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Definitions: Abandonment |
AbandonmentNoun1. The act of giving something up. 2. Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless". 3. The voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abandonment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Abandonment \A*ban"don*ment\ (-ment), noun. [Compare to the French expression abandonnement.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Economics | The act of relinquishing claim or right to property. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Insurance term used to indicate that the damage suffered by a vessel is such as to constitute a constructive total loss and that the assured may abandon the subject matter to the underwriters and claim for a total loss even though the insured property is recoverable and/or being repaired. Source: European Union. (references) |
Insurance | An insured who has sustained a partial loss cannot abandon what is left. . . to the company, and claim a total loss. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | An offence against life and limb in which a person exposes a helpless person under his protection or care to a life-threatening danger or a serious and immediate danger to health, or abandons the person to such a danger. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Abandonment of a mining claim may be by failure to perform work, by conveyance, by absence, and by lapse of time. The abandonment of a mining claim is a question of intent. To constitute an abandonment of a mining claim, there must be a going away and a relinquishment of rights, with the intention never to return and with a voluntary and independent purpose tosurrender the location or claim to the next comer. CF:forfeiture. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Abandonment of an action is the discontinuance of proceedings commenced in the High Court of Justice either because the plaintiff is convinced that he will not succeed in his action or for other reasons. Previous to the Judicature Act of 1875, considerable latitude was allowed as to the time when a suitor might abandon his action, and yet preserve his right to bring another action on the same suit (see nonsuit); but since 1875 this right has been considerably curtailed, and a plaintiff who has deilvered his reply (see pleading), and afterwards wishes to abandon his action, can generally obtain leave so to do only on condition of bringing no further proceedings in the matter.
Abandonment of copyright When a created work owner (copyright proprietor) publishes clear intent or otherwise makes it manifest that it is intended to place the work at arbitrary use by the public, it is then considered abandoned and in the public domain. It is important to notice that in the rapidly evolving field of intellectual property a GPL, FDL or similar license is explicitly designed to avoid the appearance or actuality of abandonment of the property. The original copyright holder retains all rights while simultaneously allowing its widespread dissemination and enjoyment by the public by granting specific privileges to use, modify, and redistribute the material subject to specific conditions expressed in the licenses.
Abandonment in marine insurance is the surrender of the ship or goods insured to the insurers, in the case of a constructive total loss of the thing insured. For the requisites and effects of abandonment in this sense See marine insurance.
Abandonment of wife and children is generally called desertion, and is somewhat difficult to prove in court. The plaintiff must generally show his or spouse to have left for over a year and failed to pay support, as well as proving that the departure was not agreed upon and also not caused by the plaintiff. The abandonment or exposure of a young child under the age of two, which is an indictable misdemeanour, is commonly called cruelty to children.
Abandonment of an easment is the relinquishment of some accommodation or right in another's land, such as right of way, free access of light and air, etc. See easement.
Abandonment of railways has a legal signification in England recognized by statute, by authority of which the Board of Trade may, under certain circumstances, grant a warrant to a railway authorizing the abandonment of its line or part of it.
Abandonment of trademark is understood to happen when a trademark is not used for three or more years, or when it is deliberately discontinued; trademark law protects only trademarks being actively used and defended. An example of an abandoned trademark is aspirin, once a mark of the Bayer company, now considered a generic term.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abandonment."
