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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal; (ancient); gerontic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OF A CERTAIN |
| Etymologies containing "OF A CERTAIN": Questman. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | To be rid of a certain sin (Don'T Look Too Far; performing artist: Them) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
G.w. Curtis | Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. |
St. Augustine | In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Only, as she became the prey of a certain sensation, she shook the handle of the bucket as much as she could on her way. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Whence it came what Polydore Virgil says of a certain great house, Nec vir fortis, nec femina casta. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These larvae swim in the water in search of a certain species of aquatic snail. (references) | |
Transgenic mice can serve as an animal model of a certain disease, telling researchers how genes work in specific cells. (references) | ||
Their cells then follow the "instructions" of the foreign genes, resulting in the development of a certain trait or characteristic. (references) | ||
Business | For all products coming into the European Union, customs tariffs consist of a certain percentage of the customs value. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | France | A cultural association is a type of for-profit association whose goal is to promote the culture of a certain group; although not exempt from taxes, it may receive government subsidies for its cultural and educational operations (such as schools). (references) |
Trade | Israel | When substantial investment and engineering (as required for custom-made products) are involved, it is not unusual for exporters to demand advance payment of a certain portion of the selling price. (references) |
Ukraine | In particular, the minimum size of authorized capital at the moment of registration of a regional corporate bank cannot be less than EURO 1 million, for commercial bank operating on the territory of a certain region - EURO 3 million, and for those working on the whole territory of Ukraine - EURO 5 million. (references) | |
Travel | Pakistan | However, almost all Pakistanis involved in business and commerce of a certain scale have an adequate command of English. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Agree upon the number and qualifications of persons who shall have the benefit of choosing, or annex this privilege to the inhabitants of a certain extent of ground. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | We are told of a certain Vedius Pollio, who, in the presence of Augustus, would have given a slave as food to his fish, for having broken a glass. |
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| Language | Translations for "OF A CERTAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | eräänlainen (of a certain kind, some kind of, something of a). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | berwajah (have a face of a certain kind). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofay aay ertaincay пожилого возраста (of a certain age), иметь определенный характер (be of a certain nature). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 12, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eipen de parabolhn proV autouV legwn anqrwpou tinoV plousiou euforhsen h cwra |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixit autem similitudinem ad illos dicens hominis cuiusdam divitis uberes fructus ager adtulit |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa sæde he him sum bigspel; Sumes weliges mannes æcer brohte forð gode wæstmas: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he tolde to hem a liknesse, and seide, The feeld of a riche man brouyte forth plenteuouse fruytis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche ma brought forth frutes plenteously |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 12, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug iyang gisuginlan silag usa ka sambingay, nga nag-ingon, "Ang yuta sa usa ka tawong dato mihatag ug daghang abut. |
| Croatian | Kaza im i prispodobu: "Nekomu bogatu èovjeku obilno urodi zemlja |
| Danish | Og han sagde en Lignelse til dem: "Der var en rig Mand, hvis Mark havde båret godt. |
| Dutch | En Hij zeide tot hen een gelijkenis, en sprak: Eens rijken mensen land had wel gedragen; |
| Finnish | Ja hän puhui heille vertauksen sanoen: "Rikkaan miehen maa kasvoi hyvin. |
| French | Et il leur dit cette parabole: Les terres d`un homme riche avaient beaucoup rapporté. |
| German | Und er sagte ihnen ein Gleichnis und sprach: Es war ein reicher Mensch, das Feld hatte wohl getragen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Yesus menceritakan perumpamaan ini, "Adalah seorang kaya. Ia mempunyai tanah yang memberi banyak hasil. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu Ia bertutur kepada mereka itu dengan perumpamaan, kata-Nya, "Adalah tanah seorang yang kaya mengeluarkan perolehan banyak. |
| Italian | Disse poi una parabola: «La campagna di un uomo ricco aveva dato un buon raccolto. |
| Manx Gaelic | As loayr eh coraa-dorraghey roo, gra, Ren thalloo dooinney berchagh dy row mess y chur magh dy palchey. |
| Maori | Na ka korerotia e ia tetahi kupu whakarite ki a ratou, ka mea, Na he nui te hua o te whenua o tetahi tangata whai taonga: |
| Norwegian | Og han fortalte dem en lignelse og sa: Der var en rik mann hvis jord bar godt; |
| Portuguese | Propôs-lhes então uma parábola, dizendo: O campo de um homem rico produzira com abundância; |
| Rumanian | Wi le -a spus pilda aceasta: ,,Yarina unui om bogat rodise mult. |
| Shuar | Nuyá juna métek-taku chichaman unuiniak Tímiayi: "Kuítrintin aishman ni ajariyan arakan ti nukap juukmai. |
| Swahili | Kisha akawaambia mfano: "Kulikuwa na tajiri mmoja ambaye shamba lake lilizaa mavuno mengi. |
| Swedish | Och han framställde för dem en liknelse; han sade: "Det var en rik man vilkens åkrar buro ymniga skördar. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, Yesus mpololitai-ra hante hanyala lolita rapa', na'uli': "Ria hadua topo'ua' to tebua' lompe' -ki polia' -na. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: cafetoria, fornicate. | |
-2 letters: aeration, anoretic, carinate, craniate, creation, fraction, infector, raincoat, reaction. | |
-3 letters: acarine, aconite, anticar, carinae, carotin, cateran, ceratin, certain, coinfer, cointer, conifer, creatin, enactor, erotica, faction, fainter, fanatic, fancier, frantic, infarct, infract, noticer, ocarina, tacrine. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acinar, action, aeonic, antiar, aortae, aortic, arcane, arnica, aroint, atoner, atonic, caftan, canter, cantor, carafe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fractionate, rarefaction. | |
+2 letters: fractionated, fractionates, rarefactions. | |
+3 letters: abortifacient, fractionalize, manufactories, rarefactional. | |
+4 letters: abortifacients, fractionalized, fractionalizes, prefabrication. | |
+5 letters: anfractuosities, prefabrications, requalification. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 46 41 43 45 52 54 41 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000110 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000011 01000101 01010010 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O F   A   C E R T A I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0046 0041 0043 0045 0052 0054 0041 0049 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4940235237395254354348 |
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