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"MENE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "who reckons or is counted". |
Date "MENE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
"MENE" is a common misspelling or typo for: mane, men, mend, menu, mere, mien, mina, mine. |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Mene (Dan. 5:25, 26), numbered, one of the words of the mysterious inscription written "upon the plaister of the wall" in Belshazzar's palace at Babylon. The writing was explained by Daniel. (See BELSHAZZAR.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hopelessness | Phrase: "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate"; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"; "mene mene tekel upharson". |
Warning | Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MENE |
| Specialty definitions using "MENE": Peres. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MENE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Croatian (me), Danish (account, deem, opine, think), Latin (ejaculate, I, make water, me, myself, of myself, urinate), Serbo-Croatian (me), Sotho (four). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Taj covek do mene (1971) Lazi mene radi (1923) Mene Tekel (1913) Izmedju mene i mog cutanja (1981) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 2389. - M. Jules Mene. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "MENE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MENE" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
mene | 8 |
grande mene venezuela | 8 |
j mene p | 5 |
mene grande | 5 |
bernice mene | 4 |
jules mene pierre | 4 |
bronze mene | 3 |
mene moy system | 3 |
mene moy | 3 |
mene mene tekel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mane, maneque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 4, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En de tw metaxu hrwtwn auton oi maqhtai legonteV rabbi fage |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Interea rogabant eum discipuli dicentes rabbi manduca |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | On ge-mang þam his leorning-cnihteshine bædon. & þus cwæðen. lareow et. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In the mene while hise disciplis preieden hym, and seiden, Maistir, ete. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And in ye meane while his disciples prayed him sayinge: Master eate. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food. |
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| Language | John Chapter 4, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Sa maong higayon giagda siya sa mga tinun-an nga nanag-ingon, "Rabi, kumaon ka." |
| Chinese | 這 其 " 、 門 ' 對 耶 穌 說 、 拉 " 、 請 喫 。 |
| Croatian | Uèenici ga dotle nudili: "Uèitelju, jedi!" |
| Danish | Imidlertid bade Disciplene ham og sagde: "Rabbi, spis!" |
| Dutch | En ondertussen baden Hem de discipelen, zeggende: Rabbi, eet. |
| Finnish | Sillävälin opetuslapset pyysivät häntä sanoen: "Rabbi, syö!" |
| French | Pendant ce temps, les disciples le pressaient de manger, disant: Rabbi, mange. |
| German | Indes aber ermahnten ihn die Jünger und sprachen: Rabbi, iß! |
| Hungarian | Aközben pedig kérék õt a tanítványok, mondván: Mester, egyél! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara itu pengikut-pengikut-Nya mengajak Yesus makan. "Bapak Guru," kata mereka, "silakan makan." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sementara itu dipinta oleh murid-murid-Nya kepada-Nya, katanya, "Ya Guru, silakanlah makan." |
| Italian | Intanto i discepoli lo pregavano: «Rabbì, mangia». |
| Maori | I taua takiwa ano ka tohe nga akonga ki a ia, ka mea, E te Kaiwhakaako, e kai ra. |
| Norwegian | Imens bad disiplene ham og sa: Rabbi, et! |
| Portuguese | Entrementes os seus discípulos lhe rogavam, dizendo: Rabi, come. |
| Rumanian | Kn timpul acesta, ucenicii Kl rugau sq mqnknce, wi ziceau: ,,Knvqyqtorule, mqnkncq!`` |
| Russian | нЕЦ"Х ФЕН ХЮЕОЙЛЙ ТПУЙМЙ еЗП, ЗПЧПТС: тБЧЧЙ! ЕЫШ. |
| Shuar | Jeainiatsain ni unuiniamuri seak tiarmiayi "Uunta, Yurumáta." |
| Spanish | Mientras tanto, los discípulos le rogaban diciendo: --Rabí, come. |
| Swahili | Wakati huohuo wanafunzi wake walikuwa wanamsihi Yesu: "Mwalimu, ule chakula." |
| Swedish | Under tiden bådo lärjungarna honom och sade: "Rabbi, tag och ät." |
| Uma | Lingku' -na tobine toe hilou hi rala ngata, ana'guru-na Yesus mpo'uli' -ki: "Guru, mai-tamo ngkoni'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MENE": cymene, hegumene, spodumene. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MENE": adventuresomeness, adventuresomenesses, awesomeness, awesomenesses, cumbersomeness, cumbersomenesses, cymenes, extremeness, extremenesses, fearsomeness, fearsomenesses, fulsomeness, fulsomenesses, gameness, gamenesses, gamesomeness, gamesomenesses, gladsomeness, gladsomenesses, gruesomeness, gruesomenesses, handsomeness, handsomenesses, hegumenes, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, hermeneutically, hermeneutics, hymeneal, hymeneally, hymeneals, irksomeness, irksomenesses, lameness, lamenesses, lightsomeness, lightsomenesses, lissomeness, lissomenesses, loathsomeness, loathsomenesses, lonesomeness, lonesomenesses, longsomeness, longsomenesses, meddlesomeness, meddlesomenesses, noisomeness, noisomenesses, omened, primeness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: neem. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-n" | |
-1 letter: eme, men, nee. | |
-2 letters: em, en, me, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n" | |
+1 letter: emend, enema, enemy, mense, mesne, neems, neume, semen. | |
+2 letters: axemen, bemean, bename, cement, cymene, demean, dement, emends, emetin, enamel, enemas, enmesh, enzyme, ermine, examen, foemen, genome, germen, hempen, icemen, legmen, manege, meaner, meanie, meinie, menace, menage, mended, mender, mensae, mensed, menses, mermen, mesnes, moreen, neumes, omened, penmen, premen, remend, rename, seamen, semens, tegmen, toneme, unmeet, yeomen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 4E 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000101 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 004E 0045 |
| 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)47394839 |
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