SIST

  

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SIST

Definition: SIST

SIST

Noun

1. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

Transitive verb

1. To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.

2. To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: SIST

Non-English Usage: "SIST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Norwegian (final), Swedish (last, latest).

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Modern Usage: SIST

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Først & sist (1998)

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

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Commercial Usage: SIST

DomainTitle

Books

  • Administracion y Manejo de Sist y Distrit de Riego (reference)

  • Den som ler sist : noveller (reference)

  • Diagnostico Por Imagen - Sist. Musculoesqu.- En CD (reference)

  • Dinero Loco - El Descontrol del Sist Financ Global (reference)

  • Oppe f˛rst og sist i seng : husarbeid i Norge fra 1850 til i dag (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: SIST

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Where two Catholic sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two Catholic sisters were praying before this crucifix in a convent in Algiers when German dive-bombers almost demolished the building, killing them and thirteen other nuns. The fifteen sist. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIST

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

sist

55

ovarian sist

9

baker sist

6

ovary sist

4

brain sist

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "SIST": sister, sistered, sisterhood, sisterhoods, sistering, sisterly, sisters, sistra, sistroid, sistrum, sistrums. (additional references)

Words ending with "SIST": assist, bassist, classist, coassist, consist, contrabassist, desist, fantasist, geodesist, insist, narcissist, persist, photoresist, resist, solipsist, subsist, synthesist. (additional references)

Words containing "SIST": assistance, assistances, assistant, assistants, assistantship, assistantships, assisted, assister, assisters, assisting, assistor, assistors, assists, bassists, classists, coassisted, coassisting, coassists, consisted, consistence, consistences, consistencies, consistency, consistent, consistently, consisting, consistorial, consistories, consistory, consists, contrabassists, desistance, desistances, desisted, desisting, desists, fantasists, geodesists, inconsistence, inconsistences, inconsistencies, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconsistently, insisted, insistence, insistences, insistencies, insistency, insistent, insistently. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sits.

Words within the letters "i-s-s-t"

-1 letter: its, sis, sit, tis.

-2 letters: is, it, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "i-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cists, fists, gists, hists, kists, lists, mists, satis, shist, shits, sifts, silts, sites, situs, skits, slits, snits, spits, sties, stirs, suits, wists.

 

+2 letters: agists, assist, cistus, deists, desist, exists, feists, firsts, foists, grists, heists, hoists, insets, insist, islets, istles, joists, maists, midsts, misset, odists, pastis, pistes, posits, ptosis, resist, sadist, saints, satins, schist, sexist, shiest, shifts, shirts, shists, shtiks, siesta, sights, sister, sistra, sitars, situps, sixtes, sixths, skirts, skites, sliest, smites, smiths, spaits, spirts, spites, splits, sprits, staigs, stains, stairs, stasis, steins, stichs, sticks, stiffs, stiles, stills, stilts, stimes, stings, stinks, stints, stipes, stirks, stirps, stoics, strips, suints, suites, swifts, tassie, testis, thesis, tissue, tmesis, tsadis, tsoris, tsuris, tussis, twists, visits, vistas, waists, whists, wisest, wrists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SIST


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

53 49 53 54

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

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

=

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)

01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0053 0054

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

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

53435354

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INDEX

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


  

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