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Definition: APORIA |
APORIANoun1. A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
Etymology: Aporia \A*po"ri*a\, noun; plural Aporias. [Latin expression, doubt, Greek, from without passage, at loss; 'a priv. passage.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: APORIA |
| English words defined with "APORIA": Aporias. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "APORIA": Aporetical, Aporosa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "APORIA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bashfulness, disorder, doubt, embarrassment, perplexity, shyness, timidity). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "APORIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "APORIA" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
aporia | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "APORIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | アポクリン腺 (a posteriori, Apochromat, apocrine gland, apogee motor, apoptosis, apoptotic, apostrophe, telephone call made to get an appointment). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | アポリア . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aporiaay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "APORIA" (pronounced 'A*po"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Dysphoria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, hematuria, Homoeomeria, hysteria, Ichthyosauria, Krameria, Laminaria, Lemuria, Lepidosauria, Lucernaria, malaria, Memoria, Mercenaria, Mesosauria, Microbacteria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-o-p-r" | |
-2 letters: aria, pair, para, prao, proa, raia. | |
-3 letters: air, oar, ora, par, pia, poi, pro, rap, ria, rip. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, ar, op, or, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: ovipara. | |
+2 letters: atrophia, diaspora, mariposa, paranoia, paranoic, paranoid. | |
+3 letters: ametropia, anaphoric, apparitor, aspirator, atrophias, capacitor, caparison, carpaccio, diasporas, mariposas, palliator, panoramic, parabolic, paranoiac, paranoias, paranoics, paranoids, parapodia, parathion, parochial, pastorali, pharaonic, picofarad, procambia, pyromania, rapacious, raptorial, sporangia. | |
+4 letters: acrophobia, allopatric, ametropias, anamorphic, apocarpies, apotropaic, apparition, apparitors, applicator, ascocarpic, aspiration, aspirators, capacitors, caparisons, captivator, carpaccios, carpogonia, cataphoric, diaphorase, leprosaria, palliators, parabioses, parabiosis, parabiotic, paraboloid, paragoning, paralogism, paranoiacs, paranoidal, parapodial, parapodium, parashioth, parasitoid, parathions, parmigiano, picofarads, piroplasma, praenomina, praetorial, praetorian, procambial, prothallia, pyromaniac, pyromanias, radiograph, radiopaque, reparation, sarcophagi, separation, sporangial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 50 4F 52 49 41 |
| 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 01010000 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P O R I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 004F 0052 0049 0041 |
| 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)355049524335 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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