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SEMIOLOGY

Definitions: SEMIOLOGY

SEMIOLOGY

1. Alt. of Semiological

Noun

1. The art of using signs in signaling.

2. The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.

3. The science or art of signs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SEMIOLOGY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Indication

Noun: indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics; Zeitgeist.

Interpretation

Symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography; (philology); oneirology

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SEMIOLOGY

English words defined with "SEMIOLOGY": Semeiology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SEMIOLOGY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Elements of Semiology (reference)

  • Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process : In Psychology, Semiology, and Philosophy (reference)

  • Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre (reference)

  • Phenomenology of Communication: Merleau Ponty's Thematics in Communicology and Semiology (reference)

  • Phenomenology, Structuralism, Semiology (Bucknell Review, V. 22, No. 1) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SEMIOLOGY

"SEMIOLOGY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "SEMIOLOGY" is used about 27 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)96.3%2668,323
Noun (common)3.7%1339,140
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SEMIOLOGY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  semiology

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SEMIOLOGY

Language Translations for "SEMIOLOGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

semiologie. (various references)

   

Italian

  

semiologia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emiologysay

   

Spanish

  

semiología (semeiology). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

semiyoloji (semeiology, semiotics), hastalık belirtileri bilimi (semeiology, semiotics). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

семіологія (semeiology, semeiotics, semiotics), симптоматологія (semeiology). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SEMIOLOGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: myologies.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-y"

-1 letter: misology.

-2 letters: mooleys, ologies, semilog.

-3 letters: egoism, gimels, glimes, glooms, gloomy, golems, goosey, igloos, isolog, limeys, looeys, looies, molies, mooley, osmole, smiley.

-4 letters: gimel, gismo, gleys, glime, glims, gloms, gloom, golem, gooey, goose, goosy, goyim, igloo, limes, limey, limos, loges, logoi, logos, looey, looie, looms, loose, miles, milos, moils, moles, mools, moose, mosey, ogles.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-y"
 

+1 letter: mycologies, seismology, semeiology, zymologies.

 

+2 letters: etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, hymnologies, mythologies, semasiology, symbologies.

 

+3 letters: embryologies, embryologist, enzymologies, enzymologist, epistemology, etymologised, etymologises, etymologists, etymologizes, mythologizes.

 

+4 letters: embryologists, enzymologists, etymologising, martyrologies, myrmecologies, myrmecologist, mythologizers, sedimentology.

 

+5 letters: demythologizes, monoglycerides, myrmecologists, oxyhemoglobins, remythologizes, semiologically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SEMIOLOGY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 4D 49 4F 4C 4F 47 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    --    ..    ---    .-..    ---    --.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01001101 01001001 01001111 01001100 01001111 01000111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#71 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004D 0049 004F 004C 004F 0047 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533947434946494159

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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