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NNE

Definition: NNE

NNE

Noun

1. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "NNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

"NNE" is a common misspelling or typo for: knee, men, nana, nine, none, one.

 

Synonyms: NNE

Synonyms: nor'-nor'-east (n), north northeast (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: NNE

Non-English Usage: "NNE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Sepedi (four), Sotho (four), Swahili (four), Tswana (four, had).

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Photo Album: NNE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

USS Denver (CL-58) SG radarscope image, showing the situation at time 0145, as the U.S. force retired from Kula Gulf after shelling Vila and sinking the Japanese destroyers Murasame and Minegumo. Denver is the bright spot in the scope center, with other the U.S. ships steaming to NNE ahead of her. Kolombangara Island is the large white patch on the left left, with Vila at its southern end. New Georgia is on the right. The spot above the main U.S. column is probably USS Waller (DD-466), steaming to the north.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NNE

"NNE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NNE" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: NNE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "NNE": nne-trending.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NNE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moi nne

12

nne

4

barbria de nne

3

compagnie nne ri

3

estate nne real

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: NNE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

aquilo, aquilone, aquilonem, aquiloni, aquilonis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: NNE

Derivations

Words ending with "NNE": ballonne, baronne, benne, bonne, bourguignonne, cayenne, chaconne, cloisonne, comedienne, cretonne, donne, doyenne, equestrienne, fibranne, julienne, mignonne, panne, penne, raisonne, tonne, tragedienne. (additional references)

Words containing "NNE": aginner, aginners, alienness, aliennesses, anneal, annealed, annealer, annealers, annealing, anneals, annelid, annelidan, annelidans, annelids, annex, annexation, annexational, annexationist, annexationists, annexations, annexe, annexed, annexes, annexing, antipersonnel, ballonnes, banned, banner, bannered, banneret, bannerets, bannerette, bannerettes, bannering, bannerol, bannerols, banners, bannet, bannets, baronnes, barrenness, barrennesses, beginner, beginners, bennes, bennet, bennets, betweenness, betweennesses, binned, bluebonnet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NNE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-n"

-1 letter: en, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-n"
 

+1 letter: nene, neon, nine, none.

 

+2 letters: anent, annex, benne, benni, benny, bonne, donne, ennui, fenny, henna, inane, inned, inner, jenny, linen, nance, nenes, neons, nines, nomen, nonce, nones, nonet, numen, panne, penna, penne, penni, penny, renin, senna, tenon, tonne, unpen, venin, wenny, xenon.

 

+3 letters: ananke, ancone, anenst, anneal, annexe, anyone, banned, banner, bannet, benign, bennes, bennet, bennis, benzin, binned, blenny, bonnes, bonnet, bonnie, canine, canned, cannel, canner, cannie, conine, conned, conner, cunner, denned, dentin, dinned, dinner, donned, donnee, duenna, dunned, dunner, dynein, encina, ending, endrin, engine, enjoin, ennead, ennuis, ennuye, ensign, enwind, eonian, fanned, fanner, fennec, fennel, finned, funned, funnel, funner, gannet, ginned, ginner, guenon, gunmen, gunned, gunnel, gunnen, gunner, hennas, inaner, inanes, indene, indent, innate, inners, insane, intend, intent, intern, intine, intone, invent, ionone, jennet, jinnee, kenned, kennel, kronen, lanner, lenten, linden, linens, lineny, linnet, manned, manner, meninx, nances, nannie, narine, neaten, nekton, nelson, neoned, neuron, newton, ninety, nocent, nonage, nonces, nonego, nonets, nonmen, nonuse, novena, nuance, nuncle, online, pangen, panned, pannes, penang, penman, penmen, pennae, penned, penner, pennia, pennis, pennon, pinene, pinken, pinnae, pinned, pinner, ponent, punned, punner, punnet, renins, rennet, rennin, renown, ronnel, runnel, runner, sennas, sennet, sennit, sienna, sinned, sinner, sonnet, sunken, sunned, tanned, tanner, tenant, tendon, tenner, tennis, tenons, tenpin, tinmen, tinned, tinner, tonner, tonnes, tunned, tunnel, unbend, unbent, undine, undone, uneven, unhewn, unkend, unkent, unopen, unpens, unpent, unrent, unseen, unsent, unsewn, untune, vanmen, vanned, vanner, venine, venins, wanned, wanner, winned, winner, wonned, wonner, xenons, yenned, zenana.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NNE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

484839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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