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CONTROVERSE

Definition: CONTROVERSE

CONTROVERSE

Noun

1. Controversy.

Transitive verb

1. To dispute; to controvert.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CONTROVERSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Crosswords: CONTROVERSE

Non-English Usage: "CONTROVERSE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (controversy), French (argument, controversy).

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Commercial Usage: CONTROVERSE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Célibat et nature, une controverse médiévale : à propos d'un traité du début du XVe siècle (reference)

  • Controverse avec Garat : précédée d'autres écrits philosophiques (reference)

  • Hommes supérieurs, hommes inférieurs? : la controverse sur l'hérédité de l'intelligence (reference)

  • Judaïsme et capitalisme : essai sur la controverse entre Max Weber et Werner Sombart (reference)

  • La controverse de Valladolid (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CONTROVERSE

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

controverse de la valladolid

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CONTROVERSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: converters, convertors, reconverts.

-2 letters: conserver, converser, converter, convertor, overtones, reconvert.

-3 letters: conserve, converse, converts, coroners, coronets, coverers, coveters, creosote, crooners, ecotones, erectors, evertors, oestrone, overtone, recovers, restrove, secretor.

-4 letters: cenotes, centers, centres, consort, convert, cooters, corners, cornets, coroner, coronet, corvees, corvets, coverer, coverts, coveter, crooner, crotons, ecotone, encores, enroots, erector, estrone, evertor, necrose, overset.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-v"
 

+2 letters: conservatoire, controversies, controverters, overreactions, oversecretion.

 

+3 letters: conservatoires, conservatories, oversecretions.

 

+4 letters: interconversion, overconstructed, overcorrections, overdecorations, overextractions, overprotections.

 

+5 letters: cryopreservation, interconversions, overcompensatory, overconservative, overprescription.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CONTROVERSE


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

43 4F 4E 54 52 4F 56 45 52 53 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 004F 0056 0045 0052 0053 0045

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

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

3749485452495639525339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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