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Definition: NICKNAMED |
NICKNAMEDImperative & past participle1. Of Nickname |
Date "NICKNAMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: NICKNAMED |
| Specialty definitions using "NICKNAMED": Blue Hen, Bohemian Brethren ♦ Chouans ♦ Friar Tuck ♦ Irus ♦ Jacobites ♦ Loose-girt Boy, Louis Dix-huit ♦ Monarchians ♦ Rashleigh Osbaldistone, Roi Panade ♦ Sandals of Theramenes, Stupid Boy ♦ Whately ♦ Zoilos. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Nicknamed "Dragon Lake," this body of water is formed by the Bratskove Reservoir, built along the Angara River in southern Siberia, near the city of Bratsk. This image was acquired in winter, when the lake is frozen.Credit: NASA. |  | Servicing the National Weather Service automated weather buoy that is nicknamed Peggy in honor of the lady who radioed weather to fishermen for many years in the Aleutian Islands.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Ray Courington, left, and Bruce Daniel inspect the infrared suppressor system, nicknamed a "tub," which the team installed on the AC-130H gunship in the background. (P.; photo by Sue Sapp).. |  | Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (later nicknamed "Betty") fly low through anti-aircraft gunfire during a torpedo attack on U.S. Navy ships maneuvering between Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the morning of 8 August 1942. Note that these planes are being flown without bomb-bay doors.Credit: NAVY. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "NICKNAMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 60.33% of the time. "NICKNAMED" is used about 184 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 60.33% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.15% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.8% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.72% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 184 | 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 |
amelia chicken nicknamed | 118 |
city city light nicknamed | 81 |
city light nicknamed | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NICKNAMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 起绰号 (Nicknaming). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | detto (byword, called, dictum, named, said, say, saying, yclept). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 별명을 붙이". (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | far-enmyssit (alias). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | icknamednay poreclit. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"NICKNAMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nickhame. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-k-m-n-n" | |
-1 letter: nickname. | |
-2 letters: mankind. | |
-3 letters: aidmen, anemic, canine, canned, cannie, cinema, daimen, encina, iceman, kinema, maiden, manned, median, medick, medina, minced, nicked. | |
-4 letters: acned, admen, aimed, amend, amice, amide, amine, amnic, anime, caked, caned, canid, dance, denim, inane, inked, inned, knead, maced, maned, manic, media, medic, menad, miked, minae, mince, mined, minke, naked, named, nance, nicad. | |
-5 letters: aced, acid, acme, acne, aide, akin, amen, amid, amie, amin, cade, cadi, caid, cain, cake, came, cane, cedi, cine, dace, dame, damn, dank, dean, deck, deni, dice, dick, dike, dime, dine, dink, emic, iced, idea, idem, kadi, kain, kame, kami, kane, kina, kind, kine, mace, mack, made, maid, main, make, mane, mead, mean, mend, mica, mice, mick, mien, mike, mina, mind, mine, mink, name, neck, nema, nice, nick, nide, nine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 4B 4E 41 4D 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. -.-. -.- -. .- -- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001110 01000001 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C K N A M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 0043 004B 004E 0041 004D 0045 0044 |
| 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)484337454835473938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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