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CLI

Definition: CLI

CLI

Noun

1. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.

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

Date "CLI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

"CLI" is a common misspelling or typo for: chi, clap, clef, clew, clip.


Specialty Definitions: CLI

DomainDefinitions

Computing

CLI 1. Command Line Interface. 2. Call-Level Interface. (1997-03-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CLI

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CLI

EnglishCommand language interpreterN/A

CLI

FrenchInterface de ligne de commandeComputing, Post & Telecom

CLI

Greekδιεπαφή γραμμής εντολώνComputing, Post & Telecom

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

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Synonym: CLI

Synonym: command line interface (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: CLI

Specialty definitions using "CLI": Call-Level InterfaceThe Internet Account. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CLI

DomainTitle

Books

  • Clinical Pharmacology in the Aged: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Methods in Clinical Pharmacology Frankfurt 1985 (Methods in Cli) (reference)

  • Comparative Molecular Carcinogenesis: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference Held in Austin, Texas, November 19-22, 1991 (Progress in Cli) (reference)

  • DB2 Universal Database Call-Level Interface (Cli) Developer's Guide: Call Level Interface Cli Developer's Guide (Data Management Series) (reference)

  • Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Cli (reference)

  • Shared Source CLI Essentials (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: CLI

"CLI" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 95.19% of the time. "CLI" is used about 104 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
Cardinal Number95.19%9932,870
Unclassified Items4.81%5157,705
                    Total100.00%104N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLI

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

cli

91

art cli

11

new used computer lab international cli

7

1 cli

5

cli mon s

5

cli tool

5

art cli free

3

big cli

3

cli part

3

1750 cli

3

cli handheld pda

3

cli mini

3

bmx cli extreme extreme rock skateboarding snowboarding source sports...extreme sports...extreme this vid video

2

cli informix

2

1450 cli wavetek

2

cli client thin

2

cli njm

2

cli download informix

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

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Modern Translation: CLI

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

Danish

  

Multiple Laser Image (MLI)(flertonrt laserbillede) (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Multiple laser image (MLI) (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

MLI (monilaserkuva) (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

French

  

Image laser multiple (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

German

  

Laserkippbild (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Μεταβαλλόμενη εικόνα Laser (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Immagine laser multipla (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iclay

   

Portuguese

  

Imagem laser variável (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

imagen láser múltiple (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Växlande laserbild (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CLI

Derivations

Words beginning with "CLI": cliche, cliched, cliches, click, clicked, clicker, clickers, clicking, clicks, client, clientage, clientages, cliental, clientele, clienteles, clientless, clients, cliff, cliffhanger, cliffhangers, cliffier, cliffiest, cliffs, cliffy, clift, clifts, climacteric, climacterics, climactic, climactically, climatal, climate, climates, climatic, climatically, climatological, climatologically, climatologies, climatologist, climatologists, climatology, climax, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing, climaxless, climb, climbable, climbed, climber, climbers. (additional references)

Words containing "CLI": acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, acclimation, acclimations, acclimatise, acclimatised, acclimatises, acclimatising, acclimatization, acclimatizations, acclimatize, acclimatized, acclimatizer, acclimatizers, acclimatizes, acclimatizing, acclivities, acclivity, aclinic, acyclic, alicyclic, anaclitic, anticlimactic, anticlimactical, anticlimactically, anticlimax, anticlimaxes, anticlinal, anticline, anticlines, anticling, articling, bicyclic, bicycling, bicyclist, bicyclists, bioclimatic, carbocyclic, chlortetracycline, chlortetracyclines, chronicling, circling, countercyclical, countercyclically, cyclic, cyclical, cyclicalities, cyclicality, cyclically. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CLI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-l"

-1 letter: li.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-l"
 

+1 letter: ceil, clip, clit, coil, flic, laic, lice, lich, lick, loci.

 

+2 letters: alcid, aulic, calif, calix, cavil, ceils, celli, chiel, child, chile, chili, chill, cibol, cilia, civil, claim, clavi, click, cliff, clift, climb, clime, cline, cling, clink, clips, clipt, clits, coils, colic, colin, culti, cylix, dolci, filch, flick, flics, icily, ileac, iliac, laich, laics, lichi, licht, licit, licks, lilac, linac, logic, lotic, lucid, ludic, lyric, lytic, malic, melic, milch, nicol, oculi, oleic, pical, picul, plica, relic, salic, slice, slick, sulci, telic, tical, wilco, zilch.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CLI


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

43 4C 49

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)

01000011 01001100 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 0049

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

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

374643

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CLI"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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