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ENVISAGED

Definition: ENVISAGED

ENVISAGED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Envisage

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENVISAGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

 

Crosswords: ENVISAGED

English words defined with "ENVISAGED": hellfirered region. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ENVISAGED": EC-type examinationplanned resupply, pre-contract preparations. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ENVISAGED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Envisaged worlds : from the editor of Void, Australia's first original science fiction anthology (reference)

  • School provision for gypsy and traveller children : report on the implementation of measures envisaged in the resolution of the Council and of the ministers of Education meeting with the Council, 22nd May 1989 (89/C 153/02) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ENVISAGED

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Eight such teleshopping windows are permitted per day. It seems, however, that infomercials are not successful as originally envisaged. (references)

Many of these gated communities and country clubs develop around sports facilities, mainly golf courses, primarily because golf is envisaged as a social sport that caters to the highest-income segment of the population, given that some four hours are needed to play the 18 holes. (references)

MIC projects that the growth of the IT industry envisaged under the plan will translate into more than a 2 percent increase in Korea's GDP by the year 2004. Policy makers understand the essential role of foreign investors and suppliers in fueling this growth and consequently will continue to open the IT and telecom markets. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

As in the previous years, it is envisaged that refurbished and used medical equipment will remain in high demand. (references)

Azerbaijan

If completely implemented, the reforms envisaged by the IMF and World Bank programs could substantially improve Azerbaijan's investment climate. (references)

Georgia

The Constitution allows restriction or revocation of property rights only in cases of extreme public necessity, and then only as directly envisaged by law. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

The taxes envisaged in the measure appear to disproportionately affect foreign audiovisual content. (references)

ECUADOR

The legislation envisaged a six-month window for holders of sucres to exchange their liabilities into dollars at the rate of 1 dollar to 25,000 sucres. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: ENVISAGED

"ENVISAGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 54.91% of the time. "ENVISAGED" is used about 875 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)54.91%48012,390
Lexical Verb (past tense)43.61%38214,400
Adjective (general or positive)1.48%1397,576
                    Total100.00%875N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ENVISAGED

Expression using "ENVISAGED": not envisaged in the plan. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: ENVISAGED

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

Chinese 

  

想象 (Envisage, Envisaging, Fancied, Fancying, imagine, imagined, imaging, Imagining). (various references)

   

Danish

  

retningslinje (envisaged policy, guideline), hjaelpemidlet,der anvendes ved overfoerelsen,er lodsnore (method envisaged for the setting out is the use of a plumb line), første udbetaling, som fastsat i køberkreditaftalen (first drawing as envisaged under the buyer credit), den paataenkte aftales forenelighed med bestemmelserne i denne Traktat (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty), den påtænkte aftales forenelighed med EØF-Traktatens bestemmelser (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty), den forudsete udvikling i tillaegsvaerdien inden for landbruget (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eerste trekking krachtens de afnemerskrediet-overeenkomst (first drawing as envisaged under the buyer credit), voorziene ontwikkeling van de toegevoegde waarde in de landbouw (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture), de verenigbaarheid van het beoogde akkoord met de bepalingen van dit Verdrag (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty), bij het overbrengen wordt het schietlood gebruikt (method envisaged for the setting out is the use of a plumb line), beleidsvoornemen (envisaged policy). (various references)

   

French

  

projet politique (envisaged policy), première utilisation prévue du crédit-acheteur (first drawing as envisaged under the buyer credit), le mode d'exécution prévu pour le report est le fil plomb (method envisaged for the setting out is the use of a plumb line), la compatibilité de l'accord envisagé avec les dispositions du présent traité (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty), développement prévu de la valeur ajoutée en agriculture prévu (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture), compatibilité de l'accord envisagé avec les dispositions du traité CEE (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty). (various references)

   

German

  

vorgestellt (visualized). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προβλεπόμενη ανάπτυξη της προστιθέμενης αξίας στην γεωργία (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture), η υπό μελέτη συμφωνία συμβιβάζεται με την παρούσα συνθήκη (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty), το ζήτημα αν συμβιβάζεται η συμφωνία που πρόκειται να συναφθεί με τις διατάξεις της Συνθήκης ΕΟΚ (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elõre látott (foresaw, foreseen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sviluppo del plusvalore in agricoltura (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture), primo versamento a titolo del credito acquirente (first drawing as envisaged under the buyer credit), orientamenti politici (envisaged policy), la compatibilit dell'accordo previsto con le disposizioni del presente Trattato (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty), il mezzo d'opera previsto per il riporto è il filo a piombo (method envisaged for the setting out is the use of a plumb line), compatibilit con le disposizioni del trattato CEE di un accordo progettato (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

상상하" (imagined). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

envisageday

   

Portuguese

  

desenvolvimento previsível do valor acrescentado em agricultura (the envisaged movement of added value in agriculture), compatibilidade do projecto de acordo com as disposições do Tratado CEE (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty), a compatibilidade do projecto de acordo com as disposições do presente Tratado (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

внеплановый (not envisaged in the plan, unscheduled). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji nije prvobitno isplaniran (envisage: not envisaged in the plan). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

primer cobro previsto en virtud del crédito de comprador (first drawing as envisaged under the buyer credit), compatibilidad del acuerdo proyectado con las disposiciones del Tratado CEE (the envisaged agreement is compatible with the provisions of the EEC Treaty). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

huruvida ett tilltänkt avtal är förenligt med bestämmelserna i detta fördrag (whether an agreement envisaged is compatible with the provisions of this Treaty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ENVISAGED

Misspellings

"ENVISAGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envisa, envisag, envisager, envizage, evisage, invisage. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "ENVISAGED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ENVISAGED" (pronounced envi"zijd)
3-i j dacknowledged, advantaged, averaged, bandaged, disadvantaged, disparaged, encouraged, hemorrhaged, leveraged, mismanaged, mortgaged, packaged, pillaged, presaged, ravaged, repackaged, salvaged, savaged, unmanaged.

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

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Anagrams: ENVISAGED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-s-v"

-1 letter: envisage.

-2 letters: advisee, aniseed, avenged, avenges, deaving, deveins, endives, evading, genevas, invades, seeding, visaged.

-3 letters: advise, aedine, agenes, avenge, davens, davies, deaves, deigns, denies, design, devein, devise, dienes, dinges, divans, easing, endive, envied, envies, evades, gained, ganevs, geneva, genies, givens, invade, naives, navies, nieves, sained, savine, saving, seeing, seined, senega, sieged, sieved, signed.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-s-v"
 

+2 letters: designative.

 

+3 letters: investigated.

 

+4 letters: eavesdropping, overspreading.

 

+5 letters: disintegrative, overpersuading, reinvestigated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENVISAGED


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

45 4E 56 49 53 41 47 45 44

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)

.    -.    ...-    ..    ...    .-    --.    .    -..

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

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

01000101 01001110 01010110 01001001 01010011 01000001 01000111 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#86 &#73 &#83 &#65 &#71 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0056 0049 0053 0041 0047 0045 0044

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

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

394856435335413938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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