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Definition: License |
LicenseNoun1. A legal document giving official permission to do something. 2. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech). 3. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint: "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke. 4. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization. Verb1. Authorize officially. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "license" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss. Married women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman to see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter unpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
BSD originally stood for "Berkeley Source Distribution". The BSD License was the license agreement that the BSD software (largely, a version of UNIX) was distributed under (and still is as of 2003). The owner of the original BSD distribution was the "Regents of the University of California". This is because BSD originally came from the University of California, Berkeley.
Versions of the current BSD template (and the older version with the advertising clause) are often used by other organizations. The BSD License does not prohibit the use of the material licensed in products for resale. A notable example of this is the use of BSD networking code in Microsoft products.
It is possible for something to be distributed with the BSD License and some other license to apply as well. This was in fact the case with very early versions of BSD Unix itself, which included proprietary material from AT&T.
As originally distributed the license had an extra clause, the so called advertising clause:
* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * This product includes software developed by the University of * California, Berkeley and its contributors.The GNU project referred to it as the "obnoxious BSD advertising clause". Along with offending people, the clause caused a practical problem. People who made changes to the source code tended to want to have their names added to the acknowledgement. With large numbers of people working on a single project (or for many separate projects in a software distribution), the advertising clause quickly created large and unwieldy acknowledgements. Another practical problem was legal incompatibility with the terms of the GNU General Public License (which does not allow the addition of restrictions beyond those it already imposes), forcing a segregation of GNU and BSD software. On July 22, 1999, William Hoskins, the director of the office of technology licensing for Berkeley, revoked the clause. The document enacting that revocation is available at <ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change>. The original license is now sometimes called "BSD-old" or "4-clause BSD", with the revised license sometimes called "BSD-new", "revised BSD", or "3-clause BSD".
A 2-clause BSD-like license also exists; the clause deletes the third section, which prohibits use of the name of the copyright holder for endorsement purposes.
External links
- BSD licence template
- The BSD License Problem (GNU Project)
- Materials about the Unix System Laboratories v. BSD case
- Marshall Kirk McKusick, Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable, in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly 1999
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BSD license."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A license (sometimes licence), is a document or agreement giving permission to do something. The spelling license is usual in American English. In British English, licence is the noun form, and license is the verb, so a when a licensee has a licence, they are licensed. In Canadian English, the spellings denote different meanings (eg: a licence to drive would refer to a legal permission, whereas a license to drive could refer to a permission of circumstance).
In law, the document is the evidence of a license to be distinguished from the underlying license which is the actual permission to an act in a way that would be otherwise unlawful. Originally in reference to property, a license was the right of an individual to enter upon the property of another to do an act that would have otherwise been considered illegal such as walking in the woods, hunting game or swimming in the lake. To be distinguished from a license coupled with an interest which is an irrevocable license that granted some interest in land or in a chattel. Such a license could be enforced with an injunction. Licenses can be gratuitious, revokable at will (sometimes called a bare license) or a type of bailment. Licenses are most often thought of as in reference to end user licence agreements (EULA) that are either proprietary and created as the result of a contract of sale or gratuitous as in open source software.
The holder of a copyright may (and often does) require that a license be accepted as a condition of being allowed to reproduce the copyrighted work.
This is common in commercial computer software. Unlike most goods, but like other intellectual property (such as books, movies, and music), computer software is generally regarded as being licensed, not bought. (The person who purchases a book normally owns the atoms, but not the text.) This means that the licensee has fewer rights than someone who has purchased the underlying creative work. (A publisher who buys a book (the text) may typically republish it under a new title, but a consumer who buys a book (the atoms) may not.)
Software licenses are often highly restrictive, and most software users do not bother to read them in full. So-called "shrink-wrap" licences and "click-through" licences are common. Most limit the number of computers the software can be installed on, the number of users that can use the software, and apply other limitations that are not inherent in the technology. As a result, huge fortunes have been made by selling goods that have a minimal cost of reproduction on a per-item basis.
So-called free software licenses and open source licenses are a reaction to what many see as the unfair restrictions of commercial software licenses.
See also
External links: Licence is also a state of liberty, and is sometimes used as a synonym for licentiousness.
- Driver's license
- Intellectual property
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "License."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user.
