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Definition: Dead-on |
Dead-onAdjective1. (informal) accurate and to the point; "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S.Prescott. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Dead-onSynonym: dead-on(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| "Dead-on" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dead-on" is used about 2 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dead-on"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ead-onday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-o" | |
-1 letter: anode. | |
-2 letters: aeon, dado, dead, dean, dona, done, eddo, node, odea. | |
-3 letters: add, ado, and, ane, dad, den, doe, don, end, eon, nae, nod, odd, ode, one. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, de, do, ed, en, na, ne, no, od, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-o" | |
+1 letter: adenoid, adorned, deodand, donated, duodena. | |
+2 letters: abounded, adenoids, adjoined, anodized, deaconed, deodands, dognaped, duodenal, ordained, pardoned, unloaded. | |
+3 letters: abandoned, absconded, adenoidal, adjourned, andromeda, antidoted, astounded, broadened, canoodled, commanded, dandelion, decapodan, demantoid, deodorant, detonated, diagnosed, diamonded, dodecagon, dognapped, dominated, downgrade, dragooned, fanfolded, gadrooned, goddamned, hacendado, iodinated, mordanted, nongraded, nonleaded, offhanded, outdanced, poniarded, readorned, unadorned, videoland. | |
+4 letters: admonished, andromedas, auditioned, boneheaded, borderland, candlewood, cannonaded, coattended, colonnaded, dandelions, decahedron, decapodans, dedication, demantoids, dendrogram, denudation, deodorants, dodecagons, downgraded, downgrades, downloaded, downplayed, downscaled, dragonhead, endeavored, endocardia, endodermal, forehanded, gasconaded, hacendados, haciendado, ironhanded, landholder, landlocked, longheaded, maidenhood, manifolded, meadowland, oldfangled, openhanded, overhanded, pandowdies, promenaded, radiosonde, randomized, reordained, secondhand, squadroned, vagabonded, videolands, wonderland, woodenhead, woodlander. | |
+5 letters: bastinadoed, borderlands, candlewoods, carbonadoed, codefendant, coordinated, crossbanded, deadlocking, decahedrons, dedications, degradation, dehydration, dendrograms, denominated, denudations, deoxidation, depredation, discordance, dodecaphony, downhearted, dragonheads, dreadnought, endeavoured, endocardial, endocardium, forbiddance, gormandised, gormandized, haciendados, hydroplaned, landholders, maidenhoods, meadowlands, nonadditive, nondisabled, offhandedly, overhandled, philodendra, preordained, pseudomonad, radiosondes, rodomontade, roundheaded, shorthanded, undecorated, undiagnosed, wonderlands, woodenheads, woodlanders, wrongheaded. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 61 64 2D 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100001 01100100 00101101 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e a d - o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0061 0064 002D 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716770158180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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