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Disco

Definition: Disco

Disco

Noun

1. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.

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

 

Specialty Definition: Disco

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

The regulated electric utility entity that constructs and maintains the distribution wires connecting the transmission grid to the final customer. The Disco can also perform other services such as aggregating customers, purchasing power supply and transmission services for customers, billing customers and reimbursing suppliers, and offering other regulated or non-regulated energy services to retail customers. The "wires" and "customer service" functions provided by a distribution utility could be split so that two totally separate entities are used to Supply these two types of distribution services. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Verb. Source: Shortened version of discontinued. Definition: A discontinued item, i.e. furniture, or accessories. Context: When designers are conversing among themselves or asking each other questions. May be used in response to customer question . Social Source: Interior Designers at Ethan Allen. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Disco

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk popular with black audiences in large U.S. cities, and derives its name from the French word discothèque.

Like all such musical genres, defining a single point of its development is difficult, as many elements of disco music appear on earlier records (such as the 1971 theme from the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes); in general it can be said that first true disco songs were released in 1973. One of the earliest was "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Initially, most disco songs catered to a nightclub/dancing audience only, rather than general audiences such as radio listeners. 1975 was the year when disco really took off, with hit songs like "The Hustle" and "Love To Love You Baby" reaching the mainstream.

Disco's popularity peaked in the so-called Disco era of 1977 - 1980, driven in part by the late-1977 film "Saturday Night Fever". Disco also gave rise to line dancinging; many line dances can be seen in films such as Saturday Night Fever.

Instruments commonly used by disco musicians included the rhythm guitar, bass, strings (violin, viola, cello), string synth (a type of organ), trumpet, saxophone, trombone, piano, and drums (sometimes using an auxiliary percussionist as well as somebody on a drum kit). Most disco songs have a steady four-on-the-floor beat (sometimes using a 16-beat patern on the hi-hat cymbal, or an eight-beat pattern with an open hi-hat on the "off" beat) and a heavy, syncopated bassline. Disco also had a characteristic electric guitar sound.

Among the most popular disco artists of the 1970s were Abba, The Bee Gees, Chic, Sister Sledge, Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Boney M, The Village People, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Voyage, Salsoul Orchestra, The Trammps, Blondie, and Barry White. Many rock artists, from The Eagles to The Rolling Stones, discofied some of their songs.

Disco music diverged from the self-composed and performed rock of the 1960s, seeing a return (though not universally) to the influence of producers who hired session musicians to produce hits for different artists whose role was purely to sing and market the songs. Top disco music producers included Patrick Adams, Alec Costandinos, Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Quincy Jones, Kenton Nix, François Kevorkian, Meco Monardo, Greg Diamond, Giorgio Moroder, Tom Moulton, and Vincent Montana Jr.

In the early 1980s, George Benson, Patrice Rushen, Brothers Johnson, Commodores, The S.O.S. Band, and many other artists created disco classics. After 1980, however, disco music morphed into other forms, including house and Hi-NRG, and much of the general public lost interest in disco, giving rise to the phrase "Disco is dead."

In the 1990s a revival of the original disco style began and is exemplified by Jamiroquai's 1996 release "Cosmic Girl" and a number of attempts by artists like Cher ("Strong Enough") and The Spice Girls ("Never Give Up on the Good Times").

At the beginning of the 2000s, there were disco releases by Ultra Nate ("I Don't Understand It"), Jamiroquai ("Love Foolosophy"), Sophie Ellis Bextor ("Murder on the Dancefloor"), The Company ("Should I Let Him Go?"), and several other artists.

Disco artists:

External links

A disco is a place where revellers congregate to socialise, also known as discothèque (see above), 'nightclub' or (especially in the UK) just 'club'. The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, was the first disco in the United States. It opened on January 11, 1962. See main article: nightclub.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disco."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Disco

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DisCo

EnglishDistributed Computing projectN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Disco

Synonym: discotheque (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disco

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pity

Phrase: one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco; " a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind " onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disco

Specialty definitions using "disco": DISTRIBUTION UTILITYMAS. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Disco" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (disco), Hungarian (disco, discotheque), Italian (dial, disc, discus, disk, diskette, grammophone, grammophone disc, puck, record), Latin (acquire knowledge of, become acquainted with, discus, learn, to learn), Portuguese (concave disc, dial, disc, discus, disk, flan, grammophone disc, plateau, plough disc, record, scattering disk, spinner, turntable, wafer), Spanish (dial, disc, disco, discus, disk, grammophone disc, platter, puck, record, token).

