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Date "CITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (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 |
CITES | English | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CITES |
| English words defined with "CITES": Citator, Citer ♦ Summoner. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CITES": CITES species ♦ Dominie Sampson, Duplicate Publication ♦ Environmental Impact Statement ♦ Pentapolis ♦ to admit to probate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I've seen the lights of cites and I've been inside their doors (Pamela Brown; performing artist: Tom T. Hall) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) cites studies indicating that one in four women ages 30 to 59 has experienced urinary incontinence. (references) | |
Business | Amnesty International cites Mexico as one of the countries in which homosexual men and women are most likely to be victims of abuse and violence. (references) | |
The 1999 Chinese Statistical Yearbook cites that just one out of four hundred urban families owned a car. By Western standards, a middle to upper class family can definitely afford a car and excellent private HCS; according to these standards only a select few Chinese currently fall into this category. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | Business cites the alleged high cost of electric power as a disincentive for manufacturing. (references) |
Mexico | Its principal cites are Gomez Palacio (270,000 pop.) and Durango (490,000 pop.), the capital of the state. (references) | |
Mexico | Among the most important cites are Ciudad Victoria (260,000 pop.), the capital of the state, and the Tampico-Ciudad Madero-Altamira metropolitan area (600,000 pop.), a major maritime transportation center on the Gulf coast. (references) | |
Human Rights | Albania | Each side cites the failures of the other as the reason criminals avoid imprisonment. (references) |
Yemen | The committee's chairman claims that he would prefer to increase the activities of the committee, especially in the area of press freedoms, but cites lack of official and financial support as constraints. (references) | |
Iran | According to HRW, in August a parliamentary group investigating abuses committed by state institutions produced a still-unreleased report that cites a large increase in the number of persons being imprisoned, more than two-thirds of them for drug-related offenses. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | Among these limited items are endangered species, including those listed in the CITES convention. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Some wildlife products are restricted through international conventions governing their trade such as CITES. (references) | |
El Salvador | El Salvador's iguana-export industry is regulated by the provisions of CITES, which oversees trade in endangered species. (references) | |
Women | Armenia | The law cites specific punishments for rape. (references) |
Luxembourg | The Government cites the interruption in the careers of women caused by childbirth and their maternal roles as one reason for the disparity. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CITES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 67.72% of the time. "CITES" is used about 504 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 67.72% | 342 | 15,474 |
| Noun (proper) | 31.88% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.4% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 504 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CITES": cites-monitored. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
cites geo | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CITES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | zitiert (quotes). (various references) | ||||
Italian | citato (quoted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | itescay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AdelfoV upo adelfou bohqoumenoV wV poliV ocura kai uyhlh iscuei de wsper teqemeliwmenon basileion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Frater qui adiuvatur a fratre quasi civitas firma et iudicia quasi vectes urbium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The brother that is holpen of the brother, as a stef cite; and the domes as barris of cites. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka igsoon nga mahiubos labi pang magahi nga dag-on kay sa usa ka malig-on nga ciudad; Ug ang maong mga pagkabingkil sama sa mga trangka sa usa ka castillo. |
