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Definition: DURE |
DUREAdjective1. To last; to continue; to endure. 2. Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. |
Date "DURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penalty | Noun: penalty; retribution; (punishment); pain, pains and penalties; weregild, wergild; peine forte et dure; penance; (atonement); the devil to pay. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DURE |
| Specialty definitions using "DURE": Creaking Doors hang the Longest. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DURE": Durable, Duramen, Durance, Duration, During. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DURE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (expensive), French (lasts), Latin (cruel, durable, hard, harsh, inflexible, rough, stern, unfeeling, vigorous). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Peau dure (1969) Para que dure no se apure (1988) Mientras me dure la vida (1981) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DURE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dure | Last name | 300 | 29,068 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "DURE": peine forte et dure. 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 |
dure location longue | 7 |
dure sen | 7 |
pietre dure | 7 |
dure | 5 |
dure gerard | 4 |
disque dure | 3 |
dure location longue voiture | 3 |
contrat dtermine dure | 3 |
de de des dure sauvegarde support vie | 3 |
courte dure location | 2 |
ca dure pourvu que | 2 |
cd d de dure r un vie | 2 |
dure gerard salon | 2 |
beau dure | 2 |
combien de disquette dure temps une | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 1, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai h poliV olh episunhgmenh hn proV thn quran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erat omnis civitas congregata ad ianuam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & eall syo burhware wæs ge-gadered toþare dure |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And al the citee was gaderid at the yate. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And all the cite gaddred to gedder at the dore |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And all the city was gathered together at the door. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And all the city was gathered at the door. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And all the town had come together at the door. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 1, Verse 33 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga tawo sa tibuok lungsod nanagtapok atbang sa pultahan. |
| Chinese | 合 城 的 人 都 聚 集 在 門 前 。 |
| Croatian | I sav je grad nagrnuo k vratima. |
| Danish | og hele Byen var forsamlet foran Døren. |
| Dutch | En de gehele stad was bijeenvergaderd omtrent de deur. |
| Finnish | ja koko kaupunki oli koolla oven edessä. |
| French | Et toute la ville était rassemblée devant sa porte. |
| Gaelic | `S bha am baile uile air cruinneachadh aig an dorus. |
| German | Und die ganze Stadt versammelte sich vor der Tür. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seluruh penduduk kota itu berkerumun di depan rumah itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka seisi negeri itu pun berhimpunlah di muka pintu. |
| Italian | Tutta la citt era riunita davanti alla porta. |
| Korean | 온 동 네 가 문 앞 에 모 였 " 라 |
| Maori | A huihui katoa ana te pa ki te kuwaha. |
| Norwegian | og hele byen var samlet for døren. |
| Portuguese | e toda a cidade estava reunida porta; |
| Rumanian | Wi toatq cetatea era adunatq la uwq. |
| Shuar | Tura Ashí Nú péprunmaya shuar taar Wáitiniam Jesusan Káutkarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Toda la ciudad estaba reunida a la puerta. |
| Swahili | Watu wote wa mji ule wakakusanyika nje ya mlango. |
| Swedish | och hela staden var församlad utanför dörren. |
| Uma | Wori' pue' ngata tumai morumpu hi berewe tomi Simon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DURE": dured, dures, duress, duresses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DURE": bordure, coendure, endure, ordure, perdure, procedure, rondure, supersedure, verdure. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DURE": bordures, coendured, coendures, endured, endures, ordures, perdured, perdures, procedures, rondures, supersedures, verdured, verdures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rude, rued. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-r-u" | |
-1 letter: due, red, rue, urd. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-r-u" | |
+1 letter: crude, cured, demur, drupe, druse, duper, dured, dures, lured, mured, nuder, perdu, prude, redub, redux, ruder, ruled, trued, udder, under, uredo, urged. | |
+2 letters: adjure, argued, aulder, bedrug, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, cruder, crudes, curbed, curded, curdle, curled, curred, cursed, curved, dauber, decury, demure, demurs, detour, devour, dourer, douser, drogue, drudge, drupes, druses, dubber, ducker, dueler, duffer, duiker, duller, dumber, dumper, dunker, dunner, dupers, dupery, duress, durned, durrie, duster, eluder, endure, enduro, enured, furled, furred, gerund, gourde, grudge, guider, gurged, hurdle, hurled, inured, judder, judger, juried, lauder, louder, loured, lurked, mudder, murder, nudger, nurled, nursed, ordure, perdue, perdus, poured, prudes, pruned, pureed, purged, purled, purred, pursed, quired, redbud, redbug, redout, redubs, reduce, refund, remuda, reused, rogued, rouged, rouped, roused, routed, rubbed, rubied, ruched, rucked, rudder, ruddle, rudely, rudest, ruffed, rugged, ruined, rundle, rushed, rusted, rutted, soured, sudser, sunder, surfed, surged, toured, truced, trudge, turfed, turned, udders, unbred, undoer, undrew, unread, uredia, uredos, ureide. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 52 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 0052 0045 |
| 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)38555239 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Bible Trace | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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