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Modern Usage: Disco

DomainUsage

Screenplays

That was our first encounter with disco mutants (Radioactive Dreams; writing credit: Albert Pyun)

We're disco queens now. (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

And it reminds a little bit of a junior high disco in Sandared, you know (Jidder; writing credit: Christoffer Dahlin; Fredrik Klasson)

Good beat, easy to dance to, could herald the return of disco. What are you talking about (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Pain is to pleasure as disco is to punk (Random Shooting in L.A.; writing credit: Jeffrey Delman; D.H. Morgan)

Lyrics

The disco hot spots hold no charm for you (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia)

Make a brother feel like im down at the disco (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

Don't try to take me to a disco ("Old Time Rock & Roll"; performing artist: Bob Seger)

Room in the local disco lounge (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley)

I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear)

Movie/TV Titles

Disco rojo (1973)

Il Disco volante (1964)

The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Elas Só Transam no Disco (1983)

The Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer (1983)

Song Titles

DISCO NIGHT (ROCK FREAK)  (performing artist: GQ )

DISCO LADY  (performing artist: Johnny Taylor )

DISCO DUCK  (performing artist: Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots )

DISCO INFERNO  (performing artist: Trammps )

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

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Commercial Usage: Disco

DomainTitle

References

  • Disco Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Disco

Photos:
Disco

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Computer Images:
Disco

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Digital Photo Gallery: Disco
 

"Disco Fever" by Heizfrosch@web.de
Commentary: "Blue disco balls with white lightspots behind."
"Disco Ball" by Yew Leong
Commentary: "Saturday nite fever."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disco

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Libya

On November 13, 2001, a German court found four persons, including a former employee of the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, guilty in connection with the 1986 La Belle disco bombing, in which two U.S. servicemen were killed. (references)

Korea

The distribution sector will also be split into several distribution companies (Disco) by 2002 in order to introduce competition at the retail level after 2009. KEPCO is expected to remain as a transmission company and will continue to provide the following functions: market operator, system operator, asset management, and trade settlement. (references)

Human Rights

Egypt

Some were arrested aboard a boat on the Nile River that allegedly served as a gay disco. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

A number of cases from previous years were ongoing, including the cases of a man charged with defamation of a nation or race and with rioting for attacking two Roma men at a disco while shouting racial slurs; three 17-year-old members of a previously unknown group, Czech Lion (Cesky Lev) charged with a racially motivated attack for a series of attacks on Roma and Romani homes in Rokycany in July 2000; and the leader of a large, well-organized skinhead movement with ties to the United Kingdom, Sweden, Hungary, and Slovenia charged with dissemination of fascist propaganda. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Disco

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

I admit I could not be more interested in myself if I were the illegitimate son of Narcissus and Madonna looking at a disco ball through the eyes of a fly.

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

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Usage Frequency: Disco

"Disco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Disco" is used about 761 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.74%7599,024
Noun (proper)0.26%2245,945
                    Total100.00%761N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Disco

CountryName
Japan

Disco Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Disco

Expressions using "disco": haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco sistema de operação sobre disco. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "disco": disco-bar, disco-based, disco-bats, disco-bleared, disco-dance, disco-dancers, disco-dancing, disco-garage, disco-ing, disco-princess, disco-type.

Ending with "disco": anti-disco, dub-disco, euro-disco, gay-disco, neo-disco.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disco

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

disco

1,959

disco costume

49

disco ball

877

disco lyrics

46

disco music

297

disco virtual

46

school disco

172

del disco feria

46

disco biscuit

172

disco dancing

45

disco light

130

disco supply

44

disco duro

117

disco polo

44

ball disco shiny

87

disco fashion

44

de disco hernia

81

disco duck

43

disco song

80

disco hit

42

disco clothes

78

disco party

42

dog fashion disco

75

disco stu

42

disco inferno

72

disco lighting

42

disco wellington

67

disco fever

39

disco dance

66

disco equipment

39

3 de disco

64

disco era

38

italo disco

62

disco 70s

37

disco clothing

57

disco mp3

37

98 disco inicio window

55

de disco inicio

36

disco history

50

disco hire karaoke karaoke karaoke mobile player

36
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Disco

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

Albanian

  

diskotekë (discotheque), disko, pllakë gramafoni (disc, wax). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملهى رقص (discotheque), ‏موسيقى الديسكو. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

