Inferno

Definitions: Inferno

Inferno

Noun

1. Any place of pain and turmoil: "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";.

2. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment: "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit".

3. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

Date "inferno" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Inferno \In*fer"no\, noun. [Italian See Infernal.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Inferno

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Inferno We have Dante's notion of the infernal regions in his Inferno; Homer's in the Odyssey, book xi.; Virgil's in the ~~~Æneid, Æneid, book vi.; Spenser's in the Fa�rie Queene, book ii. canto 7; Ariosto's in the Orlando Furioso, book xvii.; Tasso's in Jerusalem Delivered, book iv.; Milton's in Paradise Lost; Fénelon's in Télémaque, book xviii.; and Beckford's in his romance of Vathek. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Inferno

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For Dante's Inferno, see The Divine Comedy.

Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services.

Inferno runs either in hosted mode under several different operating systems or natively on a range of hardware architectures. In each configuration the operating system presents the same standard interfaces to its applications. A communication protocol, called Styx, is applied uniformly to access both local and remote resources. Applications are written in the type-safe programming language Limbo, whose binary representation is identical over all platforms. Inferno can also be hosted by the Internet Explorer internet browser plug-in.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/pidoc/index.html

Inferno is a science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1976.

Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers

Inferno is based upon the hell described in Dante's Inferno, however it adds a modern twist to the story. The story is told in the first person by Allen Carpentier, a science fiction writer who died in a failed attempt to entertain his fans at a party. He is released from a bottle in the first circle of Hell by a man named Benito, who offers to take him out of Hell by bringing him to the center.

At first, as Allen and Benito travel through Hell, Allen tries to scientifically rationalize everything he sees, renaming his surroundings as Infernoland, a high-tech amusement park some thousand years in the future. It isn't until he sees a man recover from incineration and his own leg heal from a compound fracture that he actually believes he is in Hell. From this point on, as he travels through the inner circles of Hell, he sees how he is guilty of each of the sins in some fashion. Allen views the punishments for these sins as far surpassing the crime, repeatedly thinking, "We're in the hands of infinite power and infinite sadism."

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Inferno."

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Synonyms: Inferno

Synonyms: conflagration (n), hell on earth (n), hellhole (n), infernal region (n), nether region (n), perdition (n), snake pit (n), the pit (n), the pits (n). (additional references)

Antonym: Heaven (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Inferno

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hell	Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Inferno

English words defined with "inferno": Hell, hell on earth, hellhole ♦ snake pit ♦ the pits. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inferno": Alichino ♦ Bolay ♦ Farinata, Francesca da Rimini ♦ Gods ♦ Malebolge ♦ Ugolino. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Inferno" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (holocaust, inferno, pandemonium), Italian (hell, inferno, underworld), Latin (Hell, infernal, infernal regions, inhabitants of the lower world, lower, of hell, of the lower regions, the damned, the lower regions, the shades, under, underground), Portuguese (Abaddon, geiger counter, Hades, hell, infertile, pander, riffraff, underworld), Swedish (inferno).

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Modern Usage: Inferno

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	No Inferno not this time. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)
Movie/TV Titles	Kung Fu Inferno (1974) The Towering Inferno (1974) Inferno (1973) Ordeal Inferno (1973) ...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno (1973)
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Commercial Usage: Inferno

Domain	Title
Books	Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno (reference) Millennium, Book III of III: Inferno (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) (reference) Star Trek Deep Space Nine Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor the War of the Prophets Inferno (Star Trek) (reference) The Inferno (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hellraiser - Inferno (reference) The Towering Inferno (reference) National Geographic's Volcano: Nature's Inferno (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Inferno (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Fear Effect Inferno (reference) Daria's Inferno (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Leatherman 80030003 Squirt P4, Inferno (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Inferno

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Photo Album: Inferno

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Lo, the fell monster with the deadly sting who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls and firm embattled spears, and with his filth taints all the world - Dante's Inferno.Credit: Library of Congress.		And suddenly out of the inferno ...Credit: Library of Congress.
	The inferno.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Inferno

