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Definition: Firm |
FirmAdjective1. Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty". 2. Not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground". 3. Strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope". 4. Not subject to revision or change; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer". 5. (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step". 6. Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm". 7. Securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet". 8. Marked by the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles". 9. Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce". 10. : securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car". 11. : unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends". Adverb1. With resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm". Noun1. Members of a business organization; "he worked for a brokerage house". Verb1. Become taut or tauter. 2. Make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "firm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Any natural or legal person who produces, prepares or imports from a third country, with a view to the subsequent marketing thereof, products as referred to in Article 1, or who markets such products. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Expression indicating that stock market prices or foreign exchange rates are tending upward or remaining at a high level. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Wines which lack softness because of richness in tannin and which have a rather high acidity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An Organization (or organisation) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. This topic is a broad one.
According to management science, most human organizations fall roughly into five types:
- Pyramids or Hierarchies
- Committees or Juries
- Matrix Organisations
- Ecologies
- Composite Organisations
Pyramids or Hierarchies
A hierarchy exemplifies an arrangement with a leader who leads leaders. This is the classic bureaucracy. Usually one 'rises' by seniority, or by acquiring authority over more people.
Pyramids are an effective way to achieve repeatable results because they have the shortest path from the standard-setter to the worker.
They suffer from communication and supervisory faults because the organization is only as good as its weakest link. They lack creativity because they have poor communications ('why' is often is lost).
The classic fix for the communication problem is a magazine that reviews the whole hierarchy's business, perhaps daily or weekly. One good scheme has each person send e-mail up each week, telling what he did, his plans, and problems. Each boss makes a summary and sends it up. Then all the bosses send their summary down, appended to the summary from their boss.
At Printronix this freed cash equal to a year's revenue, sped up engineering cycles six fold, reduced defects by two sigmas (see variance), increased inventory turns tenfold and doubled product service life. People found out what to fix, and where.
Hierarchies were satirised in The Peter Principle (1969), a book that introduced the term hierarchiology and the saying that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence".
Committees or Juries
These consist of a group of peers who decide as a group, perhaps by voting. The difference between a jury and a committee is that the members of the committee are usually assigned to perform or lead further actions after the group comes to a decision, whereas members of a jury come to a decision. In common law countries legal juries render decisions of guilt, liability and quantify damages, juries are also used in athletic contests, book awards and similar activities. Sometimes a selection committee functions like a jury. In the middle ages juries in continental Europe were used to determine the law according to consensus amongst local notables.
Committees are often the most reliable way to make decisions. Condorcet's jury theorem proved that if the average member votes better than a roll of dice, then adding more members increases the number of majorities that can come to a correct vote (however correctness is defined). The problem is that if the average member is worse than a roll of dice, the committee's decisions grow worse, not better! Staffing is crucial.
Famously, unstructured committees can dither without making decisions. Parliamentary procedure, such as Robert's Rules of Order, helps prevent dithering.
Staff Organisation or Cross-functional Team
A staff helps an expert get all his work done. To this end, a "chief of staff" decides whether an assignment is routine or not. If it's routine, he assigns it to a staff member, who is a sort of junior expert. The chief of staff schedules the routine problems, and checks that they are completed.
If a problem is not routine, the chief of staff notices. He passes it to the expert, who solves the problem, and educates the staff -- converting the problem into a routine problem.
Staffs make decisions quickly, and carry out assignments efficiently, though less reliably than committees or matrices. For this reason businesses often prefer to use this method.
Staffs break down easily, usually from bad selection of people. Dilbert's boss is a non-expert trying to run a staff. In a "cross functional team," like an executive committee, the boss has to be a non-expert, because so many kinds of expertise are required. Also: chiefs of staff can be disorganized, play favorites, or can't tell what should go to the expert.
Executive committees can be expert staffs: at choosing people. This is how General Electric succeeded under Jack Welch. You could do worse.
Matrix Organisation
On the face of it, this is the perfect organisation. One hierarchy is "functional" and assures that each type of expert in the organization is well-trained, and measured by a boss who is super-expert in the same field. The other direction is "executive" and tries to get projects completed using the experts.
Matrices are the only known organizations that can consistently create complex technical products like airplanes and engines.
The problem is that going through channels takes too long. Getting approval to actually do anything often needs the approval of each type of expert, and both of each expert's bosses! The trick is to speed aprovals: make approval everybody's number one job, and simplify sign-offs.
Ecologies
This organization has intense competition. Bad parts of the organization starve. Good ones get more work. Everybody is paid for what they actually do, and runs a tiny business that has to show a profit, or they get canned. For example: upper managers invest, and if they make bad investments, there's no profit. Engineers rent their designs out to manufacturing. Facilities people rent space, etc.
This is a really effective organization. But it's wasteful because all those dead pieces of organization have valuable training, and are very hard to recycle. They're bitter, and they will stop taking it after a while. Reorganization follows.
This may reflect a rather one-sided view of what goes on in ecology. It is also the case that a natural ecosystem has a natural border - ecoregions do not in general compete with one another in any way, but are very autonomous.
Composite Organizations
These try to use each of the above types of organization in the right places. Very occasionally, a true organizational genius can make this work, for a while.
Don't bet on it in the long term. Success outgrows the ability of the genius. There just get to be too many special cases.
One golden exception may be a hierarchy of staffs, where every staff above the first level works to find or make the right people. This is the G.E. model, of course.
"Chaordic" Organizations
An emerging model of organizing human endeavors, based on a blending of chaos and order (hence "chaordic"), comes out of the work of Dee Hock and the creation of the VISA financial network. Blending democracy, complex system, consensus decision making, cooperation and competition, the chaordic approach attempts to encourage organizations to evolve from the increasingly nonviable hierarchical, command-and-control models. Reference: http://www.chaordic.org. Similarly, see Emergent organisations, and the principle of self-organization. See also group entity for an anarchist perspective on human organizations.
References
Organisations which are legal entities: government, international organization, non-governmental organization, armed forces, corporation, charity, not-for-profit corporation.
- Organizations by Richard Scott: ISBN 0132663546 (not a recommendation, but a hearsay suggestion)
- Understanding Organisations by Charles Handy.
- The Peter Principle, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, Pan Books 1970 ISBN 0-330-02519-8
- The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Coase.
