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Definition: ENCAMPED |
ENCAMPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Encamp |
Date "ENCAMPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: ENCAMPED |
| English words defined with "ENCAMPED": Artillery park ♦ Fielded ♦ Taborite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ENCAMPED": Ephes-dammim ♦ Harod ♦ Jethro ♦ Mahanehdan, Mahaneh-dan ♦ Pi-hahiroth ♦ Shapher, St. Monday ♦ Wexford Bridge Massacre. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are encamped. This is one of Florida's higher class trailer camps, the rates being $5.00 weekly including electricity.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Husband and wife sitting on settee encamped by the roadside, Wagoner County, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Veteran migrant agricultural worker and his family encamped on the Arkansas River, Wagoner County, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Migrant family encamped along roadside eating meal. Near Henryetta, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Refugee families encamped near Holtville, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kitchen table and one end of trailer belonging to white migrant encamped at Sebastian, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Turkey | Thousands of heavily armed, militarily organized PKK members remain encamped in neighboring countries close to the country's borders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ENCAMPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "ENCAMPED" is used about 39 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 53.85% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 41.03% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ENCAMPED": be encamped. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ENCAMPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | kampeer (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Catalan | acampar (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | legeren (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped, lodging), kamperen (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kampadi (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Frisian | kampearje (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | lagerte (shelved, superposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táboroz (camp, to be encamped, to camp out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kampa (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encampeday acampar (camp, camp out, encampment, lie encamped, marooner, pitch). (various references) acampar (be encamped, camp, camp out, lie encamped, pitch, pitch camp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 33, Verse 43 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai aphran ek finw kai parenebalon eiV wbwq |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Profectique de Phinon castrametati sunt in Oboth |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And goon forth fro Phynon, thei settiden tentes in Oboth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they departed from Phimon and pitched in Oboth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they departed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in Oboth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Numbers Chapter 33, Verse 43 |
| Bulgarian | Като отпътуваха от Финон, разположиха стан в Овот. |
| Cebuano | Ug sila mingpanaw gikan sa Punon, ug mingpahaluna sa Oboth. |
| Chinese | 從 普 嫩 起 行 、 安 營 在 阿 伯 。 |
| Croatian | Odu iz Punona i utabore se u Obotu. |
| Danish | Så brød de op fra Punon og slog Lejr i Obot. |
| Dutch | En zij verreisden van Funon, en legerden zich in Oboth. |
| Finnish | Ja he lähtivät Puunonista ja leiriytyivät Oobotiin. |
| French | Ils partirent de Punon, et campèrent Oboth. |
| German | Von Phunon zogen sie aus und lagerten sich in Oboth. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo kite Pounon, y' al moute kan yo Obòt. |
| Hungarian | És elindulának Púnonból, és tábort ütének Obothban. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | (33:41) |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dari Funon berjalanlah mereka itu, lalu berhenti di Obot. |
| Italian | Partirono da Punon e si accamparono a Obot. |
| Korean | 부 논 에 서 발 행 하 여 오 봇 에 진 쳤 |
| Maori | I turia i Punono, a noho ana i Opoto. |
| Modern Greek | Και σηκωθεντες απο Φυνων, εστρατοπεδευσαν εν Ωβωθ. |
| Norwegian | Og de drog fra Punon og leiret sig i Obot. |
| Portuguese | Partiram de Punom, e acamparam-se em Obote. |
| Rumanian | Au pornit din Punon, wi au tqbqrkt la Obot. |
| Russian | й ПФ ТБЧЙМЙУШ ЙЪ рХОПОБ Й ТБУ ПМПЦЙМЙУШ УФБОПН Ч пЧПЖЕ. |
| Spanish | Partieron de Punón y acamparon en Obot. |
| Swedish | Och de bröto upp från Punon och lägrade sig i Obot. |
| Thai | และเขายกเ"ินจากปูโนน และตั้งค่ายที่โอโบท |
| Ukrainian | І рушили з Пунону й таборували в Овоті. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"ENCAMPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encaped, enjambe, uncramped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ENCAMPED" (pronounced enka"mpt) |
| 5 | -k a" m p t | camped, decamped. |
| 4 | -a" m p t | clamped, cramped, damped, revamped, stamped. |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, bumped, contempt, crimped, dumped, exempt, humped, jumped, limped, lumped, plumped, preempt, prompt, pumped, slumped, stomped, stumped, swamped, tempt, thumped, trumped, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-n-p" | |
-1 letter: menaced. | |
-2 letters: camped, dampen, decamp, decane, demean, encamp, menace, peaced. | |
-3 letters: acned, adeem, admen, amend, caned, caped, dance, edema, emend, enema, maced, maned, menad, named, paced, paned, peace, pecan, pence. | |
-4 letters: aced, acme, acne, amen, aped, cade, came, camp, cane, cape, cede, cepe, dace, dame, damn, damp, dean, deem, deep, deme, dene, mace, made, mane, mead, mean, meed, mend, name, nape, neap, need, neem, neep, nema, pace, pane, pean, peed, peen, pend. | |
-5 letters: ace, amp, and, ane, ape, cad, cam, can, cap, cee, cep, dam, dap, dee, den, eme, end, mac, mad, mae, man, map, med, men, nae, nam, nap, nee, pac, pad, pam, pan, pea, pec, ped, pee, pen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-n-p" | |
+1 letter: impedance. | |
+2 letters: decampment, impedances. | |
+3 letters: compensated, decampments, emancipated, encompassed, predicament. | |
+4 letters: appendectomy, contemplated, decompensate, displacement, predicaments, predominance. | |
+5 letters: compartmented, decompensated, decompensates, displacements, intercompared, interpandemic, predominances, uncompensated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 43 41 4D 50 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. .- -- .--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01000011 01000001 01001101 01010000 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N C A M P E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0043 0041 004D 0050 0045 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3948373547503938 |
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