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Definitions: Incidental |
IncidentalAdjective1. (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incident to a quick change". 2. Following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management". 3. Not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA. Noun1. (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses". 2. An item that is incidental. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incidental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Health | 1. small and relatively unimportant, minor; 2. accompanying, but not a major part of something; 3. (to something) liable to occur because of something or in connection with something (said of risks, responsibilities, ...). (references) |
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Synonyms: IncidentalSynonyms: accompanying (adj), attendant (adj), concomitant (adj), incident (adj), incidental to(p) (adj), nonessential (adj), incidental expense (n), minor expense (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: basic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional. |
Circumstance | Adjective: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious; (extrinsic); limitative. |
Eventuality | Adjective: happening; v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question; incidental. |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, adventitious; ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
Irrelation | Incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic. |
Liability | Contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of. |
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Screenplays | It's the millennium, motives are incidental. (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Incidental autopsy finding of pedunculated polyp in colon.Credit: CDC. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The French State shall always have the right of establishing and maintaining, as incidental to the mines, primary or technical schools for its employees and their children, and of causing instruction therein to be given in the French language, in accordance with such curriculum and by such teachers as it may select. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The types of incidental contact depend on the habits of both humans and rodents. (references) | |
Infection with Ebola virus in humans is incidental -- humans do not "carry" the virus. (references) | ||
It remains controversial whether incidental cholecystectomy during nonbiliary abdominal surgery in asymptomatic individuals is beneficial. (references) | ||
Business | The Supply Administration of the Republic of Korea (SAROK), formerly the Office of Supply (OSROK), is responsible for the purchase of goods and incidental services required by central and sub-central government entities. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | Scope of work, timing, and fees to be directly negotiated with CS Nigeria based on staff time required and incidental expenses. (references) |
Burma | The employment of personnel in Burma under these circumstances is considered the purchase of employment services which is exempt from prohibition under 537.204. Any training incidental to the performance of the employee's services is likewise exempt. (references) | |
India | Manufacture of food products; cotton textiles; wool, silk & man-made fibers; water-proof textile fabrics; basic chemicals & chemical products except products of petroleum & coal; rubber, plastic, petroleum & coal products; metal products & parts except machinery and equipment; non-metallic mineral products; machinery and equipment other than transport equipment; land and water transport support services and services incidental to transport not elsewhere classified; renting & leasing; business services not elsewhere classified; health and medical services; tourism related industry. (references) | |
Human Rights | Taiwan | However, critics claim that the incidental to arrest provision is not only unconstitutional but also often interpreted broadly by police to justify searches of locations other than actual arrest sites. (references) |
Minorities | Liberia | Removal of body parts for use in traditional rituals is believed to be the motive for ritual killings, rather than an abuse incidental to killings committed for other motives. (references) |
Trade | Trinidad | This is computed on the CIF value, and includes all other foreign costs incidental to the delivery of goods to Trinidad and Tobago. (references) |
Travel | Ukraine | Bring adequate cash to cover hotel and incidental expenses. (references) |
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | The incidental protection afforded to our home interests by discriminations within the revenue range it is believed will be ample. |
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| "Incidental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Incidental" is used about 371 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.73% | 370 | 14,662 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 371 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incidental": incidental characteristic ♦ incidental charges ♦ incidental earnings ♦ incidental expense ♦ incidental expenses ♦ incidental FM ♦ incidental frequency modulation ♦ incidental heat gain ♦ incidental music ♦ incidental parameter ♦ incidental property ♦ incidental recharging ♦ incidental sales ♦ incidental time ♦ incidental to ♦ incidental upon. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "incidental": co-incidental. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
