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Definition: OYEZ |
OYEZInterjection1. Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times. |
Date "OYEZ" was first used: sometime around 1425. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Interjection: see! look, look here, look you, look to it! mark! lo! behold! soho! hark, hark ye! mind! halloo! observe! lo and behold! attention! nota bene, "N.B.", note well; I'd have you to know; notice! O yes! Oyez! dekko! ecco! yoho! |
Attention! Now hear this! Oyez!; Achtung; | |
Publication | Interjection: Oyez! O yes! notice! |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OYEZ |
| Specialty definitions using "OYEZ": O Yes'! O Yes! O Yes!, OYES. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OYEZ" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (hear). |
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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 |
oyez | 63 |
oyez oyez oyez | 11 |
oyez project | 9 |
oyez oyez | 8 |
frontpage oyez oyez.itcs.northwestern.edu | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OYEZ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | achtung, achtung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσοχή (advertence, attention, beware of, care, caution, circumspection, heed, intentness, note, notice, regard, thoughtfulness, wakefulness, watchfulness), ακούστε. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oyezay tystnad (hush, oyes, quiet, quietude, silence), lystring (oyes). (various references) เสียงร้องให้เงียบ (oyes). (various references) dinleyin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | oyez. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"OYEZ" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayez, boyaz, Boyez, iyes, oey, oez, Oiec, oiez, oiz, okez, onez, Onye, opez, orye, Oryza, Oteiza, Otez, oxyes, oya, Oyash, oye, oyea, oyed, oyi, oyoe, Oyus, Oyw, oyz, oyze, ozyrev, syez, uye, yeez, yez, youz, yoz, yoze, zoye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-y-z" | |
-2 letters: oe, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-y-z" | |
+1 letter: cozey. | |
+2 letters: cozeys, zydeco, zygose, zygote. | |
+3 letters: benzoyl, isozyme, soyuzes, zedoary, zydecos, zygoses, zygotes, zymogen, zymoses. | |
+4 letters: autolyze, azygoses, benzoyls, coenzyme, epizooty, frozenly, hemolyze, isozymes, lysozyme, pyrolize, pyrolyze, zealotry, zoometry, zoophyte, zygotene, zymogene, zymogens. | |
+5 letters: apoenzyme, autolyzed, autolyzes, coenzymes, exoenzyme, hemolyzed, hemolyzes, hydrolyze, hypnotize, isoenzyme, lazybones, lysozymes, photolyze, proenzyme, pyrolized, pyrolizes, pyrolyzed, pyrolyzer, pyrolyzes, syllogize, symbolize, synopsize, zealously, zoophytes, zygospore, zygotenes, zymogenes. | |
| 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 59 45 5A |
| 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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| 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 01011001 01000101 01011010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O Y E Z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0059 0045 005A |
| 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)49593960 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | "ερμανός, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | türkisch, τούρκικοσ, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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