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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | An error in the storage into or the retrieval from a magnetic storage device, revealed by a failure to read a binary character. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A cause of errors and loss of synchronization with telephone-line data transmission, which is defined as incidents when signal level unexpectedly drops at least 12 dB for more than 4 milli-seconds. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | A reduction in output signal level during reproduction of recorded data, sufficient to cause a processing error. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A serious momentary reduction of the reproduced signal level. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DROP-OUT |
| Specialty definitions using "DROP-OUT": TESTER, MOTORS AND CONTROLS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DROP-OUT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (dropout). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Drop-out (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | South Africa | However, the report noted that a number of factors, including unplanned pregnancies, domestic responsibilities (particularly in rural areas), and gender stereotypes, contributed to high drop-out rates and lower secondary school pass rates for girls. (references) |
India | There is serious concern regarding the striking disparities in terms of access to education, attendance at primary and secondary levels and drop-out rates between: different states, rural and urban areas, boys and girls, the affluent and the poor, and children belonging to scheduled castes and tribes." Child welfare organizations estimate that there are 500,000 street children nationwide living in abject poverty. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DROP-OUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DROP-OUT" is used about 54 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 54 | 46,184 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DROP-OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | drop out (dropout), udfald (conclusion, effect, result). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dropout (dropout), verloren bit (dropout), bitverlies (dropout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | häipymänkorjaus (drop-out compensation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trou de modulation (dropout), perte d'information (dropout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dropout (dropout), Signalausfall (drop out), Aussetzer (dropout), Ausfall (blackout, breakdown, cancellation, dropping out, failure, loss, lunge, non-departure, omission, pass, retirement, Sally, sortie, stoppage, thrust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απώλεια δεδομένων (dropout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiesés (spillage, spilling), 22 méteres lövés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bedolan (drop-out (from school)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perdita di bit (dropout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | op-outdray perda de informação (dropout). (various references) salpicadura (plash, spatter, splash, splatter, sprinkle, sprinkling), punteado (dotted, Dotty, stipple, twang), pérdida de información (dropout), aberración por defecto (dropout). (various references) dropout-kompensering (drop-out compensation), drop out-kompensering (drop-out compensation), bortfallskompensering (drop-out compensation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dropout, outdrop. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: uproot, uropod. | |
-2 letters: droop, dropt, odour, outdo, proud, troop. | |
-3 letters: door, dorp, dour, drop, duro, odor, ordo, pood, poor, port, pour, pout, prod, rood, root, roto, roup, rout, toro, tour, trod, trop, turd, updo. | |
-4 letters: dor, dot, duo, dup, oot, opt, ort, oud, our, out, pod, pot, pro, pud, pur, put, rod, rot, rut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dropouts, outdrops, uprooted. | |
+2 letters: coproduct, outpoured. | |
+3 letters: coproducts, outcropped, outdropped, outpowered, outproduce, production. | |
+4 letters: computerdom, outdropping, outproduced, outproduces, outpromised, photoreduce, proctodaeum, productions, profoundest, rustproofed. | |
+5 letters: computerdoms, coproduction, counterposed, outperformed, outproducing, outreproduce, photoproduct, photoreduced, photoreduces, proctodaeums, productional, reproduction, uprootedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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