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Definition: Icarus |
IcarusNoun1. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Icarus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a follower". |
Date "Icarus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | ICARUS, father of aviation. Record holder for the first tumble. Selected water as the spot for his fall, and was not picked up with the debris. Ambition: A Wright machine. Recreation: Tuning up. Address: Greece. Clubs: Aero. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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| 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 |
ICARUS | English | Incremental construction and reuse of requirements specifications | N/A |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus. |
Mariner | Aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew; astronaut, cosmonaut; parachutist, paratrooper. |
Rashness | Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Icarus |
| English words defined with "Icarus": Daedalus ♦ Icarian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Icarus": DAEDALUS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You have no idea how much Icarus is about to change your world. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Icarus (1974) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1994) The Fall of Icarus (1992) Icarus (1990) Codename: Icarus (1985) | |
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| "Icarus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Icarus" is used about 16 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 (proper) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | ICARUS International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Icarus": fate of Icarus. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
icarus | 348 |
kid icarus | 84 |
daedalus and icarus | 35 |
icarus myth | 21 |
flight of icarus | 19 |
icarus line | 16 |
emulator icarus | 15 |
the fall of icarus | 14 |
icarus mythology | 13 |
icarus story | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Icarus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | Ικάροσ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icarusay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: arcus, auric, auris, curia, scaur. | |
-2 letters: airs, arcs, asci, cars, cris, crus, curs, rias, sari, scar, sura, uric, ursa. | |
-3 letters: air, ais, arc, ars, car, cis, cur, ras, ria, sac, sau, sic, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: ai, ar, as, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: carious, cuirass, curaris, curiosa, saucier, uracils. | |
+2 letters: acquires, auricles, caesuric, caribous, causerie, charquis, cislunar, craniums, crucians, cumarins, curacies, curtails, curtains, eucharis, gracious, haircuts, quadrics, quartics, rustical, scarious, spicular, subacrid, subvicar, surgical, suricate. | |
+3 letters: acidurias, acquirers, actuaries, anacrusis, aruspices, atrocious, auriculas, carburise, carousing, casuarina, casuistry, causeries, cauteries, circulars, coumarins, crusading, cuirassed, cuirasses, cultivars, curarines, curarizes, curatives, cursorial, fractious, franciums, insurance, justiciar, manicures, muscarine, narcissus, ocularist, ossicular, peculiars, pirarucus, pushchair, rapacious, raucities, rusticals, rusticate, sacrarium, simulacra, simulacre, subarctic, subvicars, suctorial, suctorian, surfacing, surficial, suricates, tracksuit, truancies, urticants, urticates, veracious, vesicular, vicarious, voracious. | |
+4 letters: accuracies, acquisitor, acquitters, alacritous, altruistic, americiums, araucarias, autarchies, avaricious, bifurcates, binoculars, calvariums, capricious, carburised, carburises, carburizes, casuarinas, cauterizes, centauries, chivalrous, ciguateras, circulates, coriaceous, crassitude, cuadrillas, cuirassier, cuirassing, curtailers, curtilages, curvacious, cystinuria, dicumarols, discourage, epicureans, ericaceous, eucharises, fascicular, fruitcakes, funiculars, furcations, gaucheries, glycosuria, graciously, graticules, haruspices, hurricanes, hydraulics, incubators, incurables, incurvates, insurances, jackfruits, jacqueries, justiciars, lacustrine, lubricants, lubricates, luciferase, manicurist, manuscript, mercurials, micturates, miraculous, muscarines, muscarinic, naviculars, numeracies, obduracies, ocularists, pasticheur, picaresque, practicums, precarious, predacious, purchasing, pushchairs, quackeries, quadratics, quadriceps, raunchiest, reaccusing, reacquires, requiescat, revictuals, rheumatics, rubricates, rudbeckias, rustically, rusticated, rusticates, rusticator, saucerlike, scriptural, secularise, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularize, simulacres, simulacrum, spiracular, squirarchy, subarctics, suctorians, supraoptic, surceasing, surfacings, surgically, survivance, testicular, tracksuits, ultrabasic, ultraistic, ultraslick, ultrasonic, unactorish, unartistic, ungracious, urbanistic, urticarias, versicular, victualers. | |
+5 letters: acquisitors, acrimonious, aeronautics, apicultures, archduchies, arenicolous, articulates, astronautic, atrociously, auctioneers, autocracies, avicultures, buccinators, cafetoriums, calciferous, carburising, caricatures, carnivorous, cartularies, casuistries, chiaroscuro, circularise, circulators, coinsurance, commissural, contrarious, cornucopias, coruscating, coruscation, crassitudes, cuirassiers, culinarians, cultivators, curatorship, curtainless, customarily, cystinurias, dicoumarins, dicoumarols, discouraged, discourager, discourages, disgraceful, disturbance, duplicators, electuaries, elucidators, enunciators, eructations, eucharistic, excruciates, farinaceous, fiduciaries, fractiously, fricandeaus, glycosurias, haircutters, ichthyosaur, inculcators, inoculators, inscrutable, inscrutably, intercampus, irrecusable, irrecusably, judicatures, judiciaries, lactiferous, lawrenciums, lubricators, luciferases, luxuriances, manicurists, manuscripts, microfaunas, microquakes, multitracks, muscularity, narcissuses, nonsurgical, nudibranchs, nunciatures, obscurantic, obscuration, oceanariums, oversaucing, pancratiums, parachutist, parameciums, particulars, pasticheurs, picaresques, pluralistic, precautions, procambiums, quinacrines, rapaciously, raunchiness, reacquaints, recusancies, reinsurance, renunciates, republicans, requiescats, resurfacing, resuscitate, reticulates, ritualistic, rubricators, rusticating, rustication, rusticators, sanctuaries, saurischian, scoriaceous, scrummaging, secularised, secularises, secularisms, secularists, secularized, secularizer, secularizes, simulacrums, specularity, squirearchy, staurolitic, subcortical, subcritical, subcurative, subliteracy, subtracting, subtraction, subtractive, subtropical, superficial, supremacies, supremacist, surcharging, surrogacies, survivances, thiouracils, transducing, transuranic, trifurcates, truncations, ulcerations, ultrabasics, ultrafiches, ultrasonics, unchristian, unclarities, unrealistic, uppercasing, urtications, vascularity, veraciously, vicariously, victuallers, voraciously, vulcanizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 63 61 72 75 73 |
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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)01001001 01100011 01100001 01110010 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c a r u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0061 0072 0075 0073 |
| 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)436967848785 |
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