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Etude

Definitions: Etude

Etude

Noun

1. A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity.

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

Date "etude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

 

Crosswords: Etude

Specialty definitions using "etude": COLLEGE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Etude

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Plein Air Etude (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: Etude

DomainTitle

Books

  • Etude sur Les Chasseurs de Têtes et l'Executive Search en France en 1998 (reference)

  • Femmes De Carriere - Carrieres De Femmes: Etude Des Trajectoires Familiales, Scolaires Et (reference)

  • Gnostiques Et Gnosticism: Etude Critique Des Documents Du Gnosicisme Aux Deuxieme Et Troisieme Siecles (reference)

  • L'Empire Du Sacre Quebecois: Etude Semiolinguistique D'UN Intensif Populaire (reference)

  • Raging Tempest Octave Etude #1 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • #4 Etude, Op.10- I Wish I Could Play Chopin (reference)

  • I Wish I Could Play Chopin- #3 Etude, Opus 10 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Etude

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

O! fruits heureux d'une Etude profonde!.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Sounds Captioned with "Etude".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
A minor etude very characteristic of Chopin.A typical classical guitar etude for solo guitar.
A simple etude characteristic of a Schumann style.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Etude

"Etude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Etude" is used about 7 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)71.43%5157,705
Noun (proper)28.57%2245,945
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Etude

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

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Modern Translations: Etude

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

Albanian

  

etyd. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏دراسة (combine harvester, contemplation, memoir, project, research, schooling, study, survey, treatise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

етюд (study). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hudební cvièení. (various references)

   

French

  

étude. (various references)

   

German

  

etüde. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תר'יל (drill, exercise, practice, training), אטיו". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

etûd, gyakorlat (class work, drill, exercise, field-work, métier, parade, practical class, practice, practise, praxis, routine, use). (various references)

   

Italian

  

studio (analysis, closet, consulting room, factory, office, project, schoolwork, studio, study, studying, survey, workshop). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

練'曲 , エタクリン酸 (ethacrynic acid, ethanol, Ethiopia, ethyl alcohol, ethylene, etiquette). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

れ"しゅうきょく, エチュード . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etudeay

   

Portuguese

  

etrusco (Etrurian, Etruscan). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

этюд. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

etida. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ejercicio musical, composición musical corta. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

etyd (study). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

etüt (research, study, study room, study time, survey), tetkik (examination, revisal, study, survey, verification). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

etяud (r). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

етюд. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Etude

Derivations

Words beginning with "etude": etudes. (additional references)

Words ending with "etude": consuetude, desuetude, disquietude, hebetude, inquietude, mansuetude, quietude. (additional references)

Words containing "etude": consuetudes, desuetudes, disquietudes, hebetudes, inquietudes, mansuetudes, quietudes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Etude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ebudea, eiusdem, ejusdem, Entada, enude, erude, estude, etad, etae, Etid, etie, etome, ettu, etu, etube, Etud, etuded, etuge, etuse, eud, Gtudu, retude, teide, teue, tude. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Etude

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-t-u"

-1 letter: deet, duet, teed.

-2 letters: dee, due, ted, tee.

-3 letters: de, ed, et, ut.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-t-u"
 

+1 letter: depute, eluted, etudes, teledu.

 

+2 letters: debuted, denture, deputed, deputes, detinue, detrude, duetted, educate, equated, eructed, erudite, erupted, extrude, exudate, exulted, guested, quested, quieted, refuted, reputed, retuned, sauteed, teledus, tenured, uttered.

 

+3 letters: abductee, adequate, bucketed, budgeted, budgeter, buffeted, bulleted, buttered, cuneated, curetted, curveted, deducted, degusted, deluster, demurest, denature, dentures, denudate, depurate, deputies, deputize, detinues, detoured, detruded, detrudes, deuteric, deuteron, devouter, drupelet, duecento, duvetine, duvetyne, ecaudate, educated, educates, eductive, embruted, emulated, enthused, executed, extruded, extruder, extrudes, exudates, featured, gestured, gusseted, guttered, hebetude, inductee, junketed, lectured, lustered, mustered, muttered, neutered, nutsedge, outbreed, outspeed, permuted, puttered, quietude, rebutted, relucted, requited, rerouted, resulted, retinued, returned, reunited, roqueted, sederunt, sleuthed, tautened, textured, truebred, trusteed, tuckered, tumefied, tunneled, turreted, tuxedoed, tuxedoes, udometer, unbelted, underate, undereat, underlet, underset, unedited, unheated, unletted, unmelted, unrented, unrested, unseated, untended, untented, untested, unwetted, ventured, vestured, wuthered, yuletide.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Etude


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

45 74 75 64 65

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01110101 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#116 &#117 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0075 0064 0065

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

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

3986877071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Sounds
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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