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Definition: CLINIQUE |
CLINIQUENoun1. A clinic. |
Date "CLINIQUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Clinique \Cli*nique"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: CLINIQUE |
| Non-English Usage: "CLINIQUE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (clinic, clinical, hospital, nursing home). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Clinique (1989) La Clinique des fantasmes (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Une Clinique. / A Lacauchie del. A Masson sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Pierre-Paul Broca : Professeur de Clinique chirurgicale à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris,... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Chomel : Professeur de Clinique de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. / Collette d. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | Currently it houses both pioneer retailers as Rivoli, L'Oreal, Wella, Clinique and others and fairly new players such as Articoli, La Prairie, Helena Rubinstein and others. (references) | |
High-end, selective and professional skin care brands are dominated by French (Christian Dior, Biotherm, Thalgo, Lierac, Vichy, Orlane, Gatineau, Darphin, Academie), U.S. (Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, Clinique, New Youth, Artec Systems), German (Apoheker Scheller, Marbert), Swiss (Mila D'Opiz), Italian and Japanese companies. (references) | ||
The Russian perfume market is almost fully dominated by leading French, Italian, U.S. and German brands such as Christian Dior, Lancome, Jacomo, Jean Couturier, Charles Jourdan, Dolce&Gabana, Coty, Cacharel, Paco Rabanne, Evaflor, Melfleurs, Parfume Parour, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Tommy Hilfiger, Nina Ricci, Chanel, Gucci, Rochas, Givenchy, Kenzo, Guerlain, Lancome, Cacharel, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Paloma Picasso, Guy Laroche, Boucheron, Lancaster, Gianfranco Ferre, Byblos and many others. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | U.S. brands such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Max Factor, Avon and Revlon are popular in the market. (references) |
Vietnam | These include Swatch, Clinique, Baskin-Robbins, KFC, Texas Chicken, Jollibee (of the Philippines), and Lotteria (of Japan). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CLINIQUE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "CLINIQUE" is used about 17 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 (proper) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CLINIQUE": clinique brain death. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CLINIQUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | mort cérébrale (clinique brain death). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | iniqueclay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-n-q-u" | |
-2 letters: cinque, clique, leucin, nuclei, quince, quinic. | |
-3 letters: cline, uncle. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cine, clue, lice, lien, lieu, line, luce, lune, nice, quin, unci. | |
-5 letters: cel, cue, ecu, ice, lei, leu, lie, lin, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-n-q-u" | |
+2 letters: cinquefoil. | |
+3 letters: cinquefoils, equinoctial. | |
+4 letters: cliquishness, deliquescing, equinoctials, liquefaction. | |
+5 letters: delinquencies, equivalencies, liquefactions, quindecillion, quintuplicate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 49 4E 49 51 55 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .. -. .. --.- ..- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010001 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L I N I Q U E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0049 004E 0049 0051 0055 0045 |
| 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)3746434843515539 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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