, gesticulant, gesticulate, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, glucosidase, glycerinate, glycosidase, gracileness, gracilities, griddlecake, hatchelling, hematologic, ideological, inelegances, interlacing, linebacking, linecasting, logicalness, logomachies, lowercasing, maledicting, malignances, medicolegal, megalomanic, mesopelagic, mineralogic, multiagency, nonallergic, oligarchies, oligochaete, oligoclases, overcalling, panegyrical, paraplegics, pedagogical, pedological, penological, percolating, plagioclase, plangencies, praelecting, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, racewalking, rebalancing, relaunching, reluctating, replicating, rheological, scatologies, scraggliest, screamingly, searchingly, searchlight, serological, shellacking, spaceflight, spancelling, speculating, strategical, telecasting, telegraphic, teratologic, theological, unceasingly, uncongenial, viceregally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 65 6C 69 63 |
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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)01000111 01100001 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a e l i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0065 006C 0069 0063 |
| 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)416771787569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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