Synonyms: AbandonmentSynonyms: defection (n), desertion (n), forsaking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hopelessness | Abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission. |
Relinquishment | Noun: relinquishment, abandonment; (of a course); renunciation, expropriation, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation; riddance. |
Noun: relinquishment, abandonment; desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam; nolle prosequi. | |
Resignation | Noun: resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment. |
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Crosswords: Abandonment |
| English words defined with "abandonment": bolt ♦ defection, desertion, desolate ♦ forlorn ♦ godforsaken ♦ lorn ♦ Malicious abandonment ♦ To cry quits, To renounce probate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abandonment": Birth ♦ Clapping the Prayer Books, Coca-Cola ♦ endangering the life or health of another ♦ Harvested acres ♦ Meshes ♦ PROPERTY-DISPOSAL OFFICER ♦ redistribution-and-marketing officer ♦ stope fillings, surplus sales officer, surplus-property disposal agent, survival craft, survival vest. (references) |
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Screenplays | It just feels like abandonment and neglect. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Kfer) Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Abandonment (1916) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | From hunger, from cold, from loneliness, from abandonment, from privation. |
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Health | An early recurrence of bipolar illness following initiation of treatment should not necessarily lead to its abandonment. (references) | |
Business | Misdiagnosis, inadequate medical care, pariah status, and abandonment remain common problems. (references) | |
Female infanticide, abandonment, or neglect of baby girls may also be a factor in some areas. (references) | ||
Children | Tunisia | Penalties for convictions for abandonment and assault on minors are severe. (references) |
Tunisia | The code proscribes child abuse, abandonment, and sexual or economic exploitation. (references) | |
Malaysia | The act stipulates heavier punishments for child abuse, molestation, neglect, and abandonment. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Depressed rubber prices over the past few years have led to lower tapping and abandonment of rubber lands. (references) |
Kuwait | In 1993, Kuwait publicly announced abandonment of the secondary and tertiary aspects of the Arab boycott of Israel (those aspects affecting U.S. firms). (references) | |
Finland | Finland's 1994 decision to buy 64 F-18 fighter planes from the United States signaled the abandonment of the country's policy of balanced arms purchases from East and West. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | There are an estimated 2,000 women in prison, increasingly for crimes of prostitution, embezzlement, fraud, petty theft, and abandonment of infants. (references) |
Guatemala | On June 7, the judge granted a defense motion to modify the charges to material document fraud (altered police reports) and abandonment of duty, and released the defendants on bail. (references) | |
Women | Algeria | Divorce is difficult for a wife to obtain except in cases of abandonment or the husband's conviction for a serious crime. (references) |
Worker Rights | Gabon | Traffickers may be prosecuted under laws prohibiting the exploitation, abandonment, and mistreatment of children. (references) |
Afghanistan | Many of Kabul's industrial workers were unemployed due to the destruction or abandonment of the city's minuscule manufacturing base. (references) | |
Mongolia | Increasing alcoholism and parental abandonment make it necessary for many children to have an income in order to support themselves, their siblings, and sometimes their parents. (references) | |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | If this involves the surrender or postponement of private interests and the abandonment of local advantages, compensation will be found in the assurance that the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love. |
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| "Abandonment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abandonment" is used about 493 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 (singular) | 100% | 493 | 12,167 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "abandonment": Malicious abandonment. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "abandonment": self-abandonment. | |
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| 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 |
abandonment | 85 |
child abandonment | 74 |
fear of abandonment | 27 |
abandonment issue | 24 |
abandonment job | 13 |
abandonment law | 11 |
abandonment divorce | 10 |
abandonment of the patient | 8 |
shopping cart abandonment | 7 |
abandonment property | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abandonment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | afstand (abdication, distance, give, offset). (various references) | |