Introduction
Software licenses are primarily written to deal with issues of copyright law and product liability law. Sometimes the license touches on issues of patent law, trade secret law, and laws pertaining to access to services. Software licenses generally fall into two categories, proprietary software licenses and free software licenses, depending on whether or not the user may modify and redistribute the software.
Software licenses tend to work in conjunction with software source code escrow agreements.
This article deals primarily with the licenses of proprietary software distributed in the United States of America.
See also: Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, Open source licenses
Copyright
The (FIXME) Act of (FIXME), codified as 17 USC 117, permits the owner of a copy of a computer program to make copies necessary for the use or backup of a computer program. Until 117 was enacted, the very act of copying computer software from a storage device into temporary memory may have been prohibited in the United States. Typically, a proprietary software license will interpret 117 in plain English. For example: "You may use the software on one computer, and you may make an additional copy to be used only for backup or archival purposes. You may not otherwise copy, modify [...] the software." However, a growing number of such licenses are using a loophole in 117 that exploits a distinction between the "owner" of a copy and one who merely "possesses" a copy by creating a rental agreement in which the publisher of the software retains ownership of the medium on which the software is shipped.
Product liability
Most licenses for software sold at retail disclaim (as far as local laws permit) any warranty on the performance of the software and limit liability for any damages to the purchase price of the software.
Patent
Some countries, such as the United States, allow the patenting of a generic computer that runs a novel algorithm. A software license may grant limited non-exclusive rights under applicable patents that the publisher holds.
Trade secret
Some software licenses prohibit users from reverse engineering the software. Publishers claim to use this to protect their trade secrets embodied in the software, but some have a different motive, namely making it much more difficult to create software that interoperates with the licensed software. Other licenses prohibit users from releasing data on the performance of the software.
Access to network services
Some proprietary software acts as a client for a network application and requires users to give up rights in consideration for access to a service. For example, the license of versions 4.0 and later of the AOL Instant Messenger client software prohibit users who have installed the software from ever accessing the service through third-party software such as Trillian, Gaim, or Everybuddy.
Enforceability
Assuming that publishers follow the correct procedures (such as giving the user the right to return the software for a refund), EULA licenses are generally enforceable. See ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996)
Recently, publishers have begun to encrypt their software packages to make it impossible for a user to install the software without agreeing to the license or violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and foreign counterparts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Software license."
Synonyms: LicenseSynonyms: permission (n), permit (n), certify (v), licence (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: decertify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dueness | Noun: due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity, license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right. |
Exemption | Noun: exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation. Verb: be exempt; Adjective: |
Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity. | |
Freedom | Noun: freedom, liberty, independence; license; (permission); facility. |
Laxity | Anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening; Verb: remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination; (disobedience); lynch law; (illegality); nihilism, reign of violence. |
Permission | Permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent, letters patent. |
Noun: permission, leave; allowance, sufferance; tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence; (lenity); favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance; vouchsafement. | |
Grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust; (commission). | |
Stealing | Piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We're all going to die and they're never going to give me my license! (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Well, I should probably tell you that I'm taking the bus because I had my driver's license revoked (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) License! Registration (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin) But they punished me. They took my driving license away (And Then There Were None; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Erich Kröhnke) You know, I'm such a great driver, it's incomprehensible that they took my license away (The In-Laws; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) | |
