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GRITTED

Definition: GRITTED

GRITTED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Grit

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GRITTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)


Usage Frequency: GRITTED

"GRITTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 70.67% of the time. "GRITTED" is used about 225 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 tense)70.67%15924,860
Adjective (general or positive)26.67%6043,597
Lexical Verb (past participle)2.67%6143,867
                    Total100.00%225N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GRITTED

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

bread corn gritted

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

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Modern Translations: GRITTED

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

Chinese 

  

'紧牙关 (Gritting). (various references)

   

German

  

knirschte (gnashed). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

모래로 덮" (Sanded). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ittedgray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: GRITTED

Misspellings

"GRITTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gitte, gnitteg, Grattet, greatetud, grette, gretted, gridded, grifted, griottes, gristed, grite, gritie, grittel, gritten, gritter, grittle, grotte, grutte. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: GRITTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-r-t-t"

-1 letter: girted.

-2 letters: dirge, gride, ridge, tiger, tired, titer, titre, tried, trite.

-3 letters: diet, dire, dirt, dite, dreg, edit, gied, gird, girt, grid, grit, ired, ride, rite, tide, tied, tier, tire, tret, trig.

-4 letters: die, dig, dit, erg, ged, get, gid, gie, git, ire, red, reg, rei, ret, rid, rig, ted, teg, tet, tie, tit.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: deratting, glittered, gratitude.

 

+3 letters: detracting, gratitudes, gravitated, integrated, straighted, teethridge.

 

+4 letters: destructing, deuterating, draughtiest, droughtiest, extraditing, gastritides, ingratiated, ingratitude, readmitting, retightened, strategized, teethridges, turgidities.

 

+5 letters: adulterating, disintegrate, dissertating, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, interdicting, intergrafted, interrogated, jitterbugged, lighthearted, outglittered, outintrigued, preadmitting, proglottides, redintegrate, regurgitated, reintegrated, renegotiated, retrodicting, shortsighted, straightbred, straightedge, straightened, stringhalted, trendsetting, triangulated, undercutting, underletting, understating, unintegrated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRITTED


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

47 52 49 54 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01000111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0049 0054 0054 0045 0044

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

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

41524354543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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