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Arrival

Definition: Arrival

Arrival

Noun

1. Accomplishment of an objective.

2. The act of arriving at a certain place; "they awaited her arrival".

3. Someone who arrives (or has arrived).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "arrival" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Note: Arrival \Ar*riv"al\, noun. [From Arrive.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Arrival

DomainDefinition

Geological

The appearance of seismic energy on a seismic record. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Arrival

Synonyms: arriver (n), comer (n), reaching (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Arrival

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arrival

Noun: arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur.

Cessation

Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Arrival

English words defined with "arrival": advent, Age of a tide, Arrivance, attainmentcheck in, clock in, clock on, clock watcher, comingfanfare, flourishheraldmeetnewcomerplace, predictor, punch in, putreceiveSealed orders, set, sign inTime-table, To, To look for, trumpeterwave angle, welcome. (references)
Specialty definitions using "arrival": angle of arrival, Arrival Noticeexpected arrival time, expected time of arrivallater arrival. (references)
Etymologies containing "arrival": ArrivanceVenew, Venue. (references)

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Modern Usage: Arrival

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The arrival of yet another thickheaded jock epic. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Movie/TV Titles

Arrival (1957)

The Arrival of Josie (1914)

Arrival at Howrah (1912)

Grand Delhi Coronation Durbar and Royal Visit to Calcutta Including Their Majesties' Arrival at Amphitheatre (1912)

Theodore Roosevelt's Arrival in Africa (1909)

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

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Commercial Usage: Arrival

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Arrival

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Photo Album: Arrival

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Endeavour Arrival. Credit: NASA.

Spacelab Arrival Ceremony at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA.

This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of ... Credit: NASA.

A flying boat on arrival at New York passing over the Statue of Liberty. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Reiner brothers watch the arrival of the salmon. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Initial arrival of the "raw fish habitat". Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Secretary of Defense William Cohen accompanied by his wife, Janet Langart Cohen, is greeted by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Elite Guard during their arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 17. Cohen's Holiday Tour 2000 stop at Ramstein included perfo.

For centuries, beekeeping has been a traditional part of Mexican agriculture and a reliable source of income in rural areas. Scientists in the United States have closely followed the arrival of Africanized honey bees and two species of parasitic mites that have created hive management problems and reduced honey production. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Arrival of convoy, using trucks to transport patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Arrival of convoy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Arrival

AuthorQuotation

Dennis Miller

Hell, the vows are scary enough. I mean, "We are gathered here to witness the joining of two people ..." Joining. Could we come up with a slightly more industrial term, huh? How about "soldering"? Yeah, have a couple of guys from the machinists' union swing by, drop the welder's masks, and handle this part of the ceremony? You know, it seems like the only twotimes they pronounce you anything in life is when they pronounce you "man and wife" or "dead on arrival."

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Arrival

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

They had been meeting almost every day since his arrival.

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

MARY thinks a train met on arrival must not be counted, even when met on a previous occasion.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

On his arrival at M__ sur M__ he had the dress, the manners, and the language of a labourer only.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The shout I heard was upon the arrival of this engine, which it seems set out in four hours after my landing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Arrival

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These circulate in the person's bloodstream, awaiting the arrival of the blood-seeking female Anopheles. (references)

Its job is to help prepare your uterus for the arrival of a fertilized egg and to shed this lining if an egg is not fertilized. (references)

Immune cells, it has been suggested, may function in a sensory capacity, detecting the arrival of foreign invaders and relaying chemical signals to alert the brain. (references)

Business

It is customary to shake hands with all upon arrival and departure. (references)

With the arrival of the Internet, the channel's hold over pricing is being broken. (references)

Chinese buyers or their purchase agents must register for inspection at the port of arrival. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

A list of 21 points "to be respected" was provided to foreign journalists upon arrival. (references)

United Kingdom

Applicants may apply for asylum or refugee status upon arrival or after entering the country. (references)

Laos

Citizens who travel across provincial borders no longer are required to report to authorities upon their departure and arrival. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Arrival times for shipments and the condition they arrive in are critical. (references)

Mauritius

The arrival and departure terminal has been redesigned and completely renovated. (references)

Pakistan

Pakistan's Islamic history began with the arrival of Muslim traders in the 8th century. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Riham died before her arrival at the Jenin hospital. (references)

Ghana

Upon their arrival unknown persons shot at the officers, killing one and injuring another. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

While en route, Awad lapsed into a coma and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

