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SINON

"SINON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a breast-plate", "deliverance".

Date "SINON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: SINON

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Literature

Sinon A Greek who induced the Trojans to receive the wooden horse. (Virgil: AEneid, ii. 102, etc.) Anyone leceiving to betray is called "a Sinon."
"And now securely trusting to destroy,
As erst false Sinon snared the sons of Troy."
Camoëus: Lusiad, bk. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Sinon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, Sinon was a Greek warrior during the Trojan War. He pretended to have deserted the Greeks and joined the Trojans and convinced them to bring the Trojan Horse into the city (against the advice of Cassandra and Laocoon). Inside the giant wooden horse were Greek soldiers, who pillaged the city at night.

Virgil II, 77

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sinon."

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Crosswords: SINON

Non-English Usage: "SINON" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (alternatively, else, or else, otherwise).

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Commercial Usage: SINON

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Books

  • Diccionario Sinon Ideas Afines/ Anton./ Paronimos/ Rima (reference)

  • Leurre de vérité : roman de fiction sinon de science (reference)

  • Un Rocard, sinon rien! (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: SINON

AuthorQuotation

Phaedrus

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: SINON

The following table summarizes the usage of "SINON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SinonLast name17042,072
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SINON

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

rhoads sinon

7

group sinon

5

sinon

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SINON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-n-n-o-s"

-1 letter: inns, ions.

-2 letters: inn, ins, ion, nos, ons, sin, son.

-3 letters: in, is, no, on, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: anions, conins, inions, nasion, ninons, nitons, nosing, onions, pinons, unions, unison.

 

+2 letters: amnions, anoints, benison, bunions, conines, consign, donnish, enjoins, fanions, intones, introns, ionones, mansion, mignons, minions, minnows, nasions, nations, noggins, noising, nonskid, nonslip, nonsuit, noosing, noshing, nosings, notions, nuncios, onanism, onanist, opsonin, pension, pinions, pinones, pinyons, ronions, saponin, snoring, snowing, solanin, sonnies, sorning, spongin, stoning, tension, tonnish, unisons, unnoisy, venison, wanions, winnows.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SINON


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

53 49 4E 4F 4E

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)

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

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

01010011 01001001 01001110 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#78 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004E 004F 004E

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

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

5343484948

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INDEX

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


  

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