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Incarceration

Definition: Incarceration

Incarceration

Noun

1. The state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon".

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

Date "incarceration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Incarceration

DomainDefinitions

Health

Abnormal retention or confinement of a body part; specifically : a constriction of the neck of a hernial sac so that the hernial contents become irreducible. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Incarceration

Synonyms: captivity (n), immurement (n), imprisonment (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Incarceration

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

Restraint

Confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Incarceration

English words defined with "incarceration": captivityimmurement, imprisonment. (references)
Specialty definitions using "incarceration": DEPUTY SHERIFF, GRAND JURY, deputy, grand jury. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Incarceration

DomainTitle

Books

  • A World Without Prisons: Alternatives to Incarceration Throughout the World (reference)

  • Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration (Black Atlantic) (reference)

  • Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments: Report of the Committee for the Study of Incarceration (reference)

  • Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family (reference)

  • Inmates and Their Wives: Incarceration and Family Life (Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs, No. 14) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Sounds Captioned with "Incarceration".

PlayCaption
Clink; jail; prison; behind bars; locked up; lock up; lock down; incarceration; incarcerated; Bastille; big cage; big house; big school; black hole; booby hatch; brig; bull pen; caboose; cage; calaboose; can; cell; cooler; coop; county hotel; death house.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Incarceration

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Incarceration

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

They mandate and arrange for treatment as an alternative to incarceration, actively monitor progress in treatment, and arrange for other services to drug-involved offenders. (references)

Increasingly, research is demonstrating that treatment for drug-addicted offenders during and after incarceration can have a significant beneficial effect upon future drug use, criminal behavior, and social functioning. (references)

As a well-studied example, the Treatment Accountability and Safer Communities (TASC) program provides an alternative to incarceration by addressing the multiple needs of drug-addicted offenders in a community-based setting. (references)

Business

The army continues to hold Gallardo but has reduced the previous inordinately high level of security of his incarceration. (references)

Children

Taiwan

The law provides for up to 2 years' incarceration for customers of prostitutes under the age of 18. The law also requires the publication of the names of violators in newspapers. (references)

Dominican Republic

The criminal law provision on sexual abuse and intrafamily violence provides for a penalty of 10 to 20 years incarceration and a fine of $6,600 to $13,200 (108,000 to 216,000 pesos) for persons found guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, and up to 30 years if the victim is a family member of the abuser. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

His family was not informed of his incarceration for several weeks. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

Offering or receiving a bribe is a criminal offense in Guyana, punishable by incarceration. (references)

Honduras

Bribery is a criminal act and, depending on the degree of the offense, is subject to fines or incarceration. (references)

Turkey

This drop in political violence can be traced both to the incarceration of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and law enforcement success against radical Islamist and left wing terror groups. (references)

Human Rights

Brunei

Many convicted persons reportedly prefer caning to lengthy incarceration. (references)

Hong Kong

The average length of preconviction incarceration does not exceed 80 days. (references)

Namibia

There are several pilot programs that provide alternatives to incarceration for juvenile offenders. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

The AIC reports that the incarceration rate among indigenous youth was 18.5 times that of the nonindigenous youth population in 1999. Over 45 percent of Aboriginal men between the ages of 20 and 30 years have been arrested at some time in their lives. (references)

Minorities

Spain

After the two assailants were apprehended, the residents of Albaladejo, often led by the mayor, turned out in force to protest their incarceration and petition for their release. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

The February and March demonstrations came in response to the December 1999 incarceration of three Sahrawis accused of spying for the Polisario. (references)

Political Rights

Indonesia

All adult citizens, except active-duty members of the armed forces, persons in prison convicted of crimes punishable by over 5 years' incarceration, persons suffering from mental disorders, and persons deprived of voting rights by an irrevocable verdict of a court of justice, are eligible to vote. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

This provision of the law has been used to impose travel prohibitions against resident U.S. citizens, and also has led to the arrest and incarceration of U.S. business people while they were awaiting a hearing on the civil matter. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Law enforcement actions targeting the sex industry have been infrequent, but have on occasion resulted in the detention, incarceration, and deportation of trafficked women. (references)

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

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Spoken Usage: Incarceration

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Barely one month after FDR issued his order, Japanese-Americans and Japanese in America were being involuntary removed from their homes on the West Coast and transported to incarceration centers in out-of-the-way places.

