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IMMINENT DANGER

Specialty Definition: IMMINENT DANGER

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Mining

The existence of any condition or practice that could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm before such condition orpractice can be abated. (references)

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

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Crosswords: IMMINENT DANGER

English words defined with "IMMINENT DANGER": endangered. (references)
Specialty definitions using "IMMINENT DANGER": seriously ill. (references)

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Modern Usage: IMMINENT DANGER

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Screenplays

I could tell I was in imminent danger of overplaying my hand. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

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

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Photo Album: IMMINENT DANGER

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The Bronze Star Medal eligibility criteria was limited with the Fiscal 2001 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress. The Medal will be limited to those people receiving imminent danger pay. (Photo illustration by Virginia Reyes).

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

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Historic Usage: IMMINENT DANGER

AuthorDateQuotation

US Constitution

1791

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: IMMINENT DANGER

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Colombia

The authorities normally do not interfere with public meetings and demonstrations and usually grant the required permission except when they determine that there is imminent danger to public order. (references)

Political Economy

Yemen

The next day, in response to information that the lives of the hostages were in imminent danger, government forces attempted a rescue operation. (references)

Worker Rights

Madagascar

The legal minimum age of employment is 15 years, and work by individuals under the age of 18 is prohibited at sites where there is apparent and imminent danger to health, safety, or morals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: IMMINENT DANGER

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825As the defense and even the liberties of the country must depend in times of imminent danger on the militia, it is of the highest importance that it be well organized, armed, and disciplined throughout the Union.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: IMMINENT DANGER

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

危うく (almost, in imminent danger of, nearly). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あやうく (almost, in imminent danger of, nearly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imminentay angerday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: IMMINENT DANGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-i-m-m-n-n-n-r-t"

-3 letters: determining, remediating.

-4 letters: demeriting, detraining, dinnertime, emendating, entraining, germinated, immigrated, ingredient, intermedin, meandering, reimagined.

-5 letters: amendment, argentine, demeaning, dementing, denigrate, detaining, dreamtime, emigrated, endearing, engrained, entrained, garmented, geminated, germinate, gratineed, grenadine, immediate, immigrant, immigrate, indenting, indignant, ingrained, integrand, intending, interning, margented, mediating, neatening, netminder, reediting, reignited, reimagine, remaining, remanding, remanning, remending, reminding, reminting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IMMINENT DANGER


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

49 4D 4D 49 4E 45 4E 54      44 41 4E 47 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01001001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01000100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 004D 0049 004E 0045 004E 0054      0044 0041 004E 0047 0045 0052

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

43474743483948542383548413952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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