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ELISON

Definitions: ELISON

ELISON

Noun

1. The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

2. Division; separation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"ELISON" is a common misspelling or typo for: Elision.

Non-Fiction Usage: ELISON

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Haiti

There was no information on any investigation into the September 2000 killing of CATH member Elison Merzilus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: ELISON

The following table summarizes the usage of "ELISON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ElisonLast name20033,863
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ELISON

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ELISON": Carr-elison.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ELISON

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

elison jennifer

11

larry elison

8

elison

8

elison jenifer

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ELISON

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

Pig Latin

  

elisonay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ELISON"

Words rhyming with "ELISON" (pronounced 'E*li"son'): Advowson, Antimason, Arson, Bason, Bison, Bisson, Boson, Caisson, Chanson, Diapason, Disdiapason, Dobson, Encrimson, Foison, Foyson, Geason, godson, grandson, Great-grandson, grison, hyson, Impoison, keelson, Kelson, Nupson, Outreason, Overseason, Parson, Plasson, Pocoson, Ramson, reason, Samson, Semidiapason, Sponson, Stemson, stepson, Sternson, Telson, treason, Tridiapason, Unpoison, Unseason, Urson, Waveson, Whitson, Whoreson. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ELISON

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eloins, insole, lesion, oleins.

Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s"

-1 letter: eloin, enols, eosin, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins, noels, noils, noise, olein, solei.

-2 letters: enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, lien, lies, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, nils, noel, noes, noil, nose, oils, oles, ones, silo, sine, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sone.

-3 letters: els, ens, eon, ins, ion, lei, lie, lin, lis, nil, nos, oes, oil, ole, one, ons, ose, sei, sel, sen, sin, sol, son.

-4 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, lo, ne, no, oe, on, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: anisole, cineols, elision, eloigns, elusion, entoils, epsilon, inclose, indoles, insoles, isoline, legions, lesions, lingoes, lioness, lionise, lomeins, longies, loonies, nerolis, niellos, olefins, oleines, pinoles, sonlike.

 

+2 letters: ailerons, alienors, alnicoes, anisoles, binocles, bonspiel, bowlines, cholines, cineoles, colonies, colonise, delusion, eclosion, eidolons, elations, elisions, eloiners, elusions, elutions, emulsion, epsilons, evulsion, felonies, flexions, foilsmen, gasoline, helicons, hellions, holiness, holstein, hotlines, inclosed, incloser, incloses, insolate, insolent, insouled, involves, isocline, isolines, kaolines, laminose, lections, lemonish, lesioned, lewisson, lexicons, licensor, ligneous, lionised, lioniser, lionises, lionizes, lobefins, loginess, longwise, looniest, loriners, misenrol, moleskin, neoliths, nonlives, noselike, novelise, novelist, nubilose, oiliness, oilstone, oinomels, olefines, olivines, opalines, outlines, pinholes, pinocles, potlines, prolines, resoling, retinols, semolina, sidelong, silicone, siloxane, simoleon, sinkhole, snowlike, solanine, solenoid, songlike, telsonic, toenails, toplines, towlines, unsoiled, violones.

 

+3 letters: acroleins, alimonies, almonries, alongside, analogies, anomalies, antipoles, aphelions, balconies, bonspiels, bromelins, censorial, chlorines, cloisonne, closeting, coastline, colicines, collinses, colonised, colonises, colonizes, comingles, complines, concisely, cornicles, delations, deletions, delousing, delusions, diolefins, downslide, eclosions, elections, eledoisin, eloigners, emulsions, enclosing, enologies, enologist, ensouling, enviously, epsilonic, erosional, evulsions, exclusion, explosion, expulsion, felonious, felonries, flections, florigens, fluorines, gasolines, gelations, geraniols, godliness, hailstone, heinously, hemolysin, holsteins, hosteling, houseling, imboldens, inclosers, inclosure, infolders, innersole, insolated, insolates, insolence, insolents, insoluble, insolvent, involutes, involvers, isoclines, jolliness, lanolines, legations, lenitions, lessoning, lewissons, licensors, lichenous, ligroines, limestone, limonenes, limonites, limousine, linoleums, lionesses, lionisers, lionizers, lobelines, loftiness, loneliest, longlines, looniness, loosening, lousiness, lovevines, lowliness, luteolins, lyonnaise, lysogenic, melanoids, milestone, millstone, misenroll, misenrols, modelings, moldiness, moleskins, molesting, monellins, monthlies, morseling, mylonites, neologies, neologism, neoplasia, nobeliums, noiseless, noisomely, nonsaline, normalise, novelised, novelises, novelists, novelizes, novelties, nucleoids, obelising, oilstones, oleoresin, orientals, outliners, palinodes, panoplies, pemolines, phenolics, picolines, pinochles, plotlines, pointless, polonaise, prelusion, reclusion, regionals, relations, religions, replicons, repulsion, resolving, revulsion, rooflines, sclerotin, seclusion, sectional, selection, semicolon, semitonal, semolinas, sensorial, serotinal, sessional, shoreline, shoveling, silicones, silkoline, siloxanes, siltstone, simoleons, simpleton, singleton, sinkholes, sinologue, sloganize, snowfield, snowslide, soilborne, solanines, soldering, solemnify, solemnity, solemnize, solenoids, solidness, spinulose, spoilsmen, tailbones, tensional, terpinols, tholepins, tolidines, towelings, trotlines, unholiest, unspoiled, versional, violences, winsomely, xenoliths.