диско. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

迪斯科. (various references)

   

Czech

  

disko. (various references)

   

Danish

  

distributionsoperatør (distribution utility). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

distributiebedrijf van elektriciteit (distribution utility). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jakeluyhtiö (distribution utility). (various references)

   

French

  

discothètique, discothèque (discotheque), disco, entreprise publique de distribution (distribution utility), boîte de nuit. (various references)

   

German

  

disko, Verteilnetzbetreiber (distribution utility), Scheiben (discs, panes, pucks, sheaves, slabs, slices). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ντίσκο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

דיסקוטק (discotheque), דיסקו. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

disco (discotheque). (various references)

   

Italian

  

discoteca (discotheque, record library), impresa pubblica di distribuzione (distribution utility). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ディスコ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscoday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

discoteca (discotheque), danceteria (discotheque). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дискотека (discotheque). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

diskoteka (discotheque). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

discoteca (discotheque). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

diskotek (discotheque), disko. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

disko. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дискотека (discotheque), диско. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Disco

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 14, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai hnecqh h kefalh autou epi pinaki kai edoqh tw korasiw kai hnegken th mhtri authV
Latin405VulgateEt adlatum est caput eius in disco et datum est puellae et tulit matri suae
Old English990West Saxon& man brohte þa his heafod on anendisce. & sealde þam maidene. & þæt maidenhire moder.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd his heed was brouyt in a dische, and it was youun to the damysel, and she bar it to hir modir.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd his heed was brought in a platter and geven to the damsell and she brought it to her mother.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd his head was brought in a dish, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd his head was put on a plate and given to the girl; and she took it to her mother.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Disco

LanguageMatthew Chapter 14, Verse 11
Cebuanoug ang ulo niya gihatud sinulod sa bandiha ug gihatag ngadto sa dalaga, ug kini iyang gidala ngadto sa iyang inahan.
CroatianI doniješe glavu njegovu na pladnju, dadoše djevojci, a ona je odnije materi.
DanishOg hans Hoved blev bragt på et Fad og givet Pigen, og hun bragte det til sin Moder.
DutchEn zijn hoofd werd gebracht in een schotel, en het dochtertje gegeven; en zij droeg het tot haar moeder.
FinnishJa hänen päänsä tuotiin lautasella ja annettiin tytölle; ja tämä vei sen äidilleen.
FrenchSa tête fut apportée sur un plat, et donnée à la jeune fille, qui la porta à sa mère.
GermanUnd sein Haupt ward hergetragen in einer Schüssel und dem Mägdlein gegeben; und sie brachte es ihrer Mutter.
Haitian CreoleYo pote tèt la vini sou yon plato, yo renmèt fi a li. Fi a menm pote l' bay manman li.
HungarianÉs elõhozák az õ fejét egy tálban, és adák a leánynak; az pedig vivé az õ anyjának.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKemudian kepala Yohanes itu dibawa masuk di atas baki dan diberikan kepada gadis itu. Lalu gadis itu membawanya pula kepada ibunya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kepala itu pun dibawa oranglah di dalam sebuah dulang, dan diberikan kepada anak perempuan itu, maka ia pun membawa kepada bundanya.
Manx GaelicAs va'n kione er ny choyrt er claare as livreit gys y ven-aeg, as hug ish lh'ee eh gys e moir.
MaoriA i mauria tona matenga i runga i te rihi, i hoatu ki te kotiro: kawea atu ana e ia ki tona whaea.
NorwegianOg de kom med hans hode på et fat og gav det til piken, og hun bar det til sin mor.
Portuguesee a cabeça foi trazida num prato, e dada à jovem, e ela a levou para a sua mãe.   
RumanianCapul a fost adus kntr`o farfurie, wi dat fetei, care l -a dus la mamq-sa.
ShuarTura amamkunam itiar nuwachin Súsarmiayi. Tura niisha ni Nukurí susamiayi.
SwahiliKichwa chake kikaletwa katika sinia, wakampa yule msichana, naye akampelekea mama yake.
SwedishOch hans huvud blev framburet på ett fat och givet åt flickan; och hon bar det till sin moder.
UmaWoo' Yohanes toe rakeni hi lolo dula, ratonu-ki toronaa toei, pai' hi'a mpokeni hilou hi tina-na.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Disco

