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Definition: Auspex |
AuspexNoun1. (in ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AuspexSynonym: augur (n). (additional references) |
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| "Auspex" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "Auspex" is used about 18 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 (proper) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Auspex Systems Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
auspex | 29 |
auspex system | 9 |
mountainsmith auspex | 5 |
auspex system inc | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-s-u-x" | |
-1 letter: pause, paxes. | |
-2 letters: apes, apex, apse, axes, eaux, pase, peas, spae, spue, supe, upas. | |
-3 letters: ape, asp, axe, eau, pas, pax, pea, pes, pus, sae, sap, sau, sax, sea, sex, spa, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-4 letters: ae, as, ax, es, ex, pa, pe, up, us, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-s-u-x" | |
+1 letter: aruspex. | |
+2 letters: amplexus, haruspex, supertax. | |
+3 letters: juxtapose, pansexual. | |
+4 letters: amplexuses, exculpates, expurgates, juxtaposed, juxtaposes, parasexual, quadplexes, supertaxes. | |
+5 letters: amphioxuses, expostulate, expurgators, hypersexual. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 75 73 70 65 78 |
| 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)01000001 01110101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A u s p e x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0075 0073 0070 0065 0078 |
| 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)358785827190 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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