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Definitions: Saki |
SakiNoun1. British writer of short stories (1870-1916). 2. Japanese beverage from fermented rice usually served hot. 3. Small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Saki" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a cape". |
Date "Saki" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Synonym: SakiSynonym: sake (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, chosen from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. He was a writer whose witty and outrageous stories satirized the Edwardian social scene in macabre and cruel ways. He was openly a misogynist, an anti-Semite, and a reactionary.
He is considered a master of the short story, and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. The story The Open Window may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her specialty.") that has entered the lexicon of many writers.
Munro was born in Akyab, Burma as the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an inspector-general for the Burma police when that country, now called myanmar, was still ruled by Great Britain. His mother, the former Mary Frances Mercer, died in 1872, killed by a runaway cow. He was brought up in England with his brother and sister by his grandmother and aunts in a straitlaced household, the humor in which he only appreciated in later life. He used the severity of this household in many stories, notably Sredni Vashtar, in which a young boy's pet weasel takes revenge for its master's unhappiness.
Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmoth and the Bedford Grammar School. In 1893 Munro joined the Burma police. Three years later, failing health forced his resignation and return to England, where he started his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette, Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post, and Outlook.
In 1900 Munro's first book appeared, The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon Edward Gibbon's famous The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It was followed in 1902 by Not-So-Stories, a collection of short stories.
From 1902 to 1908 Munro worked as a foreign correspondent for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Russia, and Paris, then settled in London. Many of the stories from this period feature the elegant and effete Reginald and Clovis, who take heartless and cruel delight in the discomfort or downfall of their conventional and pretentious elders. In 1914 his novel When William Came was published, in which he portrayed what might happen if the German emperor conquered England.
At the start of World War I, although officially over age, Munro joined the Army as an ordinary soldier, refusing a commission. He was killed by a sniper on November 14, 1916 in France, near Beaumont-Hamel. Munro was sheltering in a shell crater and his last words, according to several sources, were "Put that damned cigarette out!" After his death his sister Ethel destroyed most of his papers and wrote her own account of their childhood.
Saki's work is in the public domain, and some of it can be found on the Web. Much of it was published posthumously.
Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
Some of his best-known short stories include:
Short Stories
At a train station, an arrogant and overbearing woman mistakes the mischievous Lady Carlotta for the governess she expected. Lady Carlotta, deciding not to correct the mistake, presents herself as a proponent of "the Scharz-Metterlume method" of making children understand history by acting it out themselves, and chooses a rather unsuitable historical episode for her first lesson.
Rather than giving their young boys toy soldiers and guns, a couple decides to give their sons "peace toys." When the packages are opened, young Bertie shouts "It's a fort!" and is disappointed when his father replies "It's a municipal dust-bin." The boys are initially baffled as to how to obtain any enjoyment from models of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poetess Mrs. Hemans, and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however.
A bachelor is irritated by badly-behaved children in a railway carriage ("the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite On the Road to Mandalay. She only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use"). He decides to tell them a story about a little girl named Bertha who is extraordinarily good—"horribly good." In the story's denouement, Bertha is hiding in some shrubbery from a pursuing wolf. She almost escapes, but she is wearing three medals—for obedience, punctuality, and good behavior. As she trembles with fear, her medals clink against each other and attract the attention of the wolf, who devours her. "The story began badly," says the smaller of the small girls, "but it had a beautiful ending."Books
Also: any of several monkeys of the genus Pithecia, of tropical South America, having a golden-brown to black, thick, shaggy coat and a long, bushy, nonprehensile tail.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saki."
Crosswords: Saki |
| English words defined with "Saki": Pithecoid, Platyrrhini ♦ superfamily Platyrrhini ♦ Yarke. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Saki": BIDENS PILOSA. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | His only rival was a man named Oroko Saki and they competed in all things but nothing more fiercely than the love for a woman, Thang Shin. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bondage Biography of Saki (1995) | |
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| "Saki" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Saki" 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 (proper) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Sweden | SakI AB |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
saki | 222 |
onodera saki | 44 |
saki set | 17 |
