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Definition: HOBBIES |
HOBBIESPlural1. Of Hobby |
Date "HOBBIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Leisure activities engaged in for pleasure. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HOBBIES |
| English words defined with "HOBBIES": occupational therapy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HOBBIES": ergoterapia ♦ Other Interests ♦ RECREATION LEADER ♦ terapia occupazionale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HOBBIES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (fads, hobbies), Swedish (hobbies). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Picture People: Hobbies of the Stars (1941) Hobbies (1941) Hollywood Hobbies (1939) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | All on hobbies, gee up, gee ho!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try new hobbies and learn new skills. (references) | |
Many people with HD are eager and able to participate in activities outside the home. Therapeutic work and recreation centers give individuals an opportunity to pursue hobbies and interests and to meet new people. (references) | ||
In the past year, NIA-supported investigators also have looked at ways to improve standardized tests of memory, language, and other neuropsychological components in hopes of being able to better predict future development of AD. In one study, scientists at Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital examined whether it was possible to identify aspects of the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale to predict which people with "questionable" AD have a high likelihood of converting to a diagnosis of AD over time (Daly et al., 2000). The CDR is a semi-structured clinical interview that stages AD from 0 (normal) to 0.5 (questionable), 1.0 (mild), 2.0 (moderate), and 3.0 (severe), based on an assessment of six categories of function (memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care). (references) | ||
Business | This "profile" includes a group's hobbies, interests, attitudes and social preferences. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | The Swiss also publish an extensive range of periodicals, trade magazines and special interest magazines such as travel, gastronomy, medicine, environment, and hobbies. (references) |
Human Rights | Armenia | For example, inmates are able to receive toiletries from family members and are allowed to engage in activities and hobbies, such as sewing and writing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HOBBIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOBBIES" is used about 294 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 (plural) | 100% | 294 | 16,951 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HOBBIES": comedy-pop-and-hobbies. | |
| 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 |
tower hobbies.com | 83 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HOBBIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爱好 (hobby). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | askartelu (hobby crafts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | salle de jeu et de récréation (games and hobbies room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Steckenpferde, Hobbies (fads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 취미 (hobby). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obbieshay sala de juegos y pasatiempos (games and hobbies room). (various references) hobbies. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"HOBBIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dhobied, Dobbies, Habibie, Hebbess, Hebbie, heebies, Hibees, Hibis, hobbes, Hobbie, hobbied, hobbiest, Hobbiss, hobbses, Hobiba, hobie, hobies, Hobyah, holbeins, Horbys, Hubbins, Nobbies, Robbies, yobboes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOBBIES" (pronounced hÄ"bēz) |
| 4 | -Ä" b ē z | lobbies. |
| 3 | -b ē z | babies, cabbies, cubbies, dobies, freebies, rabies, rubies, zombies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-h-i-o-s" | |
-2 letters: hoise. | |
-3 letters: bibs, bios, bise, bobs, bosh, ebbs, hies, hobs, hoes, hose, obes, obis, shoe, sibb. | |
-4 letters: bib, bio, bis, bob, bos, ebb, hes, hie, his, hob, hoe, obe, obi, oes, ohs, ose, sei, she, sib, sob. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, bo, eh, es, he, hi, ho, is, oe, oh, os, sh, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-h-i-o-s" | |
+2 letters: bobwhites. | |
+3 letters: shibboleth. | |
+4 letters: abolishable, shibboleths. | |
+5 letters: bibliophiles, bibliothecas, ribbonfishes, snobbishness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 42 42 49 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -... -... .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01000010 01000010 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O B B I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0042 0042 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42493636433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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