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Definition: Discreet |
DiscreetAdjective1. Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace. 2. Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence". 3. Heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "discreet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Discreet \Dis*creet"\, adjective. [Comparative Discreeter; superlative Discreetest.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DiscreetSynonyms: circumspect (adj), discerning (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: indiscreet (adj). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Careful, heedful; cautelous, stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect, prudent, discreet, politic; sure-footed; (skillful). |
Skill | Clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive; shrewd, sharp, on the ball; (intelligent); cunning; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Discreet |
| English words defined with "discreet": circumspect ♦ discerning ♦ To run amuck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "discreet": Bigamy, Burd, Buttermilk ♦ Celestial Signs, Coffee ♦ Dominoes ♦ Grasshopper ♦ Husband ♦ magic ♦ Oranges. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "discreet": indiscreet ♦ Prude. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Discreet" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (discrete, modest). |
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Screenplays | Well you go into the shop, and the price is a bit bigger than you expected, but you get it, and you put it on and look at it in the shop mirror, and it's the exact, delicate, discreet shade you always wanted -- and it's yours! (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir; George Grossmith) Anyway, call us, we are very discreet. (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | I try to be discreet, but then blow it again ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew) When I touch your sky, I want my joy to be discreet (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) | |
Clever | We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
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Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley | Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. |
The Talmud | Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall take from the land of the heir nothing but reasonable produce, reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction or waste of men or goods; and if we have committed the wardship of the lands of any such minor to the sheriff, or to any other who is responsible to us for its issues, and he has made destruction or waster of what he holds in wardship, we will take of him amends, and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall be responsible for the issues to us or to him to whom we shall assign them; and if we have given or sold the wardship of any such land to anyone and he has therein made destruction or waste, he shall lose that wardship, and it shall be transferred to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible to us in like manner as aforesaid. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The troubling odour of the long corridors of Clongowes came back to him and he heard the discreet murmur of the burning gasflames. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Be discreet when talking with other parents or with patients in the waiting room. Don't discuss aspects of your child's illness that you haven't discussed with your child. (references) | |
Business | Most concentrate on providing services to the more lucrative segments, such as the bus iness or international calls, while others provide services to a discreet region of the UK. The cable industry has undergone rapid consolidation in recent years. (references) | |
There is currently no regulation that requires the installation of ambient AQ monitoring stations for any type of industry except for when there is some discreet problem spot such as the cases at Mae Moh lignite power plant and Map Tha Phut industrial estate. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bahrain | Some professional societies and social and sports clubs traditionally have served as forums for discreet political discussion, and during the year, the Government began sanctioning the establishment of community and charitable, issue-oriented, and political NGO's. (references) |
Malaysia | The report noted the need to approve applications for peaceful assemblies as a general rule; to identify specific public spaces for these assemblies; to simplify application procedures; and to have law enforcement maintain a discreet presence during peaceful assemblies. (references) | |
