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NEVE

Definition: NEVE

NEVE

Noun

1. The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"NEVE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be bright".

Date "NEVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

 

Crosswords: NEVE

Specialty definitions using "NEVE": Firn. (references)
Non-English Usage: "NEVE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (us), Italian (snow), Norwegian (fist), Portuguese (snow).

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Modern Usage: NEVE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Ultima neve di primavera (1974)

Passi sulla neve (1970)

Vacanze sulla neve (1966)

Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões (1963)

Neve em Lisboa (1945)

Song Titles

It's Over Now (performing artist: Neve)

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

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Commercial Usage: NEVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Correspondence of Rev. Louis Baroux, missionary apostolic of Michigan, to Rev. M. J. De Neve, superior of the American College at Louvain (reference)

  • La neve e la colpa (reference)

  • L'Enigma Di Santa Maria Della Neve in Galugnano (reference)

  • Neve Campbell (reference)

  • Neve Campbell: An Unauthorized Biography (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: NEVE

Photos:
NEVE

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Usage Frequency: NEVE

"NEVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "NEVE" is used about 8 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)62.5%5157,705
Unclassified Items25%2245,945
Noun (proper)12.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%8N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: NEVE

The following table summarizes the usage of "NEVE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NeveLast name40022,772
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: NEVE

"NEVE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be bright".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "NEVE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
NeveFemaleIrishNiamh
NiamhFemaleIrishN/A
NiamhFemaleIrish MythologyN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: NEVE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "NEVE": neve-rending.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEVE

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

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913

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200

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113

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60

neve campbell picture

31

neve campbell naked

26

neve cambell nude

24

tracy neve

24

neve campbell pic

22

cumfiesta neve

17

tracey neve

16

neve console

14

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13

neve yerushalayim

11

lyrics neve

11

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10

neve campbell nude pic

10

neve campbell photo

9

neve campbell gallery

9

neve campbell wallpaper

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NEVE

Language Translations for "NEVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

фирново поле, фирн (firn). (various references)

   

French

  

neige granulaire, névé. (various references)

   

German

  

firn (firn). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evenay

   

Portuguese

  

neva, espécie de pó branco. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фирн. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

naslaga snega, lanjski sneg. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nevé. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

firn (firn). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фірн, зернистий льод. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NEVE

Derivations

Words beginning with "NEVE": never, nevermore, nevertheless, neves. (additional references)

Words containing "NEVE": nonevent, nonevents, uneven, unevener, unevenest, unevenly, unevenness, unevennesses, uneventful, uneventfully, uneventfulness, uneventfulnesses, whenever. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "NEVE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "NEVE" (pronounced nē"v)
2-ē" vachieve, aggrieve, believe, bereave, cleave, conceive, deceive, disbelieve, eave, eve, greave, grieve, heave, Interleave, interweave, leave, misconceive, misperceive, naive, peeve, perceive, preconceive, reave, receive, Reeve, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sleeve, Vive, weave.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: NEVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: even.

Words within the letters "e-e-n-v"

-1 letter: eve, nee, vee.

-2 letters: en, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-v"
 

+1 letter: evens, event, nerve, never, neves, nieve, seven, veena, venae, venge, venue.

 

+2 letters: avenge, avenue, devein, eleven, elevon, endive, envied, envier, envies, evened, evener, evenly, events, evince, evzone, geneva, heaven, leaven, nerved, nerves, nieves, sevens, sweven, uneven, veenas, veined, veiner, vended, vendee, vender, vendue, veneer, venery, venged, venges, venine, venire, venose, vented, venter, venues, venule.

 

+3 letters: avenged, avenger, avenges, avenses, avenues, cavemen, cervine, convene, davened, deveins, dovened, elevens, elevons, enclave, endives, enfever, engrave, enliven, enslave, envelop, envenom, enviers, evangel, eveners, evenest, evening, evident, evinced, evinces, evzones, fervent, genevas, havened, heavens, innerve, inverse, invitee, inweave, leavens, livened, livener, naivete, navette, nervate, nervier, nervine, nervule, nervure, novelle, novenae, overmen, overnew, peeving, pensive, prevent, ravened, ravener, reeving, regiven, revenge, revenue, rewoven, seventh, seventy, subvene, swevens, tensive, unlevel, unnerve, unreeve, unvexed, unweave, valence, veering, veiners, veinier, veinlet, veinule, velamen, vendace, vendees, venders, vendues, veneers, venines, venires, venomed, venomer, ventage, venters, venture, venules, verbena, vernier, versine, vespine, veteran.

