LECTION

  

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LECTION

Definitions: LECTION

LECTION

Noun

1. A reading; a variation in the text.

2. A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LECTION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Etymology: Lection \Lec"tion\, noun. [Latin expression lectio, from legere, lectum, to read. See lesson, Legend.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: LECTION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version.

Speciality

Noun: {opp. } speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; (tendency); personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness; Adjective: singularity; (unconformity); reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LECTION

Non-English Usage: "LECTION" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (lection).

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Commercial Usage: LECTION

DomainTitle

Books

  • Faith to Move Mountains: Reflections on the Gospels of the Lection. (reference)

  • Lection (reference)

  • Midrash and lection in Matthew; the Speaker's Lectures in Biblical Studies, 1969-71 (reference)

  • Twentieth Century Interpretations of Modern Chicano Writers: A Col Lection of Critical Essays (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LECTION

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lection

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LECTION

Language Translations for "LECTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

variant i kuptimit të tekstit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فصل من الكتاب المقدس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вариант на текст (reading). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přednáška (lecture, reading, talk). (various references)

   

French

  

lection. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectionlay

   

Portuguese

  

lição (for example, lesson, task), atril (lectern, ledge, speaker's desk). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lecturã (read, reading), text din evanghelie, citit (deeply read, read, well read), citire (deciphering, perusal, read, reading). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разночтение, чтение (read, reading). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lekcija (lesson), varijanta (variant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lección (class, lesson, message). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

різночитання (variant), читання (read, reading). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LECTION

Derivations

Words beginning with "LECTION": lectionaries, lectionary, lections. (additional references)

Words ending with "LECTION": antireflection, collection, deflection, election, flection, genuflection, inflection, intellection, misrecollection, nonelection, postelection, predilection, preelection, prelection, preselection, recollection, reelection, reflection, retroflection, retroreflection, selection, subcollection. (additional references)

Words containing "LECTION": collections, deflections, electioneer, electioneered, electioneerer, electioneerers, electioneering, electioneers, elections, flections, genuflections, inflectional, inflectionally, inflections, intellections, misrecollections, nonelections, noninflectional, predilections, preelections, prelections, preselections, recollections, reelections, reflectional, reflections, retroflections, retroreflections, selectionist, selectionists, selections, subcollections. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LECTION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alection, Eciton, iliction, lecitin, lecteen, lecten, lectin, lectirn, lectron, lentizol, Licino, Locton, luctian, slectionn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LECTION"

Words rhyming with "LECTION" (pronounced 'Lec"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LECTION

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-t"

-1 letter: cineol, citole, client, enolic, entoil, lectin, lentic, noetic, notice.

-2 letters: cento, cline, clone, colin, conte, elint, eloin, inlet, lento, lotic, nicol, oleic, olein, ontic, telic, teloi, toile, tonic.

-3 letters: ceil, celt, cent, cine, cion, cite, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cole, colt, cone, coni, cote, enol, etic, icon, into, leno, lent, lice, lien.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: election, flection, lections, leptonic, telsonic.

 

+2 letters: centriole, chelation, closeting, coastline, cobaltine, colleting, elections, elocution, flections, inoculate, interlock, melanotic, neolithic, niccolite, reliction, sclerotin, sectional, selection, touchline.

 

+3 letters: actinolite, actionable, actionless, antipolice, beclothing, centillion, centrioles, chelations, chlorinate, citronella, clingstone, clinometer, clothespin, coastlines, cobaltines, colemanite, collecting, collection, completing, completion, compliment, conciliate, conflicted, congenital, consultive, contritely, corelating, costliness, covetingly, deflection, electroing, electronic, elocutions, endolithic, escalation, ethnologic, flounciest, glauconite, inchoately, incomplete, inflection, innocently, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, interlocal, interlocks, laceration, lactogenic, lectionary, licentious, monostelic, neoplastic, niccolites, nonelastic, nonethical, noticeable, noticeably, novaculite, novelistic, nucleation, nucleotide, occidental, peculation, pleonastic, pleustonic, pratincole, prelection, reclothing, reelection, reflection, relictions, relocating, relocation, sclerotins, sectionals, selections, skeletonic, solonetzic, teleonomic, telephonic, touchlines, ulceration, xenolithic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LECTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 43 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    -.-.    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46393754434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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