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Date "RIF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
"RIF" is a common misspelling or typo for: rib, rid, rife, riff, rift, rig, rim, rip, rive. |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Reduction-in-Force) An agency is required to use RIF procedures when an employee is faced with separation or downgrading for a reason such as reorganization, lack of work, shortage of funds, insufficient personnel ceiling, or the exercise of certain reemployment or restoration rights. (references) |
Literature | Rif or ~~~Rifle Rifle (French). Avoir rifle et rafle. To have everything. Also, the negative, N'avoir ni rif ni raf (to have nothing). "Helas! j'ai goute miseraigne, J'ai rifle et rafle, et roigne et taigne." Les Miracles de Ste. Geneviène. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
rif | English | Reduction in force | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RIF |
| Etymologies containing "RIF": midriff. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "RIF" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (reef), Dutch (reef). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Al Aouda il al Rif (1963) El Rif el hazine (1948) Assifa alal rif (1942) Bint el rif Leila (1941) El Awda il al rif (1940) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | The RIF must be shown on all fiscal documents and bills and serves generally as an identification number for the entity. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RIF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RIF" is used about 9 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 (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
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 |
rif | 112 |
music rif | 8 |
haffar rif | 4 |
raf rif | 3 |
muziek rif | 3 |
morocco rif | 2 |
letter rif sample | 2 |
rif war | 2 |
guaranteed lif rif | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RIF": rifampicin, rifampicins, rifampin, rifampins, rife, rifely, rifeness, rifenesses, rifer, rifest, riff, riffed, riffing, riffle, riffled, riffler, rifflers, riffles, riffling, riffraff, riffraffs, riffs, rifle, riflebird, riflebirds, rifled, rifleman, riflemen, rifler, rifleries, riflers, riflery, rifles, rifling, riflings, rifs, rift, rifted, rifting, riftless, rifts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "RIF": sanserif, serif, sharif, sherif. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RIF": acriflavine, acriflavines, adrift, aerified, aerifies, aeriform, aerify, aerifying, auriferous, auriform, calorific, caprification, caprifications, caprifig, caprifigs, centrifugal, centrifugally, centrifugals, centrifugation, centrifugations, centrifuge, centrifuged, centrifuges, centrifuging, clarification, clarifications, clarified, clarifier, clarifiers, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, colorific, copurified, copurifies, copurify, copurifying, countrified, cribriform, cupriferous, dandriff, dandriffs, dendriform, denitrification, denitrifications, denitrified, denitrifier, denitrifiers, denitrifies, denitrify, denitrifying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fir. | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-r" | |
-1 letter: if. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-r" | |
+1 letter: fair, fiar, fire, firm, firn, firs, frig, frit, friz, reif, rife, riff, rifs, rift. | |
+2 letters: afire, afrit, brief, drift, fairs, fairy, fakir, faqir, farci, feria, fermi, fiars, fiber, fibre, fiery, fifer, filar, filer, finer, fiord, fired, firer, fires, firms, firns, firry, first, firth, fiver, fixer, flair, flier, flirt, frail, friar, fried, frier, fries, frigs, frill, frise, frisk, frith, frits, fritt, fritz, frizz, fruit, grief, griff, grift, infer, infra, kafir, kefir, lifer, refit, refix, reifs, reify, rifer, riffs, rifle, rifts, serif. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 49 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010010 01001001 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R I F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0049 0046 |
| 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)524340 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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