incidental | 33 |
ação declaratória incidental | 4 |
incidental music | 3 |
incidental learning | 3 |
guru incidental | 3 |
incidental teaching | 3 |
damages incidental | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incidental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), i rastësishëm (accidental, casual, chanceful, coincidental, desultory, fortuitous, incident, lucky, odd, random, sporadic), karakteristik për (incident), episod (episode, incident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ليس ذو أهمية, حادث عارض, تصادفي (chance, fortuitous), عرضي (accidental, adventitious, casual, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, occasional, odd, passing, symptomatic, transverse, venial), طارئ (adventitious, casual, contingency, emergency, fortuitous, imperious, pressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съпътствуващ (concomitant), страничен (adventitious, adventive, aisle, by, circumstantial, collateral, exterior, external, indirect, lateral, marginal, oblique, off, outside, postern, side), свързан (affined, bound, conjunct, germane, linked, related, relative, relevant, sequacious), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), несъществен (accidental, inessential, insubstantial, non essential, pasteboard, trivial, unessential, unsubstantial), произтичащ (emanative, ensuing, incident, resultant), присъщ (immanent, indigenous, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural, proper, radical, resident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偶然发". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), případný (appropriate, felicitous, opportune, pertinent, prospective), náhodný (accidental, adventitious, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, passing, random, stray), doprovodný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilfældig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ver (afar, distant, far, far away, long, remote, remotely, side). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | flanka (side). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksilöparametrit (incidental parameter), satunnaiset menot (incidental expenses), satunnainen taajuusmodulaatio (incidental FM, incidental frequency modulation), satunnainen imeytyminen (incidental recharging), esittää liitännäinen väite asiassa (to put in an incidental plea), epäolennainen piirre (incidental characteristic, incidental property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incident (incident, traffic incident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zufällig (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπτωματικόσ (coincidental, haphazard, symptomatic), τυχαίοσ (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, occasional, random, scratch, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מובלע (mingled), מש י (minor, second, secondary, subsidiary), מקרי (accidental, casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, occasional, random, stray), צ""י (accessory, lateral, side, sidelong, sideways, subsidiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | véletlen (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, coincidence, contingent, fortuitous, fortune, hap, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, luck, occasional, promiscuous, random, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebetulan (accidental, by accident, by chance, casual, fit, happen to, ocassional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incidentale (minor, passing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 附属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, subordinate), 附帯 (ancillary, secondary), "たる (accessory, junior, secondary, subordinate), 偶発的 (accidental, casual, occasional), 偶発 (accidental, sudden outbreak), 付属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, subordinate), 付帯的 (accessory, secondary), 付帯 (accessory, collateral, secondary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぐうはつてき (accidental, casual, occasional), ぐうはつ (accidental, sudden outbreak), ふぞく (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, subordinate), ふたいてき (accessory, secondary), ふたい (accessory, ancillary, cloth bag, collateral, determination, secondary), じゅうたる (accessory, junior, secondary, subordinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "히 있". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taghyrtagh (accidental, adventitious, casual, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tilfeldig (casual, fortuitous, haphazard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incidentalay incidental (by, bye, parenthetic, parenthetical). (various references) incidental, suplimentar (accessary, additional, adjective, adscititious, auxiliary, circumstantial, extra, further, odd, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary), ocazional (accidental, casual, casually, circumstantial, fugitive, haphazard, infrequent, occasional, occasionally), mãrunt (chopping, light, loose, mincing, paltry, peddling, petty, piffling, small, tiny, trifling), lucru incidental, adãugat (added), accidental (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, arbitrary, broken, casual, casually, chance, contingent, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, occasional, precarious, random, stray). (various references) случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray). (various references) uzgrednost, uzgredan (accessary, accessory, casual, marginal), sporednost, sporedan (accessary, accessory, adventitious, auxiliary, extrinsic, indifferent, odd, secondary), slučajan (accidental, adventitious, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, random, unexpected, unintentional). (various