Albanian | shfrenim (orgy), braktisje (apostasy, dereliction, desertion, limbo, neglect). (various references) | |
Arabic | حماسة (ardor, ardour, eagerness, ebullience, elan, enthusiasm, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, glow, heartiness, impetus, intense interest, keenness, mettle, rage, responsiveness, warmth, zeal), ترك تنازل هجر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увлечение (abandon, fire, flame, gusto, mustard, penchant, relish, transport, vehemence, zeal, zest), оттегляне (adjournment, backdown, disengagement, recession, reflux, retirement, withdrawal), отказ (declination, denial, nay, negative, no, refusal, rejection, repulse, surrender, thumbs down, traverse), невъздържаност (abandon, debauchery, excess, incontinence, licentiousness, temper, unreserve, unrestraint), напускане (departure, vacation), занемаряване (neglect), импулсивност (impulsiveness), изоставяне (arrears, dereliction, desertion, exposure, lag, neglect, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation). (various references) | |
Chinese | "弃 (Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references) | |
Czech | opuštìní. (various references) | |
Danish | opløsning (break-up, decomposition, dissolution, neglect, resolution, resolving power, solvation, split-up), opgivelse (declaration, proclamation, statement), ligegyldighed (inactivity, inertia, neglect), forsømmelighed (neglect, negligence), efterladenhed (neglect). (various references) | |
Dutch | toegeving, concessie (charter, claim license, concession, franchise, grant, licence), cessie (assignment), afstand (abandon, abdication, cession, distance, divestiture, following distance, offset, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, to surrender, vehicular gap), abandonnement. (various references) | |
Esperanto | senafekteco, senĝeneco, natureco, forlaso, forlasiteco, dezerteco, cedo. (various references) | |
Farsi | واگذاری (Abandon, Assignment, Bail, Cession, Conveyance, Demission, Resignation, Submission, Surrender), ترک (Chap, Clef, Crack, Craze, Fracture, Interstice, Proscription, Quit, Renunciation, Turkish), رهاسازی (Abandon, Quit), دل کندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | luopuminen (retirement, withdrawal). (various references) | |
French | abandon (abandon, abort, aborted cycle), délaissement. (various references) | |
German | verlassenheit (bereavement, desertedness, desolateness), Aufgabe (assigned job, assignment, business, checking in, discontinuation, dispatch, dropping, duty, exercise, function, giving up, homework, insertion, item, job, labor, labour, mailing, mission, placing, problem, purpose, question, registration, release, relinquishment, remit, renouncement, renunciation, retirement, serve, service, stint, surrender, task, vacation, work), verzicht (abdication, abnegation, forgoing, release, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, sacrifice, surrender, waiver), Nichtannahme (non-acceptance), Aussetzung (adjournment, bequest, breaking off, deferment, exposition, exposure, interruption, marooning, offer, planting out, releasing, stay, suspension), Abandon. (various references) | |
Greek | εγκατάλειψη (abandon, dereliction). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עזיב" (dereliction, desertion, forsaking, leaving), ז יח" (desertion, forfeiture, forsaking, neglect), "ז ח" (dereliction, neglect, negligence, omission, rejection), "סתלקות (abscondence, departure, going, withdrawal), טיש" (branch, tendril, twig), טש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lemondás (abdication, abnegation, cancellation, cession, demission, disclaimer, regrets, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, self abnegation, surrender, waiver, waiver of a right), elhagyás (betrayal, dereliction, desertion, doing-away, giving up, jilting, leaving off, omission, overtaking, relinquishment, renouncing, surrender). (various references) | |
Icelandic | taumleysi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penelantaran (neglect). (various references) | |
Italian | cessione (abbandonato, alienation, assignation, assignment, cession, conveyance, disposal, surrender, transfer, transfer of right, transfer of title), abbandono (abandon, abbandonato, bolt, default, dereliction, desertion, disused industrial premises, loneliness, moving out of tenant to elude payment of ground rent, neglect). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "棄 (abdication, renunciation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きえ" (big talking, chance, donation, high spirits, opportunity, strange coincidence), ほうき (abdication, age, broom, fragrant scent, outstanding individual, renunciation, resignation, revolt, sweet seventeen, the law, treasured article or vessel, uprising), いきざい, いふ (awe, different father, fear, fright), いき (breath, chic, court rank diploma, desertion, disposition, essence, freshness, going, heart, level, limits, purity, region, relinquishment, spirit, stage, stet, style, tone), やけ (despair, desperation), じぼう (despair, desperation), じき (at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself), とうき (ceramics, current term, fighting spirit, giving up, party discipline, party rules or regulations, pottery, registration, registry, rise, speculation, this plane, throwing away, winter, winter term, wintertime). (various references) | |
