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Definition: CACTI |
CACTIPlural1. Of Cactus |
Date "CACTI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CACTI | English | Common Agriculture-Customs Transmission of Information | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cross in the Cacti (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
A barbed-wire fence, Prickly pear cacti, and a cow in the background.Credit: Beth Perault. | Desert vegetation in the form of cacti and trees.Credit: Unknown. | ||
A field of Prickly Pear Cacti and wildflowers in the Agua Fria National Monument.Credit: Christine Tincher. | Prickly Pear cacti grow all over the Agua Fria National Monument.Credit: Christine Tincher. | ||
A scene with Prickly Pear cacti in the foreground and mountains in the background.Credit: Chris Tincher. | A desert tree and Prickly Pear cacti.Credit: Chris Tincher. | ||
A large tree and some prickly pear cacti on the foreground.Credit: Chris Tincher. | Cacti and other desert plants growing alongside a road in the Grand Canyon-Parshant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. | ||
Rocks, Cacti, and desert plants pepper the side of this mountian in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. | Two Mountains from a valley in the background of this picture with cacti and other desert plants in the foreground.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "CACTI" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.98% of the time. "CACTI" is used about 41 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 (plural) | 60.98% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.71% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CACTI": barrel cacti ♦ Coccus cacti. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CACTI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 仙人掌 (Cactus, Cactuses). (various references) | |
German | Kakteen (cactuses). (various references) | |
Korean | 인장 (Cactus, Cactuses). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cactos. (various references) | |
Spanish | cactus (CACTUS, Carlos addition for clustered terminal user agents), cactos (cactuses), pl. de cactus, personas solas. (various references) | |
Ukranian | кактус (cactus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CACTI" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acci, acti, akti, caccia, Cacdp, cacia, Cacif, cacki, cact, cactic, caki, Cancri, canti, cantii, caoty, casati, casti, Catcote, cati, Catti, cauti, cauty, Cawte, Ccbi, cci, Ccmi, Cctu, ceci, cesti, cestui, ceti, Ciftci, cincta, clact, cocti, cract, Cuci, facti, iacta, Jacta, Mcactear, Shakti, Zakuti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-t" | |
-2 letters: act, ait, cat, tic. | |
-3 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-t" | |
+1 letter: acetic, arctic, cantic, lactic, tactic, tictac. | |
+2 letters: acmatic, acrotic, actinic, arctics, ascetic, ascitic, atactic, cactoid, calcite, caustic, chaotic, clastic, comatic, ectatic, octadic, practic, sciatic, tactics, tictacs. | |
+3 letters: accident, accredit, acentric, acetonic, acetylic, acidotic, aconitic, acoustic, acrostic, apractic, ascetics, atechnic, caducity, calcites, calcitic, canticle, capacity, carditic, carritch, caryatic, catchier, catching, catechin, cathodic, catholic, cationic, caustics, chiastic, chitchat, cicatrix, clastics, climatic, coacting, coaction, coactive, cobaltic, cocktail, cortical, cratonic, critical, cruciate, cuneatic, cuticula, cyanitic, cyanotic, dactylic, dicastic, didactic, ecstatic, galactic, hectical, lactonic, narcotic, occipita, oiticica, pasticci, practice, rachitic, scarcity, sciatica, sciatics, spiccato, staccati, tactical, thoracic, ticktack, trictrac, trochaic. | |
+4 letters: accenting, accepting, acceptive, accidents, accipiter, acclimate, acclivity, accosting, accredits, accreting, accretion, accretive, acoustics, acritarch, acrobatic, acrostics, anaclitic, anecdotic, anorectic, antarctic, anticrack, apodictic, apomictic, architect, ascetical, ataractic, autarchic, brecciate, cachectic, cacheting, canticles, capacitor, captaincy, casuistic, catabolic, catalatic, catalytic, catatonic, catchiest, catechins, catechism, catechist, catechize, categoric, catfacing, cathartic, cathectic, catholics, catoptric, chanciest, chitchats, chromatic, cicatrize, cinematic, circinate, circuital, circulate, cityscape, cladistic, climactic, coactions, cocaptain, cockatiel, cocktails, concavity, copacetic, copasetic, crabstick, cuticulae, cuticular, dactylics, desiccant, desiccate, diacritic, dialectic, didactics, eclamptic, ecstatics, encaustic, exsiccate, facticity, fascistic, geotactic, haecceity, inculcate, intricacy, isotactic, laccolith, narcotics, occipital, oiticicas, panmictic, pasticcio, practical, practiced, practicer, practices, practicum, sarcastic, scabietic, sceptical, schematic, sciaticas, spiccatos, stomachic, subarctic, succinate, syntactic, tactician, technical, ticktacks, tictacked, timocracy, trachytic, trictracs, trochaics, ultrachic, vaccinate. | |
+5 letters: accidental, accidently, accipiters, acclimated, acclimates, accounting, accoutring, accredited, accretions, accusation, accusative, acetylenic, achromatic, acoustical, acritarchs, acrobatics, acrostical, activistic, anchoritic, anorectics, anticancer, antichurch, apodeictic, apoplectic, archaistic, architects, arctically, articulacy, asceticism, astrocytic, ataractics, autocratic, bacitracin, backstitch, bacteremic, brecciated, brecciates, buccinator, cabalistic, cacciatore, cachinnate, cacomistle, caducities, calcitonin, canonicity, cantatrice, cantatrici, capacitate, capacities, capacitive, capacitors, caricature, carritches, catalectic, cataleptic, cataphoric, catatonics, catcalling, catchflies, catechesis, catechisms, catechists, catechized, catechizer, catechizes, catfacings, cathartics, cathecting, catholicoi, catholicon, catholicos, causticity, ceramicist, chalcocite, chiasmatic, chiliastic, chromatics, cicatrices, cicatrixes, cicatrized, cicatrizes, circulated, circulates, circulator, cityscapes, cladistics, classicist, cocaptains, cockatiels, cockatrice, cocktailed, cocreating, coenacting, colocating, comicality, compacting, compaction, complicate, concertina, conciliate, confiscate, consociate, contacting, contradict, cortically, corybantic, crabsticks, crackliest, critically, cryostatic, cunctation, cunctative, cytopathic, cytostatic, czarevitch, decametric, democratic, desiccants, desiccated, desiccates, desiccator, diacritics, dialectics, didactical, efficacity, electrical, encaustics, escharotic, excruciate, exsiccated, exsiccates, fantoccini, flaccidity, hectically, hypotactic, iconoclast, inaccurate, incapacity, inculcated, inculcates, inculcator, inductance, laccoliths, lactogenic, macrocytic, malolactic, matchstick, mobocratic, monocratic, nonascetic, occidental, occipitals, occupation, octarchies, pacificist, pacifistic, pancreatic, parachutic, paratactic, pasticcios, phagocytic, practicals, practicers, practicing, practicums, reaccredit, scarcities, schematics, schismatic, scholastic, scratchier, scratchily, scratching, seecatchie, stochastic, stomachics, subarctics, succinates, switchback, syntactics, tactically, tacticians, technicals, technician, tetrarchic, theocratic, ticktacked, tictacking, timocratic, tragicomic, tribrachic, uncritical, undidactic, vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinator, watchcries, witchcraft. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 43 54 49 |
| 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)01000011 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A C T I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0043 0054 0049 |
| 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)3735375443 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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