Lyrics | I don't no license (Living In Sin; performing artist: Bon Jovi) And she glanced at the license for my name (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin) A license to love, insurance to hold (SMOOTH OPERATOR; performing artist: Sade; writing credit: Sade Adu and St. John) | |
Clever | Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | No License (1921) The Hoodoo Automobile License No. 13; or (1905) License to Thrill (1994) A License to Thrill (1985) License to Kill (1984) | |
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 | Maine celebrates its fishing and maritime heritage on its license plates. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Every man in this department of the Disabled American Veterans Idento Tag plant is a disabled war veteran at work assembling the miniature automobile license plates mailed every year to 30 million motorists. Proceeds finance the service program of the DAV. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | License bureau in courthouse. Peoria, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Temporary auto license. A common sight in migratory labor camps. Many enter California after cotton picking in Arizona without sufficient money to buy license plates. California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work (twenty-five dollars) and heading back for Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's license. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Migratory family arriving at grower's camp for pickers. Car bears Wyoming license, the probable state of origin of the family. Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | We are for a Welsh T.V. service on Channel 4 : join the campaign by not paying your license fee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Win 98, bleah :)" by Ovidiu Sopa Commentary: "My license of win 98 CD in 100 of pices after trying to instal from a LG 52x Drive. :(." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? |
John Milton | License they mean when they cry liberty. |
| None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license. | |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The freedom of poetic license. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not for the future grant to anyone license to take an aid from his own free tenants, except to ransom his person, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and on each of these occasions there shall be levied only a reasonable aid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | The father's empire then ceases, and he can from thence forwards no more dispose of the liberty of his son, than that of any other man: and it must be far from an absolute or perpetual jurisdiction, from which a man may withdraw himself, having license from divine authority to leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Where sums have been paid during the war by virtue of a license or agreement concluded before the war in respect of rights of industrial property or for the reproduction or the representation of literary, dramatic or artistic works, these sums shall be dealt with in the same manner as other debts or credits of German nationals, as provided by the present Treaty. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | On the contrary, I have allowed myself, as to such points, nearly or altogether as much license as if the facts had been entirely of my own invention |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | One officer put down the license number and raised the hood |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The amount of it is, the imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Even one seizure a year may disqualify a person from having a driver's license. (references) | |
Priority Review to speed the review of NDAs, biologics license applications (BLAs), and effectiveness supplements that could have important therapeutic impacts. (references) | ||
Most states and the District of Columbia will not issue a driver’s license to someone with epilepsy unless the person can document that they have gone a specific amount of time without a seizure (the waiting period varies from a few months to several years). (references) | ||
Business | No import license is necessary. (references) | |
The TUV tests for both the "VDE" license and the "GS" license. (references) | ||
The goods may be imported after the import license is obtained. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | Civil status is necessary to obtain a birth certificate, passport, or marriage license. (references) |
Trinidad and Tobago | A companion law established a new Children's Authority to license and monitor community residences, foster homes, and nurseries, and to investigate complaints about the care of children in such locations. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | At year's end, no station had received a license. (references) |
Economic History | Morocco | In July 1999, a second GSM license was awarded. (references) |
El Salvador | J. Publish the firm's license in a local newspaper. (references) | |