references) incidental (casual). (various references) tillfällig (accidental, adventitious, casual, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extraordinary, fortuitous, interim, momentary, occasional, odd, provisional, stopgap, temporary), sido- (collateral, lateral, sidelong, sideways), oväsentlig (accidental, immaterial, importless, inappreciable, indifferent, inessential, unessential), bi- (ancillary, bi-, dubbel-, secondary, subsidiary). (various references) isteğe bağlı (arbitrary, discretionary, facultative, optional, permissive, unprompted), tesadüfi (accidental, adventitious, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, fortuitous, passing, random, unarranged), olası (a priori, contingent, contingently, earthly, eventual, feasible, in the air, in the cards, liable, like, likely, off, on the cards, plausible, possible, probable, prospective, within the bounds of possibility), küçük ve önemsiz, küçük harcamalar, bağlı (adherent, adhesive, affiliated, amenable, appurtenant, attached, banded, bonded, bound, cohesive, conditional, conjoint, connected, consequent, corded, dependant, dependent, devoted, faithful, germane, hooked, laced, observant, related, subject, subject to, subordinate, tied, under), özgü (appropriate, endemic, indigenous, particular, peculiar to, special to), önemsiz olay. (various references) gidiюini (passing). (various references) властивий (appropriate, built in, congenial, facultative, immanent, incident, inherent, innate, native, proper, resident), випадок (accident, adventure, case, chance, contingency, contingent, event, fortuity, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence, occurrent, tidings), неістотний (accidental, immaterial, non essential, slim, unessential, unsubstantial), пригода (adventure, affair, episode, experience, occurrence, occurrent). (various references) tình cờ (accidental, accidentally, casual, chance, contingent, en passant, fortuitous, incidentally, passing), ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haply, incidentally, perchance, promiscuous), bất ngờ phụ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incidental": incidentally, incidentals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "incidental": coincidental. (additional references) | |
Words containing "incidental": coincidentally. (additional references) | |
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"Incidental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incedental, incidentaly, incidente. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incidental" (pronounced i'nsude"ntul) |
| 10 | i' n s u d e" n t u l | coincidental. |
| 8 | -s u d e" n t u l | accidental, occidental. |
| 6 | -d e" n t u l | dental, transcendental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | compartmental, continental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, gentle, incremental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, lentil, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, oriental, ornamental, parental, regimental, rental, sentimental, supplemental, temperamental, transcontinental, unsentimental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anticline, identical. | |
-2 letters: actinide, alcidine, ciliated, ctenidia, dentinal, incanted, incident, inclined, indicant, indicate. | |
-3 letters: ancient, aniline, annelid, candent, ciliate, citadel, deltaic, dialect, edictal, encinal, identic, incited, incline, indican, inedita, inlaced, lindane. | |
-4 letters: acetin, alined, anilin, atelic, cadent, candle, canine, canned, cannel, cannie, canted, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, citied, client, decant, delict, deltic, denial, dental, dentil, dentin, detail, detain, dilate, elicit, enatic, encina, entail, incant, incite, indent, indict, indite, inlace, inlaid, inland, innate, intend, intine, italic, lanced, lancet, lectin, lentic, linden, linnet, nailed, niacin, tailed, talced, tanned, tannic, tenail, tincal, tineal, tineid, tinned. | |
-5 letters: acini, acned, acted, actin, ailed, alcid, alien, aline, anent, anile, anted, antic, cadet, caned, canid, cilia, cited, clade, clean, cleat, cline, dance, dealt, decal, delta, dicta, eclat, edict, elain, eland, elint, enact, entia, ideal, ileac, iliac, iliad, inane, indie, inlet, inned, laced, laden, lance, lated, laten, leant, liane, licit, linac, lined, linen, linin, litai, naled, nance, nicad, nidal, nitid, teiid, teind, telia, telic, tenia, tical, tidal, tilde, tiled, tinea, tined. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: declination, incidentals. | |
+2 letters: coincidental, confidential, declinations, incidentally, nonidentical. | |
+3 letters: clandestinity, conditionable, credentialing, declinational, denticulation, identicalness. | |
+4 letters: coincidentally, confidentially, credentialling, decentralizing, dechlorinating, dechlorination, decolonization, denticulations, indelicateness, nondirectional, platinocyanide, unidirectional. | |
+5 letters: antieducational, clandestinities, confidentiality, dechlorinations, decolonizations, disenchantingly, identicalnesses, inconsiderately, nonconfidential, noninsecticidal, occidentalizing, omnidirectional, platinocyanides, reconsolidating, unanticipatedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 69 64 65 6E 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .. -.. . -. - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c i d e n t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0069 0064 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43806975707180866778 |
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