See also
- service club
- List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
- project
- Service organization
- Charitable trust
- Fraternal organization
- Fraternities and sororities
- List of trade unions
- List of environmental organizations
- Non-governmental organization
- International organization
Related concepts
- bureaucracy
- Meeting
- Organizational Development
- organized crime
- Requisite organization
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Organization."
Synonyms: FirmSynonyms: crisp (adj), crunchy (adj), established (adj), fast (adj), fast(a) (adj), immobile (adj), loyal (adj), solid (adj), steadfast (adj), steady (adj), strong (adj), truehearted (adj), unbendable (adj), unfaltering (adj), unfluctuating (adj), unshakable (adj), unwavering (adj), firmly (adv), steadfastly (adv), unwaveringly (adv), business firm (n), house (n), tauten (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Strong-minded, hardy, doughty; firm; (stable); determined; (resolved); dogged, indomitable; (persevering) a. |
Hardness | Adjective: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof. |
Merchant | Concern; firm; (partnership). |
Party | Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust. |
Resolution | Adjective: resolved; Verb: determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute; (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty, indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible; (hard); obstinate; steady; (persevering) a. |
Stability | Fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established; Verb: vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Firm |
| English words defined with "firm": accounting firm ♦ consulting firm ♦ law firm ♦ publishing firm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "firm": contract with firm,non revisable price ♦ Firm as a Rock, firm price contract ♦ MANAGER, REAL-ESTATE FIRM ♦ woodcutting firm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "firm": Substant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Firm" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (fast, firm, stable). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap, the same in all places, like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) His father's in piece goods, his mother works for a cosmetics firm. Ma, she'd get you a great discount (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Otherwise, my advice is to stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless experience proves you wrong (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Have to keep a firm hand on boys nowadays, Ward (Leave It to Beaver; writing credit: Katherine Albert; Joe Connelly) | |
Lyrics | We are the firm all stars (Firm All Stars; performing artist: The Firm) Way up firm and high (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) Or the Firm flop (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) Firm biz, what is, Blackstreet (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY) And I still stand firm (Only God Knows Why; performing artist: Kid Rock) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Firm of Girdlestone (1915) Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault (1996) Firm Friends (1992) The Firm (1988) | |
Song Titles | Star Trekkin' (performing artist: The Firm) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Skin cancer can appear as a firm, red lump. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore – called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC. |
 | The primary stage of syphilis is usually marked by the appearance of a single sore called a chancre. The chancre is usually firm, round, small, and painless and is caused by the bacterium |  | Oyster shells are recycled by planting them on soft muddy bottom. This gives a firm surface for the attachment of young oysters and helps provide larger crops. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Figure 11. Six's thermometer, Miller and Casella, 1869 model. This thermometer was made at the request of Doctor William Miller, vice-presiden t of the Royal Society, and produced by the firm of Louis Casella. This thermometer was designed to resist the effects of pressure. This instrument was first used in May 1869. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 24. Vereinigte Fabriken fur Laboratoriumsbedarf thermometer, manufactured by the firm of the same name. Vereinigte Fabriken fur Laboratorium sbedarf was a manufacturing concern that made all sorts of instruments for laboratories and researchers. This type of thermometer was made in 1910 after the design of the Richter thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 45. Quartz spectrograph, meant to photographically meausure the spectrum of various materials under analysis. This instrument was constructed by the Paris firm of Jobin and Yvon in 1901. Several of these instruments were made by the engineer Amedee Jobin. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 46. Manometer register, meant to measure pressure. This device was constructed by the firm of J. Richard and meant for industrial applications such as recording the pressure in boilers, of hydraulic presses, etc. It was apparently constructed in the late 19th Century. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Local community neighborhood leaders, discuss plans for Ralston Creek Renovation Area in Iowa City, IA, with Stan Simmons, a technician for Environmental Tech Action, a consulting firm that contracts with the local RC&D. Simmons also volunteers his time. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Stan Simmons, a technician for Environmental Tech Action, assisting in the survey of the Ralston Creek Renovation Area in Iowa City, IA. Environmental Tech Action is a consulting firm that contracts with the local RC&D. [Slide 97CS3056]. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
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| "Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus car" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "(Daucus carota) Wild carrot is edible when young but the root (especially the center) soon gets tough. It is yellowish in color, spindle-shaped, slender, firm and woody; a pernicious weed in some areas. ." |
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 | Abiding; certain; changeless; constant; durable; enduring; equable; even; firm; fixed; immovable; never-failing; patterned; regular; reliable; safe; set; solid; stabile; steadfast; steady-going; substantial; sure; unchangeable; unchanging; unfaltering; un. | | Exaggerating; adamant; determined; firm; fixed; hang tough; hard-nosed; immovable; inexorable; inflexible; inflexible; insistent; intransigent; obdurate; pat; relentless; resolute; rigid; set; stiff; stubborn; unbendable; unbending; uncompromising; unrele. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. |
Confucius | The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. |
Edward Young | The purpose firm is equal to the deed. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. |
| To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. |
Socrates | Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. |