Minorities | Peru | The law prohibits newspaper employment advertisements from specifying the race of the candidates sought, but employers often find discreet ways to relegate blacks to low-paying service jobs. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | There were reports of widespread discreet intimidation by employers in the FTZ's in an effort to prevent union activity. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Discreet" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Discreet" is used about 556 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% | 556 | 11,235 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "discreet": oh-so-discreet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "discreet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa shumë salltanete, modest (decent, decently, demure, diffident, humble, lowly, modest, neat, quiet, unassertive, unobtrusive, unpretentious), me takt (diplomatic, light-handed, tactful), i sjellshëm (amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, courtly, delicate, fair-spoken, gallant, genteel, good, kind, kindly, mannerly, nice, polite, suave, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), i përmbajtur (aloof, composed, continent, controlled, cool-headed, decent, demure, even tempered, modest, passionless, restrained, sedate, self-collected, sober minded, staid, stand off, strange, temperate, unaffable, undemonstrative), i matur (abstinent, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), fjalëpakë (chary, inconvertible, laconic, reticent, silent, taciturn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كتوم (close, reserved, reticent, secretive, taciturn), متحفظ (aloof, aloofness, careful, cautious, close, incommunicable, incommunicative, reserved, reticent, secretive, self contained, stand offish, taciturn, uncommunicative, wary), حكيم (canny, clever, compos mentis, doctor, judicious, philosopher, physician, politic, provident, prudent, sage, sapient, well advised, wise, wise man), حصيف (judicial, judicious, prudent, reasonable, sagacious, shrewd, wise), حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), سري (clandestine, classified, close, closet, confidential, covert, cryptic, furtive, hugger mugger, hush hush, inmost, low key, mysterious, mystic, occult, off the record, private, privy, sacramental, secret, slinking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, undercover, underground, underhand), عاقل (intelligent, judicious, politic, prudent, rational, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sensible, sober minded, sound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | благоразумен (advisable, cannie, farseeing, prudent, prudential, sound, well advised, wholesome, wise), предпазлив (cagey, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberate, deliberative, fabian, gingerly, guarded, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary), дискретен (quiet, unobtrusive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 谨慎 (Cautious, Discretion, Prudential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | diskrétní (quiet, tactful, unobtrusive), taktní (tactful), rozvážný (calm, circumspect, collected, deliberate, politic, responsible, sedate, serene, sober). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دارای تمیزوبصیرت , باخرد, بااحتیاط (Careful, Circumspect, Prudish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tahdikas (discrete, tactful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | distinct (distinct), discret (discrete), vigilant, silencieux, sage, prudent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | diskret (confidential, discreetly, discrete, discretely), dezent (decent, discreetly, modestly, quiet, quietly, sober). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνετόσ (considerate, judicious, prudent, prudential, sage, wise), εχέμυθοσ (reticent, secretive, silent), διακριτικόσ (considerate, diacritical, discriminate, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חשאי (clandestine, inmost, quiet, secret, silent, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under cover, underhand), ז"יר (calculating, careful, cautious, chary, guarded, mindful, prudent, vigilant, wary), "יסקרטי, בון (clever, discerning, intelligent, judicial, judicious, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, well advised, wise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tapintatos (considerate, delicate, diplomatic, discrete, light, tactful, tender), diszkrét (discrete, quiet, secret, tactful, unobtrusive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | hati-hati (chary, considerate, mindful, prudent), bijaksana (politic, prudence, sane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riservato (booked, classified, close, confidential, coy, distant, engaged, offish, private, reserved, retiring, secret, secretive, standoffish, undemonstrative, undercover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 慎み深い (cautious, modest), 口 い (tight-lipped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くちがたい (tight-lipped), つつしみぶかい (cautious, modest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중한 (Deliberate, Deliberative, Prudent, Prudential, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | reajagh (correct, orderly, smooth), feeudagh (decent, grave, modest, prudent, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | diskrèt, taktfull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscreetday discreto (circumspect, considerate, discrete, reticent, thought-out, unobtrusive, well thought out, wizard), vergonhoso (disgruntle, disreputation, field, ignominy, ill-spoken, infamous, inglorious, opprobrium, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shy), prudente (advised, canny, careful, cattish, cautious, chary, circumspective, far sighted, far-sightedly, forehanded, heedful, longstanding, non committal, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sound, wary, well