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Definitions: Impose |
ImposeVerb1. Compel or impose; "Social relations impose courtesy". 2. Impose something unpleasant: "The principal visited his rage on the students". 3. Impose and collect; "levy a fine". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ImposeSynonyms: bring down (v), enforce (v), inflict (v), levy (v), visit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Command | Prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition. |
Bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on; (compel). | |
Credulity | Impose upon; (deceive). |
Deception | Impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box). |
Duty | Impose a duty; Noun: enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige. |
Respect | Command respect, inspire respect; awe, inspire awe, impose, overawe, dazzle. |
Wrong | Do wrong; Noun: be inequitable; Adjective: favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Should you stand before me again, I shall not hesitate to impose a custodial sentence. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) Excuse me. I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean. (The Salton Sea; writing credit: Tony Gayton) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | When any one, or more, shall take upon them to make laws, whom the people have not appointed so to do, they make laws without authority, which the people are not therefore bound to obey; by which means they come again to be out of subjection, and may constitute to themselves a new legislative, as they think best, being in full liberty to resist the force of those, who without authority would impose any thing upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | How immoral to impose it on them, if they were to be used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what they swear to support! (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany will not maintain or impose any prohibition or restriction on the exportation of any goods sent from her territory to any one of the Allied or Associated States which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like goods, natural products or manufactured articles, sent to any other such State or to any other foreign country. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess so formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To impose his galleys upon these two dazzling children, or to consummate by himself his irremediable engulfment. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The muscular dystrophies impose enormous burdens on people with these disorders and on their families. (references) | |
Business | There will be no upper limit on the fines the regulator can impose. (references) | |
Some tenders may impose language related to the Arab League Boycott of Israel. (references) | ||
Pakistan does not impose any marking or labeling requirements for products within this sector. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | In practice schools impose fees of up to $50 (335,000 cedis) per term, and students also must purchase uniforms and books. (references) |
Suriname | School attendance is free; however, most public schools impose a nominal enrollment fee, ranging from $4 to $24 (Sf10,000 to Sf60,000) a year. (references) | |
Lebanon | The amendments also impose a new building code for all government buildings and require that public transportation be accessible for persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Italy | Courts are sensitive to criticism and impose fines for defamation. (references) |
Cuba | It is highly unusual for police to impose house arrest in a domestic dispute. (references) | |
India | During periods of civil tension, the authorities may ban public assemblies or impose a curfew under the Criminal Procedure Code. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Guatemala does not impose performance, purchase, or export requirements. (references) |
Israel | The GOI does not impose preferential policies on exports by foreign investors. (references) | |
Angola | The UN Security Council voted on August 28, 1997, to impose sanctions on UNITA. (references) | |
Human Rights | Eritrea | The traditional courts cannot impose sentences involving physical punishment. (references) |
Pakistan | The testimony of four female witnesses, or that of a rape victim alone, is insufficient to impose Hadd punishments. (references) | |
Morocco | If the infraction is minor and not contested, the judge may order the defendant released or impose a light sentence. (references) | |
Minorities | Uzbekistan | The citizenship law does not impose language requirements for citizenship; however, the language issue remains very sensitive. (references) |
Nigeria | Traditional linkages continued to impose considerable pressure on individual government officials to favor their own ethnic groups for important positions and patronage. (references) | |
