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"CRESSIDA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be gold". |
Date "CRESSIDA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cressida daughter of Calchas the Grecian priest, was beloved by Troilus, one of the sons of Priam. They vowed eternal fidelity to each other, and as pledges of their vow Troïlus gave the maiden a sleeve, and Cressid gave the Trojan prince a glove. Scarce had the vow been made when an exchange of prisoners was agreed to. Diomed gave up three Trojan princes, and was to receive Cressid in lieu thereof. Cressid vowed to remain constant, and Troïlus swore to rescue her. She was led off to the Grecian's tent, and soon gave all her affections to Diomed - nay, even bade him wear the sleeve that Troilus had given her in token of his love. "As false As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind, or step-dame to her son; `Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of false-hood, `As false as Cressid."' Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Discovery | |||||||
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| Discovered by | Voyager 2 | ||||||
| Discovered in | 1986 | Orbital characteristics | |||||
| Mean radius | 61,767 km | ||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.00023 | ||||||
| Orbital period | 0.46357d | ||||||
| Inclination | 0.04° | ||||||
| Is a satellite of | Uranus | ||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||
| Equatorial diameter | ~79.6 km | ||||||
| Surface area | km2 | ||||||
| Mass | 3.43×1017 kg | ||||||
| Mean density | 1.3 g/cm3 | ||||||
| Surface gravity | 0.014 m/s2 | ||||||
| Rotation period | ? | ||||||
| Axial tilt | ?° | ||||||
| Albedo | 0.07 | ||||||
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| Atmospheric pressure | 0 kPa | ||||||
Cressida is a moon of Uranus. It was named after the daughter of Calchas in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida. Other than its size and orbit, virtually nothing is known about it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cressida."
Crosswords: CRESSIDA |
| Specialty definitions using "CRESSIDA": Broken Music ♦ Fire-brand ♦ Galathe ♦ Kiss the Mistress ♦ Lay about One, Lion-sick ♦ O Yes'! O Yes! O Yes!, One Touch of Nature Makes the whole World Kin ♦ Sleeveless Errand. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Troilus and Cressida (1966) | |
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| "CRESSIDA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CRESSIDA" is used about 37 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) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sidecars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: discase, radices, sidecar. | |
-2 letters: aiders, arises, asdics, asides, cadres, cairds, caress, caried, caries, carses, cedars, cerias, ciders, crases, crasis, crises, crissa, daises, darics, dassie, deairs, dicers, ericas, escars, irades, raised, raises, redias, resaid, resids, sacred, saices, scared, scares, scried, scries, seracs, serais. | |
-3 letters: acids, acred, acres, acrid, aider, aides, aired, arced, areic, arise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: acridness, ascarides, cuirassed, disgraces, idocrases. | |
+2 letters: carditises, crassitude, discarders, discharges, disgracers, fricasseed, ostracised, rancidness, semisacred, sidetracks, tracksides. | |
+3 letters: acridnesses, backsliders, breadsticks, caryopsides, chrysalides, cordialness, corydalises, crassitudes, crispbreads, desiccators, dischargees, dischargers, disclaimers, discourages, dispatchers, escadrilles, radicalises, radicalness, saccharides, sarcoidoses, scorpaenids, scrimshawed, secondaries, secularised. | |
+4 letters: accessorised, accessorized, archdioceses, comradeships, cowardliness, crystallised, desacralizes, desecrations, discordances, discouragers, disfranchise, disseverance, disturbances, icosahedrons, merchandises, quadricepses, rancidnesses, reclassified, resuscitated, scrimshander. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 52 45 53 53 49 44 41 |
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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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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. . ... ... .. -.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R E S S I D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 0045 0053 0053 0049 0044 0041 |
| 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)3752395353433835 |
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