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Definition: Elite |
EliteAdjective1. Selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges". Noun1. A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Elite adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti. Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually native hacker slang; it is used primarily by crackers and warez d00dz, for which reason hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to refer to the folks allowed in to the "hidden" or "privileged" sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically, contained pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or `boards') on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary `triple super secret' boards were elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz style abound; the forms `l337' `eleet', and `31337' (among others) have been sighted. A true hacker would be more likely to use `wizardly'. Oppose lamer. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aristocracy forms one traditional form of an elite, oligarchy another.
For applied concepts of the elite, see elitism.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Elite was a seminal space trading-game published by Acornsoft first in 1983 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell.
Elite was one of the first home computer games with polygonal 3D graphics.
The object of the game was to reach the exalted height of "Elite" status by any means necessary.
It provided a virtual universe to explore, with over 5000 planets to visit.
The player, Commander Jameson, started with 100 Credits and a lightly armed trading ship, the Cobra Mark III, to his name. Most of the ships that the player encountered were similarly named after snakes.
Wealth could be accumulated through a number of means. These included piracy, trade, military missions, bounty hunting and mining asteroids.
With the credits generated by these enterprises, the player was able to upgrade the ship with such enhancements as better weapons, shields, increased cargo capacity and a docking pilot.
Elite's open ended game model, advanced game engine and revolutionary 3D graphics ensured that it was ported to virtually every home computer system of the day, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history.
As well as the numerous imitations developed, such as Wing Commander: Privateer, two official sequels were created. The sequels, Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters were considered to be rushed due to numerous issues regarding publication. They were, none the less, widely regarded as advanced, albeit buggy, games.
The sequels included new features such as the ability to land on and mine planets and the ability to purchase any from a fleet of space vessels, which has been expanded from the original game.
They also included a realistic, Newtonian physics model rather than the original arcade style engine.
In 1999/2000, a dispute occured between Ian Bell and David Braben regarding the former's decision to make available all versions of the original Elite on his personal web site. The dispute has now ended; the various versions are available on Bell's site.
A new sequel by Frontier Developments, Elite 4, is currently under development. Many fans of the series are sceptical that it will ever be released, or believe that it will be greatly delayed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Elite."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ELITE | English | European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: EliteSynonym: elect (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fashion | Man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum; (taste); the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand; (nobility); elite; (distinction); smart set; the four hundred; in crowd. |
Inexpedience | Super-excellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy. |
Nobility | High life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world; (fashion). |
Repute | Chief; (master); first fiddle; (proficient); cynosure, mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon; (perfection); choice and master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy. ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels; (trophy). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elite |
| English words defined with "elite": beau monde, bon ton, Brahman, Brahmin ♦ clerisy ♦ elitism, elitist, Ex- ♦ few ♦ high society ♦ intelligentsia ♦ Jose Ortega y Gasset ♦ mandarin ♦ Ortega y Gasset ♦ populism, Praetorian Guard ♦ rarefied, rarified ♦ smart set, society. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elite": Army Rangers ♦ 'Elite ♦ lamer ♦ Rangers ♦ warez. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Elite" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (elite), Italian (elite), Portuguese (elite, flower), Spanish (elite). |
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Screenplays | Of course you know certain sceptics note that perhaps 10,000 of the nations's most elite highway patrolmen are out there waiting for us after we start, but let's stay positively: Think of the fact that there's not one state in the 50 that has the death penalty for speedingalthough I'm not so sure about Ohio (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates) You are the last of an elite group, don't end it like this (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) One - as a member of the elite special forces unit of the Federated Army, you are expert in the use of all major weapons & space craft needed for this mission (The Fifth Element; writing credit: Luc Besson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Elite Ball (1913) Elite (2000) Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force (1990) The Elite (1989) Murder Elite (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Secretary of Defense William Cohen accompanied by his wife, Janet Langart Cohen, is greeted by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Elite Guard during their arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 17. Cohen's Holiday Tour 2000 stop at Ramstein included perfo. |  | Small-fruit geneticist Stan Hokanson displays several elite wild strawberries collected by collaborators. The small, highly aromatic berries (left) are from plants collected in Alberta, Canada. The larger berries are from a type collected in Alaska that may prove to be cold hardy. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Photograph by McCaffrey's Elite Photo, New York, of an artwork depicting the 9 March 1862 battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack). This scene was apparently one of a group entitled "Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle", exhibited in New York City during the 19th Century. Credit: NAVY. |  | Celilo Falls, Oregon / Elite Studio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Elite Laundry truck. Overhead view of bent bumper. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No possible choice among these men who seemed by their appearance the elite of the mire |
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Business | In its beginnings, golf in Argentina was the sport of the elite. (references) | |
Previously only the elite could afford to educate their children in this field. (references) | ||
Techint is extraordinarily well connected with the political and business elite of Argentina, and is very much at home in a culture characterized by the exchange of favors, anonymous actors, and closed meetings. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Korea | Only members of a very small elite have vehicles for personal use. (references) |
Cameroon | Print media reaches only a tiny percentage of the population, most notably the urban elite. (references) | |
Korea | The regime prohibits listening to foreign media broadcasts except by the political elite, and violators are subject to severe punishment. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Read by foreigners and the Egyptian elite. (references) |
Malawi | Financial wealth is generally concentrated in the hands of a small elite. (references) | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | The elite continues to send their children abroad to be educated, primarily in Western Europe. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | They are kept in elite wings of certain prisons, where they enjoy relatively lenient treatment. (references) |
Cameroon | An elite crime-fighting unit, the Light Intervention Battalion (BLI), was established in 1999, but only recently became operational. (references) | |
Ghana | There were no developments in the August 2000 alleged detention and beating of a businessman by members of the elite 64th Infantry Regiment. (references) | |
Minorities | Haiti | The Government recognizes two official languages: Creole, which is spoken by virtually all Haitians; and French, which is spoken by approximately 20 percent of the population, including the economic elite. (references) |
Chad | Northerners, in particular members of President Deby's Zaghawa ethnic group, continued to dominate the public sector and were overrepresented in key institutions of state power, including the military officer corps, elite military units, and the presidential staff. (references) | |
Political Economy | Haiti | A small elite controls much of the country's wealth. (references) |
Political Rights | Ukraine | Jews are well represented among the political elite and hold several parliamentary seats. (references) |
Peru | Traditionally, most leadership positions in government have been held by an elite minority of European descendants. (references) | |
Korea | The vast majority of the KWP's estimated 3 million members work to implement decrees formulated by the Party's small elite. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | However, English is often spoken by the business elite. (references) |
Burma | Newspapers are censored, and Internet access is illegal, except for a few among the ruling elite. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | If only that evil Bush would seize every dime the American people earn, and let the brilliant, liberal elite in Washington spend it, we would have utopia! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. |
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| "Elite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 47.98% of the time. "Elite" is used about 1,239 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 (singular) | 47.98% | 594 | 10,722 |
| Noun (common) | 42.66% | 528 | 11,584 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.35% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,239 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Denmark | Elite Shipping A/S | Israel | Elite Industries Limited |
| Pakistan | Elite Publishers Limited | Taiwan | Elite Material Co Ltd |
| USA | Elite Information Group, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "elite": elite of society ♦ phenotypic elite tree ♦ power elite. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "elite": elite-educated, elite-v-mass. | |
Ending with "elite": coral-elite, counter-elite, non-elite. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
elite | 928 | elite group | 95 |
elite force | 563 | kazaa elite | 89 |
elite force 2 | 394 | elite wireless | 86 |
elite model | 325 | star trek voyager elite force | 81 |
pioneer elite | 268 | 2 elite force through walk | 79 |
star trek elite force 2 | 265 | elite wheels | 60 |
elite fitness | 245 | 2000 elite pokemon | 58 |
elite modeling agency | 213 | elite pokemon | 58 |
star trek elite force | 202 | elite club | 54 |
2 cheat elite force | 163 | elite force ii star trek | 54 |
elite force ii | 144 | cheat elite force ii | 50 |
gazelle elite | 135 | elite model agency | 50 |
kenmore elite | 131 | 2 demo elite force | 50 |
elite modeling | 131 | elite entertainment | 49 |
elite sonicare | 120 | 2 elite force star through trek walk | 49 |
