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Definition: Delayed-action |
Delayed-actionAdjective1. Operating after a predetermined lapse of time; "a delayed-action bomb". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Synonym by domain: delayed action (industry). |
Crosswords: Delayed-action |
| Specialty definitions using "delayed-action": Delayed-Action Preparations. (references) |
| "Delayed-action" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Delayed-action" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "delayed-action": Delayed-Action Preparations. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "delayed-action"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | késleltetett működésű, késleltetett hatású, késleltetett (delayed, delayed action, late, retarded), időzített. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elayed-actionday замедленного действия. (various references) tidsinställd bomb (delayed-action bomb, time bomb). (various references) tavikli bomba (delayed-action bomb), isabetten bir süre sonra patlayan bomba (delayed-action bomb). (various references) mìn nổ chậm (delayed-action mine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-t-y" | |
-3 letters: decadently. | |
-4 letters: acylation, adenoidal, alienated, anecdotal, cadential, candidate, datelined, dealation, diaconate, dilatancy, toenailed. | |
-5 letters: acylated, alienate, analcite, analytic, anecdota, anecdote, anticold, candidly, catenoid, coedited, cyanided, daltonic, dateline, deaconed, deadline, dealated, decadent, decanted, decently, declined, dedicate, delation, deletion, delicate, dentalia, denticle, dentiled, detailed, detained, diacetyl, diaconal, didactyl, election, entailed, entoiled, laitance, lanceted, lineated, nodality, tideland. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 61 79 65 64 2D 61 63 74 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01100001 01111001 01100101 01100100 00101101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l a y e d - a c t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0061 0079 0065 0064 002D 0061 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871786791717015676986758180 |
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