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Definition: Jailbreak |
JailbreakNoun1. An escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: JailbreakSynonyms: break (n), breakout (n), gaolbreak (n), prisonbreak (n), prison-breaking (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Jailbreak (2000) Road Rash: Jailbreak (1999) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | The gunfire caused panic among civilians outside the prison, who feared a jailbreak was in progress. (references) |
Guatemala | According to a police officer, cell phones, pistols, and knives were found in the cells of prisoners allegedly planning a jailbreak. (references) | |
Guatemala | On September 23, another attempted jailbreak left 10 prisoners injured after an exchange of gunfire with prison guards at the Canada Prison Farm in Escuintla. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guatemala | After a massive jailbreak in June, the Government instituted a State of Alarm for 2 months, during which the rights to freedom of movement and legal representation, as well as protection against arbitrary detention were suspended in principle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Jailbreak" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jailbreak" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
jailbreak | 16 |
road rash jailbreak | 9 |
cheat jailbreak rash road | 4 |
jailbreak lizzy thin | 3 |
ac dc jailbreak | 3 |
jailbreak lyrics | 3 |
jailbreak tab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "jailbreak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | útìk z vìzení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فراراززندان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gefängnisausbruch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόδραση εκ φυλακήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | evasione (breakaway, elopement, escape, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, getaway, jailbreaking, transaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脱獄 (prison breaking), 牢 り , 牢 (prison breaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ろうやぶり, はろう (prison breaking, surge, waves), つ"く (prison breaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ailbreakjay fuga de presos. (various references) побег (bine, escapade, escape, getaway, imp, offset, offshoot, scion, shoot, slip, sprig, sprout, tiller). (various references) bekstvo iz zatvora. (various references) fuga (elopement, escape, fugue, getaway, leak, leakage, outflow). (various references) การแหกคุก. (various references) hapisten kaçma (breakout, prison breaking), firar (absence without leave, break, breakout, desertion, escape, flight, getaway, prison breaking). (various references) в'язень-утікач. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jailbreak": jailbreaks. (additional references) | |
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"Jailbreak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: railbreak, Railtrak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-j-k-l-r" | |
-2 letters: balkier. | |
-3 letters: abelia, aerial, arable, bailer, balker, bilker, jailer, lakier, librae, realia. | |
-4 letters: abler, akela, alike, areal, ariel, baker, baler, biker, birle, blare, bleak, blear, brail, brake, break, jiber, kabar, kebar, kibla, kraal, laari, labia, labra, laker, liber, libra, liker. | |
-5 letters: able, abri, ajar, alae, alar, alba, arak, area, aria, aril, baal, bail, bake. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-j-k-l-r" | |
+1 letter: jailbreaks. | |
| 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)4A 61 69 6C 62 72 65 61 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- .- .. .-.. -... .-. . .- -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a i l b r e a k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0069 006C 0062 0072 0065 0061 006B |
| 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)446775786884716777 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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