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Definitions: SEMIOLOGY |
SEMIOLOGY1. Alt. of Semiological Noun1. 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. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: SEMIOLOGY |
| English words defined with "SEMIOLOGY": Semeiology. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (common) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
semiology | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SEMIOLOGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | semiologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | semiologia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emiologysay semiología (semeiology). (various references) semiyoloji (semeiology, semiotics), hastalık belirtileri bilimi (semeiology, semiotics). (various references) семіологія (semeiology, semeiotics, semiotics), симптоматологія (semeiology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 4D 49 4F 4C 4F 47 59 |
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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 01000101 01001101 01001001 01001111 01001100 01001111 01000111 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E M I O L O G Y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533947434946494159 |
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