advised, well-judged, wise, wizard), circunspeto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), circunspecto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise). (various references) discret (circumspect, delicate, hushed, maiden, mellow, reserved, secret, secretive, silent, subdued, unobtrusive), tãinuit (concealed, hidden, secret, secretive), tãcut (close-lipped, dumb, mousy, mum, quiet, reserved, silent, silently, still, sullen, tacit, voiceless), prudent (careful, cautious, chary, deliberate, gingerly, heedful, prudent, safe, wary, well advised, wide awake), prevãzãtor (cautious, chary, deliberate, far-seeing, provident, providently, prudent, thoughtful, wary, wide awake, wise), modest (cheap, demure, diffident, frugal, grave, homely, humble, humbly, low, lowly, maiden, maidenly, modest, plain, quakerish, quiet, retiring, simple, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretending, unpretentious), circumspect (cautious, circumspect, deliberate, thoughtful, wary), chibzuit (balanced, canny, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, economic, economical, judicious, measured, provident, providently, prudent, reflective, thought-out, thrifty, wary, wise). (various references) благоразумный (advisable, cannie, canny, judicious, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sensible, staid, well advised, well-advised). (various references) ciallach (judicious). (various references) diskretan, oprezan (alert, argus-eyed, careful, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, measured, vigilant, ware, wary, wide awake). (various references) discreto (badinage, discrete, gentle, inconspicuous, unobtrusive). (various references) diskret (discrete, discretely, gentle, quiet, unobtrusive). (various references) tedbirli (advised, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, deliberative, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, guarded, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), sağduyulu (common-sensical, fair-minded, far sighted, farseeing, farsighted, forethoughtful, level headed, longheaded, prudent, prudential, quick-eyed, right-minded), sır saklayan, ketum (close, incommunicative, reticent, secretive, uncommunicative), ihtiyatlı (cagey, cautious, chary, deliberative, fabian, forethoughtful, guarded, heedful, politic, precautionary, provident, prudent, prudential, restrained, shy, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised), ağzı sıkı (cagey, close-lipped, incommunicative, inexpressive, reserved, reticent, secretive, tight lipped). (various references) стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, demure, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), скромний (bashful, blushing, chaste, coy, decent, demure, humble, lowly, maidenlike, maidenly, modest, nice, quiet, retiring, sedate, simple, spare, unobtrusive), ввічливий (affable, bland, civil, complaisant, conventional, courteous, courtly, debonair, diplomatic, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave, urbane), обережний (alert, canny, careful, cautionary, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful). (various references) thận trọng (advisedly, box, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, guarded, politic, prudent, prudential, tender, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake), khôn ngoan (advisable, day, philosophic, philosophical, politic, politically, sage, sapiential, subtle). (various references) pwyllog (deliberate, prudent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | discretus, prudens, sapiens, sapiente, sapientem, sapientes, sapienti, sapientia, sapientibus, sapientior, sapientiorem, sapientis, sapientissimum, sapientissimus, sapientium, sapientius. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vanghudhâbyô. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | meur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Nun oun skeyai anqrwpon fronimon kai suneton kai katasthson auton epi ghV aiguptou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nunc ergo provideat rex virum sapientem et industrium et praeficiat eum terrae Aegypti |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Now thanne puruey the kyng a wise man and a redi, and bifore maak hym to the loond of Egipte, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and wysdome and sett him over the lande of Egipte. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 33 |
| Cebuano | Busa, mangita karon si Faraon ug usa ka tawo nga buotan ug makinaadmanon, ug igabutang siya sa ibabaw sa yuta sa Egipto. |
| Croatian | Zato neka faraon izabere sposobna i mudra èovjeka te ga postavi nad zemljom egipatskom. |
| Danish | Men nu skulde Farao udse sig en indsigtsfuld og klog Mand og sætte ham over Ægypten, |
| Dutch | Zo zie nu Farao naar een verstandigen en wijzen man, en zette hem over het land van Egypte. |
| Finnish | Nyt valitkoon siis farao ymmärtäväisen ja taitavan miehen ja asettakoon hänet Egyptin hallitusmieheksi. |
| French | Maintenant, que Pharaon choisisse un homme intelligent et sage, et qu`il le mette la tête du pays d`Égypte. |
| German | Nun sehe Pharao nach einem verständigen und weisen Mann, den er über Ägyptenland setze, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Koulye a, se pou farawon an chwazi yon moun ki gen lespri ak bon konprann pou l' mete l' chèf sou tout peyi Lejip la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Karena itu, sebaiknya Tuanku memilih seorang yang cerdas dan bijaksana dan memberinya kuasa untuk mengatur negeri ini. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sekarangpun baiklah kiranya Firaun mencahari seorang yang budiman lagi dengan bijaksananya, serta mengangkat akan dia supaya diperintahkannya negeri Mesir. |
