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Definition: Ouija |
OuijaNoun1. A board with the alphabet on it; used with a planchette to spell out supernatural messages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of working on an ouija board, foretells the miscarriage of plans and unlucky partnerships. To fail to work, one is ominous of complications, caused by substituting pleasure for business. If it writes fluently, you may expect fortunate results from some well-planned enterprise. If a negro steals it, you will meet with trials and vexations past endurance. To recover it, foretells that grievances will meet a favorable adjustment. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Some practitioners claim to have invented electronic ouija boards, which make use of keyboards. Various Christian religions have argued that ouija is evil and can lead to spiritual possession. Psychologists compare the phenomenon to that of automatic writing, wherein the unconscious thoughts of the participants are translated into physical words.
The term "ouija" is derived from the French "oui" (for "yes") and the German "ja" (for "yes"). Ouija became most popular during, and after, World War I; when it was marketed (and trademarked) as a means of communicating with dead soldiers. Parker Brothers holds a patent for a ouija board; which it markets as a children's toy.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill used a ouija board to conduct seances, and recorded what he claimed were messages from deceased persons. He combined these messages with his own poetry in The Changing Light at Sandover. (1982)
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Synonym: OuijaSynonym: Ouija board (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ouija |
| English words defined with "Ouija": Ouija board. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ouija": Ouija. (references) |
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Lyrics | And I'm calling Buddy on the ouija board (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Ouija Board (1920) Ouija Sexorcism (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Seaman 1st Class Leonard A. Cassidy spots model aircraft on the ship's "ouija board" hangar and flight deck planning boards, in response to the telephoned orders of air officers. The nearer board represents the flight deck, with the hangar deck board behind it. Aircraft types represented include F6F, TBM and SB2C. The original color transparency was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 15 June 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Ouija" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.61% of the time. "Ouija" is used about 41 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 (singular) | 75.61% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.39% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Ouija": ouija board. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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Bulgarian | масичка за спиритически сеанси. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oui-ja (ouija board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαγικό τραπεζάκι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ábécés deszkalap (ouija board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ウィジャ板 (blinker, ouija board, virus, whiskey, whisky, wings, wink, winker, Wisconsin, wit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ウィジャば" (ouija board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouijaay планшетка для спиритических сеансов (ouija-board). (various references) tabla de espiritismo. (various references) กระ"านอักษรและสัญลักษ"์ที่ใช้ในการเข้าทรงเรียกผี (Ouija board). (various references) bảng chữ để xin thẻ thánh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-j-o-u" | |
-1 letter: jiao. | |
-3 letters: ai, jo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-j-o-u" | |
+3 letters: jalousie, kinkajou. | |
+4 letters: jailhouse, jalousies, juniorate, kinkajous. | |
+5 letters: abjuration, adjourning, adjunction, adjuration, coadjutrix, jaguarondi, jailhouses, jealousies, jocularity, journalism, journalist, journalize, jubilation, judicatory, junctional, juniorates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 75 69 6A 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..- .. .--- .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110101 01101001 01101010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O u i j a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0075 0069 006A 0061 |
| 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)4987757667 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , французский, francés |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", греческий, грек, griego, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, Ούγγρος, magyar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | японски език, японци, японски, Japonais, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | японски език, японци, японски, Japonais, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Ρώσος, orosz, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, espagnol, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , испанский, español |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, たい", tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamien, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, английский, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
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