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Definition: Configure |
ConfigureVerb1. Set up for a particular purpose, as of a plane for a combat mission. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Configure \Con*fig"ure\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Configured; present participle verb or noun Configuring.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Configure |
| English words defined with "configure": Configuring ♦ DIP switch, dual inline package switch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "configure": fast information channel ♦ logon script ♦ Multi-channel Memorandum Distribution Facility ♦ SCSI voodoo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Configure" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (configures). |
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High Tech |
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Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For example, it is estimated that over 65 percent of internet users are familiar with what cookies are and less than 8 percent of them configure their browsers to disallow cookies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Configure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.36% of the time. "Configure" is used about 53 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) | 77.36% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.64% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "configure": configure-to-order. | |
Ending with "configure": re-configure. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "configure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 配置 (Configuration, Configured, Configuring, Dispose, Disposed, Disposing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | configurons, configurez, configurer, configurent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | konfigurieren (to configure), gestalten (arrange, construct, dress, fashion, form, gestalts, guises, lay out, mold, shape, shapes, statures, structure, style, to fashion, to frame, to pattern, to shape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kialakít (evolve, to configure, to form, to get into shape, to hew, to mould, to shape, to shape up, to work up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyusun (arrange, assort, compilate, conceive, constitute, contrive, run along). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 형성하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfigurecay конфигурировать. (various references) konfigurisati. (various references) justera (adjust, injure, overhaul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "configure": configured, configures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "configure": reconfigure. (additional references) | |
Words containing "configure": reconfigured, reconfigures. (additional references) | |
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"Configure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comfigure, configere, configur, configurer, configurie, confiture, contigue, Cunnigar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "configure" (pronounced kunfi"gyer) |
| 8 | k u n f i" g y er | reconfigure. |
| 5 | -f i" g y er | disfigure, figure. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-g-i-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: coenuri, coinfer, conifer, coreign, forcing, foreign, frounce, gunfire. | |
-3 letters: cering, coigne, coiner, confer, conger, coring, cringe, cueing, curing, eringo, feuing, figure, finger, fringe, fungic, ignore, orcein, recoin, region. | |
-4 letters: coign, conge, corgi, cornu, crone, cuing, curie, curio, erugo, feign, finer, fogie, force, forge, fugio, fungi, fungo, genic, genro, giron, gofer, gonef, goner, gonif. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-g-i-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: configured, configures, refocusing. | |
+2 letters: cofeaturing, fluorescing, prefocusing, reconfigure, refocussing. | |
+3 letters: overfocusing, prefocussing, reconfigured, reconfigures. | |
+4 letters: configurative, counterfiring, microfunguses, motherfucking, overfocussing, reconfiguring. | |
+5 letters: centrifugation, counterfeiting, reconfigurable. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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