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Identikit

Definition: Identikit

Identikit

Noun

1. (trademark) a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Identikit

Synonym: Identikit picture (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Identikit

English words defined with "Identikit": Identikit picture. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Identikit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (identikit), Italian (identikit).

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Modern Usage: Identikit

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Identikit (1974)

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

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Commercial Usage: Identikit

DomainTitle

Books

  • Identikit (reference)

  • Identikit De Los Argentinos (reference)

  • Identikit del preadolescente (reference)

  • Identikit dell'attore italiano : ottanta interpreti del teatro di prosa rispondono a un'inchiesta (reference)

  • Psicopolitica : per un identikit dell'uomo politico d'oggi (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Identikit

"Identikit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Identikit" is used about 25 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
Noun (singular)92%2372,767
Lexical Verb (base form)4%1339,140
Noun (proper)4%1339,140
                    Total100.00%25N/A

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

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Expression: Identikit

Expression using "Identikit": identikit picture. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Identikit

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

identikit

22

identikit police

3

identikit software

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

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Modern Translations: Identikit

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

Albanian

  

identikit, skicë e përafërt. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملامح الوجه (cast, physiognomy), ‏معين الشخصية. (various references)

   

French

  

portrait-robot, photo-robot. (various references)

   

German

  

phantombild. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קלסתרון. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mozaikkép. (various references)

   

Italian

  

identikit. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cullee enney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

identikitay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

similitude (likeness, similarity, similitude), semelhança (affinity, community, likeness, Park, portrait, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude), provar identidade. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фоторобот, портрет-фоторобот. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

robot (industrial robot, robot, robotic tool), retrato-robot. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

konstruerad bild, fantombild. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

robot resim (photofit). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фоторобот. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Identikit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-k-n-t-t"

-2 letters: knitted.

-3 letters: indite, kitted, kitten, tineid, tinted.

-4 letters: indie, inked, kited, nitid, teiid, teind, tined.

-5 letters: deni, dent, diet, dike, dine, dink, dint, dite, edit, inti, kent, kind, kine, kite, knit, nett, nide, nidi, nite, tend, tent, tide, tied, tike, tiki, tine, tint, titi.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Identikit


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

49 64 65 6E 74 69 6B 69 74

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)

01001001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101011 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#100 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#107 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0064 0065 006E 0074 0069 006B 0069 0074

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

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

437071808675777586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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