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Definition: GIM |
GIMAdjective1. Neat; spruce. |
Note: Gim \Gim\, adjective. [Compare to Gimp,]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
GIM | Dutch | Geneva Informal Meeting | Public Administration, Social Sciences |
GIM | English | General Instrument Micro-electronics Inc. | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GIM |
| Etymologies containing "GIM": gimcrack. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GIM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (gold thread), Portuguese (gin). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Gim 16 Krakow II" (movie) by Anna Leśniak. The name of her school in a slightly different font. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "GIM" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GIM" is used about 59 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 (base form) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Italy | GIM - Generale Industrie Metallurgiche SpA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GIM": GIM-1. | |
| 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 |
gim | 51 |
computer gim | 4 |
blossom gim | 3 |
gim ltd tour | 2 |
gim gold | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GIM": gimbal, gimbaled, gimbaling, gimballed, gimballing, gimbals, gimcrack, gimcrackeries, gimcrackery, gimcracks, gimel, gimels, gimlet, gimleted, gimleting, gimlets, gimmal, gimmals, gimme, gimmes, gimmick, gimmicked, gimmicking, gimmickries, gimmickry, gimmicks, gimmicky, gimmie, gimmies, gimp, gimped, gimpier, gimpiest, gimping, gimps, gimpy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GIM": regime, regimen, regimens, regiment, regimental, regimentals, regimentation, regimentations, regimented, regimenting, regiments, regimes, risorgimento, risorgimentos, ungimmicky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "im": frim, Glim, grim, Lim, Nim, Plim, scrim, shim, Skrim, slim, VIM. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mig. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m" | |
-1 letter: mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m" | |
+1 letter: gimp, glim, grim, magi, migg, migs. | |
+2 letters: agism, amiga, amigo, gamic, gamin, gimel, gimme, gimps, gimpy, gismo, gizmo, glime, glims, goyim, grime, grimy, image, imago, magic, midge, miggs, might, mingy, pigmy, sigma. | |
+3 letters: agamic, ageism, agisms, aiming, amigas, amigos, arming, begrim, bigamy, coming, degami, digamy, doming, egoism, emigre, enigma, faming, fuming, gambia, gambir, gambit, gamier, gamily, gamine, gaming, gamins, gimbal, gimels, gimlet, gimmal, gimmes, gimmie, gimped, gismos, gizmos, glimed, glimes, glioma, gnomic, gomuti, gonium, grimed, grimes, grimly, guimpe, homing, imaged, imager, images, imagos, imping, impugn, laming, liming, lingam, macing, magian, magics, magilp, magpie, maigre, making, malign, margin, mating, mawing, maying, mazing, megilp, megrim, meting, mewing, midges, midget, midgut, midleg, miggle, mights, mighty, mignon, miking, milage, miming, mingle, mining, mirage, miring, mixing, moggie, mooing, moping, moving, mowing, muling, muring, musing, muting, naming, ogrism, regime, riming, sigmas, smidge, stigma, taming, timing, umping, wigwam. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)414347 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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