ACADEMIES

  

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ACADEMIES

Definition: ACADEMIES

ACADEMIES

Plural

1. Of Academy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ACADEMIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Commercial Usage: ACADEMIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and Its Academies (reference)

  • International Encyclopedia of Learned Societies and Academies (reference)

  • Population, the Complex Reality: A Report of the Population Summit of the World's Scientific Academies (reference)

  • Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kanguku Juku (reference)

  • Teaching Art : Academies and Schools from Vasari to Albers (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: ACADEMIES

AuthorQuotation

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: ACADEMIES

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Consequently, and during the period fixed above, all military academies or similar institutions in Germany, as well as the different military schools for officers, student officers (Aspiranten), cadets, non-commissioned officers or student non-commissioned officers (Aspiranten), other than the schools above provided for, will be abolished. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACADEMIES

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These groups, usually called academies or societies, may have lists of eye care professionals with specific information on specialty and experience. (references)

Subsequently, many medical academies, professional organizations, and parent and advocacy groups in autism, led by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society, met to build on the Panel's base, developing a practice parameter and providing clinical guidance for screening and diagnosing autism. (references)

Business

Finally, management training, academies for tourism and other educational programs should fare well in the market in order to deal with the significant shortage of trained personnel. (references)

Economic History

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Education: Mandatory 8 years of primary school, 4 years in secondary school, and 4 years in universities and academies. (references)

India

Franchisees prefer to recruit staff directly, but most franchisers insist on training the staff themselves, particularly in educational and computer training academies. (references)

Turkey

State support of cultural activities is extensive and encompasses a national network of theaters, orchestras, opera and ballet companies, university fine arts academies, and various conservatories. (references)

Human Rights

Slovak Republic

In July in response to the death of Karol Sendrei while in police custody, Interior Minister Ivan Simko established new measures to prevent police brutality, including mandatory psychological tests when hiring law enforcement officials, more stringent job requirements, and improved curriculum at preparatory academies, including better training on the appropriate use of coercion. (references)

Women

Venezuela

This is a result of the Government's June 2000 decision to allow women to attend military academies and serve in expanded roles as officers in the armed forces. (references)

Thailand

However, police and military academies (except for the nursing academy) do not accept female students, although a significant number of instructors at the military academies are women. (references)

Worker Rights

Greece

Trafficking experts conduct this training, which began in September, at local police academies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACADEMIES

"ACADEMIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.94% of the time. "ACADEMIES" is used about 79 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)94.94%7538,535
Noun (proper)5.06%4175,879
                    Total100.00%79N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ACADEMIES

Expression using "ACADEMIES": Academies and Institutes. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: ACADEMIES

Language Translations for "ACADEMIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

学院 (Academy, College, institute). (various references)

   

French

  

Conférence des académies scientifiques suisses (Conference of Swiss Scientific Academies, Conference of the Swiss Scientific Academies(CASS)), CASS (Conference of Swiss Scientific Academies, Conference of the Swiss Scientific Academies(CASS)). (various references)

   

German

  

Akademien. (various references)

   

Italian

  

accademie. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

아카데미 (Academy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

academiesay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

academias. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ACADEMIES

Misspellings

"ACADEMIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: academi, academie, academus, academyish, Akadimpex, anadamide. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "ACADEMIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ACADEMIES" (pronounced uka"dumēz)
4-u m ē zappendectomies, economies, enemies, lumpectomies, mastectomies, tonsillectomies, vasectomies.
3-m ē zarmies, commies, dummies, mommies, mummies, pygmies, salamis, stymies, tummies, yummies.

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Anagrams: ACADEMIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-s"

-1 letter: academes, camisade.

-2 letters: academe, acedias, amesace, amidase.

-3 letters: acedia, adeems, amices, amides, camisa, camise, ceased, deices, demies, demise, edemas, mediae, medias, medics, seamed.

-4 letters: acids, acmes, adeem, aecia, aedes, aides, aimed, amias, amice, amide, amids, amies, asdic, aside, cades, cadis, caids, camas, cames, cased, cease, cedes, cedis, daces, dames, deems, deice, deism, demes, dices, dimes, disme, eased, edema, ideas, maced, maces, maids, meads, media, medic, meeds, mesic, micas, saice.

-5 letters: aced, aces, acid, acme, aide, aids, aims, amas, amia, amid, amie, amis, asci, asea, cade, cadi, cads, caid, came, cams, casa, case, cede, cedi, cees, dace, dais, dame, dams, deem, dees, deme, dice, dies, dime, dims, disc, ease, eide, emes, emic, iced, ices, idea, idem, ides, mace, macs, made, mads, maes, maid, mead, meed, mesa, mica, mice, mids, mise, sade, sadi, said, same, scad, scam, seam, seed, seem, seme, semi, sice, side, sima.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-s"
 

+1 letter: acetamides.

 

+2 letters: caramelised.

 

+3 letters: camaraderies, hexadecimals.

 

+5 letters: acetazolamides, decontaminates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ACADEMIES


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

41 43 41 44 45 4D 49 45 53

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

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

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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)

01000001 01000011 01000001 01000100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#65 &#68 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0041 0044 0045 004D 0049 0045 0053

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

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

353735383947433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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