| Italian | Ora il faraone pensi a trovare un uomo intelligente e saggio e lo metta a capo del paese d'Egitto. |
| Maori | ¶ Na reira, me titiro e Parao tetahi tangata mihio, whai whakaaro, kia tukua e ia nga tikanga o te whenua o Ihipa ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Nu skulde Farao utse sig en forstandig og vis mann og sette ham over Egyptens land! |
| Rumanian | Acum, Faraon sq aleagq un om priceput wi knyelept, wi sq -l punq kn fruntea yqrii Egiptului. |
| Swedish | Må nu alltså Farao utse en förståndig och vis man, som han kan sätta över Egyptens land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "discreet": discreeter, discreetest, discreetly, discreetness, discreetnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "discreet": indiscreet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "discreet": indiscreetly, indiscreetness, indiscreetnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Discreet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decreeth, descreet, descret, descrete, descrite, dicreet, Dioscorea, discarte, disceet, discett, discrate, discre, discreat, discreeet, discreete, discret, discretes, discretet, discri, discsrete, diskret, disrceet, disrcete, disreet, disrete, doscreet, dosseret. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "discreet" (pronounced di'skrē"t) |
| 7 | d i' s k r ē" t | discrete. |
| 5 | -s k r ē" t | excrete, indiscreet. |
| 4 | -k r ē" t | concrete, secrete. |
| 3 | -r ē" t | greet, mistreat, retreat, Street, treat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: desertic, discrete. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cerites, credits, crested, deceits, decries, deicers, diester, dieters, directs, recited, recites, reedits, resited, tierced, tierces. | |
-2 letters: ceders, cerise, cerite, certes, ciders, citers, credit, creeds, deceit, deicer, deices, desert, desire, deters, dicers, dieter, direct, direst, driest, edicts, eiders, erects, recite, reedit, resect, reside, resite, rested, retied, reties, screed, scried, secret, steric, stride, terces. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: depicters, derelicts, detickers, directest, redirects, stridence, trisected. | |
+2 letters: cartelised, certitudes, christened, cloistered, coresident, courtesied, decaliters, deciliters, decimeters, directives, directness, directress, discreeter, discreetly, discretely, disrespect, dysenteric, eradicates, indiscreet, intercedes, iridescent, miscreated, pederastic, predicates, rectitudes, restitched, restricted, stridences. | |
+3 letters: acidimeters, ascertained, categorised, centralised, considerate, copresident, cordierites, coresidents, credentials, credulities, decertifies, dentifrices, depreciates, deracinates, descriptive, desecrating, desecration, destructive, dielectrics, directories, directrices, directrixes, discernment, discredited, discreetest, disrespects, eviscerated, interceders, intersected, interspaced, mediatrices, misdirected, overdirects, predacities, reaccredits, rededicates, reinspected, rescindment, sclerotized, securitized, sidetracked, stridencies, syncretised, syncretized, viridescent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 63 72 65 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. .-. . . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s c r e e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0063 0072 0065 0065 0074 |
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| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, Groegwr |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ, Hebreaidd, Hebraeg |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, indonesialainen, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, インドネシア語 , インドネシア", 인도네시아, Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка, người In-ddô-nê-xi-a tiếng In-ddô-nê-xi-a | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Norwegian | norvegjez, نرويجى, النرويجية, النرويجى, اللغة النروجية, норвежка, норвежки език, норвежки, норвежец, 挪威语, norský, norjalainen, norvégien, Norweger, Νορβηγός, νορβηγόσ, νορβηγικόσ, norvég, norvegese, 노르웨이, Norlannish, Norlannagh, Loghlynagh, Loghlynish, norsk, norueguês, norvegianã, norvegian, норвежский, norvežanin, norveški jezik, norveški, noruego, norrman, norveçli, Norveçce, Norveçlí, norveççe, norveç, норвежці, норвезька мова, норвезький, норвежець, người Na-uy tiếng Na-uy, Norwyeg | |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | skocez, шотландски, 苏 兰, skotský, skotlantilainen, écossais, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, scozzese, 스"틀랜", Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, escocés, skotsk, iskoçyalı, шотланський, шотландський діалект, шотландці |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", 트남, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, تهرب من دفع الرهان, الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ويلزي, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, 威"士, 威爾士語 , waleský, waleština, gallois, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, Bretnagh, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