honda elite | 115 | elite yahoo | 49 |
2 cheat elite force star trek | 109 | 2 cd elite force key star trek | 48 |
gazelle freestyle elite | 105 | elite furniture | 48 |
star trek elite force2 | 103 | elite model look | 45 |
elite model management | 96 | tony little gazelle elite | 44 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "elite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | elitë (cream), ajkë (choice, cream, pick, prime, whip). (various references) | |
Arabic | نخبة (flower, quorum), زهرة (blossom, flower, jacinth, phosphor), طبقة راقية (aristocracy), صفوة (choice, cream, fat, flower, flowering, top). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отбрано общество (carriage company), елит (flower, pick, top drawer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 精华 (Essence, Quintessential). (various references) | |
Czech | elita (cream of society, creme de la crème, the pick of). (various references) | |
Danish | elitetyr (elite bull, top bull), toptyr (elite bull, top bull), plustrae (phenotypic elite tree, plus tree, select tree, superior tree). (various references) | |
Dutch | elite-stier (elite bull, top bull), eliteboom (phenotypic elite tree, plus tree, select tree, superior tree), superboom (phenotypic elite tree, plus tree, select tree, superior tree). (various references) | |
Farsi | ممتاز (Ditinct, Excellent, Good, Illustrious, Immense, Knockout, Preferential, Prize, Superior), نخبه (Flower), گلچین , سرامدن (Expire), زبده (Abstract, Compendium, Cream, Extract), برگزیدن (Designate, Elect, Pick, Prefer, Single). (various references) | |
Finnish | valiosonni (elite bull, top bull), valioluokan sonni (elite bull, top bull), pluspuu (phenotypic elite tree, plus tree, select tree, superior tree), isäsonni (elite bull, top bull). (various references) | |
French | élite. (various references) | |
German | elite. (various references) | |
Greek | αφρόκρεμα (cream, mousse, the pick of). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבחר (assortment, choice, range, selection), עלית, אליט". (various references) | |
Hungarian | elit (élite, upper-class). (various references) | |
Indonesian | elit, golongan atas, binnen. (various references) | |
Italian | elite. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 精鋭 (efficient, picked, powerful), 精鋭 (efficient, picked, powerful), エラトステネスの篩 (Eratosthenes' sieve). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいえい (efficient, picked, portrait, powerful, your health and prosperity), エリート . (various references) | |
Korean | 예. (various references) | |
Manx | teiht (elected, select), sleih mullee (upper crust), reiht (chosen, designated, elect, elected, select, selected). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eliteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | elite (flower). (various references) | |
Romanian | elitã (choice, cream, flower), frunte (brow, face, flower, forefront, forehead, front, head, top), floare (bloom, blossom, bouquet, face, flower, posy, pride, prime), cremã (cream, flower, tiptop). (various references) | |
Russian | элита (glitterati, jet set), отборный (choice, handpicked, recherche, selected), отборная часть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | elita. (various references) | |
Spanish | elite, elisión (elision), minoría selecta, élite. (various references) | |
Swedish | elit (élite, choice, cream, flower, pick). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่ง"ีที่สุ". (various references) | |
Turkish | elit tabaka (aristocracy, cream of society), seçme kısım, seçkinler (beautiful people, choice, cream of society, four hundred, gentry, notables, the great). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | еліта. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | eligere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elite": elites. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elite": antielite, nephelite, nonelite, pelite, scheelite, superelite. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elite": antielites, nephelites, pelites, preliterary, preliterate, preliterates, scheelites, superelites, velites. (additional references) | |
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"Elite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alita, alite, alitex, Ayclife, clite, delite, deloite, edite, efite, ehie, eilat, eile, eilite, eitb, eite, ekite, elae, elat, elatel, elato, elawe, elbit, eleet, elet, elete, Elfie, Elgie, Eliat, elibe, elie, Eliette, Eliger, eline, elint, elioti, elise, Elista, elit, elita, elitair, eliten, eliter, elitt, Elizer, Elkie, Ellett, ellite, Ellitt, elot, elote, eltex, elth, emite, enite, enlite, eoit, eolite, epite, Epitek, etile, ewite, exite, ezit, ility, illite, Leithe, Leleatta, Lepiota, Melinte, Melita, Melito, Pelite, pelliti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elite" (pronounced ulē"t or ālē"t) |
| 4 | u l ē" t | delete. |
| 3 | -l ē" t | cleat, complete, deplete, fleet, incomplete, leet, pleat, replete, sleet. |
| 3 | -l ē" t | cleat, complete, delete, deplete, fleet, incomplete, leet, pleat, replete, sleet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: leet, lite, teel, tele, tile. | |
-2 letters: eel, lee, lei, let, lie, lit, tee, tel, tie, til. | |
-3 letters: el, et, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: elegit, elites, etoile, listee, pelite, retile. | |
+2 letters: atelier, centile, eeliest, egalite, elative, elegist, elegits, elmiest, entitle, epistle, etoiles, evilest, felsite, fertile, fileted, gentile, jetlike, lefties, leister, lenient, leucite, licente, liefest, lievest, lineate, lisente, listees, netlike, pelites, penlite, perlite, petiole, pileate, reptile, reticle, retiled, retiles, retitle, sectile, setline, sextile, sheltie, sleekit, steelie, sterile, tealike, telesis, tellies, tensile, textile, theelin, tieless, tiercel, toelike, ulexite, veinlet, velites, zeolite. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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