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Definition: Apologise |
ApologiseVerb1. Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success". 2. Acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "apologise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: ApologiseSynonyms: apologize (v), excuse (v), justify (v), rationalise (v), rationalize (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He did apologise for the Spanish Inquisition. (Eddie Izzard: Circle; writing credit: Eddie Izzard) | |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Their style was to be royalists, and to apologise for it. |
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| "Apologise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.41% of the time. "Apologise" is used about 523 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 (infinitive) | 66.41% | 348 | 15,329 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 31.49% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 523 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "apologise": a-apologise. | |
| 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 |
apologise | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "apologise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shfajsohem (justify oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إعتذر (apologize, beg, eat one's words, excuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "歉 (Apologies, Apologize, Apologized, Apologizing, Apology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζητώ συγνώμη (apologize, make an apology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ת צל (doff, excuse onself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mentegetõzik, bocsánatot kér (apologize, to apologize, to ask for pardon, to offer an apology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scusarsi (apologize, regret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사과하십시" (Apologize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo leshtal (palliate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apologiseay извиняться (apologize, make offer an apology, offer an apology). (various references) izvinjavati se. (various references) be om ursäkt (allege, apologize, ask forgiveness, excuse oneself). (various references) แก้ต่าง (apologize), ขอโทษ (apologize, sorry). (various references) ndiyaxolisa (I am sorry/ I apologise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "apologise": apologised, apologises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: apologies. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: spoilage. | |
-2 letters: apologs, epilogs, goalies, ologies, soilage. | |
-3 letters: apolog, aslope, epilog, espial, galops, goalie, gospel, igloos, isolog, ligase, lipase, looies, pilose, plages, pogies, poleis, polies, polios, saloop, silage. | |
-4 letters: aegis, agile, agios, aisle, aloes, gales, galop, gaols, gapes, glias, glops, goals, goops, goose, igloo, lapis, lapse, leaps, loges, logia, logoi, logos, looie, loops, loose. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apiologies, apologised, apologises, apologizes. | |
+2 letters: apologetics, apologizers, haplologies, megalopolis, pathologies. | |
+3 letters: escapologies, escapologist, graphologies, holographies, oligophagies, palynologies, papyrologies, praxeologies. | |
+4 letters: amphibologies, campanologies, escapologists, megalopolises, phraseologies, phraseologist, planetologies, planetologist, primatologies, progressional, protogalaxies, psephological, speleological. | |
+5 letters: anthropologies, fluorographies, geopoliticians, laryngoscopies, megalopolitans, paleobiologies, paleobiologist, paleoecologies, paleoecologist, paleontologies, paleontologist, paleozoologies, paleozoologist, parasitologies, pathobiologies, pharmacologies, phraseological, phraseologists, planetologists, pneumatologies, polarographies, postcollegiate, progestational, spermatogonial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 6F 6C 6F 67 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. --- .-.. --- --. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p o l o g i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358281788173758571 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, арабский, arapski, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, kinesisk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, grek |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์) |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, från ön man |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , 세르보크로아티아, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 타이 말, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, isilungu |
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