William Shakespeare | Who is so firm that can't be seduced? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Since, moveover, for God and the amendment of our kingdom and for the better allaying of the quarrel that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, desirous that they should enjoy them in complete and firm endurance forever, we give and grant to them the underwritten security, namely, that the barons choose five and twenty barons of the kingdom, whomsoever they will, who shall be bound with all their might, to observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter, so that if we, or our justiciar, or our bailiffs or any one of our officers, shall in anything be at fault towards anyone, or shall have broken any one of the articles of this peace or of this security, and the offense be notified to four barons of the foresaid five and twenty, the said four barons shall repair to us (or our justiciar, if we are out of the realm) and, laying the transgression before us, petition to have that transgression redressed without delay. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | But tho' these are ties upon mankind, which make the conjugal bonds more firm and lasting in man, than the other species of animals; yet it would give one reason to enquire, why this compact, where procreation and education are secured, and inheritance taken care for, may not be made determinable, either by consent, or at a certain time, or upon certain conditions, as well as any other voluntary compacts, there being no necessity in the nature of the thing, nor to the ends of it, that it should always be for life; I mean, to such as are under no restraint of any positive law, which ordains all such contracts to be perpetual. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another Agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | In reply, I can only plead my firm conviction that the popular usage is wrong |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The stranger, without removing from him this gaze which went so to speak, to the bottom of his conscience, answered in a severe and firm tone |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These are all very firm fish, and weigh more than their size promises |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The chancre is usually firm, round, small, and painless. (references) | |
Parents should make sure their baby sleeps on a firm mattress or other firm surface. (references) | ||
No firm association between infection with any known human pathogen and CFS has been established. (references) | ||
Business | An average architectural firm employs 10 architects. (references) | |
Most defense procurement contracts are firm fixed price. (references) | ||
Secondly, a foreign firm MUST have a local black partner. (references) | ||
Children | Taiwan | Another law requires that, to compete for government contracts, a firm with at least 100 employees must include among its employees a minimum of 2 percent of either persons with disabilities or Aborigines. (references) |
Romania | There was no perceptible societal pattern of abuse against children; however, a survey by a local polling firm conducted during the year found that 41 percent of women and 59 percent of men reported that they had experienced physical or verbal abuse as children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | Although firm numbers are impossible to obtain, many thousands of individuals are serving sentences in reeducation-through-labor camps. (references) |
Economic History | Switzerland | Firm figures are not available. (references) |
Republic of Congo | In second position is the Italian oil firm Agip. (references) | |
Portugal | The firm was never able to win its claim in court. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | All factions most likely held political detainees, but no firm numbers are available. (references) |
Indonesia | He was released on November 26. On January 16, 12 employees of a Korean firm in Asiki district were kidnaped by the OPM. (references) | |
Ghana | On February 6, local officials using two bulldozers belonging to Abosso Goldfields Limited, a local mining firm, and acting under the auspices of the local District Security Council, demolished the village of Kyekywere, Western Region. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Taiwan | The law requires that, to compete for government contracts, a firm with at least 100 employees must include among its employees a minimum of 2 percent of either persons with disabilities or Aborigines. (references) |
Indonesia | After the congress, he met with Presidium Council leaders and reemphasized the Government's firm stance against Papuan independence, but said it was permissible to fly Papuan independence flags as long as they were smaller and flown below the Indonesian flag. (references) | |
Minorities | Romania | In 2000 the NGO Romani CRISS filed a complaint with the Ombudsman's Office regarding a job announcement, posted in Bucharest's Third Sector Labor Force Office by a private firm called S.C. Guard, which stated, "no Roma accepted." The Labor Force Office offered public apologies, and no further such announcements have been posted there. (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | Colombia permits 100 percent foreign ownership of insurance firm subsidiaries. (references) |
MALAYSIA | Securities: Foreigners may hold up to 49 percent of the equity in a stockbroking firm. (references) | |
ALGERIA | Only a few strategic firms, such as Sonatrach (oil and gas firm), will remain state-owned. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saint Kitts and Nevis | PAM leadership reported that one person had not been paid; the Government asserted that it needed information about her remuneration from her law firm before it could calculate her pension benefits. (references) |
Zambia | The ECZ did not renew its contract with the controversial firm that had run the voter registration computer system in 1996. Parties and NGO's generally were satisfied that the new system was not subject to manipulation by the ruling party. (references) | |
Trade | France | Responsible official of the exporting firm on each invoice. (references) |
Travel | Bahamas | Firm appointments for business meetings are advisable. (references) |
Chad | A third consulting firm, Tchad Vision 2000, represents De Chazal de Mie. (references) | |
Italy | Italian business executives tend to use titles indicating their position in the firm. (references) | |
Women | Maldives | There are no firm data on the extent of violence against women because of the value attached to privacy. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mozambique | In 2000 MOZAL became the first firm to produce goods in an EPZ. (references) |
Philippines | In October 18 minors, again some as young as 14 years old, were rescued from a cosmetics firm in Valenzuela City. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Paul Burrell | Well, I saw letters from a man who actually wanted to keep the family firm on the road, who wanted to keep things together, who cared. And that's strange because Prince Phillip gets a very bad press. |
