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Definition: AMBIGUITIES |
AMBIGUITIESPlural1. Of Ambiguity |
Date "AMBIGUITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: AMBIGUITIES |
| English words defined with "AMBIGUITIES": disambiguate ♦ Julian period. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AMBIGUITIES": cause-effect graphing, CONTRACT CLERK, contract consultant, contract technician ♦ section control segment. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Market sources emphasized that contracts should be very explicit, leaving no room for ambiguities that can be manipulated for the client's benefit or that can result in disagreements over the specifications of the contract. (references) | |
Economic History | Laos | LAO OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE AMBIGUITIES IN THE LAW. (references) |
Venezuela | This decree reinforced several of the pro-investment aspects of the Constitution, with some qualifications and ambiguities. (references) | |
Russia | The constitution and a presidential decree issued in 1993 give Russian citizens general rights to own, inherit, lease, mortgage, and sell real property (usually not including the land on which it stands); however, legislative gaps and ambiguities impede the general exercise of these rights. (references) | |
Political Economy | PHILIPPINES | Performers Rights: "The qualifying rights of a performer . . . shall be maintained and exercised fifty years after his death." However, ambiguities exist concerning exclusive rights for copyright owners over broadcast and retransmission. (references) |
PERU | U.S. pharmaceutical companies are particularly concerned that, in light of resolutions 358 and 406, ambiguities in the new Decision 486 regarding the patentability of "second use" innovations could undermine the Peruvian government's ability to enforce second use patents. (references) | |
Political Rights | Indonesia | The numerous technical problems, due to inadequate preparations and ambiguities in the regulations, included inadequate supplies of ballots and reporting forms, poor training of poll workers, confusion over procedures, and insufficient funds to pay poll workers. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | While this might be appropriate in clear and transparent tax environments, the ambiguities of and inconsistencies in the Ukrainian tax legislation, especially when compared with financial accounting principles and international practice, have given rise to serious interpretation problems, frequently leading to costly disputes between taxpayers and tax authorities. (references) |
Women | Peru | In addition, legal and physical protection is limited by delays in legal processes, ambiguities in the law, and lack of alternative shelter and income for victims. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | Legal ambiguities also exist in the process by which unions nominate shop stewards. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AMBIGUITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMBIGUITIES" is used about 219 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) | 100% | 219 | 20,419 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "AMBIGUITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 二义性 (Ambiguity). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ambiguïtés. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Zweideutigkeiten (ambiguousness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | ì• ë§¤í•¨ (Ambiguity). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ambiguitiesay ambiguidades. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"AMBIGUITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ambguities, ambiguite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AMBIGUITIES" (pronounced ambugyuw"utēz) |
| 5 | -uw" u t ē z | annuities, gratuities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, amenities, animosities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-i-m-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: bigamies, bigamist, megabits. | |
-4 letters: amities, augites, baguets, gambits, gamiest, imagist, megabit, sigmate, stibium, subitem. | |
-5 letters: ageism, ageist, ambits, augite, autism, baguet, beauts, begums, bemist, besmut, gabies, gambes, gambit, gamest, gamuts, iambus, images, imbues, meatus, misate, miseat, mutase, sagbut, samite, stigma, submit, teguas, tibiae, tibias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 42 49 47 55 49 54 49 45 53 |
| 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)01000001 01001101 01000010 01001001 01000111 01010101 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M B I G U I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 0042 0049 0047 0055 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)3547364341554354433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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