Malaysia | In extreme cases, a firm could lose its manufacturing license. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Those providers that do not comply with the requirements face either loss of their licenses or denial of their license renewal. (references) |
China | The People's Supreme Court, Procuratorate, and the MOJ jointly released a notice on December 31, stipulating that only those who pass an exam and obtain a "Certificate of Legal Profession" may serve as a judge or a prosecutor, and may apply for a lawyer's license. (references) | |
Minorities | Ukraine | Anti-Semitic publications also are imported from Russia and distributed without the necessary state license. (references) |
Political Economy | ALGERIA | It will have a GSM license. (references) |
SPAIN | License application has a minimum charge. (references) | |
FINLAND | Only mobile-telephone networks are still subject to license. (references) | |
Political Rights | Egypt | The law empowers the Government to bring felony charges against those who form a party without a license. (references) |
Trade | Tunisia | IMPORTS ARE ONLY ALLOWED UNDER LICENSE. (references) |
Kenya | Certain pets require an import license. (references) | |
Travel | Nicaragua | A PCS cellular license has been auctioned off. (references) |
Azerbaijan | When taking taxis, only use those that have 'BLUE' license plates. (references) | |
Latvia | After 6 months, Americans must apply for a Latvian Drivers' License. (references) | |
Women | Qatar | For example, a woman is prohibited from applying for a driver's license unless she has permission from a male guardian. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | The company did not lose its export license. (references) |
Uzbekistan | They do not license members and have no formal role in advocating the interests of members in relation to the Government. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | During the month of June last General Ashley and his party, who were trading under a license from the Government, were attacked by the Ricarees while peaceably trading with the Indians at their request. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Every state in this country already requires hunters and automobile drivers to have a license. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "License" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.79% of the time. "License" is used about 307 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 (singular) | 51.79% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 39.41% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.47% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 307 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "license": artistic license ♦ car license ♦ complete license ♦ dog license fee ♦ drive without a license ♦ driver without a license ♦ drivers license ♦ driver's license ♦ driving license ♦ excise license ♦ fishing license ♦ game license ♦ general Public License ♦ get a license for ♦ gnu General Public License ♦ gun license ♦ hunting license ♦ import license ♦ Letter of license ♦ license fee ♦ license holder ♦ license number ♦ license plate ♦ license tax ♦ license to plunder ♦ liquor license ♦ marriage license ♦ Mozilla Public License ♦ Netscape Public License ♦ occupation license ♦ open source license ♦ pilot's license ♦ poetic license ♦ revoke a license ♦ road fund license ♦ route license ♦ second license ♦ series 7 license ♦ shooting license ♦ Texts. A copy of the license is included in the info directory in the ♦ wedding license. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "license": license-dodger. | |
Ending with "license": cross-license, sub-license. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "license"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lisensie (licence). (various references) | |
Albanian | liçensë (licence, qualification), lejoj (admit, allow, authorise, authorize, let, permit, sanction, suffer, tolerate), leje (allowance, authorization, furlough, leave, liberty, licence, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), lejë (allowance, authorization, furlough, leave, liberty, licence, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), patentë (drivers' license, licence, patent), pajis me dëshmi, dëshmi (attestation, bill, certificate, certification, deposition, document, evidence, licence, muniment, policy, proof, sign, testimonial, testimony, witness), autorizoj (authorise, authorize, commission, empower, warrant). (various references) | |
Arabic | فسق (bawdiness, debauch, lechery, libertinism, licence, wantonness), فجور (bawdry, dissipation, dissoluteness, immorality, libertinism, licence, profligacy, wantonness, whoredom), منحه رخصة رسمية (licence), حرية (deliverance, freedom, independence, liberty, licence, unrestraint), ترخيص (allowance, authorization, licence, permissiveness, permitting), جواز رخصة (licence, permit), إنحراف عن الشكل (licence), إذن (consequently, courtesy, ear, furlough, licence, lug, order, permission, then), أجاز (accredit, allow, clear, endorse, indorse, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimize, licence, patent, permit, sanction, steam roller, vouchsafe, warrant), رخصة قيادة (licence), رخصة (authorization, licence, permission, permit). (various references) | |
