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Definition: CLI |
CLINoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | CLI 1. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
CLI | English | Command language interpreter | N/A |
CLI | French | Interface de ligne de commande | Computing, Post & Telecom |
CLI | Greek | διεπαφή γραμμής εντολών | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CLISynonym: command line interface (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: CLI |
| Specialty definitions using "CLI": Call-Level Interface ♦ The Internet Account. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 95.19% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Unclassified Items | 4.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
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 |
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. | |
| 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 Imagem laser variável (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references) imagen láser múltiple (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references) Växlande laserbild (CLI (Changeable Laser Image)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. 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)43 4C 49 |
| 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)01000011 01001100 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0049 |
| 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)374643 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 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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