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Definition: Customise |
CustomiseVerb1. Make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me". 2. Make according to requirements; "customize a car". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CustomiseSynonyms: customize (v), custom-make (v), tailor-make (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Customise |
| Specialty definitions using "customise": HTTPd ♦ JavaBeans ♦ Meta-CASE tool ♦ object-oriented software ♦ tool bar. (references) |
| "Customise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.10% of the time. "Customise" is used about 42 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) | 88.1% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
customise car | 24 |
customise | 3 |
customise xp | 3 |
customise explorer internet | 2 |
car customise own | 2 |
customise ride | 2 |
customise win | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "customise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 定做 (customised, customize, customized). (various references) | ||||
Italian | adattare alla preferenza del cliente (customize). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 주문을 받아서 만"십시" (customize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ustomisecay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "customise": customised, customises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: coituses, costumes, mousiest. | |
-2 letters: cesiums, cosiest, cosmist, costume, customs, cutises, ictuses, miscues, miscuts, missout, mitoses, sitcoms, somites, timeous. | |
-3 letters: cesium, cestoi, cestos, cestus, cistus, coitus, comets, comtes, cosets, cosies, cosset, cuisse, custom, custos, cuties, escots, mioses, miscue, miscut, misset, misuse, mouses, mousse, mucose, musics, osmics, ostium, scouse, scouts, scutes, setous, sitcom, smites, somite. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: autoecisms, costumiers, customised, customises, customizes, mistouches, mucosities, muscovites. | |
+2 letters: consumerist, costumeries, customizers, ecotourisms, miscomputes, misconstrue. | |
+3 letters: combustibles, computerises, computerists, consumerists, consumptives, misconstrued, misconstrues, multicourses, neuroticisms, uricotelisms. | |
+4 letters: anticonsumers, cleistogamous, consumeristic, customariness, disaccustomed, discomfitures, emasculations, gastrocnemius, miseducations, neurochemists, promiscuities, reductionisms, subcommittees. | |
+5 letters: autoeroticisms, compulsivities, conceptualisms, documentalists, documentarists, immunochemists, incombustibles, meticulosities, meticulousness, multiprocessor, precombustions, semiautomatics, semiconductors, subatmospheric, subcommunities. | |
| 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. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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