Basque | gida-baimena (driver's license). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | своеволие (highhandedness, irresponsibility, liberty, licence, self will), разрешение (allowance, card of admission, fiat, key, leave, licence, permission, permit, resolution, sanction, solution), разрешавам (allow, authorise, authorize, determine, knit up, let, licence, pass, permit, provide for, resolve, sanction, suffer), разрешително (licence, permit, warrant), разпуснатост (dissipation, incontinence, laxity, licence, loose, profligacy), волност (freedom, latitude, liberty, licence), позволявам (admit, allow, authorise, authorize, enable, have, let, licence, permit, see, suffer), позволение (allowance, authorization, grant, leave, licence, permission, permit), позволително (licence, permit), патент (licence, patent), давам разрешително (licence), давам позволително (licence), давам патент на (licence). (various references) | |
Catalan | permís. (various references) | |
Chinese | 通行 , 執照 , 执照. (various references) | |
Czech | licence (licence), libovùle (licence), volnost (freedom, latitude, licence, margin, play), udìlit licenci, svévole (licence), prùkaz (card, certificate), povolení (authorization, chop, dispensation, grant, leave, licence, permission, permit, sanction), dát koncesi. (various references) | |
Danish | tilladelse (leave, licence, permission). (various references) | |
Dutch | licentie (licence), vrijbrief (licence, permit), vergunning (leave, licence, permission, permit), een vergunning geven. (various references) | |
Esperanto | licenco (licence), permesilo (licence, permit). (various references) | |
Estonian | juhiluba (driver's license). (various references) | |
Faeroese | loyvi (leave, licence, permission). (various references) | |
Farsi | پروانه دادن (Charter), پروانه (Billet, Butterfly, Moth, Paper, Pass, Permission, Permit), مرخص کردن (Discharge, Dismiss, Release, Send), جوازشغل , جواز (Immunity, Paper, Pass, Permit, Sanction), اجازه رفتن دادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | valtauslupa (claim license), valtauslisenssi (claim license), valtauksen lupakirja (claim license), tavaramerkkilisenssi (trade mark license), merkkilisenssi (trade mark license), menettää ajokorttinsa (be disqualified from holding a driver license), jalostuslisenssi (refining license), antaa siitosoikeus (to license), ajokortti (drivers' license, driving licence), 7-sarjat (series 7, series 7 license). (various references) | |
French | licence (licence, licentiousness, trade licence). (various references) | |
German | Lizenz (licence, liscense, permit), lizensieren (licensee), Erlaubnis (admission, allowance, compliance, leave, licence, licences, permission, permit), erlauben (accord, admit, afford, allow, let, permit, to allow, to permit). (various references) | |
Greek | υπερβολική ελευθερεία, επαγγελματική άδεια (licence), άδεια (allowance, blankly, furlough, leave, licence, licencea, permission, permit), δίδω άδεια (licence). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | lisans (driver's license). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פריקת עול (licentiousness), התר (approbation, approval, dispensation, licence, loosening, permission, permit, sufferance), רשיון (licence, permit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koncesszió (concession, franchise, lease, licence), jogosítvány (driver's licence, driver's license, driving licence, licence). (various references) | |
Indonesian | surat ijin (permit). (various references) | |
Irish | ceadúnas. (various references) | |
Italian | licenziosità (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lack of discipline, libertinism, licence, licentiousness, profligacy), licenza (authorization, charter, furlough, leave, licence, patent, permission, permit, school leaving certificate, school-leaving examination), licensa (degree, licence), permettere (accord, admit, afford, allow, authorise, authorize, bear, enable, let, permit), permesso (allowance, authorization, consent, excuse, excuse me, go ahead, leave, licence, pass, permission, permit), patente (driver's licence, evident, licence, obvious, patent, permit), dare una licenza (licence), dare permesso a (licence), autorizzazione (allowance, assent, authorisation, authority, authorization, clearance, commission, leave, letter of attorney, licence, permission, permit, sanction, warrant), autorizzare (authorise, authorize, commission, empower, entitle, let, licence, qualify, sanction, warrant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 免許 (certificate, licence, permit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ライセンス , きょかしょう (permit), しようきょか (licence), にんかしょう (certificate, charter), にんか (approval, permission), めんきょしょう (licence, permit), めんきょじょう (certificate, permit), めんきょ (certificate, licence, permit). (various references) | |
Korean | 면허 (licence). (various references) | |
Manx | cur kied da (allow, authorize, permit), cur fo kiedoonys. (various references) | |
Norwegian | førerkort (drivers' license, drivers-licence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icenselay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | licença (charter, comission, excuse, furlough, leave, liberty, licence, loose, pass, patent, permission, permit). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | carteira (wallet). (various references) | |