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

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Usage Frequency: Incarceration

"Incarceration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incarceration" is used about 69 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)100%6940,280

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

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Expression: Incarceration

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "incarceration": near-incarceration.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incarceration

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

incarceration

37

incarceration alternative

13

shock incarceration

9

cost incarceration

8

incarceration rate

7

bullethole incarceration

6

incarceration juvenile

5

incarceration statistics

4

home incarceration

4

incarceration youth

3

incarceration record

2

effects incarceration

2

incarceration juvenile shock

2

incarceration post syndrome

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

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Modern Translations: Incarceration

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

Albanian

  

burgosje (confinement, imprisoning, taking), burgim (committal, confinement, Durance, duress, immurement, imprisonment, jail). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حصر (enclose, incarcerate, inclose, intercept, limitation, pin, pocket, restrict, restriction, straiten, trap), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хвърляне в затвора (imprisonment), затваряне (closing, immurement, imprisonment, locking, occlusion, restraint). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uvìznìní (duress, immurement, imprisonment). (various references)

   

Danish

  

indeklemning, incarceration, incarceratio. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

incarceratie. (various references)

   

French

  

incarcération. (various references)

   

German

  

Inkarzeration, einkerkerung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περίσφιγξη, φυλάκιση (commitment, confinement, custody, duress, immurement, imprisonment), εγκάθειρξη. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מאסר (arrest, confinement, detention, imprisonment, prison), כליא" (detention, imprisonment, internment, jailing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bebörtönzés (duress, immurement, imprisonment). (various references)

   

Italian

  

incarcerazione. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

幽閉 (confinement, depressed feeling, house arrest, imprisonment). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆうへい (confinement, depressed feeling, house arrest, imprisonment). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pryssoonaght (detention, imprisonment). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

incarcerationay

   

Portuguese

  

incarceração, prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, get fast, gift shop, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, linkage, lock in, mewl, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle bit, take, take up, to apprehend, to arrest, to hang-up, to lodge, to seize), encarceramento (commitment, committal, limbo), encarceração. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ущемление (strangulation), заключение (amen, close, closing, completion, conclusion, contraction, deduction, finale, finding, illation, imprisonment, peroration, upshot), инкарцерация. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zatvaranje (closedown, closure, immurement, impoundment, locking, occlusion, shutdown), ukleštenje (strangulation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

encarcelamiento (imprisonment), encarcelación. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fängslande (arresting, attractive, captivating, enchainment, enthraling, enthralling, fascinating, imprisonment, intriguing). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıkıştırma (compression, importunity, pressing, push, squeeze), sıkışma (having hard time, jamming, pressure, squeeze), kapatma (close down, closing, closure, kept woman, liquidation, sealing, shutting, shutting down, turning off), hapsetme (imprisonment, internment, prison), hapsedilme (confinement, imprisonment, porridge), boğma (choke, drown, inundation, strangulation). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ущемлення, ув'язнення (confinement, constraint, custody, duress, duresse, gaol, imprisonment, jail, ward). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự bỏ tù (gaol, imprisonment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Incarceration

Derivations

Words beginning with "incarceration": incarcerations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Incarceration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incarcaration, incarcertion. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Incarceration"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "incarceration" (pronounced i'nkÄ'rserā"shun)
6-s er ā" sh u nlaceration.
5-er ā" sh u naberration, acceleration, admiration, adoration, agglomeration, alteration, amelioration, aspiration, cogeneration, collaboration, coloration, commemoration, confederation, configuration, conglomeration, consideration, cooperation, corporation, corroboration, deceleration, declaration, decoration, degeneration, deliberation, desperation, discoloration, elaboration, enumeration, evaporation, exaggeration, exasperation, exhilaration, exoneration, expiration, exploration, federation, figuration, generation, inauguration, incorporation, inspiration, liberation, maturation, moderation, nonproliferation, operation, perforation, perspiration, preparation, proliferation, reconfiguration, reconsideration, recuperation, redecoration, refrigeration, regeneration, reincorporation, reinvigoration, reiteration, remuneration, reparation, respiration, restoration, reverberation, saturation, separation, toleration.
4-ā" sh u nabbreviation, abdication, abomination, abrogation, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, altercation, amalgamation, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogitation, cohabitation, collectivization, colonization, colorization, combination, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, coordination, coronation, correlation, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, decentralization, decertification, decontamination, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elation, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evocation, exacerbation, examination, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhortation, exhumation, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, explanation, explication, exploitation, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, incantation, incapacitation, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfirmation, recreation, recrimination, rectification, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refutation, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reinterpretation, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization.
3-sh u nabduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Incarceration

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"

-2 letters: anacreontic, incinerator.

-3 letters: anticancer, concertina, concertini, contrarian.

-4 letters: accretion, anorectic, carnation, carnitine, cineraria, circinate, container, crenation, criterion, incarnate, incorrect, narration, nicotiana, tarriance.

-5 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, aconitic, actiniae, actinian, aeration, anointer, anoretic, anterior, antiarin, carcanet, carinate, carrotin, cationic, cercaria, ciceroni, cocinera, concerti, craniate, cratonic, creation, criteria, inaction, inerrant, interior, narcotic, necrotic, nicotine, raincoat, reaction, reanoint, tricorne, triennia.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: incarcerations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Incarceration


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

49 6E 63 61 72 63 65 72 61 74 69 6F 6E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#97 &#114 &#99 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 0061 0072 0063 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

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

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

43806967846971846786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Sounds
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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