Derivations

Words beginning with "disco": discoed, discographer, discographers, discographic, discographical, discographies, discography, discoid, discoidal, discoids, discoing, discolor, discoloration, discolorations, discolored, discoloring, discolors, discombobulate, discombobulated, discombobulates, discombobulating, discombobulation, discombobulations, discomfit, discomfited, discomfiting, discomfits, discomfiture, discomfitures, discomfort, discomfortable, discomforted, discomforting, discomforts, discommend, discommended, discommending, discommends, discommode, discommoded, discommodes, discommoding, discompose, discomposed, discomposes, discomposing, discomposure, discomposures, disconcert, disconcerted, disconcerting. (additional references)

Words containing "disco": codiscover, codiscovered, codiscoverer, codiscoverers, codiscovering, codiscovers, indiscoverable, nondiscount, overdiscount, overdiscounted, overdiscounting, overdiscounts, prediscoveries, prediscovery, rediscount, rediscountable, rediscounted, rediscounting, rediscounts, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscoveries, rediscovering, rediscovers, rediscovery, undiscouraged, undiscoverable, undiscovered. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Disco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dabco, Danseco, Dascom, Dasso, dececco, desce, desco, desho, Desio, diacom, dico, Dicop, dicto, Dicu, didso, Dijck, discal, Disch, disci, discin, discip, discon, discr, discu, Discua, discue, discy, Disick, disio, diske, Diskul, diso, dispo, disson, Disto, Dixco, dizzo, Docco, Dosso, dsc, Dybski, dysc, Kisco, Kiszcko, Riesco, Risco, sidcot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Disco"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "disco" (pronounced di"skō)
4-i" s k ōCisco.
3-s k ōfiasco, fresco, Roscoe.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Disco

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sodic.

Words within the letters "c-d-i-o-s"

-1 letter: cods, disc, docs, odic.

-2 letters: cis, cod, cos, dis, doc, dos, ids, ods, sic, sod.

-3 letters: do, id, is, od, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-i-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cosied, dicots, discos, psocid.

 

+2 letters: bodices, ceboids, cestoid, cirsoid, cissoid, coccids, codeias, codeins, codfish, codices, codlins, coedits, coldish, conoids, cuboids, cystoid, dacoits, diocese, discoed, discoid, discord, disomic, fucoids, medicos, miscode, mucoids, orchids, psocids, sarcoid, secondi, synodic, viscoid, zodiacs.

 

+3 letters: acidoses, acidosis, biocides, cabildos, camisado, carotids, cestoids, cheloids, chlorids, choroids, cissoids, cloddish, coadmits, coccoids, codeinas, codeines, codesign, codicils, codifies, codlings, codrives, cognised, collides, colloids, comedies, conduits, confides, consider, cordials, cordings, cordites, corodies, corridas, cosigned, cowbinds, cowbirds, cowhides, cricoids, crinoids, crowdies, cuspidor, cycloids, cystoids, decision, demotics, despotic, devoices, dicotyls, dictions, diecious, diestock, diocesan, dioceses, dioecies, dioecism, dioicous, disclose, discoids, discoing, discolor, discords, discount, discover, discrown, disfrock, divorces, dockside, domestic, domicils, dornicks, dyspnoic, dystocia, dystonic, ecocides, edacious, episodic, factoids, geodesic, glochids, hedonics, idiocies, idocrase, inclosed, lingcods, miscoded, miscodes, modicums, monacids, noctuids, nonacids, ovicides, oviducts, oxidasic, oxyacids, percoids, picadors, piddocks, placoids, podsolic, prosodic, ripcords, sarcoids, sardonic, scaphoid, schizoid, scincoid, sciuroid, scleroid, scolding, spondaic, sporadic, vidicons, windsock.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Bible Trace
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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