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Definitions: Incumbrance |
IncumbranceNoun1. A charge against property (as a lien or mortgage). 2. An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind". 3. Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incumbrance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Incumbrance \In*cum"brance\, noun. [See Encumbrance.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: IncumbranceSynonyms: burden (n), encumbrance (n), hindrance (n), hitch (n), interference (n), load (n), onus (n), preventative (n), preventive (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incumbrance |
| English words defined with "incumbrance": Impediment in speech, Incumbrancer ♦ To clear the decks ♦ Unencumber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incumbrance": Horse ♦ Imaus. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In houses where people are at home I am an incumbrance. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Incumbrance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incumbrance" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "incumbrance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | sự cản trở (baffle, check, countercherk, delay, encumbrance, hardihood, holdback, let), gánh nặng sự phiền toái (encumbrance), điều trở ngại (clog, drag-chain, drawback, encumbrance), điều phiền toái sự trở ngại (encumbrance), điều cản tr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "incumbrance" (pronounced 'In*cum"brance'): Cumbrance, Disencumbrance, remembrance, Unremembrance. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-i-m-n-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: incumber, inurbane, manicure. | |
-4 letters: acerbic, aneurin, breccia, brucine, cambric, cannier, carbine, carmine, ceramic, cranium, crucian, cumarin, narcein, numeric, racemic, unbrace, uraemic. | |
-5 letters: accrue, acumen, aecium, airmen, amebic, anemic, anuric, banner, barium, barmen, barmie, brucin, burnie, cabmen, caecum, camber, cancer, canine, canner, cannie, caribe, carmen, carnie, cerium, cinema, crambe, crinum, cumber, cunner, curiae, encina, erbium, iceman, imbrue, inaner, manner, manure, marine, mincer, murein, murine, narine, neumic, nuance, number, numina, remain, rubace, rumina, umbrae, unbear, unciae, uranic, urbane, uremia, uremic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 75 6D 62 72 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. ..- -- -... .-. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01110101 01101101 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c u m b r a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0075 006D 0062 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380698779688467806971 |
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