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PERDUE

Definitions: PERDUE

PERDUE

Adjective

1. Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless.

2. Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PERDUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Crosswords: PERDUE

English words defined with "PERDUE": Perdu. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PERDUE": BO-PEEP. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PERDUE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (lost my way).

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Modern Usage: PERDUE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Surface perdue (1966)

La Fille perdue (1954)

Une vie perdue (1933)

Iris perdue et retrouvée (1933)

Dans une île perdue (1930)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: PERDUE

DomainTitle

Books

  • La race perdue : science et racisme (reference)

  • L'Inde Perdue (reference)

  • Symeonides, Perdue and Von Mehren's Conflict of Laws: American, Comparative, International- Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series®) (reference)

  • The Perdue Chicken Cookbook (reference)

  • Thibaut, Ou, La Croix Perdue (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: PERDUE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Hub Perdue.Credit: Library of Congress.

Herbert Perdue.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PERDUE

"PERDUE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PERDUE" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: PERDUE

The following table summarizes the usage of "PERDUE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PerdueLast name7,0001,758
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: PERDUE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "PERDUE": cire-perdue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PERDUE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  perdue

142

  arthur perdue stadium

6

  perdue university

66

  perdue hill al

5

  perdue farm

64

  college perdue

5

  perdue chicken

54

  farm news perdue

4

  perdue sonny

44

  perdue chicken recipe

4

  perdue pharmaceutical

17

  georgia governor perdue sonny

4

  governor perdue sonny

17

  indiana perdue university

4

  lewis perdue

14

  arkansas myra perdue

3

  owl perdue

13

  perdue sally

3

  perdue farm inc

13

  beverly perdue

3

  perdue pharma

13

  acoustic perdue

3

  perdue stadium

10

  john perdue

3

  will perdue

9

  brandon perdue

2

  furniture perdue

9

  david perdue

2

  frank perdue

8

  perdue stubbs

2

  government perdue sonny

7

  contact perdue pharma

2

  governor perdue

7

  g leo perdue

2

  kip perdue

7

  theda perdue

2

  perdue poultry

7

  calumet perdue

2

  frederick perdue

6

  family perdue

2

  arthur perdue stadium w

6

  perdue tom

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PERDUE

Language Translations for "PERDUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Që Fshihet, Në Pritë, I Fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Затулен, Скрит. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erduepay

   

Russian 

  

Опасный Пост, Притаившийся, Смелый Солдат. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Saklı (behind, clandestine, close, covered, covert, crypto-, hidden, perdu, privy, secret, snug), Gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), Gizlenmiş (behind, concealed, disguised, hidden, lurking, perdu, tucked away). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PERDUE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PERDUE": perdues. (additional references)


Misspellings

"PERDUE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pardee, Pardue, Pedoe, perdei, perdiem, perdre, Perdues, perdus, Peruke, Pieridae. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PERDUE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "PERDUE" (pronounced perduw")
3-er d uw"overdo, overdue.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: PERDUE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pureed.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-p-r-u"

-1 letter: drupe, duper, perdu, preed, prude, puree, rupee.

-2 letters: deep, deer, dere, dree, dupe, dure, peed, peer, pree, pure, rede, reed, rude, rued.

-3 letters: dee, due, dup, ere, ped, pee, per, pud, pur, red, ree, rep, rue, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, pe, re, up.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: erupted, perdues, perdure, peruked, perused, prelude, prevued, reputed, supered.

 

+2 letters: bumpered, depurate, douzeper, drupelet, duperies, duplexer, paupered, pedicure, perdured, perdures, perfumed, perfused, perjured, permuted, persuade, preclude, precured, prejudge, preluded, preluder, preludes, presumed, priedieu, prudence, puckered, purebred, purveyed, puttered, recouped, repoured, repugned, repulsed, repumped, upreared.

 

+3 letters: departure, depurated, depurates, disrepute, douzepers, drupelets, duplexers, empurpled, expounder, parqueted, pedicured, pedicures, percussed, persuaded, persuader, persuades, perturbed, pleasured, plundered, plunderer, precluded, precludes, prefeudal, prejudged, prejudger, prejudges, prejudice, preluders, pressured, preunited, priedieus, priedieux, procedure, prudences, pruderies, purebreds, putrefied, recoupled, regrouped, replumbed, replunged, reproduce, repudiate, repursued, reputedly, scuppered, sputtered, supercede, supersede, superwide, suspender, trumpeted, unexpired, unpressed, unripened, unsphered, upreached.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PERDUE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 52 44 55 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01010010 01000100 01010101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#68 &#85 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0044 0055 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

503952385539

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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