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Definition: Sept |
SeptNoun1. The month following August and preceding October. 2. People descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Sept" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Note: Sept \Sept\, noun. [A corruption of sect, noun.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sept A clan (Latin, septum, a fold), all the cattle, or all the voters, in a given enclosure. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A sept is a division of a family, especially a division of a clan.
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Synonyms: SeptSynonyms: family (n), family line (n), folk (n), kinfolk (n), kinsfolk (n), phratry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Class | Kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin. |
Consanguinity | Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. |
Paternity | House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sept |
| English words defined with "Sept": hit ♦ Revolutionary calendar ♦ strike. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Sept": Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language ♦ CDL, Chip Scale Packaging, Contextually Communicating Sequential Processes ♦ EPSIMONE ♦ Interactive Voice Response ♦ MLISP, MultiScheme ♦ Novell, Inc. ♦ Oberon-2 ♦ P-TAC ♦ SCL ♦ Tcode. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Sept": Septfoil. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sept" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (seven), French Canadian (seven), Romanian (septum). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sept jours (1974) Les Bottes de sept lieues (1971) Sept su sept (1971) Der Leone have sept cabecas (1969) Sept jours ailleurs (1968) | |
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This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Reginald Fessenden and his electric oscillator, the first acoustic device to receive echoes from the bottom as well as from an obstruction in the water. The oscillator was designed as an underwater signalling, communication, and obstruction avoidance device. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | |
![]() | Images relating to acoustic signaling by means of Regald Fessenden's electric oscillator. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | A large passenger ship with its Fessenden oscillator in the water ready for use. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | The United States Revenue Cutter MIAMI close to an iceberg similar to that which destroyed the TITANIC. On April 27, 1914, Fessenden oscillator was tested off the MIAMI and received signals both from an ice berg and the bottom. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | 09/28/00 - More than 400 people witnessed the unveiling of the first X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Sept. 27, at the Boeing Aircraft Company, Lambert Field, St. Louis, Mo. (Courtesy of Boeing). |
![]() | The second of two unarmed Minuteman III missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Sept. 28 at 3:01 a.m. PDT. The two missiles were a part of the Force Development Evaluation Program and tested the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon system. | ![]() | The Air Force Academy Falcons special teams unit blocked two point after attempts in their loss to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels, Sept. 30. The Rebels outscored the Falcons 34-13 after the Falcons failed to score in the second half. (P.; photo by.. |
![]() | The first of two unarmed AGM-30 Minuteman III missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Sept. 28 at 1:01 a.m. PDT. The two missiles were a part of the Force Development Evaluation Program and tested the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon. | ![]() | Gen. Michael E. Ryan, Air Force chief of staff, told members of Congress Sept. 27, the Air Force needs $20 to $30 billion a year to solve its readiness challenges. He cited operations tempo, past underfunding of spares, aging infrastructure and aircraft a. |
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| "London" by Tanel Viksi Commentary: "One estonian guy in london sept. 2003." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I remember it was written from Weymouth, and dated Sept. |
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Business | In Sept. 30th, 1998, EGAT recorded a cumulative achievement of 1.64 million tons reduction in CO2 output. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | There reportedly was no action taken against the responsible members of the security forces who tortured, beat, raped, or otherwise abused the persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a journalist; the September rape of two girls; the June beating of Amelie, a female soccer player; the June injuring of several persons when a grenade thrown by a gendarme exploded in a bar; the June beating of Beatrice Elouga, the June assault of numerous citizens; the May torturing of Achille Tehoumba Heubo; the May beating of Madeleine Ngo Songane; the May torturing to death of Mathew Titiahonjo; the May beating of several student demonstrators; the April beating and torturing of a foreign volunteer teacher; the April injuring of Cecile Ngono; the April beating of Nicole Ajong; the April beating of parishioners at Notre Dame De Sept Douleurs; the March torturing of Jean Paul Kentsa and two others; the January injuring and beating of several students when a demonstration was dispersed forcibly; and the January torturing of customs inspector Vincent Nkengfue. (references) |
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| "Sept" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.15% of the time. "Sept" is used about 206 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) | 95.15% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 206 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Sept" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sept | Last name | 170 | 45,481 |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Sept": Sept-nov, Sept-oct. | |
Ending with "Sept": Mid-sept. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Sept"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Klan (clan, race, stock, tribe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Ирландско Племе, Ирландски Род. (various references) | |
Chinese | 9月 (SEP, September). (various references) | |
Czech | Září (September). (various references) | |
German | September (September). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Szeptember (September), Hét (seven, week). (various references) | |
Korean | 9 월 (SEP). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eptsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clã (clan). (various references) | |
Romanian | Trib (family, tribe), Clan (clan, clique, set, tribe). (various references) | |
Russian | септ, Клан, ирландский клан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bratstvo (brotherhood, fraternity, sodality). (various references) | |
Swedish | Septett (septette). (various references) | |
Turkish | Eylül (september). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Sept": septa, septal, septaria, septarium, septate, septenarii, septenarius, septendecillion, septendecillions, septennial, septennially, septentrion, septentrional, septentrions, septet, septets, septette, septettes, septic, septical, septicemia, septicemias, septicemic, septicidal, septics, septillion, septillions, septime, septimes, septs, septuagenarian, septuagenarians, septum, septums, septuple, septupled, septuples, septupling. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Sept": transept. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Sept": antiseptic, antiseptically, antiseptics, aseptic, aseptically, nonseptate, transeptal, transepts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Sept" (pronounced se"pt) |
| 4 | s e" p t | accept, except, intercept. |
| 3 | -e" p t | adept, crept, inept, kept, leaped, leapt, overslept, prepped, slept, stepped, swept, wept. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pest, pets, step. | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pes, pet, set. | |
-2 letters: es, et, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: estop, paste, pates, peats, pelts, pesto, pests, pesty, piste, poets, prest, septa, septs, setup, slept, spate, spelt, spent, spite, steep, steps, stipe, stope, strep, stupe, swept, tapes, temps, tepas, topes, types, upset. | |
+2 letters: adepts, aptest, aspect, depots, depths, despot, epacts, erupts, esprit, estops, etapes, expats, getups, instep, letups, netops, palest, palets, pasted, pastel, paster, pastes, pastie, patens, paters, peseta, pester, pestle, pestos, petals, peters, petsai, pewits, pietas, pipets, pistes, pities, plates, pleats, pontes, posset, posted, poster, potsie, prates, preset, presto, prests, priest, ptoses, purest, putzes, repast, repots, respot, ripest, sapote, septal, septet, septic, septum, setups, sexpot, sippet, sopite, spates, spathe, spelts, speltz, spinet, spited, spites, splent, sprent, sprite, stapes, staple, steeps, steppe, stiped, stipel, stipes, stoped, stoper, stopes, streps, stripe, stupes, tapers, taupes, tempos, tempts, tepals, tepees, tepoys, topees, topers, tophes, trapes, tripes, tropes, twerps, unstep, upsent, upsets, upstep. | |
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