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Definition: OUTRANCE |
OUTRANCENoun1. The utmost or last extremity. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | To the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance. |
Greatness | Furiously; (violence); severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance. |
Violence | Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost. |
Warfare | War to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance; open war, internecine war, civil war. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OUTRANCE |
| Specialty definitions using "OUTRANCE": A l'outrance, A outrance ♦ Colours Nailed to the Mast. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OUTRANCE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (exorbitance). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "OUTRANCE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OUTRANCE" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "OUTRANCE": a outrance ♦ a toute outrance ♦ Combat a outrance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
outrance | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OUTRANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | نهایت (Extremity), انتها (Close, End, Extremity, Head, Supreme, Tagend, Terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | outranceay крайність (extreme, extremity, perisher), перегин, перебільшення (aggravation, embellishment, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement, stretching, whisker). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OUTRANCE": outrances. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: courante. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: centaur, cornute, counter, courant, enactor, outearn, outrace, recount, trounce, uncrate. | |
-2 letters: acuter, atoner, canter, cantor, carnet, carton, centra, coater, contra, cornea, cornet, cornua, coteau, couter, craton, curate, nature, nectar, octane, ornate, outran, recant, tanrec, tenour, toucan, trance, turaco. | |
-3 letters: acorn, actor, acute, antre, atone, caner, canoe, canto, caret, carte, cater, cento, centu, conte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: courantes, courtesan, mucronate, nectarous, nucleator, outrances, raconteur, undercoat. | |
+2 letters: aeronautic, auctioneer, counteract, counterman, courantoes, courtesans, enunciator, eructation, nucleators, precaution, raconteurs, ulceration, undercoats. | |
+3 letters: accoutering, aeronautics, aponeurotic, auctioneers, carburetion, cofeaturing, conjectural, construable, contracture, cotransduce, counteracts, counterbade, countermand, counterpane, counterpart, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, counterraid, countervail, countryseat, crenulation, documentary, enunciators, eructations, euchromatin, granulocyte, involucrate, mercuration, neuroactive, neuropathic, outcapering, outreaching, overcaution, pococurante, precautions, procrustean, radiolucent, reductional, reeducation, reinoculate, reluctation, ulcerations, undecorated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 55 54 52 41 4E 43 45 |
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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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| Braille (1829, 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 01010101 01010100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O U T R A N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0055 0054 0052 0041 004E 0043 0045 |
| 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)4955545235483739 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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