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Definition: DELICT |
DELICTNoun1. An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor. |
Etymology: Delict \De*lict"\, noun. [Latin expression delictum fault.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: DELICT |
| Non-English Usage: "DELICT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (crime, delict, delinquency, malpractice, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, trespass). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Delicts."
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| "DELICT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "DELICT" is used about 5 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 (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DELICT": quasi delict. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DELICT": quasi-delict. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DELICT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkelje e ligjit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الجنحة نوع من الجريمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нарушение на закона, престъпление (crime, delinquency, fact, foul play, iniquity, misdeed, offence, outrage, transgression, wrongdoing), деликт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ansvar uden for kontraktsforhold (delict or quasidelict, liability in tort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | op heter daad (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed), heterdaad (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed), aansprakelijkheid uit onrechtmatige daad (delict or quasidelict, liability in tort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | verekseltään (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed), itse teossa (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | responsabilité délictuelle ou quasi-délictuelle (delict or quasidelict), flagrant délit (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Delikt (crime, criminal act, criminal offence, offence, offense, punishable act, punishable offence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευθύνη εξ αδικοπραξίας ή οιονεί αδικοπραξίας (delict or quasidelict, liability in tort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bûncselekmény (crime, felony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | delitto (crime, criminal act, criminal offence, felony, misdemeanour, murder, offence, offense, punishable act, punishable offence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elictday delito (crime, delinquency, fault, guilt, guiltily, malt, misdeem, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offence, offense, transgression), ofensa (dishonor, dishonour, grievance, harm, injury, insult, mischief, offence, offense, outrage, peccant, peeve, transgression, trespass, umbrage, wound, wrong), crime (crime, foul up, guilt, initial, misdeed, misdoing, monkey bread, offence, offense, perpetrator, wrongdoing). (various references) delict (crime, delinquency, malpractice, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, trespass). (various references) правонарушение (lawbreaking, offense, statutory offense, tort, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrongdoing), деликт (tort). (various references) delikt (tort), prekršaj (breach, foul, infraction, infringement, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, violation). (various references) quebramiento de la ley. (various references) lagbrott, lagöverträdelse (delinquency, trespass). (various references) suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), kanunu çiğneme, ihlal (breach, contravention, infraction, infringement, intrusion, invasion, transgression). (various references) правопорушення (delinquency, misfeasance, offence, offense, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrong doing), делікт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DELICT": delicts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deltic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: cited, edict, telic, tilde, tiled. | |
-2 letters: cedi, ceil, celt, cite, clit, deil, deli, delt, dice, diel, diet, dite, edit, etic, iced, idle, lice, lied, lite, tide, tied, tile. | |
-3 letters: cel, del, die, dit, eld, ice, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, ted, tel, tic, tie, til. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, et, id, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: citadel, delicts, deltaic, dialect, ductile, edictal, lichted, tickled. | |
+2 letters: articled, ciliated, citadels, cuittled, delicate, denticle, derelict, diacetyl, dialects, directly, eldritch, elicited, flitched, idiolect, lacertid, latticed, maledict, plicated, stickled, trickled. | |
+3 letters: acidulate, acidulent, afflicted, cadential, candlelit, cloddiest, cloudiest, credulity, cuddliest, curtailed, decaliter, deceitful, deciliter, declivity, deistical, delicates, denticles, derelicts, diacetyls, dialectal, dialectic, dislocate, doleritic, duplicate, elucidate, excitedly, glaciated, identical, idiolects, inflected, inflicted, lacertids, maledicts, poulticed, solicited, stenciled, stepchild, strickled, victualed, videlicet. | |
+4 letters: accidental, accidently, acclimated, acetanilid, acidulated, acidulates, actualized, adjectival, backlisted, bootlicked, calibrated, cartelised, cartelized, childliest, circulated, clitorides, cloistered, cocktailed, colatitude, colligated, collimated, conflicted, credential, creditable, creditably, culminated, cultivated, decaliters, deciliters, decrepitly, deductible, deflecting, deflection, deflective, delicately, dialectics, dielectric, dilemmatic, diphyletic, discreetly, discretely, dislocated, dislocates, docilities, duplicated, duplicates, elucidated, elucidates, elucidator, endolithic, explicated, facelifted, flichtered, geodetical, helicopted, idealistic, idiolectal, implicated, incidental, inculcated, inculpated, indecently, indelicate, indictable, indirectly, inoculated, interlaced, italicised, italicized, lightfaced, lipsticked, lubricated, lucidities, maledicted, methodical, mislocated, nucleotide, occidental, oscillated, outcaviled, outclimbed, outslicked, pediculate, pitchpoled, politicked, replicated, septicidal, solicitude, stencilled, stockpiled, subdialect, tailcoated, tricolored, unciliated, vacillated, victualled, wildcatted, wildcatter. | |
+5 letters: accidentals, acetanilide, acetanilids, adjectively, anecdotical, articulated, backlighted, bidialectal, binucleated, blacklisted, calumniated, candlelight, candlestick, cantillated, capitalised, capitalized, capitulated, cardinalate, catabolized, centralised, centralized, chlorinated, clandestine, closefisted, colatitudes, complicated, conceitedly, conciliated, condimental, conductible, confidently, consolidate, credentials, credibility, credulities, crocidolite, crystalized, deceitfully, deceptional, deceptively, declamation, declaration, declarative, declination, declivities, declivitous, decollating, decollation, dedicatedly, deductibles, deductively, defalcating, defalcation, defectively, deficiently, deflections, deglaciated, deistically, delectation, denticulate, dereliction, deselecting, dialectally, dialectical, diametrical, dicotyledon, dictyostele, dielectrics, dilatancies, directional, directorial, diverticula, domiciliate, ductilities, duplicative, duplicities, educability, educational, eidetically, elasticized, electrified, elucidating, elucidation, elucidative, elucidators, facilitated, feldspathic, felicitated, feudalistic, fiddlestick, galactoside, geniculated, identically, incidentals, incredulity, inductively, inosculated, interlocked, maledicting, malediction, maledictory, multicelled, multicoated, nematicidal, nematocidal, nucleotides, outcavilled, pedicellate, pediculates, pitchblende, placidities, plasticized, politicised, politicized, predictable, predictably, pulchritude, quitclaimed, radiolucent, reconditely, redactional, reductional, reductively, reduplicate, reticulated, revictualed, sclerotized, seductively, simulcasted, solicitudes, stickhandle, straitlaced, subdialects, supplicated, switchblade, trickledown, triplicated, tuberculoid, umbilicated, uninflected, unsolicited, valediction, valedictory, vesiculated, wildcatters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 49 43 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. .. -.-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L I C T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0049 0043 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)383946433754 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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