Korean | 각". (various references) | |
Manx | treigeilys (betrayal, defection, dereliction, desertion, fall off, tergiveration), lhiggey lesh (abandon, comply, concede, concession, connivance, connive, forbear, humour, indulge, indulgence, loosen, loosening, part with, remission, spare, yield), faagailys. (various references) | |
Papiamen | abandono. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abandonmentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abandono (abandon, dereliction, desertion, disposal, forgoing, helplessness, lurch, moving out of tenant to elude payment of ground rent, neglect, quitclaim, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, waiver). (various references) | |
Romanian | abandonare (dereliction, desertion, desolation, exposure, relinquishment). (various references) | |
Russian | оставление (desertion, detention, reservation), заброшенность (dereliction, desertion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odustajanje od, napuštenost (loneliness), napuštanje (dereliction, desertion, leaving, relinquishment, walkout). (various references) | |
Spanish | abandono (abandon, abandoning, dereliction, desertion, indulgence, neglect, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender), cesión (assignation, assignment, cession, disposal, grant, surrender, transfer). (various references) | |
Swedish | lössläpthet (abandon), hängivelse, frigjordhet (abandon, emancipation, free and easy manners, freedom), övergivenhet (desertion, desolation), övergivande (dereliction, desertion). (various references) | |
Turkish | vazgeçme (abnegation, backdown, cession, disclaimer, discontinuance, discontinuation, discouragement, dispensation, never say die, recantation, relinquishment, remise, remission, renunciation, resignation, surrender, waiver, withdrawal), terketme (leaving, voidance, walkout), terk (cession, conveyance, desertion), bırakma (disuse, exposure, leaving, never say die, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender, withdrawal), bırakılma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | самотність (intimity, isolation, sanctuary, seclusion), відмова (abjuration, brush off, denegation, denial, disallowance, disclaimer, malfunction, nay, nay-say, negative, no, recession, refusal, relinquishment, repulse, surrender, waiver), невимушеність (abandon, ease, informality, negligence, repose), занедбаність (desertion, neglect), залишення (absence, desertion, leaving, relinquishment, vacation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng bị ru"ng bỏ sự phóng túng, sự từ bỏ (renouncement, renunciation, waiver), sự tự do (abandon, freedom, hesitance, hesitancy), sự ru"ng bỏ tình trạng bị bỏ rơi, sự buông thả (abandon), sự bỏ rơi (dereliction, desertion), sự bỏ (annulment, cancellation, preterition, pretermission, relinquishment). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | depositio, desolatio, desolatione, desolationem, desolationis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abandonment": abandonments. (additional references) | |
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"Abandonment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abandonemtn, abandonments, abondonment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abandonment" (pronounced uba"ndunmunt) |
| 6 | -u n m u n t | apportionment, disillusionment, enlightenment, environment, imprisonment, reapportionment. |
| 5 | -n m u n t | adjournment, adornment, alignment, arraignment, assignment, atonement, attainment, confinement, consignment, containment, discernment, entertainment, infotainment, internment, misgovernment, nongovernment, postponement, realignment, reassignment, refinement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjustment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, argument, armament, arrangement, assessment, assortment, astonishment, attachment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, reappointment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
-4 letters: abandon, abdomen, adenoma, amoeban, andante, antenna, beadman, boatman, boatmen, bondman, bondmen, madonna, mandate, montane, nonmeat. | |
-5 letters: abated, adnate, ameban, amoeba, anadem, atoned, badman, badmen, banned, bannet, bantam, batman, batmen, bedamn, bemata, bemoan, boated, bonnet, daemon, donate, entomb, maenad, mannan, manned, moaned, moated, nonman, nonmen, omenta, tandem, tanned, tendon, tombed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: abandonments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 61 6E 64 6F 6E 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .- -. -.. --- -. -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101111 01101110 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b a n d o n m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0061 006E 0064 006F 006E 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
| 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)3568678070818079718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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