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Definition: Mountie |
MountieNoun1. Colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lone Mountie (1938) Full Mountie (2000) | |
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| "Mountie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Mountie" is used about 10 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) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
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 |
mountie | 20 |
canadian mountie | 13 |
mountie uniform | 6 |
hat mountie | 4 |
mountie picture | 3 |
barbie mountie | 2 |
mountie store | 2 |
bell mountie murder sand strongquill trial | 2 |
camp mountie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Mountie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | ตำรวจม้าในแคนา"า. (various references) | |
Turkish | atlı polis (mounted police, Ranger, trooper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: minuet, minute, mutine. | |
-2 letters: monie, monte, mount, muton, notum, onium, unite, unmet, untie. | |
-3 letters: emit, etui, into, item, meno, menu, meou, mien, mine, mint, mite, mote, moue, muni, muon, mute, neum, nite, nome, note, omen, omit, time, tine, tome, tone, tune, unit, unto. | |
-4 letters: emu, eon, ion, men, met, mon, mot, mun, mut, net. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-o-t-u" | |
+2 letters: comminute, emulation, importune, multitone, untimeous. | |
+3 letters: autoimmune, autonomies, comminuted, comminutes, demounting, dismounted, emulations, exhumation, importuned, importuner, importunes, miscounted, misfortune, munitioned, numeration, outbeaming, peritoneum, remounting, resumption, tambourine, tourmaline, undomestic, uniformest, urinometer. | |
+4 letters: communicate, communities, computernik, consumerist, consumptive, contumacies, contumelies, coterminous, countermine, documenting, endometrium, endothecium, endothelium, enumeration, euchromatin, eudaemonist, exhumations, filamentous, importunate, importunely, importuners, impoundment, ligamentous, mensuration, mercuration, misbuttoned, misconstrue, misfortunes, mountaineer, mucoprotein, neuroticism, nourishment, numerations, ostensorium, outdreaming, outhomering, outscheming, peritoneums, permutation, pneumonitis, premunition, presumption, recomputing, resumptions, tambourines, tautonymies, tourmalines, tumefaction, tumorigenic, unamortized, uncombative, uncommitted, unemotional, unmentioned, unmonitored, unmotivated, urinometers. | |
| 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)4D 6F 75 6E 74 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ..- -. - .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o u n t i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0075 006E 0074 0069 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818780867571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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