"Inferno" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.58% of the time. "Inferno" is used about 117 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)	96.58%	113	30,464
Noun (proper)	2.56%	3	202,518
Noun (common)	0.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	117	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Inferno

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
dantes inferno	545	dantes inferno quiz	17
inferno	335	club inferno	17
de download inferno	158	disco inferno lyrics	16
fat inferno	83	dantes inferno picture	15
disco inferno	72	dantes inferno summary	15
de inferno	68	inferno toronto	14
dante inferno	62	hellraiser inferno	14
the towering inferno	54	world inferno friendship society	11
dantes inferno test	51	illustration to dantes inferno	11
author inferno	36	inferno world	9
fear effect inferno	35	mongoose inferno	9
inferno phantom	35	inferno movie	9
dantes first inferno word	30	cs de download inferno map	9
dante inferno s	28	counter de inferno map strike	9
dos inferno quinto	25	counter de download inferno map strike	8
dos inferno o quinto	25	counter de download inferno strike	8
de download inferno map	22	dantes inferno map	8
auto barca da inferno	21	dante inferno test	8
inferno kyosho	20	entombed inferno	7
columbia inferno	17	dantes inferno quote	7
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Modern Translations: Inferno

Language		Translations for "inferno"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skëterrë (Hades, hell), ferr (blazes, Hades, hell, underworld). (various references)

Arabic		‏جهنم (abyss, gehenna, hell, hellfire, limbo, perdition), ‏جحيم (hell, pandemonium). (various references)

Bulgarian		ад (abyss, grave, hell, pandemonium, tartarus). (various references)

Chinese		地域. (various references)

Czech		peklo (Abaddon, Gehenna, hell, hopscotch, pandemonium). (various references)

Farsi		جهنم (Hades, Hell), جای دوزح مانندووحشتناک , دوزخ (Hell, Pandemonium). (various references)

French		enfer. (various references)

German		inferno (holocaust, pandemonium), hölle (abyss, heck, hell, pandemonium, perdition, purgatory). (various references)

Greek		κόλαση (blazes, damnation, hell), άδησ (Hades, underworld). (various references)

Hebrew		תופת (hell), �'י�"� ום (hell, pandemonium, purgatory). (various references)

Hungarian		pokol (bottomless pit, Gehenna, hell, pandemonium, pit, place below, shades, tartarus), alvilág (devildom, gangland, Hades, nether regions, nether world, shades, underworld). (various references)

Indonesian		neraka (hell). (various references)

Italian		inferno (collection of immoral books, hell, underworld). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		焦熱地獄 (burning hell), イン�"ーダンス整合 (impedance matching, infant, inferiority complex, infield fly, infighting, informal, informal dress, informal organization, information, information analyst, information broker, information commercial, information democracy, information disclosure, information gap, information literacy, information processing, information processor, information provider, information retrieval, information revolution, information science, information society, information syndicate, information system, information theory, information utility, informed consent, informer, infrastructure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうねつじ�"く (burning hell), インフェルノ . (various references)

Manx		niurin (hell, nether regions, pit, underworld). (various references)

Pig Latin		infernoay

Portuguese		medonho (awful, dire, direful, dread, Dreadnought, forbidding, frightful, grisly, hideous, horribly, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Romanian		infern (abyss, hell, the bottomless pit, the shades, underworld), iad (hell, lower world, nether world, pandemonium, the shades). (various references)

Russian		ад (Gehenna, hell, nether regions, nether world, netherworld). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pakao (abyss, hades, hell, perdition). (various references)

Spanish		infierno (collection of immoral books, darkness, Hades, heck, hell, pit, underworld). (various references)

Swedish		inferno, helvete (abyss, hell). (various references)

Turkish		cehennem (blazes, gehenna, Hades, hell, infernal, lower world, nether world, swelter, underworld). (various references)

Ukranian		пекло (barathrum, gehenna, hell, underworld). (various references)
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Bible Trace: Inferno

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Su men gar pataxeiV auton rabdw thn de yuchn autou ek qanatou rush
Latin	405	Vulgate	Tu virga percuties eum et animam eius de inferno liberabis
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Thou with a yerde shalt smite hym, and the soule of hym fro helle thou shalt deliueren.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
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Matched Bible Translations: Inferno

