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Definition: POSTLUDE |
POSTLUDENoun1. A voluntary at the end of a service. |
Note: Postlude \Post"lude\, noun. [Prefix post- -lude, as in prelude.]. (Websters 1913) |
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| "POSTLUDE" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POSTLUDE" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
postlude | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POSTLUDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | заключительная часть (tail end). (various references) | |
Swedish | efterspel (epilogue, sequel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POSTLUDE": postludes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: loudest, outsped, spouted, tousled, tupelos. | |
-2 letters: depots, despot, letups, louped, loupes, loused, louted, lusted, oldest, ousted, posted, poults, pouted, pseudo, pulsed, sloped, solute, souled, souped, stoled, stoped, toused, tousle, tupelo. | |
-3 letters: delts, depot, doest, doles, dolts, dopes, dotes, douse, duels, duets, dulse, dupes, duple, estop, letup, leuds, lodes, loped, lopes, lotus, loupe, loups. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: postludes. | |
+2 letters: deutoplasm, outspelled, postulated, sporulated, underplots. | |
+3 letters: depopulates, deutoplasms, outsparkled, upholstered. | |
+4 letters: despiteously, expostulated, stupendously. | |
+5 letters: depopulations, expeditiously, lepidopterous, plenitudinous, reupholstered, superdiplomat, superovulated. | |
| 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)50 4F 53 54 4C 55 44 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - .-.. ..- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001100 01010101 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O S T L U D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0053 0054 004C 0055 0044 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049535446553839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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