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Definitions: PERN |
PERNNoun1. The honey buzzard. Transitive verb1. To take profit of; to make profitable. |
"PERN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Peen, Pen, Peon, Per, Perk, Perm, Peron, Pert, Peru, Porn. |
Crosswords: PERN |
| Etymologies containing "PERN": Pernor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PERN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (reel). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pern was colonised by settlers from Earth who wanted to return to an agrarian society with a low level of technology. Shortly after the first colony was established, the settlers were devastated to discover that their chosen planet was not a safe place. Pern is subject to periodic attack from space by the destructive thread, a spaceborn spore that destroys everything organic it touches. Unable to retreat from the peril, the settlers developed methods of combatting the thread. "Holds" were dug into the cliffs for them to live in, and Pernese scientists "upgraded" a local reptilian lifeform, the fire-lizard, into full-sized flame-breathing telepathic dragons, who were able to sear the thread before it could fall to the ground. The dragonriders became a vitally important and highly respected profession, living in Weyrs, and as time progressed, the settlers forgot their Terran origins.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pern."
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High Tech |
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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 |
pern | 77 |
dragonriders of pern | 42 |
dragon rider of pern | 20 |
dragon of pern | 18 |
chronicle dragon pern rider | 5 |
pern renegades | 4 |
map pern | 4 |
chronicle dragonriders pern | 4 |
anne mccaffrey pern | 3 |
chronicle dragon pern rider through walk | 2 |
chronicle dragonriders pern through walk | 2 |
dragonriders movie pern | 2 |
art pern | 2 |
chronicle of pern | 2 |
dragonriders pern through walk | 2 |
pern book | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PERN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | осояд (honey-buzzard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | méhészölyv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ernpay bútio (bittern), alterar a ordem de. (various references) осоед (honey-buzzard). (various references) osičar (honey-buzzard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PERN": pernicious, perniciously, perniciousness, perniciousnesses, pernickety. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PERN": dapperness, dappernesses, hypernationalistic, improperness, impropernesses, pimpernel, pimpernels, properness, propernesses, pumpernickel, pumpernickels, scuppernong, scuppernongs, supernal, supernally, supernatant, supernatants, supernation, supernational, supernations, supernatural, supernaturalism, supernaturalisms, supernaturalist, supernaturalistic, supernaturalists, supernaturally, supernaturalness, supernaturalnesses, supernaturals, supernature, supernatures, supernormal, supernormalities, supernormality, supernormally, supernova, supernovae, supernovas, supernumeraries, supernumerary, supernutrition, supernutritions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ern, pen, per, rep. | |
-2 letters: en, er, ne, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: arpen, preen, prone, prune, repin, ripen. | |
+2 letters: arpens, arpent, crepon, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, napery, napper, nipper, opener, operon, orpine, pander, panier, panzer, parent, pawner, penner, penury, pereon, perron, person, pincer, pinder, pinery, pinger, pinier, pinker, pinner, planer, ponder, prance, preens, preman, premen, prince, proven, pruned, pruner, prunes, pterin, punier, punker, punner, punter, purine, pyrene, pyrone, rapine, rappen, reopen, repand, repent, repine, repins, replan, repugn, ripens, sniper, sprent, trepan, unpure, unripe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 4E |
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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)01010000 01000101 01010010 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E R N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 0052 004E |
| 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)50395248 |
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