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COVIN

Definition: COVIN

COVIN

Noun

1. Deceit; fraud; artifice.

2. A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"COVIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: coin, coven, coving.


Synonyms within Context: COVIN

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

Deception

Fraudulency; covin; knavery; (cunning);

Falsehood

Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COVIN

English words defined with "COVIN": Covenous. (references)

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Name Usage Frequency: COVIN

The following table summarizes the usage of "COVIN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CovinLast name1,00016,212
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COVIN

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

covin

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: COVIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "COVIN": coving, covings, covins. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "COVIN"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "COVIN" (pronounced kō"vi'n)
3-v i' nFlavin, Levin, ravin, Savin.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: COVIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-v"

-1 letter: cion, coin, coni, icon, vino.

-2 letters: con, ion.

-3 letters: in, no, on.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-v"
 

+1 letter: coving, covins, novice, ovonic.

 

+2 letters: avionic, connive, convict, corvina, corvine, covings, invoice, novices, ovonics, unvoice, vidicon, voicing.

 

+3 letters: avionics, biconvex, cavicorn, codriven, cognovit, coinvent, conative, conceive, connived, conniver, connives, contrive, convicts, convince, corvinas, covering, coveting, evection, eviction, invocate, invoiced, invoices, olivinic, overnice, province, univocal, unvoiced, unvoices, vacation, veronica, vibronic, vidicons, violence, viomycin, viscount, vocation, voidance, volcanic, vouching.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COVIN


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

43 4F 56 49 4E

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)

-.-.    ---    ...-    ..    -.

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

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

01000011 01001111 01010110 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#86 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0056 0049 004E

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

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

3749564348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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