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HIC

Date "HIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: HIC

DomainDefinition

Hydrologic

The Hydrometeorological Information Center of the Office of Hydrology (OH). (references)
 Hydrologist in Charge of an RFC. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HIC

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

HIC

DanishHeterogen interprocessorkommunikation og-standarderN/A

HIC

DutchHeterogene interprocessorcommunicatie en-normenN/A

HIC

EnglishHead Injury CriterionN/A

HIC

FinnishHeterogeeninen prosessorienvälinen tietoliikenne ja standarditN/A

HIC

FrenchCommunications interprocesseurs hétérogènes et standardsN/A

HIC

Greekέλεγχος διεπαφής αρτηρίαςPost & Telecom

HIC

ItalianComunicazione tra processori eterogenei e standardN/A

HIC

PortugueseComunicações e normas para interprocessadores heterogéneosN/A

HIC

SpanishComunicaciones y normas de procesadores de carácter heterogéneoN/A

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

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Synonyms: HIC

Synonyms by domain: Hayes International Corp. (economics, industry), Head Injury Criterion (meteorology & standards, transportation), heavily indebted middle income country (finance), highly indebted middle income country, highway interface control (post & telecom), Human Identification Centre (medicine), Humidity Indicator Controller (engineering & technology), hybrid integrated circuit (electrical engineering), hybrid microcircuit, Hydrogen Induced Cracking (metallurgy), Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography (chemistry).

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Synonyms within Context: HIC

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Difficulty

Phrase: "ay there's the rub"; hic labor hoc opus; things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti; ad astra per aspera; acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.

Interment

Phrase: hic jacet, ci-git; RIP; requiescat in pace; "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep"; "without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown"; "in the dark union of insensate dust"; "the deep cold shadow of the tomb".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HIC

English words defined with "HIC": Heterogeneous nouns. (references)
Specialty definitions using "HIC": Hammer of the Scotch, Hic JacetsTOBACCO. (references)
Non-English Usage: "HIC" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (also DEMONST, here, in the present circumstances, in this place, these, this, THIS (house) is filthy), Romanian (huh).

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Modern Usage: HIC

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Parta hic (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: HIC

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Photo Album: HIC

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Figure 34. Brouardel corer invented by Jean Brouardel and Jean Vernet for measuring dissolved oxygen in ocean water at the seafloor. This instrument was devised and constructed by Jean Comelli at the instrument shop of the Oceanograp hic Museum at Monaco. It was tested on the EIDER off Monaco in 1953, at depths between 150 and 580 meters for the first model. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hic est draco caudum suam devorans. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: HIC

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The attendees at HIC are made up primarily of IT professionals in this sector, as well as clinicians and clinical department managers. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: HIC

"HIC" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "HIC" is used about 35 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
Unclassified Items57.14%2078,262
Interjection42.86%1590,616
                    Total100.00%35N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HIC

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

hic

104

hic surf board

21

hic jacet

9

hic ups

8

hic surf

7

hat hic

5

hic clothing

4

cup hic

4

cure hic ups

3

hic insurance

3

hic shirt t

3

adtegrity detect.php hic v3 v3 webpdp webpdp.gator.com yic

2

10500ph 3.0 cam gr hic

2

hic shop surf

2

hawaii hic

2

hic surfboard

2

2002d2 hic hr.zip

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Bible Trace: HIC

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 23, Verse 52
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOutoV proselqwn tw pilatw hthsato to swma tou ihsou
Latin405VulgateHic accessit ad Pilatum et petiit corpus Iesu
Old English990West Saxonþes genealæhte to pilate and bæd þæs hælendes lichaman
Middle English1395WyclifThis Joseph cam to Pilat, and axide the bodi of Jhesu,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleHe went vnto Pilate and begged the boddy of Iesus
Jacobean English1611King JamesThis man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Victorian English1833WebsterThis man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Basic English1964OgdenThis man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: HIC

