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Definition: CRUCIFIXES |
CRUCIFIXESPlural1. Of Crucifix |
Date "CRUCIFIXES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Crosswords: CRUCIFIXES |
| Specialty definitions using "CRUCIFIXES": Petrobrussians. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ira Rosenberg's only daughter nailing crucifixes to her bedroom wall? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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Minorities | Poland | In April 49 graves were damaged in Bytow, more than 120 tombstones were damaged in Catholic cemeteries in Bartoszyce, Markowice, and Siepc, and hundreds of crosses and crucifixes were stolen from a Catholic cemetery in Olawa. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CRUCIFIXES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "CRUCIFIXES" is used about 24 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 (plural) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crucifixes | 82 |
crosse crucifixes | 8 |
crucifixes jewelry | 4 |
crucifixes desk prayer | 3 |
crucifixes tattoo | 2 |
antique crucifixes | 2 |
crucifixes picture | 2 |
14k crucifixes gold | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"CRUCIFIXES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crucifige. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRUCIFIXES" (pronounced kruw"sufi'ksuz) |
| 4 | -k s u z | affixes, annexes, appendixes, axes, boxes, climaxes, coaxes, complexes, exes, faxes, fixes, flexes, foxes, gearboxes, hoaxes, hyraxes, indexes, jukeboxes, latexes, lynxes, mailboxes, mixes, nixes, paradoxes, perplexes, reflexes, relaxes, sexes, sixes, skyboxes, surtaxes, taxes, waxes, xeroxes. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, aces, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appliances, apprentices, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, balances, bases, basses, biases, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, braces, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, chases, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, clubhouses, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, fragrances, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, geniuses, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, passes, penises, performances, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-f-i-i-r-s-u-x" | |
-1 letter: crucifies. | |
-2 letters: crucifix. | |
-3 letters: fixures. | |
-4 letters: cercis, cercus, circus, crisic, cruces, cruise, cruxes, curies, fixers, fixure, furies. | |
-5 letters: cerci, ceric, cires, cries, cruse, cuifs, cures, curfs, curie, curse, cusec, ecrus, fices, ficus, fires, fixer, fixes, fries, frise, icier, refix, reifs, rices, scurf, serif, sieur, sucre, ureic, xeric, xerus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 52 55 43 49 46 49 58 45 53 |
| 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 01010010 01010101 01000011 01001001 01000110 01001001 01011000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R U C I F I X E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 0055 0043 0049 0046 0049 0058 0045 0053 |
| 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)37525537434043583953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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