Local sentiment against the efforts of Muslim missionaries to win converts in the predominantly Christian province, as well as resentment of the arrival in the province of mainly Muslim migrants from other parts of the country, has in the past led to attacks on mosques in Papua. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

Although stability has largely returned to the territory following the arrival of international forces, crime and lawlessness are problems. (references)

Azerbaijan

Following a series of coup attempts after his arrival to power in 1993, President Heydar Aliyev was able to consolidate power and establish a stable political environment by the mid-1990s. (references)

Political Rights

Tanzania

Voting irregularities during the 2000 elections included the late arrival and absence of ballots, and the late opening of polling stations. (references)

Trade

Burma

B list items may only be imported after the arrival of the A list items. (references)

Denmark

In some cases, the importer can do the marking following arrival of the goods in Denmark. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Doxycycline may be started the day prior to arrival. (references)

Ireland

The permit is presented to immigration upon arrival. (references)

Laos

VISAS ON ARRIVAL COST US $30 AND ARE VALID FOR 15 DAYS. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The young women were forced to work as prostitutes on the ship after their arrival. (references)

India

However, upon arrival in the U.S., the girls reportedly were put to work in a prostitution ring. (references)

Tajikistan

Victims commonly are not separated from their travel documents until arrival in the destination country. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Arrival

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801A few days before his arrival at Paris the French minister of foreign relations informed the American minister then resident at Paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave, and by his successor preparatory to his reception.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809The arrival of our squadron dispelled the danger.

James Monroe

1817-1825Of their arrival there official intelligence has not yet been received.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Some difficulties occurred on his arrival, but at the date of his last official dispatch he supposed they had been obviated and that there was every prospect of the exchange being speedily effected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Arrival

"Arrival" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Arrival" is used about 3,445 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 (singular)99.88%3,4412,815
Noun (proper)0.12%4175,879
                    Total100.00%3,445N/A

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

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Expression: Arrival

Expressions using "arrival": after arrival announce one's arrival arrival date arrival gate arrival hall arrival of a seagoing vessel arrival siding arrival time arrival track be dead on arrival date of arrival estimated time of arrival expected arrival time expected time of arrival late arrival line of arrival new arrival scheduled arrival scheduled time of arrival standard arrival time of arrival time one's arrival upon arrival within a month of his arrival. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "arrival": non-arrival.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Arrival

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

flight arrival

408

arrival oscar

27

arrival

162

united airline arrival

26

air canada arrival

55

jfk airport arrival

24

airline arrival

52

manchester airport arrival

22

american airline arrival

49

airport arrival pearson

21

flight departure and arrival

44

flight arrival gatwick

21

arrival grammy

43

airline arrival northwest

20

new arrival

42

lax flight arrival

19

airport arrival

40

airport arrival newark

19

flight arrival times

40

american airline flight arrival

18

departure arrival

40

arrival time

18

lax arrival

37

arrival bear new

18

dead on arrival

36

delta airline arrival

17

flight arrival heathrow

36

airport arrival vancouver

16

heathrow arrival

35

airline arrival departure

16

flight arrival information

35

airport arrival international pearson

16

arrival jfk

34

delta arrival

16

airport arrival calgary

32

arrival bear factory new

15

airport arrival toronto

32

arrival globe golden

15

arrival day indian

27

airline arrival times

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Arrival

Language Translations for "arrival"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

koms, aankoms. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

arritje (accomplishment, achievement, acquirement, attainment, effort, reach, success), ardhje (accession, advent, approach, coming, flow, inflow, ingoing), ngarkesë (batch, burden, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, goods, haul, lading, load, loading, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), mbërritje (advent), i ardhur (incoming, inflowing). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وفادة, ‏وصول (access, incoming, oncoming), ‏الوافد (newcomer). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

новороден (newborn), пристигнал човек, пристигащ, пристигане (coming), достигане (accession, achievement, attainment). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

arribada. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

到来, 到來 (advent). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zboží (commodity, goods, merchandise, truck, ware), přílet, příjezd, příchozí (incomer, newcomer), příchod (advent, coming, entry), host (convive, diner, guest, visitor). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ankomst (berthing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bezorging (arrivals, supply), aanvoer (arrivals, supply), aankomst. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

alveno, alportado (arrivals, supply), provizado (arrivals, supply). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ورود (Accession, Entrance, Entree, Entry, Influx, Inning), دخول (Accession, Admission, Entree, Entry, Inclusion). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulo (coming, entrance, income, product, revenue), sinnetulo. (various references)

