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Definition: TMESIS |
TMESISNoun1. The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place. |
Date "TMESIS" was first used: 1577. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inversion | Transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Examples:
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Crosswords: TMESIS |
| English words defined with "TMESIS": Diacope. (references) |
| 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 |
tmesis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TMESIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tmezis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összetett szó részeinek elválasztása. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esistmay tmese. (various references) тмезис. (various references) umetanje reči između delova složenice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | tmesis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: misset, smites, stimes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: emits, items, metis, mises, mists, mites, seism, semis, sites, smite, stems, sties, stime, times. | |
-2 letters: emit, isms, item, mess, mise, miss, mist, mite, seis, semi, sets, sims, site, sits, smit, stem, ties, time. | |
-3 letters: ems, ess, ism, its, met, mis, sei, set, sim, sis, sit, tie, tis. | |
-4 letters: em, es, et, is, it, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bemists, kismets, metisse, miseats, misseat, missent, missets, misstep, misters, mitises, mitoses, samites, smiters, somites, stimies, stymies, tamises, theisms, tsimmes. | |
+2 letters: amitoses, amosites, asterism, atheisms, atomises, casteism, chemists, diastems, distomes, egotisms, elitisms, erotisms, etatisms, exotisms, filmsets, impastes, imprests, itemises, leftisms, litmuses, mantises, massiest, mastixes, matiness, meshiest, mesquits, messiest, mestinos, mestizas, mestizos, metisses, metrists, mindsets, minsters, miscites, misdates, misedits, mismates, mismeets, misrates, misseats, misspelt, misspent, misstate, missteer, missteps, misstyle, mistakes, mistends, misterms, mistiest, mistimes, mistress, mistunes, mistypes, modistes, moistens, moistest, mortises, mossiest, mousiest, mushiest, muskiest, mussiest, mustiest, ostomies, pastimes, pietisms, seamiest, semisoft, semitist, sentimos, septimes, simplest, slimiest, slimmest, smarties, smithers, smithies, smokiest, spumiest, subitems, systemic, timeless, trimness, trisemes, trisomes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4D 45 53 49 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010100 01001101 01000101 01010011 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T M E S I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004D 0045 0053 0049 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)544739534353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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