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REPRESENTATIVELY

Definition: REPRESENTATIVELY

REPRESENTATIVELY

Adverb

1. In a representative manner; vicariously.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "REPRESENTATIVELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Usage Frequency: REPRESENTATIVELY

"REPRESENTATIVELY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "REPRESENTATIVELY" is used about 4 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
Adverb (general)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Modern Translations: REPRESENTATIVELY

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

Chinese 

  

代表性地. (various references)

   

German

  

vertretungsweise. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

대표 으로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epresentativelyray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: REPRESENTATIVELY

Misspellings

"REPRESENTATIVELY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: representativity. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "REPRESENTATIVELY"

Words rhyming with "REPRESENTATIVELY" (pronounced 'Rep`re*sent"a*tive*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: REPRESENTATIVELY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-r-s-t-t-v-y"

-2 letters: representative.

-4 letters: interrelates, inveterately, preliterates, presentative, teleprinters.

-5 letters: interlayers, interleaves, interrelate, penetrative, perseverate, preliterate, retentively, reverential, teleprinter, terneplates, terrepleins, travertines.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REPRESENTATIVELY


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

52 45 50 52 45 53 45 4E 54 41 54 49 56 45 4C 59

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 01000101 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#80 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0050 0052 0045 0053 0045 004E 0054 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 004C 0059

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

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

52395052395339485435544356394659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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