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Definition: Elusion |
ElusionNoun1. The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Etymology: Elusion \E*lu"sion\, noun. [from Late Latin expression elusio, from the Latin expression eludere, elusum. See Elude.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ElusionSynonyms: eluding (n), slip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Elusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Elusion" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
elusion | 5 |
elusion fiscal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مراوغة (deviousness, dodge, equivocation, evasion, evasiveness, prevarication, quibble, shiftiness, slyness, trickery), تملص (back out of, duck, elude, evade, evasion, furtiveness, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle), زوغان (excursion, jink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | заобикаляне (circumvention, encirclement, skirting), измъкване (extrication, guy, scuttle, sneak), избягване (elopement, escapade, escape, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | únik (discharge, escape, getaway, issue, leak, scape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | esquivement, échappement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausflucht (escape, excuse, pretext, prevarication, subterfuge, tergiversation, trick, trickery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπεκφυγή (evasion, loophole, prevarication, quibble, quirk, shift, stall, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törvény kijátszása. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penghindaran (debarment, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | elusione (evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elusionay evasiva (ambages, dodge, dodgery, evasion, prevarication, quibble, quirk, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, tergiversation), frustrar (balk, confound, disappoint, discomfiture, foil, frustrate, Mar, resist, thwart), ardil (dodge, jape, maneuver, manoeuvre, mantrap, ruse, shift, snare, trap, trick, wiles). (various references) eludare, ocolire (dodge, evasion, round, rounding, wheel). (various references) увертка (dodge, dodgery, evasion, quip, stall, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references) izgovor (excuse, loophole, loop-hole, plea, pretence, pretense, pretension, pretext, pronunciation), izbegavanje (avoid, avoidance, duck out, evasion). (various references) elusión. (various references) yakayı sıyırma, sıyrılma, kurtulma (avoidance, dodge, escape, recovery, riddance, salvation), kaçınma (abstention, abstinence, avoidance, avoiding, bolt, evasion, forbearance, sidestep, sparing). (various references) уникнення (avoidance, avoiding, riddance), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, evasion, expedient, put off, quirk, shift, shuffle, wangle). (various references) lối tránh, lối thoái thác, lối lảng tránh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elusion": elusions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elusion": delusion, prelusion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elusion": delusional, delusionary, delusions, prelusions. (additional references) | |
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"Elusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alusion, aulsion, eclosion, elysion, epusios, eurikon, Ilyusoin, leasion, lusion, ollusion, Ulusow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "elusion" (pronounced 'E*lu"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension, Confession, Confusion, Congression, Consension, Conspersion, Contorsion, Contraversion, Controversion, Contusion, Conversion, Convulsion, Corrasion, Corrosion, Decession, Decision, Declension, Decursion, Delapsion, Delusion, Demersion, Demission, Demulsion, Deprehension, Depression, Depulsion, Derision, Descension, Detersion, Detorsion, Detrusion, Diffission, Diffusion, Digression, Dimension, Dimission, Discession, Disclusion, Discommission, Discursion, Discussion, Dismission, Dispansion, Dispassion, Dispersion, Displosion, Dispossession, Dissension, Dissuasion, Distension, Diversion, Effossion, Effusion, Egression, Elapsion, Emersion, Emission, Empassion, Emulsion, Erasion, Evasion, Eversion, Evulsion, Excision, Exclusion, Excursion, Excussion, Exesion, Expansion, Explosion, expression, extension, Extersion, Extramission, Extraversion, Extroversion, Extrusion, Fidejussion, fission, fusion, Illision, illusion, immersion, Immission, Impassion, implosion, imprecision, impression, Improvision, impulsion, Inadhesion, Inapprehension, Incension, Incession, incision, inclusion, Incompassion, incomprehension, Inconfusion, incursion, INDECISION, Indivision, Inextension, infusion, Ingression, Inhesion, Inrecision, Insession, Inspersion, Insubmission, intension, intercession, Interclusion, Interfusion, intermission, interspersion, Intorsion, Intrafusion, Introcession, Introgression, intromission, Intropression, introversion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, Invision, Irremission, Irrision, lesion, manumission, Mersion, misapprehension, Misconclusion, Misdivision, Misexpression, Mispassion, Mispersuasion, Misprision, Nonadmission, Noncohesion, Nonsubmission, Obsession, Obtension, Obtrusion, Obtusion, Obversion, Occision, Occlusion, Occursion, Offension, Omission, Oppression, Ostension, Outpassion, Percussion, Perfusion, Permansion, permission, Perpension, Perpession, Persuasion, Pertusion, Pervasion, Perversion, Portension, Preadmission, Preapprehension, Precession, Precision, Preclusion, Prehension, Prepossession, Presension, Pression, Pretension, Pretermission, Prevision, Profession, Profusion, Prolapsion, Prolusion, Propension, Propulsion, Protension, Protrusion, Pulsion, readmission, Reascension, Recension, Recision, Reclusion, Recommission, Reconversion, recursion, Recussion, Refossion, Refusion, regression, Reimpression, repercussion, repossession, reprehension, repression, repulsion, rescission, Respersion, Responsion, Retrocession, retrogression, retroversion, Retrusion, reversion, revision, revulsion, scansion, scission, secession, seclusion, Self-delusion, self-possession, session, Sponsion, suasion, subdivision, Subingression, submersion, submission, subversion, succession, Succision, succussion, Suffossion, suffusion, supersession, supervision, suppression, Supravision, suspension, Thermotension, torsion, Transcension, Transcursion, transfusion, transgression, transmission, Transversion, Trusion, Uncircumcision, Unconversion, Unintermission, Unpersuasion, Version. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: eloins, ensoul, insole, insoul, lesion, louies, lunies, oleins. | |
