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Date "PELION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pelion Heaping Ossa upon Pelion. Adding difficulty to difficulty, embarassment to embarrassment, etc. When the giants tried to scale heaven, they placed Mount Ossa upon Mount Pelion for a scaling ladder. "Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam" Virgil: Georgics, i. 281. A noteworthy hexameter verse. The i of "conati" does not elide, nor yet the o of "Pelio." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. |
Gravity | Lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens. |
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| "PELION" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "PELION" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
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1. Pelion, SC (town, FIPS 55420) |
Expressions using "PELION": heap Ossa upon Pelion ♦ Ossa on Pelion. Additional references. | |
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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 |
pelion | 52 |
pelion south carolina | 22 |
greece pelion | 15 |
pelion high school | 6 |
pelion hotel | 3 |
mt pelion | 3 |
greece mount pelion | 3 |
pelion peninsula | 3 |
mountain ossa pelion | 2 |
mount pelion | 2 |
pelion walk | 2 |
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Misspellings | |
"PELION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apeldorn, Nelion, Palloni, Pellion, pelon, Perion, Phlegon, Pierleoni, Pleione, Pliun, Polenov, Polikon, Pulsion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pinole. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: eloin, olein, opine, pelon. | |
-2 letters: enol, leno, lien, line, lino, lion, lipe, loin, lone, lope, noel, noil, nope, open, pein, peon, pile, pine, pion, plie, pole, pone. | |
-3 letters: eon, ion, lei, lie, lin, lip, lop, nil, nip, oil, ole, one, ope, pen, pie, pin, poi, pol. | |
-4 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne, no. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: eloping, epsilon, opaline, pinhole, pinocle, pinoles, potline, proline, topline. | |
+2 letters: antipole, aphelion, bonspiel, compline, epsilons, leporine, leptonic, opalines, palinode, pelorian, pemoline, peopling, phelonia, phenolic, picoline, pinholes, pinochle, pinocles, plotline, polyenic, potlines, prolines, replicon, terpinol, tholepin, toplines, unpolite. | |
+3 letters: aneuploid, antipoles, aphelions, bluepoint, bonspiels, complines, depletion, deploring, deploying, diplotene, employing, epilation, epsilonic, exploding, exploring, explosion, expulsion, interlope, lithopone, loppering, necropoli, nemophila, neophilia, neoplasia, nilpotent, nonpareil, nonpolice, oenophile, palinodes, panoplied, panoplies, parhelion, pemolines, phelonion, phenolics, phonolite, picolines, pinfolded, pinochles, piperonal, planetoid, plotlines, pointedly, pointelle, pointless, poleaxing, policeman, policemen, pollening, pollinate, polonaise, polyamine, polygenic, pommeling, porcelain, potential, prelusion, prolamine, pronuclei, purloined, purloiner, repletion, replicons, repolling, repulsion, simpleton, spinulose, spoilsmen, terpineol, terpinols, tholepins, unpoliced, unspoiled, xenophile. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 4C 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E L I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 004C 0049 004F 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503946434948 |
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