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"CES" is a plural of: ce. |
Date "CES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Consumer Expenditures Survey) A continuing survey that provides timely data for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collected by the Demographic Surveys Division, Bureau of the Census. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CES | English | Corporate Estimating System | N/A |
CES | French | Conseil Economique et Social des Nations Unies | Economics, International Organizations |
CES | Greek | υπηρεσία εξομοίωσης κυκλώματος | Post & Telecom |
CES | Italian | Comitato economico e sociale | European Union |
CES | Portuguese | Comité Económico e Social | European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CES |
| Specialty definitions using "CES": Chauvin, Coiffer to Sainte Catherine ♦ IBM Customer Engineer ♦ MDL-REMOVE ♦ set-up. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CES": Cress. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (that, these, these/those, this, those), French Canadian (these), Portuguese (circuit emulated service, circuit emulation service, Economic and Social Committee). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Tous ces milliers (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion) Ces promesses irreelles (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian) Et si tous ces mots tu t'en fous (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ces messieurs de la gâchette (1969) Strip-teaseuses ou ces femmes que l'on croit faciles (1964) Ces dames s'en mêlent (1964) Le Couturier de ces dames (1956) Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (1948) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Chez le dentiste. : Au premier de ces messieurs! / Jean Drotz. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Ils sont passés ces jours de fêtes. / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Annee Africaine De Vaccination : Par La Vaccination, Protegeons Nos Enfants Contre Ces Maladies. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "CES" is used about 21 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) | 85.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "CES": Lei-ces-ter. | |
| 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 "CES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | Det europaeiske forbund for fagforeningerne for Landbrugets arbejdstagere CESL inden for Faellesskabet-EFA (European Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions CES in the Community EFA). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | Europese federatie van Landbouwvakorganisaties CESL in de Gemeenschap (European Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions CES in the Community EFA). (various references) | ||||
French | Fédération européenne des syndicats agricoles CESL dans la Communauté (European Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions CES in the Community EFA). (various references) | ||||
German | Europaeische Foederation der agrarischen Gewerkschaften EBFG in der Gemeinschaft (European Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions CES in the Community EFA). (various references) | ||||
Italian | Federazione europea dei sindicati agricoli CESL nella Comunit (European Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions CES in the Community EFA). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | escay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 7, Verse 56 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Quiskhn mian deka cruswn plhrh qumiamatoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And a golden spone of .x. sycles full of ces. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; |
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| Language | Numbers Chapter 7, Verse 56 |
| Bulgarian | един златен темянник от десет сикли , пълен с темян; |
| Cebuano | Usa ka cuchara nga bulawan nga may napulo ka siclo, nga puno sa incienso; |
| Chinese | 一 個 金 盂 、 重 十 舍 客 ' 、 盛 滿 了 香 。 |
| Croatian | onda jedna zlatna posudica od deset šekela puna tamjana; |
| Danish | en Kande på lO Guldsekel, fyldt med Røgelse, |
| Dutch | Een reukschaal van tien gouden sikkelen, vol reukwerks; |
| Finnish | kymmenen sekelin painoinen kultakuppi, täynnä suitsuketta, |
| French | une coupe d`or de dix sicles, pleine de parfum; |
| German | dazu einen goldenen Löffel, zehn Lot schwer, voll Räuchwerk, |
| Haitian Creole | Li ofri menm bagay ak Nakchon. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan sebuah ceper emas, beratnya sepuluh syikal, penuh dengan dupa, |
| Italian | una coppa d'oro di dieci sicli piena di profumo, |
| Maori | Kotahi koko koura, tekau ona hekere, ki tonu i te whakakakara: |
| Norwegian | en skål av gull på ti sekel, full av røkelse, |
| Portuguese | uma colher de ouro de dez siclos, cheia de incenso; |
| Rumanian | o cqyuie de aur de zece sicli, plinq cu tqmkie; |
| Swedish | vidare en skål av guld om tio siklar, full med rökelse, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CES": cesarean, cesareans, cesarian, cesarians, cesium, cesiums, cess, cessation, cessations, cessed, cesses, cessing, cession, cessions, cesspit, cesspits, cesspool, cesspools, cesta, cestas, cesti, cestode, cestodes, cestoi, cestoid, cestoids, cestos, cestus, cestuses, cesura, cesurae, cesuras. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CES": abduces, aberrances, abeyances, abhorrences, abidances, absences, absorbances, absorptances, abstinences, abundances, acceptances, accidences, accomplices, accordances, aces, acquaintances, acquiescences, acquiesces, acquittances, actinomyces, acutances, adamances, adduces, adherences, administratrices, admittances, adolescences, advances, advertences, advices, aerospaces, affiances, affirmances, affluences, afterpieces, airspaces, allegiances, alliances, allowances, allspices, almuces, altarpieces, ambiances, ambiences, ambivalences, ambsaces, ambulances, amerces, amesaces, amices, anlaces. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CES": abscess, abscessed, abscesses, abscessing, access, accessaries, accessary, accessed, accesses, accessibilities, accessibility, accessible, accessibleness, accessiblenesses, accessibly, accessing, accession, accessional, accessioned, accessioning, accessions, accessorial, accessories, accessorise, accessorised, accessorises, accessorising, accessorize, accessorized, accessorizes, accessorizing, accessory, acescent, acescents, acquaintanceship, acquaintanceships, ancestor, ancestored, ancestoring, ancestors, ancestral, ancestrally, ancestress, ancestresses, ancestries, ancestry, antecessor, antecessors, antirecession, antirecessionary, antirecessions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sec. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-s" | |
-1 letter: es. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-s" | |
+1 letter: aces, case, cees, cels, ceps, cess, cues, ecus, ices, pecs, recs, secs, sect, sice, spec, syce. | |
+2 letters: aches, acmes, acnes, acres, alecs, becks, bices, cades, cafes, cages, cakes, cames, canes, capes, cares, carse, cased, cases, caste, cates, cause, caves, cease, cedes, cedis, ceils, cells, celts, cense, cents, cepes, ceres, ceros, cesta, cesti, cetes, chase, chefs, chess, chest, chews, chose, cines, cires, cites, clefs, clews, close, clues, codes, coeds, cokes, coles, comes, cones, copes, copse, cores, corse, cosec, coses, coset, cosey, cosie, cotes, coves, coxes, cozes, cress, crest, crews, cries, cruse, cubes, cukes, cures, curse, cusec, cutes, cymes, daces, decks, decos, dices, duces, eches, echos, ecrus, epics, escar, escot, execs, faces, feces, fecks, fices, fyces, gecks, hecks, kecks, laces, luces, maces, mesic, necks, onces, paces, pechs, pecks, puces, races, recks, rices, saice, sauce, scale, scape, scare, scena, scend, scene, scent, scone, scope, score, scree, screw, scute, secco, sects, sepic, serac, sices, since, slice, sneck, socle, space, speck, specs, spice, sucre, sycee, syces, taces, vices, voces, yechs. | |
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