Ronald Reagan | I certainly hope not. And I have to question whether they would. I hope on the other side that Israel stands firm and doesn't join in any activity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | To enable me to maintain this declaration I rely, under God, with entire confidence on the firm and enlightened support of the national legislature and upon the virtue and patriotism of my fellow citizens. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In this course we ardently wish them to persevere, under a firm conviction that it will promote their happiness. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Should those scenes unfortunately recur, the parties to the contest may count on a faithful performance of the duties incumbent on us as a neutral nation, and our own citizens may equally rely on the firm assertion of their neutral rights. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The American people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this Nation from the beginning. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose--the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Progress is now being made toward the restoration of peace in the Caribbean, and it is our firm hope and purpose that this progress shall go forward. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | My recommendations for a firm restraint on the growth of Federal spending and for greater tax reduction are simple and straightforward. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our concern for equal rights for women is firm and unshakable. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Firm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.23% of the time. "Firm" is used about 8,418 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) | 75.23% | 6,333 | 1,533 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.66% | 2,076 | 4,179 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,418 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "firm". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Firmin | Male | French | To be firm |
| Firmino | Male | Italian | To be firm |
| Fermin | Male | Spanish | To be firm |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "firm": a firm offer ♦ a firm with a good connection ♦ accounting firm ♦ auditing firm ♦ banking firm ♦ be a firm believer in ♦ become firm ♦ big firm ♦ bogus firm ♦ brokerage firm ♦ business firm ♦ commercial firm ♦ construction firm ♦ consulting firm ♦ delivery firm ♦ dummy firm ♦ engineering firm ♦ export firm ♦ firm accepting the order ♦ firm bargain ♦ firm deal ♦ firm friendship ♦ firm ground ♦ firm hand ♦ firm hold ♦ firm in character ♦ firm intention ♦ firm lead ♦ firm name ♦ firm of accountants ♦ firm of lawyers ♦ firm of may ♦ firm offer ♦ firm omelet ♦ firm price contract ♦ firm signature ♦ firm stamp ♦ firm underwriter ♦ firm up ♦ fluctuating firm price ♦ foreign firm ♦ get a firm footing ♦ haulage firm ♦ have a firm hold of ♦ hold firm ♦ import firm ♦ insurance firm ♦ investment firm ♦ keep a firm hand on ♦ law firm ♦ mail order firm ♦ make firm ♦ name of a firm ♦ neglected firm effect ♦ person authorized to sign for a firm ♦ proprietary firm ♦ publishing firm ♦ remain firm ♦ removal firm ♦ rival firm ♦ road haulage firm ♦ securities firm ♦ security firm ♦ service firm ♦ signing for a firm ♦ stand firm ♦ swindling firm ♦ take a firm stand ♦ the firm of may ♦ transport firm ♦ travel for a firm ♦ very small biotechnology firm ♦ with a firm hand ♦ woodcutting firm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "firm": firm-buildings, firm-buttocked, firm-by-firm, firm-edge, firm-fleshed, firm-hewn, firm-hold, firm--in, firm-level, firm-looking, firm-minded, firm-muscled, firm-name, firm-one, firm--pre-project, firm-sale, firm-sounding, firm-specific, firm-the, firm-type, firm-ware, firm-wide. | |
Ending with "firm": inter-firm, long-firm, small-firm. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
the firm | 3,262 | firm body sculpting system | 163 |
law firm | 1,028 | web design firm | 161 |
brokerage firm | 779 | advertising firm | 160 |
firm | 468 | search engine optimization firm | 158 |
consulting firm | 406 | it consulting firm | 155 |
web development firm | 387 | firm breast | 152 |
design firm | 378 | cpa firm | 151 |
search firm | 370 | lexington law firm | 146 |
accounting firm | 369 | venture capital firm | 144 |
the firm workout | 357 | chicago law firm | 136 |
executive search firm | 336 | the firm fanny lifter | 133 |
investment firm | 305 | firm video | 125 |
firm exercise | 304 | new york law firm | 120 |
mattress firm | 290 | firm panorama | 117 |
graphic design firm | 242 | firm body sculpting | 114 |
firm tit | 241 | debt consolidation firm | 106 |
marketing firm | 221 | recruiting firm | 101 |
the firm exercise video | 189 | engineering firm | 96 |
public relations firm | 184 | firm fitness | 91 |
firm body sculpting system 2 | 177 | pr firm | 90 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "firm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stewig (robust, solid, sturdy), firma (company), ferm (robust, solid, sturdy). (various references) | |
Albanian | firmë (author, company, house, signature), vendosur (decided, resolute), solid, në mënyrë të vendosur (decidedly, firmly, fixedly), kompani (company), i vendosur (decided, decisive, determinate, determined, established, fixed, hell-bent, inveterate, nervy, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, situated, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, unalterable, unfaltering, unhesitating), i sigurt (assertive, assured, certain, clear, confident, dead, dependable, fast, foolproof, indubitable, infallible, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, secure, sound, sterling, sure, trusty, unerring), i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, Hardy, indissoluble, lasting, lingering, perdurable, permanent, persistent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unalterable, unswerving), i prerë (amputated, categorical, crisp, curdy, curt, cut, felled, flat, flat-footed, hewn, indented, Nick, outright, peremptory, positive, pronounced, shorn, short, straight out, toreutic, truncated), i paepur (adamant, cast iron, dogged, hard bitten, hard boiled, implacable, indefatigable, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, rigid, stiff, tough, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding), i ngurtë (obdurate, rigid, solid, stark, stiff, straitlaced, wooden), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references) | |
Arabic | حازم (decisive, determined, gritty, resolute, steadfast, steady, strong-willed, tough), شركة (association, company, corporation), شركة تجارية, راسخ (deep-seated, earthbound, fast, firmly, fixed, founded, immovable, incommutable, incorrigible, ingrained, inveterate, rooted, settled, solid, sound, stabile, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure, unalterable, vested), رسخ (embed, entrench, establish, fix, implant, instill, plant, print, root, stabilize), ثابت (abiding, constant, enduring, fast, fixed, habitual, immobile, immovable, immutable, indubitable, invariable, lasting, lingering, perpetual, settled, solid, stabile, stable, standing, stationary, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantive, unfailing, unmoved), الراس, صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent), صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding), عازم (determined, intent, resolute, resolved, single minded, stalwart, steadfast), بثبات (fixedly, invariably, positively), توطد (foothold, settle), محكم (airtight, coherent, compact, fast, hermetic, impermeable, impervious, precise, secure, solid, strong, tight, well knit), وطد (cement, establish, reassure), وطيد (settled, solid, stable, steady, stiff), وفي (adherent, constant, faithful, kosher, loyal, righteous, staunch, true, true-hearted, truthful, unswerving), قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), قاس صلب (callous, concrete, hard, harsh, inflexible, relentless, rigid, rough, ruthless, severe, solid, stiff, strict, tough), نهائي (conclusive, definitive, eventual, extreme, final, irrevocable, peremptory, radical, ultimate), مؤسسة (establishment, foundation, institute, institution), مستقر (constant, enduring, normal, regular, settled, stabilized, stable, steady), متين (able bodied, consistent, durable, enduring, lasting, robust, safe, secure, solid, sound, stabile, staunch, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough), ترسخ (settle, solidify). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, grim, hard, hard and fast, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, narrow, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable, uncharitable), стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), устойчив (persevering, resistant, rigid, settled, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure footed, unswerving), уплътнявам (calk, lute, obturate), сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, lapidary, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, thick, tight), сбивам (compact), твърдо (firmly, fixedly, hard, stably), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), корав (hard, iron-bound, rocky, severe, stiff), втвърдявам (cake, calcify, concrete, congeal, cure, fasten, fix, harden, indurate, knit, set, solidify), непоколебим (determined, immovable, proof, resolute, resolved, set, stanch, unbendable, unconquerable, undaunted, undeviating, unfaltering, unflagging, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), здраво (closely, fast, firmly, fixedly, sound, soundly, stably, tight, with vigor, with vigour), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references) | |
Chinese | 劼 (careful, diligent, to chew), 堅固 (firmly, hard, stable), 堅定 (staunch, steady), 堅決 (determined, resolute), 廠商 (company), 公司 (company, corporation, incorporated), 剛 (barely, exactly, hard, just, strong), 剛強 (unyielding), 企業 (company, enterprise), 堅 (resolute, solid, strong, unyielding), 事务所 (Firms), 賁臨 (etc, honor my house, with your presence), 硬 (hard, stiff, strong), 确 (authenticated, solid), 監 (hard, jail, prison, solid, strong, supervisor, to inspect, to supervise), 碻 (solid), 確 (authenticated, real, solid, true), 磐 (rock, stable), 穩健 (stable and steady), 牢 (fast), 牢固 (secure), 果斷 (decisive). (various references) | |
Czech | firma (business, company, enterprise, establishment, firing, house, sign), zpevnit (reinforce, stabilize, toughen), stálý (constant, durable, enduring, equable, eternal, fast, indissoluble, invariable, perennial, permanent, protracted, regular, sessile, stable, standing, static, stationary, steady, unchangeable), solidní (reputable, responsible, robust, solid, sound, steady, stout, sturdy), rozhodný (assertive, categorical, conclusive, decided, decisive, definite, determined, peremptory, point blank, resolute, strong, strong-minded, unhesitating, unqualified), rázný (brisk, crisp, energetic, peremptory, powerful, sharp), pevný (adamant, compact, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, unmoved, unswerving, unyielding, valid), pevnì (adamantly, fast, firmly, fixedly, securely, strongly, substantially), přísný (austere, exacting, hard, harsh, heavy, nice, rigid, rigorous, severe, sharp, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, tough, uncharitable), odhodlaný (determined, resolute, resolved, strong-minded), energický (assertive, brisk, decisive, decisively, energetic, enterprising, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, perky, red blooded, strenuous, strong, vigorous, vital), dùtklivý (emphatic, forcible, urgent), dùrazný (emphatic, stern, stringent, vigorous), dùkladný (close, elaborate, good, in depth, intimate, painstaking, particular, profound, sound, stout, strong, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing). (various references) | |
Danish | firma (company), fast (fast, fixed, robust, solid, stable, sturdy). (various references) | |
Dutch | stevig (fast, firmly, robust, stable, sturdy), vast (abiding, all the time, certain, certainly, constant, continual, continuous, definite, definitive, fast, firmly, fixed, in the meantime, lasting, meanwhile, permanent, probably, solid, stable, sure, sustained), hecht (fast, robust, solid, stable, sturdy), gevestigd (fast, stable), firma (company). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fortika (robust, sturdy), firmo (company), firmao (company), firma (fast, stable), solida (solid), kategoria (peremptory, resolute). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fastur (fast, stable), sterkur (acute, intense, intensive, robust, strong, sturdy, vigorous), handilshús (company), haldgóður (robust, sturdy). (various references) | |
Farsi | پابرجا (Immutable, Indefeasible, Resolute, Stable, True), موسسه بازرگانی , محکم (Buff, Meaty, Secure, Stable, Steady, Steel, Stout, Strict, Strong, Sturdy, Substantial, Tenacious, Tight, Tough), کارخانه (Factory, Housework, Mill, Plant, Studio), تجارتخانه , سفت کردن (Congeal, Fix, Jell, Stiff, Tighten, Tone, Toughen), استوارکردن (Fix, Pitch, Stabilize), استوار (Consistent, Constant, Immovable, Secure, Sound, Stable, Steadfast, Steady, Steel, Sure, Tenacious), ثابت (Equable, Immobile, Immovable, Indelible, Irremovable, Loyal, Pat, Permanent, Resolute, Stable, Staid, Standstill, Steady, True), راسخ , شرکت (Bodycorporate, Cahoot, Corporation, Hand, Society, Unity). (various references) | |
Finnish | vakaa (stable, steadfast, steady), luja (decided, durable, fast, resolute, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong), kiinteä (close, fixed, solid). (various references) | |
French | ferme (of firm consistency), solide (fixed), stable, robuste, entreprise. (various references) | |
Frisian | hecht (robust, sturdy), gewûpst (robust, sturdy). (various references) | |
German | fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), firma (business, company, concern, corporation, employer, inc), feststehend (definite, established, fast, fixed, set, settled, stable, standing firm, static, stationary, unbreakable). (various references) | |
Greek | σταθερός (consistent, enduring, stable, steady). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוצק (cast, cast iron, compact, hard, massive, solid, substantial), מבוצר (fortified), למצק (consolidate, make firm, solidify), להקריש (coagulate, freeze, gel, jell, jellify), שריר (enduring, muscle, sinew, strong), שרשי (basic, deep rooted, fundamental, radical, rooty), פירמה, איתן (cast iron, immovable, mighty, perennial, permanent, solid, steady, strong, sturdy, substantial), חזק (cast iron, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, mighty, potent, powerful, stiff, strong, tough), חברה מסחרית (company, corporation), נאמן (adherent, faithful, henchman, loyal, loyalist, reliable, stanch, staunch, true, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kemény (adamantine, austere, berserk, flinty, gritty, hard, harsh, horny, rugged, sharp, shrewd, steely, stiff, to play hardball, tough, warm). (various references) | |