Language	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14
Cebuano	Imong pagahampakon gayud siya uban sa bunal, Ug maluwas ang iyang kalag gikan sa Sheol.
Chinese	� 要 �"� 杖 �" 他、就可以救他的靈魂免下陰 �" 。
Croatian	biješ ga šibom, ali mu dušu iz Podzemlja izbavljaš.
Danish	du slår ham vel med Riset, men redder hans Liv fra Dødsriget.
Dutch	Gij zult hem met de roede slaan, en zijn ziel van de hel redden.
Finnish	Vitsalla sinä häntä lyöt, tuonelasta hänen sielunsa pelastat.
French	En le frappant de la verge, Tu délivres son âme du séjour des morts.
German	Du haust ihn mit der Rute; aber du errettest seine Seele vom Tode.
Haitian Creole	Okontrè, si ou bat li, w'a sove nanm li pou l' pa mouri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	malah akan selamat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	melainkan apabila engkau memukul akan dia, barangkali engkau melepaskan nyawanya dari pada neraka.
Italian	anzi, se lo batti con la verga, lo salverai dagli inferi.
Korean	그 를 채 찍 으 로 때 리 면 그 영 혼 을 음 부 에 서 구 원 하 리 라
Maori	Tatatia ia e koe ki te rakau, a ka whakaorangia e koe tona wairua i te reinga.
Norwegian	Du slår ham med riset, men du frelser hans sjel fra dødsriket.
Portuguese	Tu a fustigarás com a vara e livrarás a sua alma do Seol.
Rumanian	Lovindu -l cu nuiaua, ki scoyi sufletul din locuinya moryilor.
Russian	ФЩ ОБЛБЦЕЫШ ЕЗП ТПЪЗПА Й У� БУЕЫШ �"ХЫХ ЕЗП ПФ � ТЕЙУ� П�"ОЕК.
Spanish	Tú lo castigarás con vara y librarás su alma del Seol.
Swedish	ja, om du slår honom med riset, så räddar du hans själ undan dödsriket.
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Derivations & Misspellings: Inferno

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inferno": infernos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inferno" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ifano, Ignenor, Infean, Inferni, infero. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Inferno"

Words rhyming with "inferno" (pronounced 'In*fer"no'): Aino, Albino, Andantino, Casino, Cassino, Clarino, Concertino, Duettino, Filipino, Giallolino, Gradino, guano, Gynno, Hurricano, kimono, kino, Leno, llano, Mano, maraschino, Medino, Melopiano, Mestino, mezzo-soprano, Notturno, Paisano, Pianino, Pieno, Porporino, Ripieno, Semolino, Siciliano, Solano, solferino, soprano, Vargueno, Vetturino, Volcano, Vulcano. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Inferno

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-n-o-r"
	-2 letters: finer, infer, inner, irone, renin.
	-3 letters: fern, fine, fino, fire, firn, foin, fore, froe, info, inro, iron, neif, neon, nine, noir, none, nori, reif, rein, rife.
	-4 letters: eon, ern, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, foe, fon, for, fro, inn, ion, ire, nor, one, ore, ref, rei, rif, rin, roe.
	-5 letters: ef, en, er, if.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: confiner, infernos.
	+2 letters: confiners, enforcing, frontline.
	+3 letters: conferring, fibrinogen, forfending, foundering, interferon, refounding, refronting, unforgiven, uninformed.
	+4 letters: antiforeign, coinferring, fibrinogens, fibronectin, floundering, forefending, foreignness, foreknowing, forerunning, forewarning, interferons, interfusion, nonfreezing, overfunding, reenforcing, reinfection, reinflation, reinforcing, reinforming, renotifying, unconfirmed, uniformness.
	+5 letters: confectioner, conferencing, conferential, dibenzofuran, fenestration, fermentation, fibronectins, foretokening, frontiersman, frontiersmen, interfolding, interfusions, midafternoon, noncertified, nondeforming, nonflowering, personifying, prenotifying, reconfirming, redefinition, refashioning, refoundation, reinfections, reinflations, transfection, unreinforced.
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