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Rediffusion

Definition: Rediffusion

Rediffusion

Noun

1. (British) a system for distributing radio or tv programs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Crosswords: Rediffusion

Non-English Usage: "Rediffusion" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (rebroadcast, repeat, rerun).

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Usage Frequency: Rediffusion

"Rediffusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Rediffusion" is used about 6 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 (singular)83.33%5157,705
Noun (proper)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Expression: Rediffusion

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Rediffusion": Associated-rediffusion.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rediffusion

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

rediffusion

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rediffusion

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

Czech

  

veřejný rozhlas. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναμετάδοση (broadcast, relay, relaying). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ediffusionray

   

Russian 

  

радиофикация площадей. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rediffusion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-i-i-n-o-r-s-u"

-2 letters: diffusion, foundries.

-3 letters: derision, diffuser, diffusor, dourines, effusion, forfends, founders, ironside, refounds, resinoid, sniffier, snuffier, sourdine, unifiers, uridines.

-4 letters: differs, diffuse, dineros, diurons, doffers, dourine, duffers, durions, enduros, finders, fondues, forfend, founder, friends, indorse, infused, infuser, insider, insured, iodines, ionised, ironies, neuroid, niffers, noisier, offends, offside, ordines, redfins, refinds, refound, refunds, resound, rosined, runoffs, sendoff, sniffed, sniffer, snuffed, snuffer, sordine, sordini, sounder, undoers, unfired, unified, unifier, unifies, uridine, urinose.

-5 letters: differ, dinero, diners, diuron, doffer, donsie, dories, douser, drones, duffer, durion, enduro, fiends, fifers, finder, fiords, foined, fonder, fondue, fondus, founds, friend, fronds, furies, fusion, iffier, indies, indris, indues, infers, infuse, inside, insure, inured, inures, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionise, irides, irised, ironed, irones, niffer, noised, nosier, nudies, nursed, offend, offers, onside, redfin, redons, refind, refund, riffed, rinsed, rouens, rounds, roused, ruffed, ruffes, ruined, runoff, rusine, senior, snider, snored, sonder, sorned, soured, suffer, sunder, surfed, undies, undoer, undoes, uredos, urines, ursine.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-i-i-n-o-r-s-u"
 

+3 letters: interdiffusion.

 

+4 letters: interdiffusions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rediffusion


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

52 65 64 69 66 66 75 73 69 6F 6E

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)

.-.    .    -..    ..    ..-.    ..-.    ..-    ...    ..    ---    -.

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

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

01010010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#105 &#102 &#102 &#117 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0069 0066 0066 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E

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

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

5271707572728785758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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