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DISTINGUISHER

Definition: DISTINGUISHER

DISTINGUISHER

Noun

1. One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer.

2. One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: DISTINGUISHER

"DISTINGUISHER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DISTINGUISHER" 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: DISTINGUISHER

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

Russian 

  

отличительный признак (earmark, hallmark, note). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DISTINGUISHER

Misspellings

"DISTINGUISHER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distinguishe, distinguishu. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISTINGUISHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-i-i-n-r-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: disheriting, disinherits, distinguish.

-3 letters: disinherit, disserting, disunities, histidines, industries, nightdress, nightsides, rhinitides, turgidness.

-4 letters: desisting, dignities, dirigiste, dirtiness, disguiser, disherits, disinters, distingue, disunites, dithering, histidine, histidins, hungriest, intrigued, intrigues, nightside, reissuing, resisting, rightness, rigidness, ringsides, russeting, shirtings, sistering, tundishes, unsighted.

-5 letters: desiring, diestrus, dinghies, dingiest, dinguses, disguise, disherit, dishiest, disinter, disunite, disusing, diuresis, dressing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISTINGUISHER


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

44 49 53 54 49 4E 47 55 49 53 48 45 52

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 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01001001 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047 0055 0049 0053 0048 0045 0052

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

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

38435354434841554353423952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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