saki takaoka | 11 |
kagami saki | 9 |
saki kamishiro | 5 |
saki st jermaine | 5 |
japanese saki | 5 |
cup saki | 4 |
adam morgan saki | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Saki"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | saké (rice wine, saké), risvin (rice wine, saké). (various references) | |
Dutch | saké (saké, sake), rijstwijn (rice wine, saké, sake). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rizvino (sak@, sake). (various references) | |
French | saké (saké, sake), vin de riz (saké). (various references) | |
German | Sake (rice wine, saké, sake). (various references) | |
Greek | κρασί από ρύζι (rice wine, saké), σακέ (rice wine, saké). (various references) | |
Italian | saké (rice wine, saké), vino di riso (rice wine, saké). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akisay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saké (rice wine, saké), vinho de arroz (rice wine, saké). (various references) | |
Spanish | sake (rice wine, saké, sake), vino de arroz (rice wine, saké). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Saki": sakis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Saki": forsaking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Saki" (pronounced sÄ"kē) |
| 3 | -Ä" k ē | cocky, hockey, jockey, khaki, rocky, stocky, sukiyaki, teriyaki. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-k-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, ask, kas, ska, ski. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, is, ka, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-k-s" | |
+1 letter: askoi, haiks, ikats, kadis, kaifs, kails, kains, kakis, kinas, kivas, paiks, pikas, rakis, sakis. | |
+2 letters: alkies, alsike, asking, batiks, fakirs, gaskin, haikus, hakims, kafirs, kaiaks, kaiser, kalifs, kamiks, kamsin, kanjis, kauris, khadis, khakis, kiangs, kiblas, kinase, kishka, kismat, kraits, miskal, okapis, rakish, saluki, shikar, shiksa, sifaka, takins, tilaks, traiks, umiaks, vakils. | |
+3 letters: adzukis, aikidos, airsick, alfakis, alkalis, alkines, alsikes, anticks, arkosic, askesis, askings, asslike, bakings, banksia, basking, battiks, bhaktis, bipacks, britska, cakiest, calkins, carsick, casking, catkins, daikers, daikons, dakoits, darkies, darkish, dashiki, diktats, funkias, gasking, gaskins, gawkies, gawkish, hackies, hankies, hawkies, hawkish, hijacks, imbarks, imparks, intakes, jackies, kabikis, kabukis, kaddish, kaffirs, kainits, kaisers, kalians, kaliphs, kaliums, kalmias, kamsins, kaolins, karstic, kashmir, kations, kauries, kerrias, khalifs, khamsin, kiaughs, kiblahs, kidnaps, kinases, kinemas, kinsman, kishkas, kismats, knavish, kolbasi, kyanise, lakiest, lakings, larkish, makings, malkins, masking, mawkish, mikados, mikvahs, miskals, mismake, mismark, mistake, nankins, napkins, odalisk, oomiaks, peakish, pikakes, rankish, ricksha, rikisha, rikshaw, rumakis, sacking, saclike, salukis, sarkier, sawlike, seasick, shakier, shakily, shaking, shaslik, shicksa, shikari, shikars, shiksas, shitake, sickbay, sifakas, sinkage, skaldic, skating, skiable, skidway, skiwear, skysail, slaking, snakier, snakily, snaking, soaking, staking, takings, talkies, tanukis, tasking, troikas, umiacks, wakikis, weakish, zaikais. | |
+4 letters: airparks, akvavits, alkalies, alkalise, antimask, antiskid, asterisk, backfits, backings, backlist, backside, backslid, backspin, bakeries, bakshish, balkiest, bankings, banksias, bankside, barkiest, basilisk, beakiest, bearskin, beatniks, bidarkas, bikeways, blackish, bleakish, brackish, brakiest, britskas, britzkas, britzska, calfskin, canakins, canikins, capeskin, clarkias, comatiks, crankish, daishiki, dashikis, diebacks, fakeries, finbacks, finmarks, flakiest, flokatis, freakish, garpikes, gaskings, gawkiest, goatskin, gripsack, halakist, hawkings, hayricks, ikebanas, inkstand, jackfish, kachinas, kainites, kaiserin, kalimbas, kaolines, kartings, kashmirs, katcinas, katydids, kazatski, keitloas, keramics, keratins, khalifas, khamsins, khirkahs, kickshaw, kielbasa, kielbasi, kielbasy, kilobars, kilobase, kilorads, kissable, kissably, kitharas, kolbasis, kolbassi, komatiks, kyanised, kyanises, kyanites, kyanizes, ladykins, lakeside, lambkins, lambskin, landskip, lankiest, larkiest, latakias, leakiest, linkages, linksman, mafficks, manakins, manikins, markings, maskings, masklike, mastlike, mismakes, mismarks, misspeak, mistaken, mistaker, mistakes, nainsook, odalisks, oomiacks, packings, palikars, paprikas, parkings, pashalik, pawkiest, peakiest, pickaxes, prankish, quackish, quackism, quakiest, rakishly, ramekins, rampikes, rankings, ranpikes, rashlike, ratfinks, rickshas, rickshaw, rikishas, rikshaws, sackings, sacklike, saltlike, sandlike, sarkiest, scablike, seallike, sealskin, seamlike, selamlik, shakiest, shanking, sharking, shashlik, shasliks, shicksas, shiitake, shikaree, shikaris, shitakes, sickbays, sidewalk, sinkable, sinkages, sitzmark, skatings, skiagram, skidways, skinhead, skipjack, skiplane, skoaling, skysails, slablike, slacking, smacking, snacking, snaglike, snakebit, snakiest, snarkier, sneakier, sneakily, sneaking, soaplike, souvlaki, spanking, sparkier, sparkily, sparking, sparkish, sparlike, speaking, stacking, stalkier, stalkily, stalking, starlike, staticky, stickman, stinkard, stokesia, stotinka, sukiyaki, swankier, swankily, swanking, swanlike, swanskin, swastika, tackiest, tailskid, talkiest, talkings, tamarisk, tankship, tiebacks, titlarks, tripacks, twankies, unakites, vaselike, wackiest, walkings, wasplike, weakfish, weakside, wickapes, zikurats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6B 69 |
| 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)01010011 01100001 01101011 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a k i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006B 0069 |
| 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)53677775 |
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