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Definition: Ethos |
EthosNoun1. The distinctive spirit of a people or an era; "the Greek ethos". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ethos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Ethos \E"thos\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression character. See Ethic.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ethos combines a user-friendly and powerful BASIC language with a breadth of graphical and sound systems.[This article appears to be about a computer program of some sort, possible a game. Why doesn't it say so right away, so that I don't have to say "appears" and "possibly". This is bad writing.]
Through its online user group ethos provides the user with extensive data library to make a multitude of programs ranging from games, educational to standard programs and tools. Using an integrated windows editor, developing and debugging your programs is made easier by using a project approach. Each ethos program contains all the routines and data arranged in simple banks.
The advanced data manager allows visual management of program, sound, sprites and image data banks. These use standard windows editing techniques giving ethos an intuitive and user friendly interface. ethos supports most standard graphic formats including animating GIF files Integrated data viewers and editors for all data bank types and the ability to dynamically extend the abilities of ethos as such as new data types supply the user with an unlimited functionality in the development of their programs and games.
With the direct mode, commands can be entered directly whilst editing or debugging the program. This can be used to quickly see the effect or positioning of an image, or to reset or report on programming variables. You can even grab data to store in the databanks whilst your program is running. An easy to use Windows style editor gives a familiar and functional text editor. Using project based approach the program can be separated into distinct routines. The projects allow you to export and import routines developed by other users.
With a comprehensive support site ethos users are provided with a central location for contacting other ethos users and accessing a breadth of resources through the library. Users can even upload their programs and graphics to share with other users. Create fast paced arcade games using pixel perfect collision sprites, multiple playfields, scrolling and digital sound effects. Utilizing DirectX the games you develop run seamlessly."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ethos Game Basic."
| 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 |
ETHOS | English | European telematics horizontal observatory service | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Ethos |
| Specialty definitions using "ethos": OS and JEDGAR ♦ Windows Open Service Architecture. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ethos" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (ethos). |
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Economic History | Benin | The U.S. advances the ethos of law enforcement by working with Beninese authorities to crack down on crimes, help eradicate corruption, promote good governance, the rule of law, and greater official accountability. (references) |
Human Rights | Taiwan | While the authorities state that respect for human rights is a part of basic police training, human rights groups assert that the measures the authorities have taken to protect human rights are inadequate to create an ethos of respect for human rights among police and security personnel. (references) |
Political Economy | Thailand | Meanwhile, the democratic ethos continues to develop and expand in Thailand, in spite of economic setbacks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ethos" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ethos" is used about 442 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) | 100% | 442 | 13,088 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
ethos | 41 |
ethos logo pathos | 24 |
ethos spa | 8 |
bridal ethos | 5 |
ethos warrior | 4 |
ethos instituto | 4 |
definition ethos | 4 |
ethos group | 3 |
ethos pathos | 3 |
ethos porthos | 3 |
aps ethos | 3 |
consulting ethos | 3 |
doctrine ethos | 3 |
empresarial ethos | 3 |
camel back ethos | 2 |
bridal ethos group | 2 |
appeal ethos | 2 |
basic ethos | 2 |
ethos retórica | 2 |
calgary ethos | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ethos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tipra dominues, karakter (character, fiber, fibre, format, grain, kind, make, mettle, Mold, mould, nature, persona, size, sort, temper). (various references) | |
Arabic | روح الشعب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | характер на дадено общество, етос. (various references) | |
Czech | charakter (character). (various references) | |
Dutch | stemming (atmosphere, ballot, balloting, mood, tendency, voting by ballot), sfeer (atmosphere, ball, mood, sphere). (various references) | |
Esperanto | etoso (atmosphere, mood). (various references) | |
Faeroese | lag (atmosphere, layer, method, mood, rhythm), hýrur (atmosphere, humour, mood, temper). (various references) | |
Farsi | عادات ورسوم قومی , صفات وشخصیت انسان . (various references) | |
Finnish | ilmapiiri (atmosphere, mood). (various references) | |
French | ambiance. (various references) | |
German | gesinnung (attitude, basic convictions, cast of mind, contention, opinion, views, way of thinking). (various references) | |
Greek | πολιτισμόσ (civilization, culture), ήθοσ (guise, mien, morals), ήθος (morals, principles). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אתוס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | erkölcsi világkép, étosz. (various references) | |
Indonesian | etos. (various references) | |
Italian | atmosfera (air, ambience, atmosphere, feel, mood). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気風 (character, traits), エッフェル" (and so forth, Eden, Edinburgh, edit, editing, edition, editor, editorial, editorial design, education, Eiffel Tower, enamel, enamel paint, energy, et cetera, Oedipus complex, somewhat, star, stranger, tufted puffin), エーテル結合 (ABC, A-D converter, Air France, alien, alphabet, alpine flower, April fool, ether linkage, yell). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きふう (character, one's style of playing shogi or go, traits), エートス , エトス . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ethosay.(various references) | |
Polish | nastrój (atmosphere, mood). (various references) | |
Portuguese | etos, gênio (daemon, genie, genii, genius, spirit, temper), caráter (caliber, calibre, character, desirability, disposition, feature, fineness, mold, mould, self, stuff, touch), ambiência (mood). (various references) | |
Russian | этос, характер (character, mould, nature, temper), нравственный облик, преобладающая черта. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | etos. (various references) | |
Spanish | carácter distintivo. (various references) | |
Swedish | livssyn (philosophy), folkkynne. (various references) | |
Turkish | kültürel yapı, kültür (culture), ahlâki yapı, ahlâki değer. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | характер (blood, character, disposition, habit, kind, make up, mettle, nature, stripe, temperament, tone), етос. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đặc tính (characteristic, identity, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, speciality). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ethos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ethos": ethoses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ethos": stethoscope, stethoscopes, stethoscopic. (additional references) | |
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"Ethos" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aethiops, athos, Bethoc, dethis, echos, ehos, eht, Elthor, enho, entos, ephos, etha, ethio, ethiq, ethis, etho, ethod, ethow, Etio, etios, eto, Etoh, etth, Kethro, methos, othos, Sethos, tehls, thos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ethos" (pronounced ē"thÄs) |
| 3 | -th Ä s | pathos. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shote, those. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: eths, hest, hets, hoes, hose, host, hots, shoe, shot, soth, toes, tosh. | |
-2 letters: eth, hes, het, hoe, hot, oes, ohs, ose, set, she, sot, the, tho, toe. | |
-3 letters: eh, es, et, he, ho, oe, oh, os, sh, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ethnos, helots, honest, horste, hosted, hostel, hotels, others, reshot, shotes, soothe, tholes, throes, tophes, toshes. | |
+2 letters: benthos, beshout, botches, bothers, bothies, clothes, dehorts, earshot, eoliths, ethions, ethoses, exhorts, eyeshot, ghettos, ghosted, hectors, heptose, heriots, heteros, histone, hoggets, hogties, hoisted, hoister, hokiest, holiest, holster, homiest, honesty, hooters, hornets, horstes, hostage, hostels, hostess, hostile, hostler, hotbeds, hotches, hotness, hottest, howlets, isohyet, loathes, methods, mothers, notches, ophites, poshest, pothers, reshoot, rhetors, rochets, rotches, sheroot, shooter, shorted, shorten, shorter, shortie, shotted, shotten, shouted, shouter, smother, soothed, soother, soothes, southed, souther, strophe, teashop, thermos, thorpes, thrones, tochers, toeshoe, torches, touches, towhees, troches, typhose. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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