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Discursively

Definition: Discursively

Discursively

Adverb

1. In a rambling manner.

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

Date "discursively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Synonym: Discursively

Synonym: ramblingly (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Discursively

"Discursively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Discursively" is used about 10 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
Adverb (general)100%10111,207

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

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Expression: Discursively

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "discursively": intra-discursively.

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

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Modern Translation: Discursively

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

German

  

abschweifende (digressively). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szaggatottan (in a staccato voice, jerkily, spasmodically, staccato), következtetés útján, el-elkalandozva, egyik témáról másikra áttérve, csapongva, összefüggés nélkül. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscursivelyday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Discursively

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-r-s-s-u-v-y"

-2 letters: discursive.

-3 letters: cursively, lyricised, lyricises, ridicules, virucides.

-4 letters: cursedly, cursives, curvedly, cussedly, diuresis, dressily, lyricise, ridicule, sciurids, scurvies, scurvily, silurids, suicides, surveils, virucide, viscidly.

-5 letters: clerids, clerisy, clivers, cresyls, crudely, cruised, cruises, crusily, culvers, curdles, cursive, devilry, drivels, dysuric, ecdysis, liviers, livyers, ridleys, sciurid, scrived, scrives, sidlers, silurid, silvers, silvery, silvics, slicers, sliders, slivers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Discursively


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

44 69 73 63 75 72 73 69 76 65 6C 79

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    -.-.    ..-    .-.    ...    ..    ...-    .    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#117 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

387585698784857588717891

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Discursively"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionnémet

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításUngar, magyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, angol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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