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Endocentric

Definition: Endocentric

Endocentric

Adjective

1. Grammar; fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents--as "three blind mice"--which serves as a noun.

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



Antonym: exocentric (adj). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Endocentric

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

endocentric exocentric structure

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Endocentric

Misspellings

"Endocentric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endocytic, enthocentric. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Endocentric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: conceited, concenter, concerned, concerted, concreted, connected, connecter, contender, endocrine, internode, noncredit, recondite, reconnect.

-3 letters: centroid, cicerone, codirect, conceder, concerti, concrete, corniced, cretonne, croceine, doctrine, erection, incenter, indecent, indenter, indentor, intender, interned, necrotic, neotenic, neoteric, occident, oriented, recoined.

-4 letters: centner, centred, centric, cerotic, cicoree, codeine, coerced, coerect, cointer, concede, conceit, concent, concern, concert, connect, contend, cordite, cornice, coterie, credent, crocein, crocine, ctenoid, dentine, deontic, docetic, donnert, eccrine, ecocide, encoder, encored, endnote, enteric, enteron, enticed, enticer, erodent, interne, intoned, intoner, noticed, noticer, orectic, recited, tenoned, tenoner, ternion, tierced.

-5 letters: cenote, center, centre, cerite, cicero, cinder, citron, codein, coedit, coerce, coined, coiner, conine, conned, conner, corned, cornet, cortin, credit, cretic, cretin, deceit, decent, decern, decoct, deicer, denier, denote, dentin, dieter, dinero, dinner, direct, docent, donnee, dotier, edenic, editor, encode, encore, endite, endrin, entice, entire, erotic, indene, indent, intend, intern, intone, intron, ironed, neoned, nereid, nocent, noetic, nordic, norite, notice, orcein, oreide, orient, recent, recite, recode, recoin, redone, reedit, reined, rennet, rented, retied, retine, rident, rioted, rodent, tender, tendon, tenner, tenrec, teredo, tierce, tiered, tinder, tinned, tinner, tonier, tonner, triced, triene, trined, triode.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: nonaccredited.

 

+3 letters: deconsecrating, deconsecration, disconcertment, interconnected.

 

+4 letters: counterevidence, deconcentrating, deconcentration, deconsecrations, disconcertments, noncertificated.

 

+5 letters: counterevidences, deconcentrations, deuterocanonical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Endocentric


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

45 6E 64 6F 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63

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)

01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#100 &#111 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0064 006F 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063

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

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

3980708169718086847569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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