 

+4 letters: actionless, adhesional, alienators, analogizes, andouilles, aneuploids, anthelions, antilogies, antinovels, arecolines, assoilment, bandoliers, belongings, blazonries, bloodiness, bloodlines, bluepoints, bolstering, bromelains, calcinoses, celloidins, centrioles, chelations, chelonians, chronicles, clingstone, cloisonnes, clonidines, clothespin, cloudiness, clowneries, coalescing, coastlines, cobaltines, cochineals, collegians, colonizers, columbines, comeliness, commingles, conclusive, consultive, convulsive, corallines, corbelings, cornelians, cornfields, costliness, counseling, covellines, creolising, crinolines, dandelions, dealations, decillions, decisional, declension, deflations, defoliants, delusional, depletions, desolating, desolation, despoiling, diplotenes, dissolvent, downslides, effluxions, eledoisins, elevations, elocutions, emollients, emulations, enologists, eosinophil, epilations, escalation, escaloping, euglenoids, eulogising, evildoings, evolutions, excisional, exclusions, explosions, expulsions, exsolution, falconries, fellations, fieldstone, flamingoes, floppiness, floridness, flounciest, folksiness, folksinger, fosterling, gelatinous, girandoles, gloominess, glossiness, gluttonies, gondoliers, growliness, hailstones, haloclines, heliozoans, hemolysins, holinesses, hologynies, holstering, homeliness, hostelling, houselling, impersonal, inclosures, indolences, inflexions, inglenooks, innersoles, inoculates, inosculate, inscrolled, insociable, insolences, insolently, insolubles, insolvable, insolvency, insolvents, interfolds, interlocks, interlopes, involucres, isoleucine, kaolinites, knobbliest, kolinskies, lanosities, leguminous, lentissimo, licentious, lidocaines, limestones, limousines, lineations, linoleates, lionfishes, lithopones, lobstering, loginesses, loneliness, longitudes, lordliness, loveliness, lovingness, lysogenies, lysogenise, lysogenize, mandolines, medaillons, medallions, melatonins, melodising, menologies, milestones, millstones, misenrolls, moniliases, monoclines, monologies, monopolies, monopolise, monostelic, morselling, motionless, mousseline, natrolites, nebulosity, necropolis, nemophilas, neoclassic, neologisms, neophilias, neoplasias, neoplastic, neorealism, neorealist, neuroglias, niccolites, nobilities, nodalities, nomologies, nonbeliefs, nonelastic, nonhostile, nonpareils, normalcies, normalised, normalises, normalizes, nosologies, novelising, novelistic, nucleonics, nucleoside, obeisantly, obsoleting, oenologies, oenophiles, oilinesses, oinologies, oleaginous, oleoresins, olivenites, oncologies, ontologies, opalescing, opulencies, ostensible, ostensibly, outselling, owlishness, palimonies, penologies, penologist, phelonions, phonolites, piperonals, planetoids, pleonastic, pleustonic, pointelles, politeness, pollenosis, pollinates, pollinoses, polonaises, polyamines, polygonies, polygynies, polylysine, polytenies, porcelains, portliness, potentials, preclusion, prelusions, prolamines, purloiners, quinolines, rationales, rebellions, reclusions, reconciles, reflations, reflexions, reglossing, relictions, repletions, repulsions, resolution, resorcinol, revulsions, rosemaling, scaloppine, sclerosing, sclerotins, seclusions, sectionals, seignorial, selections, semicolons, semicolony, senatorial, septillion, sextillion, shorelines, shovelling, silkolines, siltstones, simpletons, singletons, sinologies, sinologues, skeletonic, slobbering, sloganized, sloganizes, sloppiness, slovenlier, smoldering, snorkeling, snowfields, snowmobile, snowslides, soldiering, solecising, solecizing, solemnized, solemnizes, solenoidal, solonetzic, solvencies, soundalike, sphenoidal, stoneflies, suppletion, telegonies, television, tendrilous, terpineols, toluidines, tonalities, tormentils, touchlines, towellings, triskelion, ungodliest, unholiness, unpolished, unsociable, vermilions, videolands, visionless, windowless, wobbliness, wolverines, womanliest, woolliness, xenophiles, yellowfins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ELISON


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

45 4C 49 53 4F 4E

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)

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

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

01000101 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 0049 0053 004F 004E

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

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

394643534948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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