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Definition: DIRELY |
DIRELYAdverb1. In a dire manner. |
Date "DIRELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Due to the urgently needed adjustments and upgrades for the machinery industry's infrastructure, high performance and highly efficient CNC machine tools are direly needed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DIRELY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIRELY" is used about 4 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DIRELY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 可怕地 (Awfully, Fearfully, frightfully, gruesomely, horribly). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schrecklich (abominably, abysmal, appalling, awful, awfully, dire, dreadful, dreadfully, fearful, fearfully, formidable, frantic, frightful, frightfully, grim, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, indescribable, indescribably, lurid, luridly, monstrously, painfully, shockingly, terrible, terribly, terrificly, terrifying, tremendous, tremenduously). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 무섭게 (Fearfully, frightfully, horribly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irelyday dehşetle (direfully, ghastly, mortally). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DIRELY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aderley, dadely, damely, deerly, derly, Dersely, Dersley, Dielli, diely, diery, dioecy, diregy, direl, dirkel, dorel, Dorelia, dovely, dridel, dudely, Durelle, Durey, Dyneley, firely, idely, Tirley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ridley. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: drily, idler, redly, riled, riley, yield. | |
-2 letters: deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, dyer, idle, idly, idyl, ired, lied, lier, lire, lyre, rely, ride, riel, rile, yeld, yird. | |
-3 letters: del, dey, die, dry, dye, eld, ire, led, lei, ley, lid, lie, lye, red, rei, rid, rye, yid. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, er, id, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: devilry, readily, reedily, ridleys, tiredly, weirdly, yielder. | |
+2 letters: credibly, cylinder, delivery, deviltry, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, directly, dreamily, drearily, dressily, elytroid, fervidly, friendly, greedily, lyrebird, soldiery, trendily, variedly, yielders. | |
+3 letters: credulity, cylinders, desirably, dialysers, dialyzers, dietarily, direfully, diversely, eruditely, flybridge, glyceride, holidayer, hurriedly, lyrebirds, lyricised, lyricized, pyrolized, radiately, redisplay, reducibly, retiredly, serriedly, soldierly, worriedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 52 45 4C 59 |
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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 01001001 01010010 01000101 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I R E L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0052 0045 004C 0059 |
| 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)384352394659 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, 중국, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, 독일, alman |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, kore'li |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | 土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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