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Definitions: LECTION |
LECTIONNoun1. A reading; a variation in the text. 2. A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service. |
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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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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| 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 |
lection | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 lição (for example, lesson, task), atril (lectern, ledge, speaker's desk). (various references) lecturã (read, reading), text din evanghelie, citit (deeply read, read, well read), citire (deciphering, perusal, read, reading). (various references) разночтение, чтение (read, reading). (various references) lekcija (lesson), varijanta (variant). (various references) lección (class, lesson, message). (various references) різночитання (variant), читання (read, reading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 43 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . -.-. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E C T I O N |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46393754434948 |
| 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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