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Definition: CLIFT |
CLIFTNoun1. The fork of the legs; the crotch. 2. A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. 3. A cliff. |
Date "CLIFT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. Obsolete var. of cleft. See:cleft b. Dialectal var. of cliff c. A term used in southern Wales for various kinds of shale, esp. astrong, usually silty, mudstone. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CLIFT |
| Etymologies containing "CLIFT": Clifted. (references) |
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| "CLIFT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "CLIFT" is used about 36 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) | 83.33% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CLIFT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Clift | Last name | 2,000 | 6,002 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CLIFT": Brando-clift. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
clift hotel | 157 | clift house | 3 |
montgomery clift | 105 | jeanette clift | 3 |
clift hotel san francisco | 80 | clift hotel san francisco ca | 2 |
clift | 46 | clift free note | 2 |
clift note | 40 | clift hotel sf | 2 |
eleanor clift | 22 | montgomery clift picture | 2 |
the clift | 20 | biography clift eleanor | 2 |
clift san francisco | 17 | clift fransisco hotel san | 2 |
clift hotel in san francisco | 7 | clift monty | 2 |
clift an ian schrager hotel | 5 | william clift | 2 |
clift elizabeth montgomery taylor | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLIFT": clifts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLIFT" (pronounced kli"ft) |
| 4 | -l i" f t | lift. |
| 3 | -i" f t | adrift, drift, gift, miffed, rift, shift, shrift, sift, sniffed, stiffed, swift, thrift. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: clit, flic, flit, lift. | |
-2 letters: fil, fit, lit, tic, til. | |
-3 letters: if, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: clifts, flitch. | |
+2 letters: afflict, fictile, inflect, inflict. | |
+3 letters: afflicts, califate, clefting, conflict, craftily, facelift, facility, felicity, felsitic, ficklest, flection, flichter, flitched, flitches, inflects, inflicts, stickful, sulfitic, trifocal. | |
+4 letters: afflicted, califates, chairlift, cliffiest, conflicts, deceitful, difficult, electrify, facelifts, factional, factorial, faculties, fanatical, fatidical, fictional, fictively, flagstick, flections, fleeciest, fletching, flichters, flintlock, flitching, flockiest, floristic, fluorotic, fortalice, inflected, inflicted, inflicter, inflictor, laticifer, lightface, olfaction, stickfuls, trifocals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 49 46 54 |
| 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 01000110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L I F T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0049 0046 0054 |
| 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)3746434054 |
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