Romanian | permis (allowed, competent, licence, pass, permissive, permit, permitted). (various references) | |
Russian | распущенность (bestiality, debauchery, laxity, licence, licentiousness, rakishness), разрешение (authorisation, authorization, consent, dispensation, go-ahead, leave, licence, permissibility, permission, permit, permittance, ratification, sanctioning, solution), разрешать (allow, authorise, authorize, determine, enable, let, permit, ratify, resolve, settle, solve), разнузданность (licence), выдавать патент, вольность (liberty, licence, licentiousness), лицензировать лицензия .лицензионный, лицензия (licence), патент (licence, licensee, patent, patent right). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | licenca (franchise, licence), sloboda (freedom, leeway, liberty, licence, loose, privilege, right), ovlašćenje (authorization, licence, permission, warrant, warranty), odobrenje (allocation, approbation, approval, clearance, endorsement, grant, licence, permission, sanction), dozvoliti (allow, authorise, authorize, let, permit, warrant), dozvola (allowance, authorization, clearance, leave, licence, permission, permit), dati dozvolu. (various references) | |
Slovene | dovoljenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | licencia (degree, furlough, leave, licence, permission, permit). (various references) | |
Swahili | liseni. (various references) | |
Swedish | licens (licence, permit), lättsinne (frivolity, levity, licence, naughtiness, wantonness), utskänkningstillstånd (licence), tilldela certifikat, spriträttigheter (licence), koncession (charter, concession, licence), handlingsfrihet (discretion, freedom of action, latitude, licence), ge utskänkningstillstånd, ge tillstånd (permit), ge licens, formellt tillstånd (licence), certifikat (certificate, licence). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lisensiya. (various references) | |
Thai | ใบอนุญาต (licence), เสรีภาพ (freebee, freebie, freeby, licence), อนุญาต (let, licence), การอนุญาต (authorization, go-ahead, licence). (various references) | |
Turkish | yetki vermek (accredit, authorise, authorize, capacitate, chair, create, empower, enable, entitle, intitle, invest, licence, qualify, vest, vest with, warrant), ruhsat vermek (authorise, authorize, certificate, licence, permit, warrant), izin vermek (allow, authorise, authorize, consent, empower, enable, excuse, give smb. notice, give smb. the green light, indulge, let, licence, permit, permit of, sanction, suffer, warrant). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ygtyяar (permission), юaяatnama (certificate, evidence). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | видавати патент (licence), надмірна вільність (licence), ліцензія (excise, licence, permit), дозволяти (admit, admit of, allow, assent, authorize, bear, certify, consent, empower, let, licence, permit, tolerate), давати право (entitle, licence). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự cho phép (licence, permission, warrant, warranty), sự bừa bâi (licence, licentiousness), môn bài (licence), giấy phép (chop, licence, permission), chứng chỉ bằng cử nhân sự phóng túng (licence), đăng ký bằng (licence). (various references) | |
Welsh | trwyddedu, trwydded (admittance, leave), penrhyddid (licentiousness), goddefiad (allowance, toleration). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | diploma. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | licentia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 40 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EpitreyantoV de autou o pauloV estwV epi twn anabaqmwn kateseisen th ceiri tw law pollhV de sighV genomenhV prosefwnhsen th ebraidi dialektw legwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum ille permisisset Paulus stans in gradibus annuit manu ad plebem et magno silentio facto adlocutus est hebraea lingua dicens |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he suffride, Poul stood in the grees, and bikenede with the hoond to the puple. And whanne a greet silence was maad, he spak in Ebrew tunge, and seide, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When he had geve him licece Paul stode on ye steppes and beckned with the honde vuto the people and ther was made a greate silence. And he spake vnto the in ye Ebrue tonge sayinge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made entire silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 40 |
| Albanian | Dhe, mbasi e lejoi, Pali, duke qëndruar në këmbë mbi shkallarët, i bëri shenjë me dorë popullit. Dhe, si u bë heshtje e madhe, i foli në gjuhën hebraike, duke thënë: |
| Cebuano | Ug sa gikatugotan na siya sa koronil, sa nagtindog siya sa hagdanan, si Pablo misinyas sa iyang kamot ngadto sa mga tawo. Ug sa diha nay dakung kahilum, siya misulti kanila sa pinulongan nga Hebreohanon, nga nag-ingon: |
| Croatian | Kad mu on dopusti, Pavao stojeæi na stubama mahnu rukom narodu pa kad nasta velika tišina, prozbori hebrejskim jezikom: |
| Danish | Og da han tilstedte det, stod Paulus frem på Trappen og slog til Lyd med Hånden for Folket. Men da der var blevet dyb Tavshed, tiltalte han dem i det hebraiske Sprog og sagde: |
