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Definition: Saussure |
SaussureNoun1. Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Saussure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonym: SaussureSynonym: de Saussure (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Saussure |
| English words defined with "Saussure": de Saussure ♦ Ferdinand de Saussure ♦ sign. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Saussure": Sappare, Saussurite. (references) |
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 | Figure 38. Hygrometer register, built to record variations in relative humidity. The hygrometer is built on principles discovered by Horace Benedict Saussure in 1783 and uses the changes in length of human hair and animal hair with humidity to derive relative humidity. The exact age of this recording instrument is unknown.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) / Cl. Julien.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Ferdinand De Saussure | A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. |
| Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. | |
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| "Saussure" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.36% of the time. "Saussure" is used about 56 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) | 80.36% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.07% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Saussure": de Saussure ♦ Ferdinand de Saussure. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ferdinand de saussure | 41 |
saussure | 33 |
de saussure | 7 |
ferdinand saussure | 4 |
biography de ferdinand saussure | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-s-s-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: assures. | |
-2 letters: assure, aureus, uraeus, urases, uruses. | |
-3 letters: arses, asses, aures, rases, ruses, sears, suers, suras, urase, ureas, ursae, users. | |
-4 letters: ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, rues, ruse, sass, sear, seas, sera, sers, suer, sues, sura, sure, suss, urea, ursa, urus, user, uses. | |
-5 letters: are, ars, ass, ear, eau, era, ers, ess, ras, res, rue, sae, sau, sea, ser, sue, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-s-s-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: rousseaus. | |
+2 letters: chaussures, trousseaus. | |
+3 letters: arduousness, raucousness, stegosaurus, subsurfaces, sugarhouses, surplusages, thesauruses, unsurpassed. | |
+4 letters: acupressures, allosauruses, suburbanises, summersaults. | |
+5 letters: apatosauruses, arduousnesses, garrulousness, rapturousness, raucousnesses, stegosauruses, subtreasuries, superstratums, unsurpassable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 75 73 73 75 72 65 |
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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 01110101 01110011 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a u s s u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0075 0073 0073 0075 0072 0065 |
| 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)5367878585878471 |
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