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DEMIT

Definitions: DEMIT

DEMIT

Transitive verb

1. To lay down, as an office; to resign.

2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.

3. To let fall; to depress.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: DEMIT

English words defined with "DEMIT": Demitted, DemittingTo throw up. (references)
Etymologies containing "DEMIT": Demission. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DEMIT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Indonesian (lihat: setan).

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Usage Frequency: DEMIT

"DEMIT" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DEMIT" is used about 2 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEMIT

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

demit

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DEMIT

Language Translations for "DEMIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إستقال (chuck, go on pension, quit, resign). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

абдикирам (abdicate), давам си оставката. (various references)

   

French

  

désembuer. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lemond (abandon, abdicate, back down, denounce, disclaim, forgo, give up, renounce, resign, to abdicate, to call off, to disclaim, to discontinue, to eschew, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, to waive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emitday

   

Portuguese

  

demitir (boot, bounce, cashier, discharge, dismiss, displace, dispose of, drive away, fall asleep, remove, sack), exonerar (clear, deprive, discharge, disendow, dismiss, exonerate, loose, remove, sack), abdicar (abdicate, cede, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, resign, yield). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

demisiona (go out, resign, resign office, take one's name off the books), da demisia. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уходить в отставку (resign, retire), отказываться от должности. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer desaparecer el vaho. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

istifa etmek (give up, go out, quit, resign, resign one's office, step aside, step down, submit one's resignation, tender one's resignation, vacate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

складати з себе обов'язки, відмовлятися від посади (resign), опускати (cast down, decay, down, let down, lower, omit, pull down, put down, sink), понижувати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DEMIT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEMIT": demitasse, demitasses, demits, demitted, demitting. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DEMIT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: damet, damit, dammit, Damyat, debmat, decit, dedit, defit, Deim, demet, demic, demin, Demir, demite, demoth, denat, Denita, denix, denti, depit, depmt, Desmet, dewit, dexit, Dimitr, Dimitra, Dimitru, dimlit, dimot, dmt, domet, Domett, donit, dormit, Dpmi, dremyth, dumet, dunit, edmit, semit. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DEMIT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: timed.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-t"

-1 letter: diet, dime, dite, edit, emit, idem, item, mite, tide, tied, time.

-2 letters: die, dim, dit, med, met, mid, ted, tie.

-3 letters: de, ed, em, et, id, it, me, mi, ti.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-t"
 

+1 letter: demits, itemed, midget, milted, minted, misted, mitred, tedium.

 

+2 letters: bedtime, daytime, delimit, demerit, demotic, diastem, dimeter, dimmest, distome, emitted, emptied, ethmoid, imputed, limited, mediant, mediate, merited, midgets, midterm, mildest, mindset, minuted, misdate, misedit, mistend, mitered, modiste, motived, mutined, omitted, readmit, retimed, stimied, stymied, tediums, timider, trimmed, vomited.

 

+3 letters: acetamid, adamsite, admitted, admitter, animated, atomised, atomized, bedtimes, bemisted, daytimes, decimate, delimits, dementia, demerits, demitted, demivolt, demonist, demotics, demoting, demotion, demotist, diamante, diameter, diastema, diastems, diestrum, dimeters, dimethyl, dimetric, dimities, diriment, distomes, ditheism, dolomite, domestic, dominate, dormient, downtime, dumpiest, dynamite, ethmoids, gimleted, hematoid, imbruted, imitated, immodest, impacted, imparted, impasted, imported, imposted, impudent, intombed, itemised, itemized, limiteds, maledict, medalist, mediants, mediated, mediates, mediator, medicate, meditate, melodist, methodic, midterms, migrated, mindsets, misacted, miscited, misdated, misdates, misdealt, misedits, mismated, misrated, mistends, mistimed, mistuned, mistyped, miticide, modelist, modistes, moldiest, moodiest, morticed, mortised, motioned, muddiest, multiped, muriated, mutinied, pediment, piedmont, preadmit, readmits, reminted, remitted, rudiment, sediment, seedtime, sodomite, summited, tidemark, timbered, timecard, timidest, tumefied, unmitred.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEMIT


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

44 45 4D 49 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)

-..    .    --    ..    -

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

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

01000100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 004D 0049 0054

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

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

3839474354

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INDEX

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


  

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