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Definition: Ism |
IsmNoun1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Space | Interstellas medium. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word ism was first used in 1680 and can be found in the works of such well-known writers as Thomas Carlyle, Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw. In the present day, it appears in the title of a standard survey of political thought, Today's ISMS by William Ebenstein, first published in the 1950s, and now in its 11th edition.
The -ism suffix can be used to express the following concepts:
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
ISM is an abbreviation of:Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ism."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ISM | Danish | ISM-bånd | Electrical Engineering, Post & Telecom |
ISM | Dutch | Industriële,wetenschappelijke en medische toepassingen | Electrical Engineering |
ISM | English | Industry Standard Magazine | N/A |
ISM | French | Industriels,scientifiques et médicaux | Industry, Medicine |
ISM | German | Industrielle,wissenschaftliche und medizinische Anwendungen | Industry, Medicine |
ISM | Greek | βιομηχανική,επιστημονική και ιατρική ζώνη | Electrical Engineering, Post & Telecom |
ISM | Spanish | Información sobre Seguridad Marítima | Public Administration, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: IsmSynonyms: doctrine (n), philosophy (n), school of thought (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ism |
| Non-English Usage: "Ism" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Swiss Meteorological Institute), Swedish (ism). |
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Travel | Ecuador | A copy of the vessel's ISM certificate should be made available upon request. (references) |
Ecuador | The ISM requirement has been in effect since July 2000 and it is not yet clear how rigorously the new safety standards are being enforced by Ecuadorian authorities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Ism" is used about 20 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) | 85% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ism": bloke-ism, folklore-ism, foodie-ism, marx-ism, nazi-ism, PC-ism, shi-ism, sinead-ism, that-ism, this-ism, tory-ism, willie-ism. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ism | 271 | ism nal pa ter | 2 |
index ism | 23 | ism manufacturing | 2 |
ism code | 17 | baha ism | 2 |
ism band | 17 | ism napm | 2 |
ism services | 5 | ism safe | 2 |
faction ism mod red | 4 | g ism | 2 |
antenna ism | 3 | inc ism | 2 |
frequency ism | 3 | index ism manufacturing | 2 |
auditing ism | 3 | ism suffix | 2 |
ism report | 3 | ism sys.com | 2 |
hikki ism | 3 | ism mba.edu | 2 |
dhanbad ism | 3 | ism survey | 2 |
cummins ism | 3 | antenna band ism | 2 |
canada ism | 3 | center ism knowledge | 2 |
data ism | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | teori (hypothesis, theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأيزم مذهب مميز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پسوندی>حالت<و>شرط<و>پیروی<, پسوندی>عمل<و>کار<و>طریقه عمل<, مکتب (Academy, School), گرایش (Attitude, Propensity, Tendency), سیستم عملی , عقیده (Advice, Belief, Concept, Credo, Creed, Doctrine, Faith, Impression, Opinion, Tenet, Thought, View, Viewpoint), اعتقاد (Belief, Confidence, Credence, Faith, Trust), اصالت (Gentry, Originality), رویه (Comportment, Cover, Instep, Metier, Procedure, Scheme, Surface, Tack, Tenor, Top, Upper, Vamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | théorie, doctrine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδέα (concept, conception, idea, notion, view), θεωρία (contemplation, doctrine, notion, speculation, theory, view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elmélet (conception, doctrine, speculation, theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | aliran (CONDUIT, current, drift, flow, genre, PIPELINE, stream, TREND, WIRING). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | teoria (theory), sistema (economy, policy, process, scheme, system), dottrina (creed, doctrine, scholarship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | イスラ 文化 (Islamic culture, -ism, Isvestia, Izvestia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aghys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ismay sistema (frame, method, process, system), pequena ilha (Holm, islet), doutrina (axiom, dictate, document, have a lot of faith, nidus, tenet). (various references) доктрина (doctrine, doxy, edifice, tenet). (various references) doktrina (doctrine). (various references) ismo. (various references) ism. (various references) ลัทธิ. (various references) meslek (avocation, calling, career, game, job, metier, path, profession, professional, racket, shop, trade, vocation, walk of life), doktrin (doctrine, tenet), öğreti (creed, doctrine, tenet). (various references) учення (system, teaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ism": isms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ism": abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, abstractionism, absurdism, academicism, academism, achromatism, acrotism, actinism, activism, adoptianism, adoptionism, adventurism, aeroembolism, aestheticism, ageism, agism, agnosticism, agrarianism, alarmism, albinism, alcoholism, aldosteronism, algorism, alienism, allelism, allelomorphism, allomorphism, alpinism, altruism, amateurism, amoralism, anabaptism, anabolism, anachronism, analphabetism, anarchism, anecdotalism, aneurism, anglicism, animalism, animism, anisotropism, antagonism, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism, anthropopathism, antialcoholism, antiauthoritarianism, antiblackism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ism": abolitionisms, absenteeisms, absolutisms, abstractionisms, absurdisms, academicisms, academisms, achromatisms, acrotisms, actinisms, activisms, adoptianisms, adoptionisms, adventurisms, aeroembolisms, aestheticisms, ageisms, agisms, agnosticisms, agrarianisms, alarmisms, albinisms, alcoholisms, aldosteronisms, algorisms, alienisms, allelisms, allelomorphisms, allomorphisms, alpinisms, altruisms, amateurisms, amoralisms, anabaptisms, anabolisms, anachronisms, analphabetisms, anarchisms, anecdotalisms, aneurisms, anglicisms, animalisms, animisms, anisotropisms, antagonisms, anthropocentrisms, anthropomorphisms, anthropopathisms, antialcoholisms, antiauthoritarianisms, antiblackisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ism" (pronounced i"zum) |
| 4 | i" z u m | prism, schism. |
| 3 | -z u m | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, bosom, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, careerism, catechism, centralism, chasm, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, cytoplasm, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, enthusiasm, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, iconoclasm, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microcosm, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, neoplasm, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, orgasm, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, phantasm, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, sarcasm, satanism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, spasm, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mis, sim. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-s" | |
-1 letter: is, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-s" | |
+1 letter: aims, amis, dims, imps, isms, jism, mibs, mids, migs, mils, mirs, mise, miso, miss, mist, nims, rims, semi, shim, sima, simp, sims, skim, slim, smit, swim, vims. | |
+2 letters: agism, amias, amids, amies, amins, amirs, amiss, bimas, brims, deism, dimes, disme, emirs, emits, films, firms, gimps, gismo, glims, iambs, imams, imids, impis, items, jisms, limas, limbs, limes, limns, limos, limps, maids, mails, maims, mains, mairs, maist, mavis, maxis, mesic, metis, miasm, micas, micks, midis, midst, miens, miffs, miggs, mikes, miles, milks, mills, milos, milts, mimes, minas, minds, mines, minis, minks, mints, minus, mires, mirks, misdo, miser, mises, misos, missy, mists, misty, mites, mitis, mitts, mixes, moils, moist, munis, music, mysid, omits, osmic, oxims, pimas, pimps, prims, prism, rimes, salmi, scrim, seism, semis, shims, sigma, simar, simas, simps, sixmo, skimo, skimp, skims, slime, slims, slimy, smile, smirk, smite, smith, stime, stimy, swami, swims, tamis, times, trims, whims, wimps. | |
| 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 73 6D |
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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 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0073 006D |
| 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)438579 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, Albanais, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arabe, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , Greagish, Greagagh, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, hongrois, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, indonésien, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, インドネシア語 , Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, italien, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, Japonais, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, portugais, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, espagnol, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, suédois, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, turque, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainien, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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