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Definition: CLERKLY |
CLERKLYAdjective1. Of or pertaining to a clerk. Adverb1. In a scholarly manner. |
Date "CLERKLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Clerkly Cleverly; like a scholar. "I thank you, gentle servant: `tis very clerkly done." Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CLERKLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLERKLY" is used about 12 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CLERKLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me shkrim të mirë, me kaligrafi të mirë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | учен (academic, boffin, erudite, learned, literate, man of science, sage, savant, scholar, scholastic, scientist, student), духовен (clerical, ghostly, immaterial, inner, moral, noetic, otherworldly, platonic, spiritual, unfleshly, unworldly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úřednì (officially). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hivatali (administrative, hierarchic, hierarchical, magisterial, trappings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erklyclay letrado (blue, bookman, clerk, deep read, erudition, lettered, literate, scholar), de ou relativo a escritório. (various references) cãrturãresc (scholarly). (various references) грамотный (literate), духовный (clerical, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, moral, noetic, otherworldly, psychic, sacred, spiritual, unworldly). (various references) välskrivande. (various references) biết viết (literate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CLERKLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clerky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-l-l-r-y" | |
-2 letters: clerk, kelly. | |
-3 letters: cell, lyre, reck, rely, ryke, yelk, yell, yerk. | |
-4 letters: cel, cry, elk, ell, key, lek, ley, lye, rec, rye. | |
-5 letters: el, er, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-l-l-r-y" | |
+3 letters: recklessly. | |
+4 letters: lickerishly. | |
+5 letters: flickeringly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 45 52 4B 4C 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. . .-. -.- .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000101 01010010 01001011 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L E R K L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0045 0052 004B 004C 0059 |
| 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)37463952454659 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, alban |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bulgar, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, ceh, чешский, tjeck, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, ungrare, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, portughez, португальский, portugis, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, román, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ryss, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, svensk, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vietnames, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, englezesc, английский, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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