Indonesia | Many of the country's religious minorities expressed growing concern over what they perceived to be increasing demands by certain Muslim groups to impose Shari'a law in the country. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hungary | Prosecutors and judges may impose what amounts to unlimited pretrial detention. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Authorities continued to impose some limits on freedom of assembly and association. (references) | |
Iraq | Saddam Hussein and his inner circle of supporters continued to impose arbitrary rule. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | Besides the Swazi Administration Act of 1998, chiefs traditionally are empowered by virtue of unwritten customary laws to impose fines and some form of punishment to their subjects. (references) |
Trade | Slovak Rep | Slovakia does not impose export duties. (references) |
Ecuador | Ecuador continues to impose certain formal and informal quantitative restrictions. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | DUAL NATIONALITY: Dual nationals may be subject to Latvian laws, which impose special obligations. (references) |
Ecuador | This provision of the law has been used to impose travel prohibitions against resident U.S. citizens, and also has led to the arrest and incarceration of U.S. business people while they were awaiting a hearing on the civil matter. (references) | |
Women | Bahamas | The court can and does impose various legal constraints to protect women from abusive spouses or companions. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | Once all parties agree to arbitration, the committee may impose binding arbitration that automatically terminates any strike. (references) |
France | In case of an impasse, government mediators may impose solutions that are binding unless formally rejected by either side within a week. (references) | |
Denmark | If the proposal is rejected, the Government may impose a legislated solution on the parties (usually based upon the mediators' proposal). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Foreign wars may again expose us to new wrongs, which would impose on us new duties for which we ought to be prepared. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Our relations with the Indians located within our border impose upon us responsibilities we can not escape. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Fifteen years ago North Vietnam, with the logistical support of Communist China and the Soviet Union, launched a campaign to impose a Communist government on South Vietnam by instigating and supporting a revolution. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This program will impose burdens on all of us with the aim of reducing our consumption of energy and increasing our production. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | If we have a serious shortage, I will not hesitate to impose mandatory gasoline rationing immediately. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by our citizens or legal immigrants, and the public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We fight, not to impose our will, but to defend ourselves and extend the blessings of freedom. |
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| "Impose" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.10% of the time. "Impose" is used about 1,892 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 82.1% | 1,553 | 5,283 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.9% | 339 | 15,555 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,892 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "impose": impose a blockade ♦ impose a curfew ♦ impose a fine on smb. ♦ impose a penalty ♦ impose an embargo ♦ impose conditions ♦ impose liability ♦ impose on ♦ impose on smb. ♦ impose one's idea ♦ impose one's will ♦ impose oneself ♦ impose oneself on ♦ impose restrictions on ♦ impose sanction ♦ impose smth. on smb. ♦ impose taxes ♦ impose trade sanctions on ♦ impose upon ♦ To impose on ♦ to impose upon. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "impose": re-impose. | |
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| 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 |
impose | 6 |
impose super | 5 |
