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EMPRISE

Definitions: EMPRISE

EMPRISE

Noun

1. The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.

2. An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.

Transitive verb

1. To undertake.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EMPRISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms within Context: EMPRISE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Undertaking

Noun: undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement; (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand; (business ); move; first move; (beginning).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EMPRISE

Specialty definitions using "EMPRISE": Gama. (references)
Etymologies containing "EMPRISE": EmprisingImpresa. (references)
Non-English Usage: "EMPRISE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (expropriation, hold).

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Modern Usage: EMPRISE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Emprise (1928)

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

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Commercial Usage: EMPRISE

DomainTitle

References

  • Emprise Management Consulting AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Emprise (Trigon Disunity Ser.: Bk. 1) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage in Company Names: EMPRISE

CountryName
Germany

Emprise Management Consulting AG

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EMPRISE

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

emprise bank

80

emprise marketing

15

emprise

12

emprise inc marketing

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EMPRISE

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

Farsi 

  

تقریر (Statement), عمل متهورانه وابتکاری , عهده دارشدن (Guarantee, Stand, Undertake), اقدام (Action, Esteem, Measure, Move, Ploy), شهرت (Attribute, Esteem, Estimate, Fame, Grapevine, Notability, Odor, Renown, Report, Reputation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

empriseay

   

Russian 

  

смелое предприятие, рыцарский подвиг. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EMPRISE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EMPRISE": emprises. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EMPRISE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amphissa, amprise, empisal, empri, emprive, empros, Lempriere. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "EMPRISE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "EMPRISE" (pronounced emprī"z)
5-m p r ī" zcomprise.
4-p r ī" zapprise, pries, prize, reprise, surprise.
3-r ī" zcries, decries, dries, fries, rise, tries.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: EMPRISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: empires, epimers, imprese, premies, premise, spireme.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-s"

-1 letter: empire, epimer, premie, primes, remise, sempre, simper, spirem.

-2 letters: emirs, meres, mires, miser, peers, peise, peris, perms, perse, piers, prees, prese, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, rimes, ripes, siree, speer, speir, sperm, spier, spire, spree.

-3 letters: emes, emir, imps, ires, mere, mire, mirs, mise, peer, pees, peri, perm, pier, pies, pree, prim, rees, reis, rems, reps, rime, rims, ripe, rips, rise, seem, seep, seer, seme, semi, sere, simp, sipe, sire.

-4 letters: eme, ems, ere, ers, imp, ire, ism, mir, mis, pee, per, pes, pie, pis, psi, ree, rei, rem, rep, res, rim, rip, see, sei, ser, sim, sip, sir, sri.

-5 letters: em, er, es, is, me, mi, pe, pi, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: demireps, emperies, emprises, emprizes, emptiers, epiderms, epimeres, impeders, impreses, moperies, preemies, premiers, premised, premises, premixes, promisee, reimpose, simpered, simperer, spermine, spiremes.

 

+2 letters: distemper, ephemeris, epidermis, epimerase, expertism, hemipters, impellers, imprecise, impressed, impresses, periblems, periderms, peristome, premedics, premieres, premisses, primeness, promisees, reimposed, reimposes, simperers, spermines, temporise.

 

+3 letters: distempers, ephemerids, epimerases, expertisms, hemisphere, hyperemias, imperfects, impetrates, imprecates, impressive, impressure, impureness, membership, oversimple, peperomias, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, permissive, permittees, permitters, peroxisome, pimpernels, plumberies, polymerise, premoisten, presentism, pretermits, primnesses, recompiles, reemphasis, spermaceti, spermaries, spermicide, spirometer, suppertime, temporised, temporises, temporizes, trumperies.

 

+4 letters: champerties, compressive, computerise, desipramine, distempered, emperorship, ephemerides, epidendrums, epidermises, epineuriums, euphemizers, experiments, extemporise, hemipterans, hemipterous, hemispheres, hemispheric, hesperidium, hypergamies, hypermedias, hypermnesia, hypermnesic, imperatives, impersonate, imprecisely, impregnates, impressible, impressment, impressures, imprudences, masterpiece, memberships, meperidines, mesonephric, mesonephroi, mesospheric, microsphere, minesweeper, misperceive, misreported, omnipresent, optometries, overimpress, overpromise, peppermints, perfumeries, peritoneums, permeations, permethrins, permillages, permissible, peroxisomes, piezometers, planimeters, polymerised, polymerises, polymerizes, praemunires, preemptions, premiership, premodifies, premoistens, premonished, premonishes, presentisms, presumptive, primenesses, prominences, pyrometries, redemptions, reemphasize, semiprivate, sempervivum, sempiternal, spermacetis, spermicides, spermophile, spirometers, superimpose, suppertimes, supremacies, temporaries, temporizers, thermopiles, timekeepers, timepleaser, unimpressed.

 

+5 letters: appraisement, arsphenamine, compressible, computerised, computerises, computerizes, demographies, desipramines, distemperate, distempering, emperorships, endomorphies, epicureanism, extemporised, extemporises, extemporizes, grumpinesses, hemoproteins, hypermnesias, hyperrealism, hypodermises, imperilments, imperishable, impersonated, impersonates, implementers, implementors, impoverished, impoverisher, impoverishes, impressively, impressments, improperness, improvements, impurenesses, lampooneries, madreporites, marlinespike, masterpieces, meanspirited, mesomorphies, metropolises, microamperes, microspheres, mifepristone, milliamperes, minesweepers, misapprehend, misinterpret, misperceived, misperceives, misrepresent, monodisperse, multiplexers, omnipresence, overemphasis, overpromised, overpromises, parametrizes, permanencies, permissively, photometries, polarimeters, predicaments, predominates, preeclampsia, preeminences, premarriages, premeasuring, premeditates, premierships, premoistened, prenominates, presentiment, pteridosperm, recompensing, reemphasized, reemphasizes, reequipments, reimpression, respirometer, respirometry, semiparasite, semiprecious, sempervivums, sempiternity, slipstreamed, spermophiles, spirometries, subepidermal, supereminent, superimposed, superimposes, supermassive, superpremium, superrealism, temporalizes, thermophiles, timepleasers, unimpressive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EMPRISE


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

45 4D 50 52 49 53 45

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 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0050 0052 0049 0053 0045

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

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

39475052435339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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