   

French

  

arrivée, arrivage, venue. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

d'arrivée (of arrival). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oankomst, oanfier (arrivals, supply), komst. (various references)

   

Galician

  

chegada. (various references)

   

German

  

Ankunft (arrivals), Eintreffen (arrive, be confirmed, be fulfilled, come true, end up, get, get there, to arrive). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άφιξη (advent). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ופע" (advent, appearance, bearing, coming, emergence, phenomenon, presence, showing), "'ע" (approaching, reaching, touching), ביא" (approach, coition, coitus, coming, entrance, intercourse). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érkezés (coming), befutás (pulling in), szállítmány (bulk, cargo, carriage, shipment, supply), megérkezés (advent), kiszállás (disembarkation, getting off). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kedatangan (attacked, invaded). (various references)

   

Irish

  

teacht (coming). (various references)

   

Italian

  

arrivo (advent, coming, finishing line, incoming), venuta (coming). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

到" (attaining, reaching). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おとずれ (advent, call, visit), しゅつ'" (appearance, make one's appearance), しゅっしゃ, さ"ちゃく (payment on sight), にゅうらい (august visit), らいちゃく, とうたつ (attaining, reaching), とうらい, とうちゃく, ちゃくし". (various references)

   

Korean 

  

도착 (arriving). (various references)

   

Malay

  

kedatangan. (various references)

   

Manx

  

noa-roshtynagh (new arrival), lurg roshtyn (on arrival), ardane roshtynagh (arrival platform), ardan roshtynagh (arrival platform). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ankomst. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

yegada, binimentu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrivalay

   

Polish

  

wjazd, przyjazd. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

chegada (coming, forthcoming, incoming, oncoming). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sosire (advent, coming, incoming). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вновь прибывший (new-come, newcomer), новорожденный (newborn, new-born), приход (advent, benefice, coming, curacy, parish), при� (accept, receive), приезд (coming), прибытие (arr arrival, arrl). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

teachd (accession, coming, legal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stizanje, prispeće, dolazak (advent, coming). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

llegada (advent, coming, coming-in, covenant, dissidence, extent, finish, immigration, incursion, invasion, touchdown, treat), venida (advent, coming, extent, invasion), aprovisionamiento (arrivals, supply). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mfiko. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ankomst (advent, coming, incoming, oncoming). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

pagdatíng. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้ที่มาใหม่, การมาถึง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

varma, varix, varış (coming), ortaya çıkma (appearance, dawn, emanation), mal girişi, gelme (advent, coming), geliş (coming), gelen şey, gözükme. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

новонароджений (newborn, new-fallen), новоприбулий (ingoing, new-come, newcomer), приїзд, прихід до фінішу, прийняття (acceptance, adoption, embranchment, initiation), прибуття (advent), досягнення (accomplishment, achievement, attainment, break through, obtaining, obtainment, obtention, progress). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tới nơi người mới đến, sự đến (accession, advent, coming), đùa đứa bé mới sinh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dyfodiad (access, comer, coming, stranger). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

umfiki, ukufiki, isifiki. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Arrival

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

aduentus, adventu, adventui, adventum, adventus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

avenue. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Arrival

Derivations

Words beginning with "arrival": arrivals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Arrival" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arava, aravalli, arcival, Arevalo, Aribal, arival, ar-rifai, Arrikala, arriva, arriveal, Arronale, arrvial, Marrival, orrial, Oruval, parzival. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Arrival"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "arrival" (pronounced erī"vul)
4-ī" v u larchival, revival, rival, survival.
3-v u lanvil, approval, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, evil, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, interval, larval, level, marvel, medieval, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revel, servile, shovel, shrivel, swivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Arrival

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-r-r-v"

-2 letters: arval, avail, laari, larva, rival, varia, viral.

-3 letters: alar, aria, aril, lair, lari, lava, liar, lira, raia, rail, rial, vail, vair, vara, vial, virl.

-4 letters: aal, ail, air, ala, ava, lar, lav, ria, var, via.

-5 letters: aa, ai, al, ar, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-r-r-v"
 

+1 letter: arrivals, variolar.

 

+3 letters: margravial.

 

+4 letters: adversarial, advertorial, narratively.

 

+5 letters: advertorials, overfamiliar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Arrival


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

41 72 72 69 76 61 6C

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

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

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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)

01000001 01110010 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0072 0069 0076 0061 006C

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

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

35848475886778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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