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SIGNIFICATE

Definition: SIGNIFICATE

SIGNIFICATE

Noun

1. One of several things signified by a common term.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Significate \Sig*nif"i*cate\, noun. [Latin expression significatus, past participle of significare. See Signify.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SIGNIFICATE

English words defined with "SIGNIFICATE": Consignificative. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SIGNIFICATE

"SIGNIFICATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SIGNIFICATE" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Rhyming with "SIGNIFICATE"

Words rhyming with "SIGNIFICATE" (pronounced 'Sig*nif"i*cate'): Aberuncate, Abjudicate, Affricate, Allocate, Altercate, Amplificate, Appendicate, Apricate, Arsenicate, Authenticate, Averruncate, Avocate, Baccate, Beatificate, Biplicate, Bisaccate, Bisilicate, Bisulcate, Borosilicate, Braccate, Canonicate, Carucate, Cate, Centuplicate, Conculcate, Conduplicate, Conspurcate, Contortuplicate, Contraindicate, Convocate, Coruscate, Crebrisulcate, Decorticate, Embrocate, Fimbricate, fluosilicate, Forficate, hypothecate, implicate, imprecate, inculcate, indelicate, indicate, Infucate, infuscate, lubricate, Magnificate, manducate, Manicate, masticate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SIGNIFICATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-i-i-n-s-t"

-3 letters: canities, citifies, faceting, fanciest, feasting, ignifies, isatinic.

-4 letters: acetins, actings, cagiest, casting, ceasing, cineast, easting, eatings, facings, fainest, fancies, fascine, fasting, feasing, fiances, finites, fisting, ignites, incages, incites, infects, ingates, ingesta, isatine, nifties, seating, sifting, teasing.

-5 letters: acetin, acting, actins, ageist, agents, anisic, antics, ascent, casein, casing, casini, centai, centas, cities, citing, easing.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-i-i-n-s-t"
 

+2 letters: significative.

 

+4 letters: gentrifications.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SIGNIFICATE


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

53 49 47 4E 49 46 49 43 41 54 45

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 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001001 01000110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#71 &#78 &#73 &#70 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0047 004E 0049 0046 0049 0043 0041 0054 0045

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

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

5343414843404337355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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