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Definitions: Earthbound |
EarthboundAdjective1. Confined to the earth. 2. Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "earthbound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonyms: EarthboundSynonyms: pedestrian (adj), prosaic (adj), prosy (adj). (additional references) |
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Unlike most RPGs, this game takes place in the present, in the year "199x". The main character, Ness, wakes up in the middle of night, in his pyjamas, when a meteor falls close to his house, and decides to investigate. At the crash site he meets a fly, named Buzz Buzz, from ten years in the future who sends him on a quest to destroy the Evil Alien Giygas in this time, because he is too powerful in the time Buzz Buzz comes from. Ness must then journey through the world, seeking eight "sanctuaries" where the Earth's power is strongest in order to gain the strength needed to confront Giygas.
EarthBound was not very sucessful in the Americas, although it has spawned somewhat of a cult following amongst loyal fans. Its prequel, EarthBound 0 (or Mother), for the Famicom was never released in the United States. Mother 3, the proposed sequel to EarthBound, was cancelled after 3 years of work on the Nintendo 64 system. However, there is news of Earthbound 0 and Earthbound being bundled together for a re-release on the Game Boy Advance, as well as a possible revival of Mother 3, which will presumably be released on the GameCube. (Sources from starmen.net indicate that Earthbound 2 will be released on the Game Boy Advance as well. The GameCube version was trashed a while ago.)
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Movie/TV Titles | Earthbound (1940) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The National Virtual Observatory (NVO) will unite astronomical databases of many earthbound ...Credit: NASA. |
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| "Earthbound" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Earthbound" is used about 39 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% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earthbound | 492 |
earthbound rom | 152 |
earthbound rom snes | 66 |
earthbound through walk | 59 |
earthbound snes | 39 |
cheat earthbound | 29 |
earthbound zero | 22 |
earthbound rom zero | 19 |
earthbound farm | 18 |
download earthbound | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earthbound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tokësor (above ground, earthly, earthy, geo-, ground, land, planetary, praedial, predial, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, territorial, worldly), i kësaj toke, i drejtuar ndaj toke. (various references) | |
Arabic | راسخ (deep-seated, fast, firm, firmly, fixed, founded, immovable, incommutable, incorrigible, ingrained, inveterate, rooted, settled, solid, sound, stabile, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure, unalterable, vested). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светски (earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, mundane, profane, secular, smart, social, society, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), реалистичен (down to earth, matter of fact, realistic, representational, representative, tough-minded, true to life), земен (earthly, earthy, ground, land, material, mundane, planetary, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, terrain, terraneous, terrene, worldly), движещ се към земята. (various references) | |
Chinese | 局限于土地. (various references) | |
Czech | vázaný za zemi. (various references) | |
French | qui se dirige vers la terre, attaché la terre, terre (down to earth). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חומר י (materialist, materialistic, worldly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lendület nélküli (have no soul), lapos (depressed, earth-bound, even, featureless, flat, lasagne, plain, prolate, stale, tabulate, trite, vapid), földhöz tapadt, földhöz kötött, alantas (base, inferior, low, menial, plebeian, pokey, small minded, sub, subordinate, underling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earthbounday.(various references) | |
Russian | земной (earth-bound, earthen, earthly, earthy, mundane, planetary, sublunary, telluric, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, worldly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vezanost za zemlju, vezan za zemlju. (various references) | |
Spanish | terrestre (above ground, earthen, earthly, ground, land, overland, terrestrial), prosaico (everyday, matter of fact, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy, workaday). (various references) | |
Swedish | på väg mot jorden, jordbunden. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งสนใจแต่เรื่องในชีวิตประจำวันหรือเรื่องทางโลกและขา"จินตนาการ, ซึ่งยึ"แน่นบนพื้น"ิน. (various references) | |
Turkish | toprağa bağlı, maddi (concrete, corporeal, earthly, earthy, material, materialistic, matter of fact, pecuniary, physical, tangible, temporal, worldly), dünyaya doğru yönelen. (various references) | |
Ukranian | спрямований до землі, зв'язаний з землею, земний (earthborn, earthen, earthly, mundane, natural, planetary, subcelestial, sublunar, sublunary, terrain, terrestrial, worldly), житт"вий (earthy, live, vegetal, vital, worldly). (various references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earthbound" (pronounced er"thbou'nd) |
| 5 | -th b ou' n d | southbound. |
| 4 | -b ou' n d | eastbound, hidebound, homebound, outbound, snowbound, spellbound, westbound. |
| 3 | -ou' n d | background, battleground, campground, fairground, foreground, foxhound, greyhound, horehound, playground, runaround, turnaround, underground. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: authored, breadnut, obdurate, outheard, taboured, turbaned, unbathed, unthread. | |
-3 letters: aborted, another, bandore, baronet, bartend, bethorn, bodhran, borated, bounder, breadth, broaden, burthen, daunter, doubter, handout, haunted, haunter, hounder, natured, obtrude, outbred, outdare, outearn, outhear, outread, readout, reboant, rebound, redoubt, rondeau, rotunda, tabored, thorned, throned, thunder, unbated, unearth, unheard, unrated, unrobed, untread, urethan. | |
-4 letters: abound, anther, arbute, ardent, around, atoned, atoner, author, autoed, bander, banter, bathed, bather, bertha, boated, boater, bonder, borane, borate, bother, bourne, breath, brunet, bruted, bunted, bunter, burden, burned, burnet, burton, butane, dauber, dearth, debtor, dehorn, dehort, detour, dhurna, donate, dourah, drouth, enduro, hadron, hanted, harden, hatred, horned, hornet, hotbed, hunted, hunter, nature, nother, obtund, orated, ornate, outran, ranted, rebato, redout, roband, rodent, rotund, routed, rubato, tabour, tabued, tenour, thenar, thoued, thread, throne, toured, tundra, turban, turned, unbear, unbred, undoer, unread, unrobe, untrod, urbane. | |
-5 letters: abhor, abode, abort, about, adobe, adore, adorn, anode, anted, antre, ardeb, atone, baned, barde, bared, baron, bated, bathe, baton, beano, beard, beaut, berth, beton, board, boart, bohea, boned, boner, bored, borne, bound, bourn, brand, brant, bread, brent, broad, broth, brunt, brute, bundt, buran, buret, burnt, buteo, dater, daube, daunt, death, debar, debut, denar, derat, dobra, doeth, donut, doter, doubt, doura, drone, earth, hared, hated, hater, haunt, haute, heard, heart, heron, hoard, honda, honed, honer, horde, hound, neath, north, noted, noter, nuder, oared, oaten, oater, obeah, orate, orbed, oread, other, outed, outer, outre, radon, rated, rathe, rebut, redan, redon, redub, rehab, robed, rouen, round, route, routh, taber, tabor, tabun, tardo, tared, tenor, thane, thorn, throb, throe, toned, toner, torah, trade, tread, trend, trode, trona, trone, trued, tubae, tubed, tuber, tuned, tuner, turbo, unbar, under, unhat, urate, urban, uredo. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 72 74 68 62 6F 75 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- .-. - .... -... --- ..- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r t h b o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 0074 0068 0062 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39678486746881878070 |
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