impose law no purpose requirement retention sole there whose | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imponoj (enforce, inflict, intrude, obtrude), vë (apply, attach, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, inflict, instal, install, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, place, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), ngarkoj (attribute, burden, charge, commission, cumber, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), faqos (compose, page up). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرض نفسه, فرض عليه نفسه, فرض (assess, commit, direct, enforcement, enjoin, force, impel, imposition, oblige, order, predicate, prescription, put, require), تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, horn, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), إستغل (avail, exploit, follow up, harness, milk, presume, profiteer, quarry, take advantage of, tap, trade on). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), връзвам на страници (make up in pages), натрапвам се (impose oneself, obsess, obtrude oneself), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), заблуждавам (abuse, deceive, delude, disorient, disorientate, flim-flam, misguide, mislead, mystify, outwit, stuff), пробутвам (foist, palm off, put off, put over, work off), правя впечатление (impress, kill, register, shine, strike), импонирам, използувам (apply, embrace, employ, exploit, impress, milk, play on, put on, put upon, seize, take advantage of, use, utilize). (various references) | |
Chinese | 征" (levy), 强 (imposed, imposing, Obtrusion). (various references) | |
Czech | uložit (bestow, collocate, deposit, ensconce, house, inflict, input, keep, land with, pack off, place, put to bed, save, seat, Stow). (various references) | |
Danish | udskyde. (various references) | |
Dutch | opdringen (force), forceren (force, forcing, spin forming, spinning, violate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trudi (force). (various references) | |
Faeroese | noyða (force). (various references) | |
Farsi | مالیات بستن بر (Assess, Excise, Levy, Scot), گرانبارکردن (Freight, Load, Overweigh), تحمیل کردن (Burden, Constrain, Inflict, Protrude, Saddle, Task), اعمال نفوذکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tyrkyttää (force, ply somebody with, press obtrude impose). (various references) | |
French | imposer (impel, impose upon), obliger, contraindre (impel, impress). (various references) | |
German | auferlegen (dictate, enjoin, imposition, inflict, lay, levy, to enjoin, to impose). (various references) | |
Greek | επιβάλλω (enforce, establish, fine, inflict, institute, mete, necessitate, wreak). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשים על, לאכוף (enforce), לכפות עצמו (impose oneself), ל" יח על (apply, superimpose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rátesz (put on, to impose, to put on, to superimpose, to superpose), kivet (assess, levy, to assess, to eject, to impose, to lay on, to levy, to rent, to throw off). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menjatuhkan (overthrow). (various references) | |
Italian | ingannare (abuse, bamboozle, be mistaken, be wrong, beguile, bluff, cheat, cod, deceive, delude, do, dupe, fool, Fox, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kid, lie, mislead, stall, swindle, trick, trickery, victimise, victimize), imporre (assert oneself, be called for, be successful, become popular, call for, enforce, fix, force, impose oneself, intrude, lay down, levy, make, oblige, obtrude, order, push, raise, stand out), costringere (cause, coerce, compel, constrain, enforce, force, make, pin down, press gang, push, will), comporre la forma, appioppare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 課する (to impose), 課す (to impose), 載せる (to give a ride, to impose on, to lettake part, to load, to mention, to place on, to publish, to record, to run, to take on board), 迷惑'掛ける (to annoy, to bother, to impose trouble), 科する (to impose, to inflict), 乗せる (to give a ride, to impose on, to lettake part, to load, to mention, to place on, to publish, to record, to run, to take on board), 付け込む (to impose on, to make an entry, to take advantage of), 付け入る (to impose on, to take advantage of). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のせる (to give a ride, to impose on, to lettake part, to load, to mention, to place on, to publish, to record, to run, to take on board), つけいる (to impose on, to take advantage of), つけ"む (to impose on, to make an entry, to pickle a large amount, to take advantage of), かする (to be reduced, to become blurred, to change into, to convert into, to exploit, to graze, to impose, to improve, to inflict, to influence, to squeeze, to take a percentage, to touch lightly, to transform), かす (dregs, feces, refuse, scum, to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to impose, to improve, to influence, to lend, to transform), めいわく'かける (to annoy, to bother, to impose trouble). (various references) | |
Korean | 부과하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, imposition, trick), curmal (appoint, duty, enforce, enjoin, regulate), curmaghey (appoint, appointment, regulate, regulation), cur fo keesh, cur fo jaghee, cur er (affectation, affectedness, apply, ascribe, compel, devolve, don, imposition, induce, inflict, lead, oblige, on occasion, persuade, turn on). (various references) | |
