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Definition: Cease-fire |
Cease-fireNoun1. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Cease-fireSynonyms: armistice (n), truce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cease-fire |
| English words defined with "cease-fire": Iran-Iraq War ♦ soar. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Benjamin Spock (center, foreground) leading march to the United Nations to demand a cease-fire in Vietnam.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | After the July cease-fire and the formulation of the Framework Agreement, press objectivity improved, with the exception of reporting on ethnic issues which remained biased. (references) |
Economic History | Democratic Republic of Congo | In July 1999 a cease-fire was proposed in Lusaka, Zambia. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Fighting continued, however, until May 1994 when Russia brokered a cease-fire. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burma | Since 1989 17 such groups have concluded cease-fire agreements with the Government. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Since June 1, Arafat also issued several total cease-fire orders, none of which were effective. (references) | |
Congo | Cease-fire accords signed in July and August 1999 between progovernment and rebel forces were respected along the formal disengagement line during the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burundi | Efforts to negotiate a cease-fire were ongoing at year's end. (references) |
Sudan | In June 2000, fighting between the Government and the SPLM resumed, marking the end of the humanitarian cease-fire. (references) | |
Sudan | The SPLM similarly extended its cease-fire through the same dates, but effectively limited its offer to the humanitarian cease-fire as agreed to in Bahr El Ghazal. (references) | |
Political Rights | Congo | The cease-fire accords signed in July and August 1999 at Lusaka, Zambia, between the Government, progovernment, and antigovernment forces called for an open national dialog among all political parties and civil society groups. (references) |
Iraq | A regional parliament and local government administrators were elected in 1992. The parliament last met in May 1995. The two major Kurdish parties in de facto control of the north, the KDP and the PUK, battled one another from 1994 through 1997. In September 1998, they agreed to unify their separate administrations and to hold new elections in July 1999. The cease-fire has held; however, reunification measures have not been implemented. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | In September 1998, ETA declared a temporary cease-fire, halting its violent activities, but rescinded the cease-fire in late 1999. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | A cease-fire was achieved without a major power confrontation. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We have proposed a cease-fire under international supervision. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cease-fire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "Cease-fire" is used about 29 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) | 86.21% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.79% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cease-fire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 停火. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ordre til at standse affyring af missil (missile cease-fire order), brud på våbenhvilen (infringement of the cease-fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schending van het staakt-het-vuren (infringement of the cease-fire), bevel tot staakt-het-vuren voor projectielen (missile cease-fire order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulitauko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ce cessez-le-feu ... devra en même temps ouvrir la voie une véritable négociation dans un cadre approprié (this cease-fire ... will help at the same time to open the way to a proper negotiation), violation du cessez-le-feu (infringement of the cease-fire), ordre d'interruption de missile (missile cease-fire order), observation du cessez-le-feu (observance of the cease-fire), ils formulent également l'espoir qu'un cessez-le-feu effectif sera instauré, ce qui donnerait toutes les parties en cause le temps nécessaire la réflexion et aux négociations (they also express the hope that an effective cease-fire will be achieved. This would give time for reflection and negotiations amongst all the parties concerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verletzung der Waffenruhe (infringement of the cease-fire), Verletzung der Feuereinstellung (infringement of the cease-fire), sie ... geben ausserdem ihrer Hoffnung Ausdruck, dass ein tatsaechlicher Waffenstillstand herbeigefuehrt wird. Dies wuerde allen Beteiligten Zeit fuer Ueberlegungen und Verhandlungen geben (they also express the hope that an effective cease-fire will be achieved. This would give time for reflection and negotiations amongst all the parties concerned), FK-Abrißbefehl (missile cease-fire order), dieser Waffenstillstand ... muss gleichzeitig den Weg zu einer wirklichen Verhandlung in einem angemessenen Rahmen oeffnen (in an appropriate forum, this cease-fire ... will help at the same time to open the way to a proper negotiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραβίαση της κατάπαυσης του πυρός (infringement of the cease-fire), εντολή παύσης εκτόξευσης πυραύλων (missile cease-fire order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tűzszünet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | violazione del cessate il fuoco (infringement of the cease-fire), ordine di interruzione di lancio (missile cease-fire order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 即時停戦 (immediate cease-fire), 休戦"定 (cease-fire agreement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そくじていせ" (immediate cease-fire), きゅうせ"きょうてい (cease-fire agreement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사격 그만. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ease-firecay violação do cessar-fogo (infringement of the cease-fire), proibição de disparo de míssil (missile cease-fire order). (various references) прекращение огня (cease fire). (various references) violación del alto el fuego (infringement of the cease-fire), orden de interrupción de lanzamiento de misil (missile cease-fire order). (various references) การหยุ"รบ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ceasefire. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-i-r-s" | |
-2 letters: faeries, farcies, fiacres, freesia, refaces. | |
-3 letters: aeries, caries, cerias, cerise, crease, creese, easier, ericas, facers, facies, faeces, faerie, farces, farcie, feriae, ferias, fiacre, fierce, fraise, frisee, reface. | |
-4 letters: acres, aerie, afire, areic, arise, cafes, cares, carse, cease, ceres, ceria, cires, cries, eerie, erase, erica, escar, facer, faces, fairs, farce, farci, fares, fears, fease. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ceasefires, federacies. | |
+2 letters: afterpieces. | |
+4 letters: beneficiaries, confederacies. | |
+5 letters: refractiveness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 65 61 73 65 2D 66 69 72 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00101101 01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C e a s e - f i r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0065 0061 0073 0065 002D 0066 0069 0072 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37716785711572758471 |
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