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Disorganisation

Definition: Disorganisation

Disorganisation

Noun

1. A condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted.

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

Date "disorganisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonyms: Disorganisation

Synonyms: disarrangement (n), disorganization (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Disorganisation

English words defined with "disorganisation": Contrecoup. (references)

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Use in Literature: Disorganisation

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

All this is alive with the hideous vitality of things which are organised in disorganisation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Disorganisation

"Disorganisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disorganisation" is used about 20 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)100%2078,262

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

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Modern Translation: Disorganisation

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

Indonesian

  

disorganisasi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

disorganizzazione (disorganization). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isorganisationday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Disorganisation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: organisations.

-3 letters: organisation, originations.

-4 letters: anagnorisis, assignation, distraining, indagations, iodinations, ordinations, origination.

-5 letters: adorations, digitonins, disrooting, distaining, giardiasis, gradations, indagation, indagators, indigotins, iodinating, iodination, ordination, radiations, sanitising, satirising, signorinas.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: disorganizations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Disorganisation


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

44 69 73 6F 72 67 61 6E 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E

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 01101111 01110010 01100111 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#111 &#114 &#103 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 006F 0072 0067 0061 006E 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

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

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

387585818473678075856786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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