Norwegian | påtvinge (inflict), pålegge (enjoin, levy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imposeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impor (bind, command, enjoin, force, impress, inflict, lay on, penates, put on, sandbag, strike), obrigar (compel, constrain, determine, enforce, force, have, obligate, oblige, obliging, put). (various references) | |
Romanian | impune (assign, carry, compel, enforce, enjoin, entail, force, get, lay, lay on, protrude, rate, tax). (various references) | |
Russian | верстать (make up in pages), впечатлять (impress, make an impression), обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize), навязывать (force upon, inflict, obtrude), навязать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | metnuti (perch, place, put, stow). (various references) | |
Spanish | imponer (deposit, enforce, enjoin, entail, exact, give, hand down, impose oneself, inflict, keep, lay, lay on, press, set, tax), poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impawn, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear), hacer aceptar (carry, push through, put across, put over, put through, sell), ajustar (adjust, align, bring into position, displace, doctor, engage, fit, make a contract, move into position, position, regulate, seat, set, Square, stagger, suit, tie up, to adjust, to fit, to mount, to set, trim). (various references) | |
Swedish | lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), imponera (impress, make an impression). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), yararlanmak (avail oneself of smth., benefit, capitalize, enjoy, make use of, parlay, pass over, pass up, practice on, practice upon, practise on, practise upon, profit, profit by, put account, refer, rejoice in, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize), yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, hand over, heap, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), yük olmak (be a charge on smb., bear hard on, cumber, load, tax, weigh, weigh on, weigh upon), uygulmaya koymak, kötüye kullanmak (abuse, betray, defile, encroach, exploit, make a draft on, misappropriate, misemploy, misuse, presume on, presume upon), etkilenmek (be affected, be impressed, be thrilled, be touched, grip, respond). (various references) | |
Ukranian | обкладати (put, round up), обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize), нав'язувати (enforce, intrude, obtrude, thrust, wish on), зобов'язувати (assign, call for, enjoin, indebt, obligate, oblige, tie, tie up). (various references) | |
Welsh | arddodi (prefix). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infigar, infixa, infixae, infixit, infixitque, infixum, infixus, inflixerit, injungere, inponam, inponas, inponat, inponatur, inpone, inponebant, inponebat, inponendi, inponens, inponent, inponentem, inponentes, inponentesque, inponentque, inponere, inponeremus, inponerent, inponeret, inpones, inponet, inponetis, inponetque, inponetur, inponi, inponit, inponite, inponunt, inposita, inpositae, inpositam, inpositasque, inpositione, inpositionem, inpositionis, inpositis, inpositisque, inposito, inpositum, inpositumque, inposueris, inposuerunt, inposueruntque, inposui, inposuissent, inposuisset, inposuisti, inposuit, inposuitque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | CeiraV tacewV mhdeni epitiqei mhde koinwnei amartiaiV allotriaiV seauton agnon threi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Manus cito nemini inposueris neque communicaveris peccatis alienis te ipsum castum custodi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Put thou hondis to no man, nether anoon comyne thou with othere mennus synnes. Kepe thi silf chast. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Laye hondes sodely on no man nether be partaker of other mes synnes: kepe thy silfe pure. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Impose hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean. |
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| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 22 |
| Bulgarian | А благочестието с задоволство е голяма печалба; |
| Cebuano | Ayaw pagdali sa pagpandong sa mga kamot kang bisan kinsa, ni mag-ambit ikaw sa mga pagpakasala sa ubang tawo; bantayi nga magmaputli ka sa imong kaugalingon. |
| Chinese | 給 人 行 按 手 的 禮 、 不 可 急 促 . 不 要 在 別 人 的 罪 上 有 分 . 要 保 守 自 己 清 " 。 |
| Croatian | Ruku prebrzo ni na koga ne polaži i ne budi dionikom tuðih grijeha! Sebe èistim èuvaj! |
| Danish | Vær ikke hastig til at lægge Hænder på nogen, og gør dig ikke delagtig i andres Synder; hold dig selv ren! |
| Dutch | Leg niemand haastelijk de handen op, en heb geen gemeenschap aan anderer zonden; bewaar uzelven rein. |
| Finnish | Älä ole liian kerkeä panemaan käsiäsi kenenkään päälle, äläkä antaudu osalliseksi muiden synteihin. Pidä itsesi puhtaana. |
| French | N`impose les mains personne avec précipitation, et ne participe pas aux péchés d`autrui; toi-même, conserve-toi pur. |
