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DELICT

Definition: DELICT

DELICT

Noun

1. An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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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Specialty Definition: Delicts

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Delict is a French word and a legal term in civil law which signifies a wilful wrong, similar to the common law concept of tort though differing in many substantive ways. It is to be differentiated from quasi-delict which is an unintentional wrong, similar though differing from the common law concept of negligence. See Law of Obligations.

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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Commercial Usage: DELICT

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Roman-Dutch and Sesotho law of delict (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: DELICT

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Noun (proper)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DELICT

Expression using "DELICT": quasi delict. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DELICT": quasi-delict.

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

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Modern Translations: DELICT

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

delict (crime, delinquency, malpractice, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, trespass). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

правонарушение (lawbreaking, offense, statutory offense, tort, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrongdoing), деликт (tort). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

delikt (tort), prekršaj (breach, foul, infraction, infringement, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, violation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

quebramiento de la ley. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lagbrott, lagöverträdelse (delinquency, trespass). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

правопорушення (delinquency, misfeasance, offence, offense, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrong doing), делікт. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DELICT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DELICT": delicts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DELICT

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DELICT


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

44 45 4C 49 43 54

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)

01000100 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#84

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)

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

383946433754

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INDEX

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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