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Definition: IRIAN |
IRIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the iris. |
Crosswords: IRIAN |
| Specialty definitions using "IRIAN": West Irian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "IRIAN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Malay (New Guinea). |
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Civil Liberties | Papua New Guinea | There were no known forced repatriations of Irian Jayans to Indonesia. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | These Irian Jayans are accorded limited residency status and are permitted to leave the refugee settlement. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | The UNHCR began to reduce the scale of its operations in Western Province in 1999 and coordinates the voluntary return of refugees to their homes in Irian Jaya. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | In the more open atmosphere since 1998, there have been more explicit expressions within Irian Jaya of a desire for independence from Indonesia. (references) |
Indonesia | In addition to continuing economic malaise, his government has faced regional, interethnic, and interreligious conflict, particularly in Aceh, the Moluccas, and Irian Jaya. (references) | |
Indonesia | Opposition to Indonesian administration of Irian Jaya, also known as Papua or West Papua, gave rise to smallscale guerrilla activity in the years following Jakarta's assumption of control. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | Most prominent, as she has articulated, are separatism in Aceh and Irian Jaya, social unrest and decentralization efforts, and the economic recovery. (references) |
Indonesia | Notwithstanding these changes, the military continues to play a substantial internal security role in areas of conflict, such as Aceh, the Moluccas, and Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya). (references) | |
Indonesia | Security forces were responsible for numerous instances of, at times indiscriminate, shooting of civilians, torture, rape, beatings and other abuse, and arbitrary detention in Aceh, West Timor, Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya), and elsewhere in the country. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "IRIAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "IRIAN" is used about 27 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) | 92.59% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "IRIAN": West Irian. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
irian jaya | 44 |
carpet irian jaya python | 7 |
irian jaya photo | 6 |
irian | 4 |
irian jaya map | 3 |
irian jaya indonesia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IRIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Irian Barat (West Irian), West-Irian (West Irian), Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian (Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian). (various references) | ||||
French | Fonds des Nations Unies pour le développement de l'Irian Occidental (Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian), FNUDIO (Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian). (various references) | ||||
German | Fonds der Vereinten Nationen für die Entwicklung von Westirian (Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irianay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: airn, inia, rain, rani. | |
-2 letters: ain, air, ani, ran, ria, rin. | |
-3 letters: ai, an, ar, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airing, raisin, rapini. | |
+2 letters: airings, airline, airting, amorini, antiair, arising, aspirin, denarii, fairing, hairpin, inertia, ingrain, lairing, martini, minibar, minicar, pairing, raiding, railing, rainier, rainily, raining, raising, raisins, raisiny, rapinis, rappini, senarii, triazin, vitrain, wairing, zingari. | |
+3 letters: acridine, admiring, airiness, airliner, airlines, airthing, alizarin, antiarin, antiriot, apiarian, arginine, arriving, aspiring, aspirins, attiring, bairnish, bilinear, binaries, braiding, brailing, brainiac, brainier, brainily, braining, brainish, braising, brasilin, brazilin, chairing, criminal, daintier, dairying, deairing, distrain, draining, fairings, filarian, gainlier, glairing, grainier, graining, granitic, hairline, hairpins, ignorami, imaginer, inarming, inertiae, inertial, inertias, ingrains, intarsia, irenical, ironical, irritant, kaiserin, larrikin, martinis, meridian, midbrain, migraine, minibars, minicars, minipark, mistrain, morainic, narcissi, nirvanic, original, paintier, pairings, pirating, praising, rabbinic, radioing, railings, rainbird, rainiest, raisings, rappinis, ravining, reaginic, rifampin, rigatoni, ringtail, riparian, rivaling, sirenian, traiking, trailing, training, triaging, triazine, triazins, trichina, triennia, unifilar, uranitic, uredinia, urinemia, vinifera, virginal, viridian, vitrains, zirconia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 52 49 41 4E |
| 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)01001001 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I R I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0052 0049 0041 004E |
| 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)4352433548 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | néerlandais, holländisch |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | Duitse, allemand |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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