| Dutch | En als hij het toegelaten had, Paulus, staande op de trappen, wenkte met de hand tot het volk; en als er grote stilte geworden was, sprak hij hen aan in de Hebreeuwse taal, zeggende: |
| Finnish | Ja kun hän sen salli, niin Paavali, seisoen portailla, viittasi kädellään kansalle; ja kun oli syntynyt syvä hiljaisuus, puhui hän heille hebreankielellä ja sanoi: |
| French | Le tribun le lui ayant permis, Paul, debout sur les degrés, fit signe de la main au peuple. Un profond silence s`établit, et Paul, parlant en langue hébraïque, dit: |
| German | Als er aber es ihm erlaubte, trat Paulus auf die Stufen und winkte dem Volk mit der Hand. Da nun eine große Stille ward, redete er zu ihnen auf hebräisch und sprach: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka setelah Paulus diberi izin berbicara, Paulus berdiri di tangga, lalu memberi isyarat dengan tangannya. Semua orang menjadi tenang. Kemudian Paulus berbicara kepada mereka di dalam bahasa Ibrani. Paulus berkata, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah diizinkannya, maka Paulus pun berdirilah di atas tangga itu memberi isyarat dengan tangannya kepada kaum itu, dan apabila sudah senyap sekali, ia pun berkatalah dengan bahasa Ibrani, katanya, |
| Italian | Avendo egli acconsentito, Paolo, stando in piedi sui gradini, fece cenno con la mano al popolo e, fattosi un grande silenzio, rivolse loro la parola in ebraico dicendo: |
| Maori | Na tukua ana e ia, a tu ana a Paora ki te pikitanga, ka tawhiri tona ringa ki te iwi. Na mutu pu te turituri, ka korero ia, no nga Hiperu te reo, ka mea, |
| Norwegian | Da han gav ham lov til det, stilte Paulus sig på trappen og slo til lyd for folket med hånden; da det nu blev aldeles stille, talte han til dem på det hebraiske mål og sa: |
| Portuguese | E, havendo-lho permitido o comandante, Paulo, em pé na escada, fez sinal ao povo com a mão; e, feito grande silêncio, falou em língua hebraica, dizendo: |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce i -a dat voie cqpitanul, Pavel a stat kn picioare pe trepte, wi a fqcut semn norodului cu mkna. S`a fqcut o mare tqcere, wi Pavel le -a vorbit kn limba evreiascq astfel: |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ЦЕ ФПФ РПЪЧПМЙМ, рБЧЕМ, УФПС ОБ МЕУФОЙГЕ, ДБМ ЪОБЛ ТХЛПА ОБТПДХ; Й, ЛПЗДБ УДЕМБМПУШ ЗМХВПЛПЕ НПМЮБОЙЕ, ОБЮБМ ЗПЧПТЙФШ ОБ ЕЧТЕКУЛПН СЪЩЛЕ ФБЛ: |
| Shuar | Tura Kapitián, ayu, tutai, Papru watainium wajas, mitiat pujustarum tusa uwején takuimiayi. Tura aents itiatkarmatai Israer-chichamjai chichasmiayi. |
| Swahili | Yule mkuu wa jeshi akamruhusu. Hivyo Paulo alisimama juu ya ngazi, akawapungia mkono wale watu na walipokaa kimya, akaanza kuongea nao kwa Kiebrania. |
| Swedish | Och han tillstadde honom det. Då gav Paulus från trappan, där han stod, med handen ett tecken åt folket. Och sedan där hade blivit helt tyst, talade han till dem på hebreiska* och sade: |
| Uma | Jadi', napalogai mpu'u-imi. Toe pai' mokore-imi Paulus hi tuka', pai' nahuka' -raka ntodea bona mengkalino-ra. Molino-ramo, natepu'u-mi mololita hi rala basa Ibrani, basa-ra to Yahudi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "license": licensed, licensee, licensees, licenser, licensers, licenses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "license": relicense, sublicense. (additional references) | |
Words containing "license": relicensed, relicenses, sublicensed, sublicenses, unlicensed. (additional references) | |
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"License" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leccese, licemse, licens, licensc, licensce, Licenza, licesen, licesse, licnese, licsense, licvens, liecense, liscense, lisense, Liseuse, lorenese, lucence, lucens, Lucernese, Luchenzo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "license" (pronounced lī"suns) |
| 6 | l ī" s u n s | licence. |
| 4 | -s u n s | absence, acquiescence, adolescence, beneficence, convalescence, essence, evanescence, innocence, luminescence, nuisance, obsolescence, phosphorescence, quintessence, reconnaissance, reminiscence, reticence, senescence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: selenic, silence. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: clines, enisle, ensile, nieces, senile. | |
-2 letters: ceils, cense, cines, cline, lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, niece, scene, seine, since, slice. | |
-3 letters: cees, ceil, cels, cine, eels, else, ices, isle, lees, leis, lens, lice, lien, lies, line, lins, nice, nils, seel, seen, sene, sice, sine. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, cis, eel, els, ens, ice, ins, lee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: centiles, cineoles, declines, leucines, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, reclines, salience, silenced, silencer, silences. | |
+2 letters: bernicles, chenilles, decliners, denticles, elections, encircles, fencibles, fluencies, insectile, insolence, larcenies, latencies, leniences, lenticels, licencees, licencers, licensees, licensers, licensure, lucencies, luminesce, mescaline, necklines, pencilers, recliners, reliances, relicense, saliences, schlieren, selecting, selection, silencers, sincerely, splenetic, stenciled, stenciler, valencies, vernicles, violences. | |
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