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Definition: OVERSTAND |
OVERSTANDTransitive verb1. To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. |
Note: Overstand \O`ver*stand"\, transitive verb. To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| "OVERSTAND" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "OVERSTAND" is used about 4 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 (infinitive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: advents, adverts, atoners, donates, oversad, roasted, rodents, savored, senator, servant, snorted, stander, starved, taverns, torsade, treason, vendors, verdant, versant. | |
-3 letters: adores, adorns, advent, advert, anodes, antres, ardent, arseno, astern, atoned, atoner, atones, averts, avoset, daters, davens, denars, derats, devons, donate, doters, dovens, drones, droves, nestor, noters, oaters, orated, orates, oreads, ornate, radons. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: davenports. | |
+2 letters: adventurous, derivations, servanthood. | |
+3 letters: denervations, depravations, deprivations, dorsiventral, dorsoventral, overstrained, servanthoods. | |
+4 letters: adventuresome, adventurously, conservatized, demonstrative, privatdocents, privatdozents, revalidations, subordinative, unadventurous. | |
+5 letters: decorativeness, demonstratives, dorsiventrally, dorsoventrally, nonderivatives, overadjustment, overeducations, radiosensitive, valedictorians. | |
| 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 56 45 52 53 54 41 4E 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. ... - .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R S T A N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0053 0054 0041 004E 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)495639525354354838 |
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