Indonesian | firma (company, enterprise), tangguh (hard to defeat, strong, sturdy, tough), tandas (absolutely wiped out, denotation), mantap (unshakeable, unshaken), kukuh (hefty, see: kokoh, strong, tenacious), kekar (huge, joint (geology term), muscular, solid), erat (close, taut, tight). (various references) | |
Irish | docht, daingean. (various references) | |
Italian | stabile (abiding, building, durable, permanent, set, settled, stable, standing, steady), sodo (hard, hard boiled, solid, sound, stiff, tight), impresa (achievement, boutique, business, company, concern, deed, enterprise, establishment, expedition, exploit, feat, job, shop, trade, undertaking, venture), fermo (arrest, catch, constant, durable, fast, fixed, lock, motionless, settled, standing, stationary, steady, still, stop, tight), ditta (business, company, concern, employer, factory, house). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 頑丈 (burly, solid, stout, strong, sturdy), 堅固 (solid, strong). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっこ (brackets, each, every house, every one, parenthesis, unshakeable), だんこ (determined, resolute), だんこたる (conclusive, determined), てがたい (secure, solid, steady), とうしゃ (copy, mimeograph, photocopy, projection, shrine, tracing, transcription), けんちょう (bullish, prefectural office, suspension), けんご (solid, strong), げんじゅう (rigour, secure, severe, strict, strong), ゆるぎない (solid, steady), あんていした (calm, stable, steady), ろうこ (solid), だんだんこ (absolutely, resolute), こしがつよい (flexible and hard to break, persevering), たいぜんたる (calm, composed), かっこたる (resolute, sure), かたい (carelessness, certain, difficult, hard, honorable, lower leg, lower limbs, lower part of the body, mistake, negligence, solemn, solid, steadfast, stubborn, stuffy writing, unpolished writing), つよき (strong), ふばつ (indomitable, invincible, steadfast, unswerving), きじょう (a rail, aboard an airplane, mount, on horseback, on the desk, stout-hearted, theoretical), きょうこう (consternation, crime, enforcement, famine, forcing, height of a mirror stand, murder, panic, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, vigorous, violence), しょうかん (admiral, amortization, general, killing time, lull, petty official, recall, redemption, repayment, short break or breather, short interval of leisure, summons, trading company), しょうかい (company, detailed explanation, inquiry, introduction, patrolling, reference), しょうしゃ (casualty, elegant, exposure, injured person, neat, ourcompany, prosperous person, refined, sentry box, small company, small shrine, trading company, trim, victor, winner, wounded person, young person), ファーム (farm), がんじょう (abdication by an emperor in favor of a more virtuous successor, burly, meditative concentration, preceding article or entry, Samadhi, solid, stout, strong, sturdy, written request), こうし (calf, company, Confucius, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman). (various references) | |
Korean | 상사 (Firms, sergeant, Sergeants). (various references) | |
Malay | firma (company), gagah (robust, sturdy). (various references) | |
Manx | trean (brave, doughty, formidable, heavy, heroic, intensive, stark, stout, valiant, valorous), shickyr (certain, confident, definite, fast, fixed, impregnable, positive, secure, stable, steadfast, steady, sure, unflinching), shassooagh (abiding, constant, dogged, insistent, invariable, persistent, resolute, stable, steadfast), roauyr (bulky, buxom, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, sleek, stiff, stout, thick), jeelys (devoted, faithful, genuine, sincere, staunch, steadfast, true-hearted), gloo (close, close-grained; warp, close-set, close-textured, dense, fine-drawn, forest, forest), jam, serried, side bar, thick, thick as fog, thickset, thickset of hedge, tight, tight as weave), fondagh (effectual, efficacious, efficient, impregnable, of good standing, perfect, solid, stable, substantial, sufficent), chionn (austere, busy, delicate, erect, erect as penis, fast, firmly, hard-pressed, hardy, inflated, speedy, stiff, stuck fast, taut, tense, tight-fitting), beayn (chronic, constant, durable, eternal, evergreen, immortal, infinite, interminable, lifelong, longstanding, permanent, recurring, steady, sustained, timeless). (various references) | |
Norwegian | firma, fast, standhaftig. (various references) | |
Papiamen | firma (company, sign, signature). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irmfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | firme (compact, consistent, deep-seated, die-hard, fadeless, fast, fixed, hard, inflexible, iron, non-ductile, resolute, set, settled, sober, solid, stable, steadfast, steady, stern, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tight, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfailing, unfaltering, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), firma (byline, company, concern, signature). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | firme. (various references) | |
Romanian | ferm (decidedly, fixed, hard, hard bitten, inflexible, resistant, resolute, resolved, set, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sturdy, tight, unbending, unfaltering, unflinching, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), firmã (house, sign, signboard, style), fix (certain, clipping, constant, definite, exact, fixed, fixedly, immovable, invariable, permanent, set, sharp, stable, staid, standing, staring, stationary, steady, sure, unalterable, unchangeable), nestrãmutat (resolute, secure, unflinching, unshakeable, unyielding), casã de comerţ (mercantile house), compact (close, compact, compactly, dense, densely, indiscrete, massive, serried, solid, stiff, tight), constant (abiding, constant, permanent, smooth, steadfast, steady, unchanging, unfailing, uniform), dur (callous, difficult, dour, hard, harsh, rigid, rough, roughly, stern, strict, stubborn, troublesome), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, trenchant, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), imobil (apartment house, fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, standing, stationary, steadfast, still), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), neclintit (determined, fixed, forthright, foursquare, immovable, resolute, secure, unbending, unflinching, unshakeable, unwavering), vârtos (hard, harsh, sinewy, stout, strong, strongly), se întãri (cake, harden, intensify, recover tone, steady, stiffen, toughen), se consolida (consolidate, solidify, stiffen, strengthen), se fixa (clinch, fasten), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), societate (association, circle, club, community, companionship, company, Covey, crowd, guild, institute, presence, society, world), solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), stabil (durable, fixed, fixedly, lasting, permanent, sedentary, set, settled, solid, sound, stable, standing, steadfast, steady), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), neabãtut (steadfast, unfailing, unflagging, unflinching, unshaken). (various references) | |
Russian | стойкий (doughty, fast, hard bitten, hardbitten, lasting, persistent, resistant, staunch, steadfast, stout, stouthearted, stout-hearted, sturdy, true-blue, uncompromising, unyielding), фирма твердый, фирма (business, stockist), твердый (adamant, cast iron, coriaceous, deep-seated, fast, gritty, hard, hard and fast, resolute, resolved, rigid, rocky, set, solid, steadfast, stern, stiff, stony, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unyielding), крепкий (able bodied, beefy, burly, copper-bottomed, fast, generous, hard, hearty, knitted, lusty, oaky, rocky, rugged, solid, stiff, strong, sturdy, tenacious, trig, unbeaten, wakeless, well-built, well-set), прочный (durable, endurable, enduring, fail-safe, fast, indissoluble, reliable, resistant, rugged, serviceable, sound, stable, stout, strong, tenable, tough). (various references) | |
