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BACKDATING

Specialty Definition: BACKDATING

DomainDefinition

Insurance

The action of expressing a policy as operating from a date before final agreement was reached on its terms. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: BACKDATING

"BACKDATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "BACKDATING" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)83.33%5157,705
Noun (singular)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BACKDATING

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

Danish

  

tilbagedatering (antedating), antedatering (antedating). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

antidateren (antedate), antedateren (antedate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varhennuspäiväys (antedating). (various references)

   

French

  

antidatation. (various references)

   

German

  

Zurückdatierung (antedating). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναδρομική ημερομηνία (antedating). (various references)

   

Italian

  

retrodatare (backdate), antidatare (antedate, predate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackdatingbay

   

Portuguese

  

efeitos retroactivos (antedating), efeitos provisórios (antedating). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puesta en vigor con efecto retroactivo (antedating). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

antedatering (antedating). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BACKDATING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-i-k-n-t"

-3 letters: abating, agnatic, antacid, backing, dingbat, katcina, tabanid, tacking.

-4 letters: acting, antick, baaing, baking, bandit, bating, caking, catkin, dating, indaba, taking.

-5 letters: abaci, aback, acing, actin, again, antic, batik, cabin, canid, dicta, giant, kiang, naiad, nicad, tabid, taiga, takin, tanka.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BACKDATING


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

42 41 43 4B 44 41 54 49 4E 47

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)

-...    .-    -.-.    -.-    -..    .-    -    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#68 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B 0044 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36353745383554434841

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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