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Definition: TECHNICALITIES |
TECHNICALITIESPlural1. Of Technicality |
Date "TECHNICALITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Public Administration | Calque de l'anglais. . le mot technicalités. . désigne "les substilités de la loi ou d'un règlement, les artifices de procédures, etc. " (Daviault). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TECHNICALITIES |
| Specialty definitions using "TECHNICALITIES": merits. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This has to do with the technicalities of the Greek system for assessing taxpayers' taxable income. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | The IHROU reported that the Government repeatedly had denied all previous attempts based on bureaucratic technicalities. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The mayor had publicly opposed the return of Bosniaks and had threatened to dismantle several Bosniak houses reconstructed by NGO's over minor legal technicalities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | The local procurator's office also forbade her homeless daughter and two grandchildren to live with her, apparently on fabricated legal technicalities. (references) |
Political Economy | Kuwait | The courts have several times dismissed on technicalities cases in which women claimed the right to vote or to register to vote. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | The activists claimed that the two remaining cases are not vulnerable to the technicalities that caused previous suits to be dismissed. (references) |
Worker Rights | Panama | Corruption, legal technicalities, and lack of resources contribute to the Government's inability to combat the problem fully. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | There is a belief abroad that by invoking technicalities, subterfuge, and delay, the ends of justice may be thwarted by those who can pay the cost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "TECHNICALITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.04% of the time. "TECHNICALITIES" is used about 104 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 (plural) | 99.04% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TECHNICALITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | çështje teknike. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | специална терминология (lingo), технически подробности (technics). (various references) | |
Chinese | "业性质 (technicality). (various references) | |
Czech | detail (close up, detail, inset, particular). (various references) | |
French | subtilités, questions de forme, points de détail. (various references) | |
German | Formsachen. (various references) | |
Hungarian | alakiságok. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | echnicalitiestay.(various references) | |
Romanian | tehnicã (mechanism, technicals, technics, technique). (various references) | |
Russian | специальная терминология (technology). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tehnikalije. (various references) | |
Spanish | tecnicalidades. (various references) | |
Ukranian | спеціальна термінологія (technology). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"TECHNICALITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: technicalaties, thechnicalities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TECHNICALITIES" (pronounced te'knuka"lutēz) |
| 7 | -k a" l u t ē z | localities. |
| 6 | -a" l u t ē z | abnormalities, banalities, brutalities, causalities, commonalities, fatalities, formalities, generalities, illegalities, legalities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, personalities, principalities, realities, tonalities. |
| 5 | -l u t ē z | abilities, availabilities, capabilities, disabilities, disability, facilities, fidelities, hostilities, inequalities, infidelities, instabilities, liabilities, possibilities, probabilities, qualities, responsibilities, sensibilities, utilities, vulnerabilities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, calamities, capacities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, festivities, fraternities, gratuities, humanities, humanity, identities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequities, infirmities, insecurities, intensities, irregularities, liquidities, majorities, maturities, minorities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, pieties, priorities, proclivities, propensities, quantities, rarities, rigidities, securities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, unfamiliarities, universities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-i-i-l-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: ethicalities. | |
-3 letters: calisthenic, esthetician, ethnicities, lecithinase, licentiates. | |
-4 letters: anesthetic, anthelices, antielites, chiliastic, helicities, latinities, licentiate, technicals, tenacities, theistical. | |
-5 letters: aesthetic, anilities, antielite, atheistic, athletics, canticles, catchiest, catechins, catechist, chanciest, enclitics, ethicians, hesitance, inelastic, initiates, insectile, italicise, latencies, leachiest, lecithins, sciential, technical, tentacles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 45 43 48 4E 49 43 41 4C 49 54 49 45 53 |
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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)- . -.-. .... -. .. -.-. .- .-.. .. - .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000101 01000011 01001000 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E C H N I C A L I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 0043 0048 004E 0049 0043 0041 004C 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)5439374248433735464354433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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