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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ninian (St.). The apostle of the Picts (fourth and fifth centuries). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NINIAN |
| Specialty definitions using "NINIAN": Apostles, where buried. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ship's Medical Officers and Paymaster, circa late 1864 or early 1865. Those present are (as numbered on the print): 1. Acting Assistant Surgeon James T. Field, 2. Acting Assistant Paymaster Alexander W. Pearson, 3. George Lawrence, 4. Acting Assistant Surgeon George H. Bixby, 5. Assistant Surgeon James S. Knight, 6. Fleet Surgeon Ninian Pinkney, 7. Assistant Surgeon Michael Bradley. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "NINIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 56.76% of the time. "NINIAN" is used about 74 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) | 56.76% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.38% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.86% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | 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 |
ninian smart | 6 |
ninian st | 5 |
beall ninian | 3 |
ninian | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-n-n" | |
-2 letters: inia. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, inn, nan. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-n-n" | |
+2 letters: cannikin, mannikin, pannikin. | |
+3 letters: anointing, antiunion, antivenin, cannikins, financing, inanition, incanting, indignant, infantine, insnaring, mannikins, pannikins, picaninny, unnailing. | |
+4 letters: antinomian, antivenins, canonising, canonizing, containing, enchaining, engraining, entraining, financings, inanitions, ingraining, innominate, innovating, innovation, inspanning, instancing, intonating, intonation, inundating, inundation, mainlining, nicknaming, nominating, nomination, nonaspirin, noninitial, pickaninny, pinnacling, unchaining. | |
+5 letters: angiotensin, annualizing, antihunting, antinomians, cannabinoid, chagrinning, cinnabarine, cofinancing, enunciating, enunciation, fountaining, frangipanni, inattention, incantation, incarnadine, incarnating, incarnation, inclination, incognizant, indentation, indignantly, indignation, innervating, innervation, innovations, insinuating, insinuation, intensional, intentional, intonations, inundations, lancinating, maintaining, misplanning, nominations, nonaspirins, nonclinical, noncriminal, noninitiate, noninvasive, nonirritant, nonmilitant, nonmusician, picaninnies, quinquennia, reanointing, refinancing, sanctioning, tyrannising, tyrannizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 4E 49 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01001110 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I N I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 004E 0049 0041 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)484348433548 |
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