Scottish | steadhainn, starcach, daingeann (strong). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | firma (sign, signboard), tvrd (adamant, hard, solid, steely, tight-fisted), strog (austere, dour, exacting, finical, finicking, grim, rigid, severe, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent), solidan (reliable, solid), snažan (able bodied, burly, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit), preduzeće (concern, enterprise), nesalomiv (adamant, unbreakable), nepokolebljiv (immovable, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken), nepokolebiv (unshakable), jedar (bouncing, crisp, plump, succinct), čvrst (hard, hard and fast, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sturdy, tenacious, tight, trim, unwavering, wiry). (various references) | |
Spanish | firma (company, endorsement, house, indorsation, indorsement, sign manual, signature, signing), sólido (body, chunky, fast, filling, hard, massy, meaty, robust, solid, stable, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, used to), firme (adamant, ballast bed, bed, decisive, fast, foursquare, hard, out and out, persistent, positive, road, roadbed, secure, set, solid, sound, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sure, surface, unmoved, unswerving, unwavering), fijo (fast, fixed, hard, immovable, keen, lingering, resident, stable, unswerving), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous), empresa (business, car dealership, company, concern, employer, employment, enterprise, gamble, industry, proposition, task, undertaking, venture). (various references) | |
Swedish | stadig (established, fixed, foursquare, level headed, secure, settled, staid, steadfast, steady, unfaltering), firma (company, concern, house), fast (although, concrete, consistent, firmly, fixed, fixedly, flat, hard and fast, immovable, indissoluble, permanent, permanently, rigid, settled, solid, stuck, sturdy, though, tight, unblinking, unfaltering, unshaken, unwavering), orubblig (adamant, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, impregnable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, tenacious, unblinking, uncompromising, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้ล้มเหลว (put someone / a firm out (of business)), ยึดไว้ (keep a firm hold on), ยึดมั่น (hard-set, hold firm). (various references) | |
Turkish | firma (business), pekiştirmek (cement, consolidate, establish, harden, impact, intensify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen), canlanmak (bestir oneself, brighten, brighten up, buck up, come to life, freshen, kick up one's heels, kindle, liven, liven up, perk, perk oneself, perk oneself up, perk up, quicken, refresh, revive, rouse, rouse oneself, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up), dayanıklı (cast iron, consolidated, durable, enduring, fast, for hard wear, gritty, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, impervious, impregnable, indestructible, invulnerable, keeping, lasting, long lasting, nonperishable, patient, proof, refractory, resistant, resistant to, resolute, runproof, sedulous, serviceable, sturdy, substantial, substantive, supportable, tough, unfading, wiry), ekip (brigade, crew, gang, outfit, party, platoon, shift, squad, stable, team), emin (assured, bailee, certain, clear, cocksure, confident, confidential, deliberate, fiduciary, good, in the bag, proof, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, sound, stanch, staunch, sure, trustworthy, trusty, unfaltering), kararlı (bent, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, hard core, high pressure, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred, unfaltering), katı (callous, emphatic, emphatical, fold, hard, hard and fast, hard boiled, hard line, insensitive, ironclad, rigid, sclerous, solid, Square, steel, steely, stern, stiff, strict), kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, decisive, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, flat, frozen, implicit, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, ocular, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, Square, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, utter), şirket (company, concern, corporation, establishment, house), pekişmek (become hard, set, solidify, stiffen), yükselmeye başlamak, sıkı (clinging, close, close fitting, close-bodied, compact, fast, foursquare, gross, hard, iron, rigorous, searching, serried, Strait, strict, stringent, sure, tight), sıkı sıkı (closely, firmly, tightly), sıkıca (chock, fast, firmly, tightly), sağlık ekibi, sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), sağlamlaşmak (become firm, indurate), sağlamlaştırmak (cement, consolidate, consolidation, fasten down, harden, make fast, make firm, reinforce, secure, solidify, stabilize, strengthen), sabit (attached, changeless, constant, entrenched, established, fast, fixed, flat, flat-footed, immobile, immovable, immutable, indelible, invariable, irremovable, permanent, put, real, rigid, set, settled, stable, staid, standing, staring, static, stationary, steadfast, steady, substantive, unwavering), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), metin (copy, foursquare, immovable, resolute, solid, stoic, stoical, text, unshakable, unshaken). (various references) | |
Turkmen | firma (r), tцwekgel (decisive, resolute), pugta (long-lasting, solid), pert, ьz, gaяym (tough), berk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ущільнюватися (firm up, pack, thicken), ущільнювати (compact, consolidate, impact, obturate, pack, thicken), укріплятися (firm up), укріпляти (consolidate, fortify, sconce, tighten), фірма (biz, concern), твердо (firmly, hard, sturdily), твердий (callous, choky, consistent, coriaceous, crisp, crusty, deep-seated, hard, hard and fast, resolute, settled, solid, staunch, steadfast, stern, strong, tough), незмінний (abiding, certain, changeless, eternal, fixed, hardened, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariable, non-variant, one, permanent, same, unalterable, unexceptional, unfailing), непорушний (eternal, hard and fast, immobile, immutable, indefeasible, sacred, standing, static, stygian), непохитно, міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, full-bodied, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vững vàng giữ vững niềm tin, vững vàng (impregnable, stanch, staunch), vững (steady, strong), không chùn bước trung thành, hãng (agency, enterprise), chắc (certain, certainly, cobby, likely, stout, sure, sure-enough), công ty (partnership). (various references) | |
Welsh | sadio (steady), sad (sober, solid, steady), diysgog (stable, steadfast), di-sigl (steadfast, unshaken), cwmni (company), cadarn (mighty, strong). (various references) | |
