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CARPE DIEM

Specialty Definition: CARPE DIEM

DomainDefinition

Literature

Carpe Diem Enjoy yourself while you have the opportunity. Seize the present day. (Horace: 1 Odes, xi. 8.) "Dum vivimus, vivamus." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: CARPE DIEM

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

Activity

Phrase: carpe diem; (opportunity); nulla dies sine linea; nec mora nec requies; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done; (early); "veni vidi vici"; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig; dictum ac factum; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter; "the busy hum of men ".

Occasion

Phrase: carpe diem; occasionem cognosce; one's hour is come, the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it; bien perdu bien connu; e sempre l'ora; ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius; nosce tempus; nunc aut nunquam.

Time

D calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion "; " rich with the spoils of time"; tempus edax rerum; "the long hours come and go"; "the time is out of joint"; "Time rolls his ceaseless course"; "Time the foe of man's dominion"; "time wasted is existence, used is life"; truditur dies die; volat hora per orbem; carpe diem.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: CARPE DIEM

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! (Dead Poets Society; writing credit: Tom Schulman.)

Movie/TV Titles

Carpe Diem (2000)

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

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Commercial Usage: CARPE DIEM

DomainTitle

Books

  • LA Celestina: A Feminist Reading of the Carpe Diem (Scripta Humanistica (Series), 75.) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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

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Photo Album: CARPE DIEM

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Carpe diem hora adest vespertina. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CARPE DIEM

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

carpe diem

541

carpe diem latin

4

carpe diem meaning

15

carpe diem global

3

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15

carpe diem poetry

3

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11

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3

carpe diem quote

9

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3

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8

carpe diem sale shirt

3

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6

carpe diem farm

3

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6

carpe diem hardware

3

carpe diem translation

6

carpe diem fine hardware

2

carpe diem foundation

5

carpe diem foundation scholarship

2

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5

carpe diem lincassa

2

carpe diem means

5

carpe diem knob

2

carpe diem public radio shirt

4

carpe diem roma golf club

2

carpe diem scholarship

4

carpe diem origin

2

carpe diem equine rescue

4

carpe diem software

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

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Anagrams: CARPE DIEM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-p-r"

-1 letter: medicare, premedic.

-2 letters: amerced, campier, capered, cramped, creamed, crimped, deciare, demirep, epiderm, impeder, peracid, pierced, premade, racemed.

-3 letters: admire, aeried, amerce, ampere, apiece, camped, camper, caried, carped, craped, creped, damper, dearie, decamp, decare, deicer, deperm, dermic, diaper, empire, epimer, impede, mediae, paired, pardee, pardie, peaced, perdie, pereia, permed, pieced, piecer, pierce, premed, premie.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-p-r"
 

+1 letter: imprecated, premedical.

 

+2 letters: predicament.

 

+3 letters: predicaments, predominance.

 

+4 letters: intercompared, interpandemic, predominances.

 

+5 letters: predominancies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CARPE DIEM


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

43 41 52 50 45      44 49 45 4D

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010010 01010000 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001001 01000101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#82 &#80 &#69 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#69 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052 0050 0045      0044 0049 0045 004D

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

3735525039238433947

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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