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"SID" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". |
Date "SID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
"SID" is a common misspelling or typo for: sad, said, side, sit, skid, slid, sod. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = sudden ionospheric disturbance.Abbreviation. (references) |
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 |
SID | English | Surface Induced Dissociation | N/A |
SID | French | Stratégie internationale du développement | Economics |
SID | German | Zollinformationssystem | Computing, Finance |
SID | Greek | αριθμός αναγνώρισης ταυτότητας συστήματος | Post & Telecom |
SID | Italian | Sistema informativo doganale | Computing, Finance |
SID | Spanish | Sistema de información sobre drogas | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: SID |
| Specialty definitions using "SID": GEOPHYSICAL EVENTS ♦ HIGH ENERGY EVENT ♦ Philisides. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SID" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (long). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sid, don't you blame the movies. (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) Karen, this is Sid Hudgens of Hush-Hush Magazine. (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) Come on Sid, let's play tag. You're it! (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
Lyrics | I'll keep you by my sid with my superhuman MIGHT, Kryptonite, Yeah! (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Girl it's me and you like Sid and Nancy (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sid Caesar Show (1963) Sid Caesar Invites You (1958) Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2001) Unforgettable Sid James (2000) H.R. Pufnstuf - The Strange World of Sid & Marty Krofft: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Boys Fishing at Sid Olmid Cabin, Moser Bay. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | Sid Farrar. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sid Smith. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Welcome freshmen." Ursuline Academy, Kirkwood, Missouri / credit, Sid Whiting Studio, St. Louis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Optical Disc Law: To protect copyrights of works stored on optical discs, Taiwan's legislature passed an optical disc law to control equipment and production management on October 30, 2001. Manufacturers must apply for production licenses and SID codes used in the manufacture of optical discs. (references) |
Sudan | According to the NGO Sudanese Human Rights Group (SHRG), some of the following persons arrested in 2000 remained in detention at year's end: The more than 150 PNCP members who were detained after allegedly participating in demonstrations against the Government in September and October; a leading DUP member who was arrested in Khartoum in September; a lawyer who was arrested for political activities in Khartoum in August; leading members of the DUP and UMMA parties who were arrested and detained in June in Sennar City; five students in Omdurman who were detained in June; the more than 200 students arrested and detained at Juba University in June; six members of the Communist Party who were detained in May; the students arrested at Alnasr Technology College in May; Sid Ahmed Al-Hussein, deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who was detained on several occasions in April; Dr. Tobi Madot, Chairperson of the Democratic Forces Front (JAD) who was detained in March; a lawyer and leading member of the National Democratic Alliance to Restore Democracy (NARD) who was arrested and detained in March; and two students who were detained and beaten because of political activities in February. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SID" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.51% of the time. "SID" is used about 404 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 (proper) | 98.51% | 398 | 14,032 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 404 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SID" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sid | First name Male | 4,000 | 1,199 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "SID" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "SID." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Dionysios | Male | Ancient Greek | Dionysos |
| Dionysius | Male | Ancient Roman | Dionysios |
| Denis | Male | English | Dionysius |
| Sid | Male | English | Sidney |
| Sidney | Male, Female | English | Denis |
| Syd | Male | English | Sidney |
| Sydne | Female | English | Sidney |
| Sydney | Female, Male | English | Sidney |
| Denis | Male | French | Dionysius |
| Dionysios | Male | Greek | Dionysos |
| Dionysos | Male | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Denis | Male | Russian | Dionysius |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SID": sid-ahmed, Sid-ud-dins, sid-y. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | Szabvány Mûszeres Felszállási-emelkedési Eljárás (standard instrument departure). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | idsay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SID": siddur, siddurim, siddurs, side, sidearm, sideband, sidebands, sidebar, sidebars, sideboard, sideboards, sideburned, sideburns, sidecar, sidecars, sided, sidedness, sidednesses, sidedress, sidedresses, sidehill, sidehills, sidekick, sidekicks, sidelight, sidelights, sideline, sidelined, sideliner, sideliners, sidelines, sideling, sidelining, sidelong, sideman, sidemen, sidepiece, sidepieces, sidereal, siderite, siderites, siderolite, siderolites, sides, sidesaddle, sidesaddles, sideshow, sideshows, sideslip, sideslipped, sideslipping. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SID": capsid, diapsid, jassid, mysid, nucleocapsid, resid, sphenopsid, synapsid, therapsid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SID": alongside, antisubsidy, apoapsides, apsidal, apsides, arabinoside, arabinosides, aside, asides, assiduities, assiduity, assiduous, assiduously, assiduousness, assiduousnesses, backside, backsides, bankside, banksides, basidia, basidial, basidiomycete, basidiomycetes, basidiomycetous, basidiospore, basidiospores, basidium, beachside, bedside, bedsides, beside, besides, blindside, blindsided, blindsides, blindsiding, broadside, broadsided, broadsides, broadsiding, burnsides, capsidal, capsids, caryopsides, cerebroside, cerebrosides, consider, considerable, considerables, considerably, considerate. (additional references) | |
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"SID" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iscd, isd, Istd, Nsad, sd, Seidh, Seidl, Sida, Sidda, sidh, Sidqi, svid, syd, Ysd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dis, ids. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-s" | |
-1 letter: id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-s" | |
+1 letter: aids, bids, dais, dibs, dies, digs, dims, dins, dips, disc, dish, disk, diss, dits, fids, gids, ides, kids, lids, mids, rids, sadi, said, side, sild, skid, slid, yids. | |
+2 letters: acids, adios, adits, aides, amids, asdic, aside, bides, binds, birds, cadis, caids, cedis, daisy, dashi, defis, deils, deism, deist, delis, dials, dices, dicks, didos, didst, diets, dikes, dills, dimes, dines, dings, dinks, dints, diols, dipso, dirks, dirls, dirts, disci, disco, discs, dishy, disks, disme, ditas, dites, ditsy, divas, dives, djins, doits, dribs, dries, drips, duits, edits, eidos, fidos, finds, gadis, gilds, girds, grids, guids, hides, hinds, ideas, idles, idols, idyls, imids, irids, isled, kadis, kinds, lidos, maids, midis, midst, minds, misdo, mysid, nides, nidus, odist, oxids, padis, qaids, quids, raids, resid, rides, rinds, sadis, saids, sapid, sayid, scudi, shied, sided, sides, sidle, silds, siped, sired, sited, sized, skids, skied, slide, sloid, snide, sodic, soldi, solid, spied, squid, staid, stied, tides, tsadi, vised, voids, wadis, whids, wides, wilds, winds, wised, yirds. | |
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