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Definitions: PERDUE |
PERDUEAdjective1. Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. 2. Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. |
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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Surface perdue (1966) La Fille perdue (1954) Une vie perdue (1933) Iris perdue et retrouvée (1933) Dans une île perdue (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Hub Perdue.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Herbert Perdue.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Perdue | Last name | 7,000 | 1,758 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PERDUE": cire-perdue. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 Опасный Пост, Притаившийся, Смелый Солдат. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PERDUE": perdues. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PERDUE" (pronounced perduw") |
| 3 | -er d uw" | overdo, overdue. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 44 55 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).--. . .-. -.. ..- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01010010 01000100 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E R D U E |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503952385539 |
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