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Definition: WEEN

WEEN

Intransitive verb

1. To think; to imagine; to fancy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WEEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Synonyms within Context: WEEN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Belief

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Judgment

Deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween.

Knowledge

Verb: know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware; Adjective:- of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Ween

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ween is a name of an Alternative, Comedy Rock & Roll and an Indie group. They were formed in the mid-1980s when Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman met in a high school typing class. They christened themselves with psuedonames Dean Ween and Gene Ween respectively, drawing on such punk surname collectives as the Ramones.

Their earliest recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as the Beatles, Prince, Butthole Surfers, and the lo-fi punk movement. Signed to Twin-Tone records in 1990, they released "God Ween Satan: The Oneness", a 26-track smorgasbord of genre jumping and wild, silly eclecticism. Ween, often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and They Might Be Giants would always eschew such comparisons.

1991's "The Pod" became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademarked part of their sound. Their highest reaching single, "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992) gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butthead. The album "Pure Guava" was the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, followed by the 1994 release "Chocolate & Cheese", heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as "Freedom of '76" and "Voodoo Lady". Beginning at this time, Ween expanded its live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using drum machines & tape playback to provide backings for their songs.)

Ween turned to Nashville, Tennessee studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited "12 Golden Country Greats" (1996), followed by the nautically themed "The Mollusk" (1997). Their desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release "Craters of the Sac" (1999), presented by Dean for online download and free trade. Elektra Records released a live compilation entitled "Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live" in 1999, followed by "White Pepper" (2000), their final studio set for Elektra.

Ween also formed their own label at this time, Chocodog Records, which oversaw the release of two self-produced live sets. Short in pressing, they became instant collector's items. The two signed to Sanctuary Records in 2003 and released "Quebec", their first studio set in 3 years.

Various outside collaborations have also ensued over the years. Dean is a member of the heavy metal side project Moistboyz, and Ween has composed pieces for The X-Files Soundtrack, Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, and the Grounded For Life TV theme. They have also worked with Rob Vaughn and Queens of the Stone Age, among others.

Group Members

Various members from 1994 on

Discography

Early demo tapes & self-produced recordings (1986-1989): US Releases (1990-present):

External Links

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

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Crosswords: WEEN

English words defined with "WEEN": MisweenWene. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WEEN": Nibelungen Hoard. (references)
Etymologies containing "WEEN": MisweenWene. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WEEN

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Expression: WEEN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "WEEN": bet-ween.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WEEN

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.
 
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  cheese chocolate ween

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  ween merchandise

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

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Modern Translations: WEEN

Language Translations for "WEEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, whack), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand), besoj (accredit, believe, calculate, commit, confide, consign, credit, entrust, guess, hold, intrust, rely, Trow, trust, understand). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, figure, find, guess, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, work), очаквам (abide, anticipate, apprehend, await, contemplate, envisage, expect, hope, wait, watch), надявам се (expect, hope, rest), мисля (deliberate, figure, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, weigh), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for). (various references)

   

French

  

erspérer. (various references)

   

German

  

hoffen (hope, to hope, trust). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρονώ (think). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

képzel (imagine, to conceit, to fancy, to suppose). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sperare (expect, hope, plan). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheilym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eenway

   

Portuguese

  

supor (assume, conjecture, consider, dream up, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, make peace, presume, see, suppose, surmise, think), ser de opinião, crer (accredit, believe, confide, deem, entrust, fancy, have confidence in, judge, suppose, Trow, trust). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se gândi (brood, consider, muse, see, study for, study on, think). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

думать (deem, dream, think, trow). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smatrati (consider, deem, look on, regard, take, think), pretpostavljati (believe, conjecture, guess, presume). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WEEN

Derivations

Words beginning with "WEEN": weened, weenie, weenier, weenies, weeniest, weening, weens, weensier, weensiest, weensy, weeny. (additional references)

Words ending with "WEEN": atween, between, overween, tween. (additional references)

Words containing "WEEN": betweenbrain, betweenbrains, betweenness, betweennesses, betweentimes, betweenwhiles, overweened, overweening, overweeningly, overweens, sweenies, sweeny, tweenies, tweeny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WEEN"

Words ending with "een": fleen, Gleen, Skreen, Streen, Wheen. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WEEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-w"

-1 letter: ewe, nee, new, wee, wen.

-2 letters: en, ne, we.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-w"
 

+1 letter: newel, newer, newie, ngwee, renew, tween, weens, weeny, wheen.

 

+2 letters: atween, deewan, erenow, nephew, newbie, newels, newest, newies, newsie, pawnee, renews, resewn, sweeny, sweven, townee, tweeny, weaken, weaned, weaner, wedeln, weened, weenie, weensy, weiner, wended, wheens, whence, wiener, wienie.

 

+3 letters: between, crewmen, deewans, eiswein, endowed, endower, endwise, entwine, enwheel, eyewink, fewness, inweave, nephews, newbies, newness, newsier, newsies, newsmen, nowhere, overnew, pawnees, pinweed, reendow, renewal, renewed, renewer, rewaken, rewiden, rewoken, rewoven, sinewed, sweeten, swevens, townees, unmewed, unsewed, unweave, waeness, wakened, wakener, weakens, weaners, wedelns, weeding, weekend, weenier, weenies, weening, weeping, weeting, weiners, wenched, wencher, wenches, wennier, western, wetness, whangee, wheaten, wherein, whereon, widened, widener, wieners, wienies, wiremen, wizened, woeness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WEEN


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

57 45 45 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)

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