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"HOSPICES" is a plural of: hospice. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HOSPICES |
| Specialty definitions using "HOSPICES": group quarters. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Medicare Part A helps pay for care in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and hospices, as well as some home health care. It covers a semiprivate room, meals, general nursing, and other hospital services and supplies. (references) | |
Closely related to this topic is the whole role of assisted suicide for people who fear living without their cognitive abilities and the potential for developing programs more akin to hospices, which focus exclusively on improving the quality of life of people with terminal conditions. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HOSPICES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "HOSPICES" is used about 22 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 (plural) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | 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 |
hospices | 9 |
hospices de beaune | 7 |
civils de hospices lyon | 5 |
florida hospices | 5 |
capital hospices national region | 3 |
america community hospices | 2 |
florida hospices in | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"HOSPICES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hoshiyeh, hospic, hospise, hostpice, Jospice. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOSPICES" (pronounced hÄ"spusuz) |
| 5 | -p u s u z | campuses, encompasses, porpoises, purposes. |
| 4 | -u s u z | accomplices, actresses, addresses, aliases, amaryllises, apparatuses, apprentices, biases, bonuses, businesses, buttresses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, caucuses, censuses, choruses, circuses, congresses, crevices, crocuses, embarrasses, eyewitnesses, fetuses, focuses, fortresses, furnaces, geniuses, goddesses, grimaces, harnesses, hippopotamuses, hostesses, illnesses, injustices, irises, justices, likenesses, mattresses, minuses, mistresses, necklaces, notices, novices, offices, omnibuses, orifices, palaces, penises, poultices, prejudices, premises, promises, prospectuses, purchases, refocuses, repurchases, retroviruses, seamstresses, services, sinuses, stewardesses, surfaces, surpluses, terraces, tortoises, treatises, viruses, waitresses, walruses, weaknesses, witnesses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, aces, acquaintances, advances, affixes, albatrosses, allegiances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, appearances, appendixes, appliances, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, balances, bases, basses, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, Busses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, Casas, cases, cayuses, ceases, chances, chases, choices, circumstances, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embraces, eminences, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, forces, foxes, fragrances, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, headdresses, hindrances, hisses, hoaxes, horses, houses, hyraxes, ices, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, medusas, messes, minibuses, misses, missus, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, nieces, nixes, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, ordinances, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, paradoxes, passes, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, possesses, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, pronounces, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, senses, sentences, sequences, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surpasses, surtaxes, taxes, tolerances, tosses, townhouses, traces, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, voices, waltzes, waxes, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: hospice, sophies. | |
-2 letters: choses, copies, copses, coshes, cosies, epochs, hoises, piscos, pishes, poises, posies, scopes, spices. | |
-3 letters: chess, chips, chops, chose, copes, copse, coses, cosie, echos, epics, epoch, hoise, hopes, hoses, pechs, pesos, pisco, pisos, poise, poses, posse, scope, scops, sepic, shies, ships, shoes, shops, sices, sipes, sophs, specs, spice, spics, spies. | |
-4 letters: ceps. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-o-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: postiches. | |
+2 letters: censorship, choppiness, geophysics, showpieces. | |
+3 letters: censorships, clothespins, copublishes, discophiles, hagioscopes, hippocrases, hypocrisies, mesospheric, nightscopes, prosthetics, rectorships, spirochetes, splotchiest, topstitches. | |
+4 letters: accomplishes, atmospherics, cataphoresis, chairpersons, choppinesses, comradeships, consumership, coppersmiths, copublishers, dichroscopes, geophysicist, microspheres, phonemicists, pleochroisms, postischemic, psychologies, psychologise, rhinoscopies, scyphistomae, sociopathies, sophisticate, spirochaetes, stethoscopic, sycophancies, viceroyships. | |
+5 letters: accomplishers, arthroscopies, associateship, chemotropisms, consumerships, cosmographies, counselorship, directorships, discographers, discographies, executorships, geophysicists, inspectorship, necrophilisms, packinghouses, photochemists, phytochemists, psychogenesis, psychokineses, psychokinesis, psychologised, psychologises, psychologizes, psychometrics, psychometries, psychopathies, pyrotechnists, scenographies, schizophrenes, seismographic, sophisticated, sophisticates, spectatorship, spirochetoses, spirochetosis, stratospheric, tachistoscope. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 53 50 49 43 45 53 |
| 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 01001111 01010011 01010000 01001001 01000011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O S P I C E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0053 0050 0049 0043 0045 0053 |
| 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)4249535043373953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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