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Definition: Diderot |
DiderotNoun1. French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Diderot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: DiderotSynonym: Denis Diderot (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Diderot |
| English words defined with "Diderot": Denis Diderot ♦ The Encyclopedists. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) La Religieuse de Diderot (1978) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | Distance is a great promoter of admiration! |
| Good music is very close to primitive language. | |
| Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice. | |
| The point is to get into heaven by hook or by crook. | |
| The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. | |
| Fools have been and always will be the majority of mankind. | |
| Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. | |
| Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. | |
| Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Diderot" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Diderot" is used about 14 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) | 78.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Diderot": Denis Diderot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
diderot | 59 |
denis diderot | 40 |
aristotle diderot mimesis | 6 |
diderot la religieuse | 5 |
encyclopedie diderot | 4 |
diderot encyclopedia | 3 |
diderot neveu rameau | 2 |
diderot filosofo obras | 2 |
diderot filosofo | 2 |
de diderot le neveu rameau | 2 |
biographie diderot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: doited, dotier, editor, rioted, triode. | |
-2 letters: diode, doted, doter, dried, droid, droit, odder, redid, tided, tired, tried, trode. | |
-3 letters: dido, died, diet, dire, dirt, dite, doer, doit, dore, dote, eddo, edit, ired, redd, redo, ride, riot, rite, rode, rote, roti, tide, tied, tier, tire, tiro, toed, tore, tori, trio, trod. | |
-4 letters: did, die, dit. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: dedicator, deorbited, disported, disrooted, distorted, outridden. | |
+3 letters: codirected, dedicators, dedicatory, introduced, overedited. | |
+4 letters: coordinated, degradation, dehydration, depredation, diphtheroid, disoriented, fluoridated, interfolded, nondirected, outstridden, redeposited, retrodicted, rodenticide, undistorted. | |
+5 letters: contradicted, decorticated, degradations, dehydrations, democratized, dendrologist, depredations, desideration, deteriorated, diphtheroids, discomforted, disconcerted, endocarditis, outdelivered, overdirected, overstridden, predominated, rededication, rediscounted, reintroduced, rodenticides, subordinated, timberdoodle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 64 65 72 6F 74 |
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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)01000100 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i d e r o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0064 0065 0072 006F 0074 |
| 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)38757071848186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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