Yucatec | heets'a'an (fast, stable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | firmus. (various references) |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Firma. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ukhra. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | firma. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | solide. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Hebrews Chapter 3, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | CristoV de wV uioV epi ton oikon autou ou oikoV esmen hmeiV eanper thn parrhsian kai to kauchma thV elpidoV mecri telouV bebaian katascwmen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Christus vero tamquam filius in domo sua quae domus sumus nos si fiduciam et gloriam spei usque ad finem firmam retineamus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But Crist as a sone in his hous. Which hous we ben, if we holden sad trist and glorie of hope in to the ende. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse whose housse are we so that we hold fast the confydence and the reioysynge of that hope vnto the ende. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Hebrews Chapter 3, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | apan si Cristo ingon nga Anak matinumanon sa pagdumala sa balay sa Dios. Ug kita mao ang iyang balay kon batonan ta nga malig-on ang atong pagsalig ug garbo sa atong paglaum. |
| Croatian | ali Krist - kao Sin, nad kuæom njegovom. Njegova smo kuæa mi ako saèuvamo smjelost i ponos nade. |
| Danish | men Kristus er det som en Søn over hans Hus; og hans Hus ere vi, såfremt vi fastholde Håbets Frimodighed og Ros urokket indtil Enden. |
| Dutch | Maar Christus, als de Zoon over Zijn eigen huis; Wiens huis wij zijn, indien wij maar de vrijmoedigheid en den roem der hoop tot het einde toe vast behouden. |
| Finnish | mutta Kristus on uskollinen Poikana, hänen huoneensa haltijana; ja hänen huoneensa olemme me, jos loppuun asti pidämme vahvana toivon rohkeuden ja kerskauksen. |
| French | mais Christ l`est comme Fils sur sa maison; et sa maison, c`est nous, pourvu que nous retenions jusqu`à la fin la ferme confiance et l`espérance dont nous nous glorifions. |
| German | Christus aber als ein Sohn über sein Haus; des Haus sind wir, so wir anders das Vertrauen und den Ruhm der Hoffnung bis ans Ende fest behalten. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, Jezikri te fè travay li tankou yon pitit Bondye te mete chèf kay li. Se nou menm ki kay Bondye a, depi nou pa janm dekouraje, depi nou pa janm pèdi konfyans, depi nou pa janm wont sa n'ap tann lan. |
| Hungarian | Krisztus ellenben mint Fiú a maga háza felett, a kinek háza mi vagyunk, ha a bizodalmat és a reménységnek dicsekedését mind végig erõsen megtartjuk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi Kristus setia sebagai Anak yang bertanggung jawab atas Rumah Allah. Dan kita inilah Rumah Allah, kalau kita tetap bersemangat dan tetap yakin untuk mendapat apa yang kita harapkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | tetapi Kristus itu sebagaimana seorang anak berkuasa atas isi rumah Allah; maka kita inilah isi rumah-Nya itu, asal kita tetap di dalam iman dan harap, yang menjadi kemegahan kita, hingga kepada kesudahannya. |
| Italian | Cristo, invece, lo fu come figlio costituito sopra la sua propria casa. E la sua casa siamo noi, se conserviamo la libertà e la speranza di cui ci vantiamo. |
| Latvian | Bet Kristus ir kâ dçls savâ namâ. Mçs esam ðis nams, ja lîdz galam uzglabâsim nesatricinâtu uzticîbu un cerîbas godîbu. |
| Maori | Ko te Karaiti ia i rite ki te tama i tona whare ano; ko tona whare tonu hoki tatou, ki te u to tatou maia me te whakamanamana ki te mea e tumanakohia atu nei, a taea noatia te mutunga. |
| Norwegian | men Kristus som Sønn over hans hus, og hans hus er vi, såfremt vi holder vår frimodighet og det håp som vi roser oss av, fast inntil enden. |
| Rumanian | Dar Hristos este credincios ca Fiu, peste casa lui Dumnezeu. Wi casa Lui skntem noi, dacq pqstrqm pknq la sfkrwit kncrederea nezguduitq wi nqdejdea cu care ne lqudqm. |
| Russian | Б иТЙУФПУ--ЛБЛ уЩО Ч ДПНЕ еЗП; ДПН ЦЕ еЗП--НЩ, ЕУМЙ ФПМШЛП ДЕТЪОПЧЕОЙЕ Й ХРПЧБОЙЕ, ЛПФПТЩН ИЧБМЙНУС, ФЧЕТДП УПИТБОЙН ДП ЛПОГБ. |
| Shuar | Túrasha Kristu Yusa Jeen takarniuchu asa antsu Yusa Uchiri asa nui Ashí akupeawai. Nu jeasha iitji. Tura tuke iniaitsuk kakaram ajasar Yus suramsattaj nu wararsar Nákastiniaitji. |
| Spanish | En cambio, Cristo es fiel como Hijo sobre su casa. Esta casa suya somos nosotros, si de veras retenemos la confianza y el gloriarnos de la esperanza. |
| Swahili | Lakini Kristo ni mwaminifu kama Mwana mwenye mamlaka juu ya nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ni nyumba yake kama tukizingatia uhodari wetu na uthabiti wetu katika kile tunachotumainia. |
| Swedish | men Kristus var trogen såsom "son", en son satt över hans hus. Och hans hus äro vi, såframt vi intill änden hålla fast vår frimodighet och vår berömmelse i hoppet. |
| Uma | Hiaa' Kristus, bela-i muntu' topobago-wadi, Ana' Alata'ala mpu'u-i-hana, to tida mpokamu bago-na jadi' Pangkeni to mpohawai' hawe'ea ihi' tomi Alata'ala. Ihi' tomi Alata'ala toe, kita' toi-mi lau ompi', asala tida oa' nono-ta mposarumaka Yesus-wadi, pai' neo' -ta morara'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firm": firmament, firmamental, firmaments, firman, firmans, firmed, firmer, firmers, firmest, firming, firmly, firmness, firmnesses, firms, firmware, firmwares. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "firm": affirm, confirm, disaffirm, disconfirm, infirm, interfirm, reaffirm, reconfirm, superfirm. (additional references) | |
Words containing "firm": affirmable, affirmance, affirmances, affirmation, affirmations, affirmative, affirmatively, affirmatives, affirmed, affirmer, affirmers, affirming, affirms, confirmabilities, confirmability, confirmable, confirmand, confirmands, confirmation, confirmational, confirmations, confirmatory, confirmed, confirmedly, confirmedness, confirmednesses, confirming, confirms, disaffirmance, disaffirmances, disaffirmed, disaffirming, disaffirms, disconfirmed, disconfirming, disconfirms, infirmaries, infirmary, infirmed, infirming, infirmities, infirmity, infirmly, infirms, reaffirmation, reaffirmations, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, reconfirmation, reconfirmations. (additional references) | |
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"Firm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Efim, fairn, farmi, farmm, Farn, Fbim, ferm, fiam, Ficm, Fidra, figr, fiir, fim, fimf, fimm, fimr, Fiom, firl, firmi, firmy, firn, firr, firy, firz, fium, Fiumi, friem, frin, frm, fuir, furam, iimr, imr, irm, irmo, nimr, virm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "firm" (pronounced fer"m) |
| 3 | f er" m | affirm, reaffirm, confirm, infirm, reconfirm. |
| 2 | -er" m | berm, germ, Herm, sperm, squirm, term, therm, worm. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-m-r" | |
-1 letter: fir, mir, rif, rim. | |
-2 letters: if, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: fermi, firms. | |
+2 letters: affirm, biform, fermis, filmer, firman, firmed, firmer, firmly, formic, fumier, infirm, inform, maftir, ramify, refilm. | |
+3 letters: aciform, affirms, aliform, brimful, comfier, confirm, deiform, farming, fermion, fermium, fibroma, filmers, filmier, fimbria, finmark, firearm, fireman, firemen, firmans, firmers, firmest, firming, flamier, foamier, forming, framing, fumaric, furmity, infirms, informs, maftirs, metrify, micrify, midriff, miffier, misfire, misform, mortify, oviform, refilms, rimfire, triform, uniform. | |
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