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Definition: Sedentary |
SedentaryAdjective1. Used of persons or actions; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sedentary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Avian | Not migratory; see also resident (Welty 1975:46). (references) |
Health | 1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits. 2. pertaining to a sitting posture. (references) |
Mining | Formed in place, without transportation, by the disintegration of the underlying rock or by the accumulation of organic material; said of somesoils, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sedentary |
| English words defined with "sedentary": ascidian ♦ polyp ♦ Sedentarily, Sedentariness, Sedentary spider. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sedentary": bioherm ♦ effective temperature ♦ Resting metabolic rate, RMR ♦ sedentary soil. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Finally, Americans are increasingly overweight and sedentary. (references) | |
Sedentary jobs and lifestyles may create a vulnerability to this type of stress or damage. (references) | ||
Lifestyle factors that significantly aggravate hypertriglyceri-demia and low HDL-C levels are obesity, smoking, and sedentary lifestyle. (references) | ||
Economic History | Iran | The earliest sedentary cultures date from 18,000-14,000 years ago. (references) |
Niger | Both groups are sedentary farmers who live in the arable, southern tier. (references) | |
Mauritania | During the colonial period, the population remained nomadic, but sedentary black Africans, whose ancestors had been expelled centuries earlier by the Moors, began to trickle back into southern Mauritania. (references) | |
Minorities | Vietnam | The Government admits that one of the goals of resettlement is to impel the minorities to change from traditional swidden agricultural methods to sedentary agriculture. (references) |
Mauritania | Ethnic and cultural tension and discrimination arise from the geographic and cultural line between traditionally nomadic Arabic-speaking (Hassaniya) Moor herders and Peuhl herders of the Halpulaar group in the north and center, and sedentary cultivators of the Halpulaar (Toucouleur), Soninke, and Wolof ethnic groups in the south. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sedentary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sedentary" is used about 140 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 140 | 26,789 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sedentary": sedentary bird ♦ sedentary occupation ♦ sedentary soil ♦ sedentary spider. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sedentary": non-sedentary, semi-sedentary. | |
| 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 |
sedentary | 21 |
lifestyle sedentary | 7 |
being death kiss period sedentary | 5 |
sedentary work | 4 |
runner sedentary | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sedentary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ulur (cut, depressed, reduced, seated, sitting), i ndenjur (stagnant, stale, superincumbent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كثير الجلوس, غير مهاجر, غير مترحل, جالس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | седнал, непрелетен (resident), неподвижно прикрепен (sessile), неимиграционен, заседнал (aground, stranded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 惯座. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sedavý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inaktiv (inactive), fastboende (stationary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sedentair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقیم دریک جا, نشسته , غیرمهاجر, غیرمتحرک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vakituinen asukas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sédentaire, sédantaire, sédentaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seßhaft (sedentarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθιστικόσ, μόνιμος (abiding, enduring, permanent, resident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כרוך בישיב". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leülepedett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sedentario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 座職 (sedentary work), 座業 (sedentary work), 坐像 (sedentary statue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ざぞう (seated figure, sedentary statue), ざぎょう (sedentary work), ざしょく (living in idleness, sedentary work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 앉아 있". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soiederagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edentarysay sedentário (sit down). (various references) stabil (durable, firm, fixed, fixedly, lasting, permanent, set, settled, solid, sound, stable, standing, steadfast, steady), sedentar (stationary). (various references) сидячий (sedent, sessile, sit down, sit-down). (various references) sedentaran. (various references) sedentario (domestically). (various references) stillasittande person, stillasittande, bofast. (various references) ซึ่งไม่เคลื่อนไหว, ซึ่งคุ้นเคยกับการนั่ง. (various references) yerleşmiş (confirmed, domicilled, engrained, established, ingrained, inveterate, situate, situated, staple), yerleşik (based, entrenched, prescriptive, settled, situate, situated, stationary), oturmuş (fitted, seated, settled, steady), oturarak yapılan, oturan (dweller, inhabitant, occupant, occupier, resident, sitting), hep evde oturan. (various references) сидячий (sitting), малорухомий, постійний (abiding, blue, certain, changeless, chronic, constant, continual, frequent, hourly, immanent, never failing, perdurable, permanent, regular, settled, standing, stationary, steady, uniform). (various references) người hay ở nh con nhện nằm chờ m"i, ng"i ở một chỗ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sedentarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "sedentary": semisedentary. (additional references) | |
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"Sedentary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sedantary, sedendary, sedentry, sedetary, sedintary, seedtray, sendentary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sedentary" (pronounced se"dunte'rē) |
| 6 | -u n t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, dignitary, hereditary, interplanetary, military, monastery, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, salutary, sanitary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unsanitary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: andesyte, estrayed, yearends. | |
-2 letters: deanery, dearest, derates, earnest, eastern, endears, nearest, redates, sedater, standee, stander, strayed, styrene, tenders, yearend, yearned, yeasted, yestern. | |
-3 letters: anteed, antres, ardent, aretes, astern, daters, denars, denary, denser, derate, derats, derays, desert, deters, dryest, dynast, earned, easter, eaters, eatery, enates, endear, enders, entera, enters, erased, estray, neared, neater, nested. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: sedimentary. | |
+3 letters: dynamometers, hydrogenates, restrainedly, stonyhearted. | |
+4 letters: considerately, dynamometries, nearsightedly, residentially, semisedentary, transcendency, underlayments, underpayments, understatedly. | |
+5 letters: dehydrogenates, presidentially, transcendently, undersecretary, unrestrainedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 64 65 6E 74 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.. . -. - .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e d e n t a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0064 0065 006E 0074 0061 0072 0079 |
| 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)537170718086678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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