| German | Die Hände lege niemand zu bald auf, mache dich auch nicht teilhaftig fremder Sünden. Halte dich selber keusch. |
| Haitian Creole | Pa prese mete men sou tèt yon moun pou ba l' yon chaj nan legliz la. Pa mele nan peche okenn moun. Evite tou sa ki mal. |
| Hungarian | A kézrátevést el ne hirtelenkedd, se ne légy részes a más bûneiben; tenmagadat tisztán tartsd. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah terlalu cepat meletakkan tangan atas seseorang guna meresmikan pengangkatannya sebagai pelayan Tuhan. Kalau orang lain berdosa, jangan turut terlibat dalam dosa itu. Jagalah dirimu supaya tetap murni. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan engkau mengantarkan tangan dengan gopoh-gopoh atas seorang jua pun, dan jangan bersekutu di dalam dosa orang lain. Peliharakanlah dirimu dengan suci. |
| Italian | Non aver fretta di imporre le mani ad alcuno, per non farti complice dei peccati altrui. Conservati puro! |
| Korean | 아 무 에 게 나 경 " 히 안 수 하 지 말 다 른 사 람 의 죄 에 간 섭 지 말 네 자 을 지 켜 결 케 하 라 |
| Latvian | Pârsteidzîgi nevienam rokas neuzliec un nekïûsti sveðu grçku lîdzdalîbnieks! Sargi sevi ðíîstu! |
| Maori | Kei hohoro te whakapa i nga ringaringa ki tetahi tangata, kaua ano e uru ki nga hara o te tangata ke: kia mau tou harakore. |
| Modern Greek | Μη επιθετε χειρας ταχεως εις μηδενα, μηδε γινου κοινωνος αλλοτριων αμαρτιων· φυλαττε σεαυτον καθαρον. |
| Norwegian | Vær ikke snar til å legge hendene på nogen; gjør dig ikke delaktig i fremmede synder; hold dig selv ren! |
| Portuguese | A ninguém imponhas precipitadamente as mãos, nem participes dos pecados alheios; conserva-te a ti mesmo puro. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu-yi pui mknile peste nimeni cu grabq: wi sq nu te faci pqrtaw pqcatelor altora: pe tine knsuyi pqzewte-te curat. |
| Russian | тХЛ ОЙ ОБ ЛПЗП ОЕ ЧПЪМБЗБК ПУ ЕЫОП, Й ОЕ "ЕМБКУС ХЮБУФОЙЛПН Ч ЮХЦЙИ ЗТЕИБИ. иТБОЙ УЕ'С ЮЙУФЩН. |
| Shuar | Yus-shuara uuntri Atí tusam Wárik anaikiaip. Wárik Túramka chikicha Tunaarín sumamattame. Ashí tunaanum penké pachiinkiaip. |
| Spanish | No impongas las manos a ninguno con ligereza, ni participes en pecados ajenos; consérvate puro. |
| Swahili | Usiharakishe kumwekea mtu yeyote mikono kwa ajili ya kumtumikia Bwana. Usishiriki dhambi za wengine; jiweke katika hali safi. |
| Swedish | Förhasta dig icke med handpåläggning, och gör dig icke delaktig i en annans synder. Bevara dig själv ren. |
| Thai | อย่า"่วนวางมือเจิมผู้ใ" และอย่ามีส่วนร่วมในการกระทำบาปของผู้อื่นเลย จงรักษาตัวให้บริสุทธิ์ |
| Ukrainian | Не рукополагай скоро нікого, і не приставай до чужих гріхів. Бережи себе чистим! |
| Uma | Neo' nusosai mpo'ongko' tauna jadi' pangkeni agama, nee-neo' mpai' iko lau-mi to rakahurui ane mpobabehi-ra jeko'. Nuparesa' ulu kehi-ra, pai' lako' nudampa pale-nu hi tanuana' -ra mpo'ongko' -ra jadi' pangkeni agama. Pelompehi bona moroli' oa' po'ingku-nu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impose": imposed, imposer, imposers, imposes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "impose": reimpose, superimpose. (additional references) | |
Words containing "impose": reimposed, reimposes, superimposed, superimposes. (additional references) | |
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"Impose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amponsah, empusae, Icp-oes, imos, Imosa, Imossi, impas, impo, impos, imposs, imposte, impune, ipos, Kimpese. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "impose" (pronounced i'mpō"z) |
| 4 | -m p ō" z | compose, decompose, reimpose, superimpose. |
| 3 | -p ō" z | depose, dispose, expose, interpose, juxtapose, oppose, overexpose, pose, pows, predispose, presuppose, propose, repose, suppose, transpose. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: mopes, poems, poise, pomes. | |
-2 letters: epos, imps, mise, miso, mope, mops, opes, peso, pies, piso, poem, pois, pome, poms, pose, semi, simp, sipe, some. | |
-3 letters: ems, imp, ism, mis, mop, mos, oes, oms, ope, ops, ose, pes, pie, pis, poi, pom, psi, sei, sim, sip, som, sop. | |
-4 letters: em, es, is, me, mi, mo, oe, om, op, os, pe, pi, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: episome, impones, imposed, imposer, imposes, mopiest, myopies, optimes, peonism, pommies, promise, semipro. | |
+2 letters: apomixes, compiles, complies, comprise, empoison, episomal, episomes, epistome, epitomes, epizoism, implodes, implores, imposers, imposted, imposter, impowers, improves, ipomoeas, liposome, meropias, milepost, mispoise, misspoke, moperies, nepotism, optimise, peonisms, phimoses, pimentos, plimsole, polemics, polemist, primeros, primrose, promines, promised, promisee, promiser, promises, reimpose, semipros. | |