| Chinese | 弟 兄 結 怨 、 勸 他 ' 好 、 " 取 固 城 還 難 . 這 樣 的 爭 競 、 如 同 寨 的 門 閂 。 |
| Croatian | Uvrijeðen brat jaèi je od tvrda grada i svaðe su kao prijevornice na tvrðavi. |
| Danish | Krænket Broder er som en Fæstning, Trætter som Portslå for Borg. |
| Dutch | Een broeder is wederspanniger dan een sterke stad; en de geschillen zijn als een grendel van een paleis. |
| Finnish | Petetty veli on vaikeampi voittaa kuin vahva kaupunki, ja riidat ovat kuin linnan salvat. |
| French | Des frères sont plus intraitables qu`une ville forte, Et leurs querelles sont comme les verrous d`un palais. |
| German | Ein verletzter Bruder hält härter den eine feste Stadt, und Zank hält härter denn Riegel am Palast. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saudara yang telah disakiti hatinya lebih sukar didekati daripada kota yang kuat; pertengkaran bagaikan palang gerbang kota yang berbenteng. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa peri mengalahkan kota benteng dan memperhentikan perkelahian itu lebih payah dari pada membukakan kancing pintu maligai. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te tuakana, teina ranei, i whakatakariritia, pakeke atu i te pa kaha: a ko aua tu ngangare me he tutaki tatau no te whare rangatira. |
| Norwegian | En bror som en har gjort urett mot, er vanskeligere å vinne enn en festning, og trette med ham er som en bom for en borg. |
| Portuguese | um irmão ajudado pelo irmão é como uma cidade fortificada; é forte como os ferrolhos dum castelo. |
| Rumanian | Frayii nedreptqyiyi sknt mai greu de ckwtigat deckt o cetate kntqritq, wi certurile lor sknt tot awa de greu de knlqturat ca zqvoarele unei case kmpqrqtewti. - |
| Spanish | El hermano ofendido resiste más que una ciudad fortificada; y las contiendas, más que los cerrojos de un castillo. |
| Swedish | En förorättad broder är svårare att vinna än en fast stad, och trätor äro såsom bommar för ett slott. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CITES": analcites, anthracites, ascites, boracites, calcites, chalcocites, excites, incites, kamacites, leucites, miscites, overexcites, phenacites, plebiscites, pumicites, recites, reincites, scolecites, zincites. (additional references) | |
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"CITES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caithes, categ, catex, Cetes, cetis, chiottes, chittes, ciats, Cidse, ciese, ciest, ciet, ciete, ciets, Cieza, cimes, cimtech, ciotes, cires, cita, citee, citew, citi, citis, cito, citos, Cits, Citta, citu, citus, Citys, cives, clite, coite, cottes, ctis, Ctiss, cts, cuishes, cykes, cyotes, cyte, cytes, Cytob, ites, zites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CITES" (pronounced sī"ts) |
| 4 | s ī" t s | excites, incites, recites, sights, sites. |
| 3 | -ī" t s | bites, bytes, delights, fights, flights, heights, ignites, invites, kites, knights, lights, mites, nights, nonwhites, reunites, rewrites, rights, rites, slights, Stylites, tights, unites, whites, Wrights, writes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cesti. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cist, cite, etic, ices, sect, sice, site, tics, ties. | |
-2 letters: cis, ice, its, sec, sei, set, sic, sit, tic, tie, tis. | |
-3 letters: es, et, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bisect, cestoi, citers, cities, civets, cuties, edicts, ethics, evicts, gestic, iciest, incest, insect, itches, nicest, septic, stelic, steric, trices. | |
+2 letters: acetins, achiest, actives, aitches, ascetic, ascites, aseptic, bisects, bitches, cagiest, cakiest, catties, cellist, cerites, cesspit, cestoid, chemist, chicest, cineast, cistern, cithers, citoles, clients, coedits, coesite, coexist, cooties, cosiest, costive, cowiest, coziest, credits, cretics, cretins, cristae, curites, cutesie, cutises, cutties, cystein, cystine, deceits, deistic, delicts, depicts, deticks, diciest, directs, discept, disject, dissect, ditches, ectasis, ekistic, elastic, elicits, emetics, entices, eristic, erotics, ethnics, excites, exotics, fitches, hitches, ickiest, icterus, ictuses, incepts, incests, incites, infects, injects, insects, inspect, justice, laciest, latices, lectins, luetics, metrics, miscite, notices, pectins, peptics, pickets, pitches, poetics, raciest, recites, relicts, richest, rickets, sceptic, scottie, sectile, section, sematic, septics, sickest, skeptic, smectic, society, spicate, statice, stearic, stencil, sthenic, sticked, sticker, stickle, techies, tickers, tickets, tickles, tierces, triceps, trisect, wickets, witches. | |
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