SHIMA

  

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SHIMA

"SHIMA" is a common misspelling or typo for: schema, sham, shaman, shame, shim, shimmer, shimmy, shipman.

 

Specialty Definition: Shima province

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Shima (志摩国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Mie prefecture. Shima bordered on Kii province. It was the smallest of the provinces.

The article is originally from OpenHistory.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shima province."

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Modern Usage: SHIMA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Akumyo: shima arashi (1974)

Shima wa moratta (1968)

Hyokkori hyotan shima (1967)

Shokei no shima (1966)

Shima no sehiro no oyabun-shû (1961)

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

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Commercial Usage: SHIMA

DomainTitle

References

  • Shima Seiki Manufacturing Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Proceedings of the Japan-U.S. Seminar on Focused Ion Beam Technology and Applications : 15-19 November 1987, Senri Hankyu Hotel, Osaka, and 20 November 1987, Shima Kanko Hotel, Mie Prefect, Japan (reference)

  • Quasicrystals: Proceedings of the 12th Taniguchi Symposium, Shima Mie Prefecture Japan, 14-19 November, 1989 (Springer Series in Solid-State Science) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: SHIMA

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

[Radiation - Effects] : [Destruction of Shima Hospital]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

One of two specially-marked Mitsubishi G4M-1 ("Betty") aircraft lands at an airfield on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 19 August 1945. The plane brought a Japanese delegation who were flown on to Manila in a USAAF C-54 transport to receive instructions concerning the surrender and occupation. The plane in the foreground, providing shade for onlookers, is a C-54. The guard in the right center foreground carries an M-1 carbine. Credit: NAVY.

LSM's (r) sending rockets at shores of Pokishi Shima, near Okinawa, five days before invasion. Credit: Library of Congress.

O Shima San [sic]. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: SHIMA

"SHIMA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHIMA" is used about 4 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 (proper)100%4175,879

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SHIMA

The following table summarizes the usage of "SHIMA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ShimaLast name30023,391
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: SHIMA

CountryName
Japan

Shima Seiki Manufacturing Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHIMA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brian shima

51

shima 3 skate

4

shima

49

chia shima

4

4 shima

10

shima 2

4

shima uta

9

shima shinda

4

shima 3

8

4 razor shima

3

brian pic shima

7

shima 2 skate

3

ie shima

7

mp3 shima uta

3

razor shima

6

lyrics mellow shima shinda

3

shima seiki

6

seiki shima stoll

2

razor shima 3

6

brain shima

2

shima tetsuo

6

nancy shima

2

lyrics shima shinda

5

rollerblades shima

2

shima skate

5

mellow shima shinda

2

4 shima skate

4

angie shima

2

brian picture shima

4

limousine shima

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHIMA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-s"

-1 letter: aims, amis, hams, mash, sham, shim, sima.

-2 letters: aim, ais, ami, ash, ham, has, him, his, ism, mas, mis, sha, sim.

-3 letters: ah, ai, am, as, ha, hi, hm, is, ma, mi, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-s"
 

+1 letter: ahimsa, bimahs, chiasm, famish, hakims, ihrams, marish, mashie, mishap.

 

+2 letters: ahimsas, atheism, beamish, chamise, chamiso, chamois, charism, chasmic, chiasma, chiasmi, chiasms, chimars, chimlas, chrisma, dampish, dirhams, haemins, harmins, hassium, kashmir, khamsin, maddish, maidish, maihems, mannish, mashies, mashing, mawkish, messiah, midrash, mihrabs, mikvahs, mishaps, mishear, mitsvah, mohairs, phasmid, rammish, sashimi, shaming, shamois, shipman, tachism, thairms, thirams, vampish, wampish, warmish.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHIMA


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

53 48 49 4D 41

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

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

=

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)

01010011 01001000 01001001 01001101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#73 &#77 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0049 004D 0041

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

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

5342434735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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