 

+4 letters: agentive, antevert, avellane, avengers, averment, beveling, caverned, cheveron, conceive, conserve, convened, convener, convenes, converge, converse, convexes, conveyed, conveyer, cravened, denotive, deveined, develing, deviance, duvetine, duvetyne, eleventh, enactive, enclaves, endeavor, enervate, enfevers, engraved, engraver, engraves, enlivens, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, envelope, envelops, envenoms, enviable, envisage, evanesce, evangels, evection, evenfall, evenings, evenness, evensong, eventful, eventide, eventual, eversion, everting, everyman, everymen, everyone, evidence, evilness, evincive, fervency, fevering, genitive, governed, heavenly, innerved, innerves, invected, inveigle, invented, inventer, inverses, inverted, inverter, invested, invitees, inweaved, inweaves, juvenile, lavender, leavened, lenitive, levanted, levanter, leveeing, leveling, levering, liveners, liveness, lovevine, maneuver, misevent, movement, naivetes, navettes, negative, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, nonevent, nosedive, nouvelle, novelise, novelize, ovenlike, ovenware, overdone, overkeen, overlend, overlent, overmine, overnear, overneat, overnice, overseen, oversewn, overtone, overween, parvenue, pavement, prevents, raveners, reconvey, redriven, reinvade, reinvent, reinvest, reinvite, reinvoke, relevant, renovate, replevin, reshaven, revanche, revehent, reveling, revenant, revenged, revenger, revenges, revenual, revenued, revenuer, revenues, reverend, reverent, revering, riverine, scavenge, sevenths, severing, sirvente, sleeving, sniveled, sniveler, steeving, subvened, subvenes, taverner, unenvied, unevaded, unevener, unevenly, universe, unlevels, unlevied, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unveiled, unveined, unversed, unweaves, vaccinee, valences, vegetant, vehement, veiniest, veinless, veinlets, veinlike, veinules, veinulet, vendable, vendaces, vendetta, vendeuse, vendible, veneered, veneerer, venenate, venenose, venerate, venereal, veneries, venetian, vengeful, venomers, ventages, ventless, ventured, venturer, ventures, venulose, verbenas, verboten, verecund, vergence, vernacle, vernicle, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versines, vestment, veterans, vignette, vileness, vineries, violence, viperine, vomerine, whenever.

 

+5 letters: adventive, adventure, advertent, agentives, aliveness, anteverts, ascensive, attentive, averments, beavering, believing, bereaving, bevelling, breakeven, breveting, cheverons, conceived, conceiver, conceives, confervae, conserved, conserver, conserves, convected, conveners, convented, converged, converges, conversed, converser, converses, converted, converter, conveyers, covalence, covelline, deceiving, defensive, deleaving, denervate, deserving, deveining, devesting, deviances, devilment, divergent, driveline, duvetines, duvetynes, elevating, elevation, elevenses, elevenths, emanative, endeavors, endeavour, endleaves, enervated, enervates, enfevered, engravers, enlivened, enslavers, enveloped, envelopes, envenomed, environed, envisaged, envisages, evanesced, evanesces, evangelic, evanished, evanishes, evections, evenfalls, evensongs, eventides, eventless, eventuate, evergreen, eversions, evidenced, evidences, evidently, evincible, expansive, expensive, extensive, fervently, genitives, gerundive, governess, grapevine, graveness, grievance, heaviness, incentive, inceptive, infective, ingestive, injective, innervate, intensive, intervale, intervene, interview, interwove, invective, inveighed, inveigher, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, inventers, inventive, inverness, inversely, inversive, invertase, inverters, javelined, juveniles, knaveries, laveering, lavenders, leavening, lenitives, levanters, levelling, levelness, liverymen, lovevines, maneuvers, manoeuvre, misevents, movements, naiveness, naiveties, negatived, negatives, nerveless, nerviness, nevermore, nonevents, nonselves, nonviewer, nosedives, novelette, novelised, novelises, novelized, novelizes, novelties, offensive, olivenite, ostensive, ovenwares, overborne, overclean, overeaten, overladen, overlearn, overlends, overmined, overmines, overspend, overspent, overtaken, overtness, overtones, overweens, parvenues, pavements, penknives, pensively, prevalent, prevented, preventer, provender, ravelment, receiving, reconvene, reconvert, reconveys, reengrave, reevoking, reinvaded, reinvades, reinvents, reinvests, reinvited, reinvites, reinvoked, reinvokes, relevance, relevancy, relieving, renovated, renovates, replevins, reserving, resolvent, restriven, retentive, revanches, revealing, revelling, revenants, revengers, revenging, revenuers, reverbing, reverence, reverends, reversing, reversion, revertant, reverting, revesting, revetment, revetting, reviewing, reweaving, scavenged, scavenger, scavenges, scrivener, sensitive, sevenfold, seventeen, seventies, severance, sirventes, snivelers, snivelled, sovereign, steevings, suaveness, supervene, taverners, tentative, tervalent, unavenged, unaverage, unbeloved, uncovered, undeceive, unevenest, unevolved, universes, unleveled, unraveled, unreeving, unreserve, unrevised, vaccinees, vagueness, valencies, valentine, veeringly, vehemence, veinulets, velveteen, vendables, vendettas, vendeuses, vendibles, veneerers, veneering, venenated, venenates, venerable, venerably, venerated, venerates, venerator, venetians, vengeance, venireman, veniremen, ventilate, ventricle, venturers, verandaed, veratrine, vergences, vernacles, vernalize, vernicles, vestments, vestrymen, vicereine, vignetted, vignetter, vignettes, villenage, vinegared, violences, virescent, virulence, vitelline, volunteer, wolverine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEVE


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

4E 45 56 45

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

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

=

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 01000101 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0056 0045

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

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

48395639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Derived from
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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