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Definition: SIST |
SISTNoun1. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Transitive verb1. 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. |
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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Movie/TV Titles | Først & sist (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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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 |
sist | 55 |
ovarian sist | 9 |
baker sist | 6 |
ovary sist | 4 |
brain sist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 53 54 |
| 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)01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 0053 0054 |
| 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)53435354 |
| 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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