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Definite Article

Definition: Definite Article

Definite Article

Noun

1. A determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



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Crosswords: Definite Article

English words defined with "definite article": Al-Enerlasting. (references)
Specialty definitions using "definite article": Horn clause. (references)

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Modern Usage: Definite Article

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Eddie Izzard: Definite Article (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Definite Article

DomainTitle

Books

  • Demonstratives in Interaction: The Emergence of a Definite Article in Finnish (Studies and Discourse in Grammar, 7) (reference)

  • System Collapse, System Rebirth: The Demonstrative Pronouns of English 900-1350 and the Birth of the Definite Article (reference)

  • The definite article in contemporary standard Bulgarian (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Definite Article

Language Translations for "definite article"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

определителен член. (various references)

   

Czech

  

urèitý èlen. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bepalend lidwoord. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

difina artikolo. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

määräilevä (domineering), määräävä artikkeli. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

határozott névelő. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

定 詞 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ていか"し. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

efiniteday articleay

   

Portuguese

  

artigodefinido, artigo definido. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

определенный артикль (the). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

artículo determinado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bestämd artikel. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

bannod (clause, line, part). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Definite Article

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-r-t-t"

-4 letters: deferential, electrified, felicitated, infiltrated, reinitiated.

-5 letters: centiliter, credential, crenelated, dentifrice, felicitate, freelanced, identifier, indelicate, infiltrate, interacted, interfaced, interfiled, interlaced, intertidal, itinerated, licentiate, reinfected, reinflated, reinitiate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Definite Article


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 66 69 6E 69 74 65      41 72 74 69 63 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#102 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0066 0069 006E 0069 0074 0065      0041 0072 0074 0069 0063 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871727580758671235848675697871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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