-2 letters: eloin, enols, eosin, ileus, lenis, lenos, liens, lieus, lines, linos, lions, loins, louie, louis, louse, lunes, noels, noils, noise, olein, ousel, solei. | |
-3 letters: enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, lien, lies, lieu, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, lues, lune, nils, noel, noes, noil, nose, nous, oils, oles, ones, onus, silo, sine, sloe, slue, soil, sole, soli, sone, soul. | |
-4 letters: els, ens, eon, ins, ion, lei, leu, lie, lin, lis, nil, nos, nus, oes, oil, ole, one, ons, ose, sei, sel, sen, sin, sol, son, sou, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-5 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, lo, ne, no, nu, oe, on, os, si, so, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: delusion, elusions, elutions, emulsion, evulsion, insouled, ligneous, nubilose, outlines, unsoiled. | |
+2 letters: delousing, delusions, emulsions, ensouling, enviously, evulsions, exclusion, expulsion, felonious, fluorines, heinously, houseling, inclosure, insoluble, involutes, lichenous, limousine, linoleums, lousiness, luteolins, nobeliums, nucleoids, outliners, prelusion, reclusion, repulsion, revulsion, seclusion, sinologue, spinulose, unholiest, unspoiled. | |
+3 letters: andouilles, aneuploids, bluepoints, cloudiness, columbines, conclusive, consultive, convulsive, counseling, delusional, effluxions, elocutions, emulations, euglenoids, eulogising, evolutions, exclusions, expulsions, exsolution, flounciest, gelatinous, gluttonies, houselling, inclosures, inoculates, inosculate, insolubles, involucres, isoleucine, leguminous, licentious, limousines, longitudes, mousseline, nebulosity, neuroglias, nucleonics, nucleoside, oleaginous, opulencies, outselling, pleustonic, preclusion, prelusions, purloiners, quinolines, reclusions, repulsions, resolution, revulsions, seclusions, sinologues, soundalike, suppletion, tendrilous, toluidines, touchlines, ungodliest, unholiness, unpolished, unsociable. | |
+4 letters: arenicolous, biliousness, botulinuses, cinquefoils, contumelies, counselings, counselling, courtliness, cushionless, delusionary, devolutions, ebullitions, eluviations, euglobulins, evaluations, exsolutions, exultations, feloniously, feuilletons, filamentous, fluorescein, fluorescing, fluorinates, fluoxetines, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, guillotines, incredulous, ingeniously, ingenuously, inosculated, inosculates, isobutylene, isoleucines, journalizes, langoustine, laureations, leucocidins, leukopenias, ligamentous, lousinesses, loutishness, mousselines, nefariously, neurologies, neurologist, neutrophils, novaculites, nucleations, nucleosides, nucleotides, obliqueness, obnubilates, outblessing, outsleeping, outspelling, peculations, penuriously, polemoniums, preclusions, regulations, resolutions, revolutions, shouldering, slouchiness, smouldering, soundalikes, speculation, subcolonies, subregional, sulfonamide, suppletions, tenaciously, tourmalines, ulcerations, undisclosed, undissolved, ungodliness, unloosening, unloveliest, unmelodious, unreligious, unsoldering, unsoldierly, unsolicited, voluntaries. | |
+5 letters: anemophilous, aneuploidies, antinucleons, bibulousness, bluestocking, censoriously, chloroquines, cloudinesses, cocounseling, coevolutions, communalizes, conclusively, consultative, contumelious, convulsively, corpulencies, counsellings, counterfoils, countervails, crenulations, croquignoles, cupellations, cupronickels, deglutitions, devaluations, discountable, doublethinks, ejaculations, elocutionist, elucidations, elutriations, emasculation, enucleations, equinoctials, equipollents, euphoniously, evolutionism, evolutionist, exclusionary, exclusionist, exculpations, fluoresceins, functionless, gallinaceous, gelatinously, ghoulishness, gloriousness, glucokinases, glucosamines, glucuronides, glutathiones, griseofulvin, hallucinoses, illusoriness, immunologies, incestuously, inconclusive, inconsumable, indecorously, indigenously, indissoluble, infectiously, infelicitous, insolubilize, irresolution, isobutylenes, journalizers, langoustines, leukotrienes, licentiously, luminiferous, luminosities, luminousness, lusciousness, luteotropins, malnourished, mendaciously, micronucleus, multisensory, nebulosities, neurofibrils, neuroleptics, neurologists, neurulations, neutrinoless, nonexclusive, nonfluencies, nonreligious, nonuniversal, nonutilities, nucleocapsid, nucleophiles, nucleotidase, numerologies, numerologist, oleaginously, oleoresinous, outwrestling, overindulges, pelargoniums, perilousness, perniciously, polyneuritis, postulancies, punchinellos, questionable, questionably, questionless, reinoculates, reluctations, resoundingly, revaluations, ribonuclease, seleniferous, silhouetting, simultaneous, speculations, successional, sulfonamides, supercoiling, supercooling, uncoalescing, undecillions, unholinesses, unillusioned, unloveliness, unmoralities, unsocialized, upholstering, urbanologies, vesiculation, voicefulness, volunteerism. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l u s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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