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Definition: Court-martial |
Court-martialNoun1. A military court to try serious breaches of martial law. 2. A trial by court martial. Verb1. Subject to trial by court-martial. 2. Condemn in a military court. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "court-martial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Court-martial |
| English words defined with "court-martial": Court-martialed, Court-martialing, Courts-martial ♦ Drumhead court-martial ♦ Field officer's court ♦ judge advocate ♦ Provost marshal ♦ special court-martial. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "court-martial": reciprocal jurisdiction. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) Court-Martial (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Much ado about nothing or a militia court-martial!!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Human Rights | Zimbabwe | Military courts deal with disciplinary or court-martial proceedings. (references) |
Venezuela | The Court declared the court-martial and sentence null and void, and sent the case to a state court in Maracay. (references) | |
Uganda | On July 3, a UPDF court-martial sitting in the DRC sentenced to death Okello, who remained in Luzira prison at year's end. (references) | |
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| "Court-martial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Court-martial" is used about 28 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) | 78.57% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.86% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "court-martial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legfelső hadbíróság (courtmartial), haditanács (council of war, courtmartial), hadbíróság (court martial, courtmartial, military court). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 軍法会議 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぐ"ぽうかいぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ourt-martialcay судить....военный суд, судить военным судом (court martial). (various references) consejo de guerra (court martial). (various references) krigsrätt (court martial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-o-r-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: articulator. | |
-2 letters: curatorial, lacrimator, ultramicro. | |
-3 letters: amaurotic, articular, auctorial, automatic, mutilator, traumatic. | |
-4 letters: acromial, actuator, armorial, aromatic, atomical, autocrat, coattail, comatula, macrural, multicar, oracular, tailcoat, tartaric, turrical, tutorial, ultimata. | |
-5 letters: acromia, auroral, camorra, cattail, cattalo, citator, clamour, crittur, curator, curtail, macular, marcato, marital, martial, morular, mulatto, railcar, rattail, ricotta, tactual, timarau, titular, tractor, traitor, tramcar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-o-r-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ultraromantic. | |
+3 letters: ultrademocratic. | |
+5 letters: ultraconservatism. | |
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