LanguageLuke Chapter 23, Verse 52
CebuanoKining tawhana miadto kang Pilato ug kaniya iyang gipangayo ang lawas ni Jesus.
Chinese這 人 去 見 彼 拉 多 、 求 耶 穌 的 身 " .
CroatianTaj dakle pristupi Pilatu i zaiska tijelo Isusovo.
Danishhan gik til Pilatus og bad om Jesu Legeme.
DutchDeze ging tot Pilatus, en begeerde het lichaam van Jezus.
FinnishHän meni Pilatuksen luo ja pyysi Jeesuksen ruumista.
FrenchCet homme se rendit vers Pilate, et demanda le corps de Jésus.
GermanDer ging zu Pilatus und bat um den Leib Jesu;
HungarianEz oda menvén Pilátushoz, elkéré a Jézus testét.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariYusuf ini pergi menghadap Pilatus dan minta supaya jenazah Yesus diberikan kepadanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka orang ini pergi menghadap Pilatus meminta mayat Yesus.
LatvianÐis aizgâja pie Pilâta un lûdza Jçzus miesas.
MaoriI haere ia ki a Pirato, a tonoa ana e ia te tinana o Ihu.
Norwegianhan gikk til Pilatus og bad om Jesu legeme,
Portuguesechegando a Pilatos, pediu-lhe o corpo de Jesus;   
RumanianOmul acesta s`a dus la Pilat, wi a cerut trupul lui Isus.
ShuarTuma asamtai Piratui we Jesusa ayashin seamiayi.
SwahiliBasi, yeye alikwenda kwa Pilato, akaomba apewe mwili wa Yesu.
SwedishDenne gick till Pilatus och utbad sig att få Jesu kropp.
UmaYusuf toei hilou hi Gubernur Pilatus mperapi' woto-na Yesus.

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

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Derivations: HIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "HIC": hiccough, hiccoughed, hiccoughing, hiccoughs, hiccup, hiccuped, hiccuping, hiccupped, hiccupping, hiccups, hick, hickey, hickeys, hickies, hickish, hickories, hickory, hicks. (additional references)

Words ending with "HIC": actinomorphic, adrenocorticotrophic, agraphic, allelomorphic, allelopathic, allographic, allomorphic, amphibrachic, amphipathic, anacoluthic, anaglyphic, anamorphic, anarchic, angiocardiographic, angiographic, anorthic, anthropomorphic, antipornographic, antistrophic, aortographic, apostrophic, arteriographic, atrophic, autarchic, autobiographic, autographic, autoradiographic, autotrophic, auxotrophic, bacchic, barographic, batholithic, benthic, bibliographic, bioethic, biogeographic, biographic, biomorphic, biostratigraphic, bismuthic, calligraphic, cardiographic, cartographic, catastrophic, chemoautotrophic, chic, chirographic, cholangiographic, choreographic, chorographic, chromatographic. (additional references)

Words containing "HIC": amphictyonic, amphictyonies, amphictyony, anacoluthically, anarchical, anarchically, anthropomorphically, antihierarchical, antimonarchical, antistrophically, autarchical, autobiographical, autobiographically, autographically, autotrophically, bibliographical, bibliographically, bioethical, bioethicist, bioethicists, bioethics, biogeographical, biographical, biographically, boychick, boychicks, cacographical, calligraphically, cartographical, cartographically, catastrophically, chicane, chicaned, chicaner, chicaneries, chicaners, chicanery, chicanes, chicaning, chicano, chicanos, chiccories, chiccory, chicer, chicest, chichi, chichis, chick, chickadee, chickadees, chickaree. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: HIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chi, ich.

Words within the letters "c-h-i"

-1 letter: hi.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i"
 

+1 letter: chia, chic, chid, chin, chip, chis, chit, hick, huic, ichs, inch, itch, lich, rich, wich.

 

+2 letters: aitch, birch, bitch, chain, chair, chiao, chias, chick, chico, chics, chide, chief, chiel, child, chile, chili, chill, chimb, chime, chimp, china, chine, chink, chino, chins, chips, chirk, chirm, chiro, chirp, chirr, chits, chive, chivy, choir, cinch, cuish, ditch, ethic, fiche, fichu, filch, finch, fitch, hemic, hicks, hitch, hoick, humic, ichor, itchy, laich, lichi, licht, miche, milch, niche, ohmic, pinch, pitch, stich, thick, vichy, which, winch, witch, zilch.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIC


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

48 49 43

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)

01001000 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0043

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

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

424337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Bible Trace
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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