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Definition: PRIVACIES |
PRIVACIESPlural1. Of Privacy |
Date "PRIVACIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: PRIVACIES |
| Specialty definitions using "PRIVACIES": Asmodeus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PRIVACIES": Privacy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Publilius Syrus | Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "PRIVACIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRIVACIES" 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 (plural) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PRIVACIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 保密性 (Privacy). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | házasélet titkai (privacies of the bedchamber), hálószobában történő dolgok (privacies of the bedchamber). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 기밀 (Privacy, secrecy). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ivaciespray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"PRIVACIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: priyayis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRIVACIES" (pronounced prī"vusēz) |
| 4 | -u s ē z | accuracies, archdiocese, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, courtesies, delicacies, democracies, embassies, fallacies, fantasies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, pharmacies, policies, prophecies. |
| 3 | -s ē z | agencies, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fancies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, prognoses, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-p-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: piracies. | |
-2 letters: episcia, parvise, paviser, privies, scrapie, spacier, spicier, varices, viscera. | |
-3 letters: aivers, apices, aspire, capers, capris, caries, carves, cavers, cavies, cerias, civies, crapes, craves, cripes, ericas, escarp, pacers, paries, parsec, parvis, pavers, pavise, praise, precis, prices, recaps, scrape, scrive, secpar, spacer, spavie, spicae, spicer, spirea, varies, vesica, vicars, vipers. | |
-4 letters: acres, aiver, apers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-p-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: ascriptive. | |
+4 letters: superactivity. | |
+5 letters: contrapositive, overcapacities, overspecialize, picornaviruses, prevarications, provincializes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 49 56 41 43 49 45 53 |
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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 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000001 01000011 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R I V A C I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0049 0056 0041 0043 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)505243563537433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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