+3 letters: apogamies, campesino, companies, compilers, complices, compliers, complines, composite, comprised, comprises, comprizes, copremias, despotism, dopamines, empoisons, emporiums, epigonism, epistomes, epitomise, epizoisms, eponymies, europiums, impastoed, impellors, imperious, impetigos, impetuous, implorers, implosive, importers, imposters, impostume, imposture, impotents, improvers, improvise, liposomes, mileposts, miscopied, miscopies, misemploy, mispoised, mispoises, misreport, misspoken, morphines, nepotisms, optimised, optimises, optimizes, orpiments, pemolines, peponiums, peristome, persimmon, philomels, phonemics, picomoles, piedmonts, pimientos, plimsoles, poeticism, polemists, polemizes, premonish, primroses, promisees, promisers, proxemics, ptomaines, pumiceous, reimports, reimposed, reimposes, semigroup, simpleton, spoilsmen, temporise. | |
+4 letters: ametropias, amphiboles, angiosperm, aposematic, campesinos, completist, composited, composites, compromise, compulsive, despotisms, diplomates, discompose, empoisoned, epigonisms, episiotomy, episomally, epitomised, epitomises, epitomizes, euphoniums, exemptions, geotropism, hemoptysis, hippiedoms, hypodermis, hypoxemias, imperators, impersonal, impervious, implosives, impolicies, importunes, impossible, imposthume, impostumes, impostures, impotences, impoverish, impresario, impression, imprisoned, improvised, improviser, improvises, megascopic, megasporic, mentorship, mesophytic, metropolis, micropores, micropyles, microscope, microspore, miscompute, misdevelop, misemploys, mispointed, misreports, misstopped, monopodies, monopolies, monopolise, morphemics, mycophiles, myopathies, nemophilas, omophagies, optimizers, outpromise, oversimple, oversimply, palimonies, pantomimes, peperomias, periosteum, peristomes, permission, peroxisome, persimmons, pneumonias, poeticisms, polemicist, polyamides, polyamines, polygamies, polymerise, polymerism, polysemies, polytheism, pomologies, premoisten, princedoms, prolamines, proscenium, proseminar, protamines, psalmodies, recompiles, reimposing, resumption, semigroups, semiopaque, semipostal, semitropic, simpletons, slipformed, spirometer, spirometry, spoonerism, supermicro, symphonies, temporised, temporises, temporizes, toponymies. | |
+5 letters: accompanies, accomplices, amphibolies, amphioxuses, angiosperms, atmospheric, azoospermia, biopolymers, clomiphenes, compatibles, compendious, compendiums, competitors, complainers, completions, completists, complexions, compliances, complicates, compliments, compositely, compressing, compression, compressive, compromised, compromiser, compromises, compulsives, computerise, computerist, comradeship, consumptive, coppersmith, cosmopolite, decomposing, despoilment, diplomacies, discomposed, discomposes, disportment, ectoplasmic, embonpoints, emperorship, empoisoning, endoplasmic, epilimnions, epitomising, extemporise, foremanship, geotropisms, hemipterous, hemophilias, hemophilics, hemopoieses, hemopoiesis, hippodromes, homophonies, homoplasies, homospories, hypodermics, hypsometric, idempotents, impassioned, impecunious, imperiously, impersonate, impetuosity, impetuously, importances, importuners, imposthumes, impotencies, imprecision, impresarios, impressions, improvisers, leprosarium, lymphokines, megalopolis, mentorships, mesomorphic, mesonephric, mesonephroi, mesopelagic, mesophyllic, mesospheric, mesotrophic, microcopies, microphages, microphones, micropipets, microprobes, microscopes, microsphere, microspores, mimeographs, misanthrope, miscomputed, miscomputes, misdevelops, misemployed, misreported, monophagies, monophonies, monophylies, monopolised, monopolises, monopolizes, monopsonies, mouthpieces, mycophagies, mythopoeias, omnipotents, omnipresent, optometries, optometrist, outpromised, outpromises, overimpress, overpromise, palindromes, parsimonies, patrimonies, peristomial, peritoneums, permeations, permissions, peroxisomal, peroxisomes, personalism, phonemicist, piezometers, pimpmobiles, plasminogen, pleochroism, plyometrics, pneumonitis, polemicists, polemicizes, polemoniums, polygamizes, polymathies, polymerised, polymerises, polymerisms, polymerizes, polytheisms, pomposities, preemptions, prehominids, premodifies, premoistens, premonished, premonishes, prestissimo, presumption, proclaimers, promethiums, prominences, prosceniums, proselytism, proseminars, proximities, pyromancies, pyrometries, recomposing, redemptions, resumptions, scopolamine, seismograph, semaphoring, semipopular, semipostals, semitropics, spermagonia, spermophile, spirometers, spirometric, spoonerisms, suboptimize, superimpose, supermicros, taphonomies, temporaries, temporising, temporizers, temptations, thermopiles, trampolines, xerophytism. | |
| 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)49 6D 70 6F 73 65 |
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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)01001001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 006F 0073 0065 |
| 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)437982818571 |
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