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Date "HIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
HIC | Danish | Heterogen interprocessorkommunikation og-standarder | N/A |
HIC | Dutch | Heterogene interprocessorcommunicatie en-normen | N/A |
HIC | English | Head Injury Criterion | N/A |
HIC | Finnish | Heterogeeninen prosessorienvälinen tietoliikenne ja standardit | N/A |
HIC | French | Communications interprocesseurs hétérogènes et standards | N/A |
HIC | Greek | έλεγχος διεπαφής αρτηρίας | Post & Telecom |
HIC | Italian | Comunicazione tra processori eterogenei e standard | N/A |
HIC | Portuguese | Comunicações e normas para interprocessadores heterogéneos | N/A |
HIC | Spanish | Comunicaciones y normas de procesadores de carácter heterogéneo | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: HIC |
| English words defined with "HIC": Heterogeneous nouns. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HIC": Hammer of the Scotch, Hic Jacets ♦ TOBACCO. (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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Parta hic (1976) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 57.14% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Interjection | 42.86% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
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 |
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. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 52 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OutoV proselqwn tw pilatw hthsato to swma tou ihsou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hic accessit ad Pilatum et petiit corpus Iesu |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þes genealæhte to pilate and bæd þæs hælendes lichaman |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | This Joseph cam to Pilat, and axide the bodi of Jhesu, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He went vnto Pilate and begged the boddy of Iesus |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 52 |
| Cebuano | Kining 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 " . |
| Croatian | Taj dakle pristupi Pilatu i zaiska tijelo Isusovo. |
| Danish | han gik til Pilatus og bad om Jesu Legeme. |
| Dutch | Deze ging tot Pilatus, en begeerde het lichaam van Jezus. |
| Finnish | Hän meni Pilatuksen luo ja pyysi Jeesuksen ruumista. |
| French | Cet homme se rendit vers Pilate, et demanda le corps de Jésus. |
| German | Der ging zu Pilatus und bat um den Leib Jesu; |
| Hungarian | Ez oda menvén Pilátushoz, elkéré a Jézus testét. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yusuf ini pergi menghadap Pilatus dan minta supaya jenazah Yesus diberikan kepadanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang ini pergi menghadap Pilatus meminta mayat Yesus. |
| Latvian | Ðis aizgâja pie Pilâta un lûdza Jçzus miesas. |
| Maori | I haere ia ki a Pirato, a tonoa ana e ia te tinana o Ihu. |
| Norwegian | han gikk til Pilatus og bad om Jesu legeme, |
| Portuguese | chegando a Pilatos, pediu-lhe o corpo de Jesus; |
| Rumanian | Omul acesta s`a dus la Pilat, wi a cerut trupul lui Isus. |
| Shuar | Tuma asamtai Piratui we Jesusa ayashin seamiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, yeye alikwenda kwa Pilato, akaomba apewe mwili wa Yesu. |
| Swedish | Denne gick till Pilatus och utbad sig att få Jesu kropp. |
| Uma | Yusuf toei hilou hi Gubernur Pilatus mperapi' woto-na Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 49 43 |
| 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)01001000 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0049 0043 |
| 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)424337 |
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