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Definition: VENTURED |
VENTUREDImperative & past participle1. Of Venture |
Date "VENTURED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: VENTURED |
| English words defined with "VENTURED": carefully, cautiously ♦ embark ♦ The last cast ♦ venture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VENTURED": Fashion ♦ Quidnunkis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That the study belongs to you exclusively is evident from the dust: not even the maid is permitted here, else she would scarcely have ventured to let matters come to this pass. (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) You know what they say, 'Nothing ventured, nothing ventured. (Let It Ride; writing credit: Nancy Dowd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Something Ventured (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I ventured to kiss his tousled hair.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. |
Oliver Goldsmith | To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | At last the Professor ventured on a gentle suggestion. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He ventured to raise his eyes, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And the sergeant ventured out of the post with stealthy tread. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This I ventured to tell the author, and offered if he pleased to supply him with some additions. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The three private domestic carriers have also now ventured into the profitable international routes. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | However, on several occasions, local police detained and fined foreigners whom police found had ventured too close to international borders and other sensitive military areas. (references) |
Economic History | Croatia | Some wholesalers have ventured into the retail sector as well. (references) |
India | While some foreign companies have ventured into smaller cities, the numbers are increasing slowly. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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| "VENTURED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.45% of the time. "VENTURED" is used about 368 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 77.45% | 285 | 17,262 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.55% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Total | 100.00% | 368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "VENTURED": nothing ventured nothing gained. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
nothing ventured | 15 |
gained nothing nothing ventured | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "VENTURED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | '险 (Adventure, Adventured, Adventuring, Adventurous, Hazarded, Hazarding, Risked, Risking, Venturing). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wagte heraus, riskierte (chanced, risked), gewagt (bold, dared, daring, hazardous, off color, racy, reckless, risked, risky, risque, venturesome, wildcat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 감행하". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | enturedvay осмеливаться (dare, dares, presume). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "VENTURED": adventured. (additional references) | |
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"VENTURED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dentured, vendure, ventre, ventrue, ventue, venturen, venured. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VENTURED" (pronounced ve"nkherd) |
| 5 | -e" n kh er d | indentured. |
| 3 | -kh er d | butchered, captured, caricatured, cultured, denatured, echard, enraptured, featured, fractured, gestured, lectured, manufactured, natured, nurtured, orchard, pictured, punctured, recaptured, remanufactured, restructured, ruptured, sculptured, structured, textured, tortured. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: denture, retuned, tenured, venture. | |
-2 letters: endure, enured, nerved, neuter, rented, retune, tender, tenure, tureen, turned, vender, vendue, vented, venter. | |
-3 letters: deter, duvet, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, event, evert, nerve, never, nuder, rente, revet, revue, terne, treed, treen, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, undee, under, venue, vertu. | |
-4 letters: deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, dree, duet, dune, dunt, dure, durn, erne, even, ever, need, nerd, neve, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rent, rete, rude, rued, rune, runt, teed, teen, tend, tern, tree, true, tune, turd, turn, unde, veer, vend, vent, vert. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, dev, due, dun, end, ere, ern, eve, nee, net, nut, red, ree, ret, rev, rue, run, rut, ted, tee, ten, tun, urd, urn, vee, vet. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: adventure. | |
+2 letters: adventured, adventurer, adventures, overhunted, overturned, untraveled. | |
+3 letters: adventurers, adventuress, overcounted, rejuvenated, unconverted, underactive, unharvested, untraversed, volunteered. | |
+4 letters: circumvented, countermoved, misadventure, overdocument, peradventure, unadvertised. | |
+5 letters: adventuresome, adventuresses, countervailed, misadventures, outdelivering, outmaneuvered, overcautioned, overdocuments, overeducating, overeducation, overindulgent, peradventures, reductiveness, unabbreviated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 4E 54 55 52 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . -. - ..- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E N T U R E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 004E 0054 0055 0052 0045 0044 |
| 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)5639485455523938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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