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Definitions: Mayhem |
MayhemNoun1. The willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person. 2. Violent and needless disturbance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mayhem" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Synonym: MayhemSynonym: havoc (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mayhem is a Norwegian Black metal band. Formed in 1983, original band members were Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) at lead guitar, Manheim ( Kjetil Manheim) played the drums, Messiah (Eirik Nordheim) vocals, and Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud) played the bass,Messiah left the band during the recording of their first demo Pure Fucking Armageddon replaced Maniac ( Sven-Erik Kristiansen) on vocals. In 1987 their second demo Deathcrush was recorded with the same lineup, initially released in 1000 copies and reprinted in 1993 for DSP (the label founded by Euronymous). Manheim and Maniac leave Mayhem shortly after and they were replaced by Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin) on vocals and Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg) on drums in the summer of 1988. After some live gigs in Norway and German (where Live in Leipzig was recorded) Mayhem started working on their first full lenght De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Dead committed suicide in April 1991, and was replaced by Attila Csihar on vocals, to complete the recording of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas while Necrobutcher decided to leave the band after the Dead's suicide. Count Grishnackh (Varg Vikernes) from the band Burzum entered as bass player to complete the new lineup. In 1992 Live in Leipzing was released as a band's tribute to Dead followed by the famous bootleg Dawn Of The Black Hearts With a photo of the Dead after the suicide (taken by euronymous) as cover artwork. Finally in 1993 Mayhem gone to studio to record the new album but Euronymous was killed by Count Grishnackh by stabbing the 10th Agust of the same year. After the murder the band splitted and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was finally released in 1994 as a tribute to Euronymous. In later 1995 Hellhammer decided to reform the band with the help of a new guitarist, Blasphemer (Rune Erickson) and two former mayhem's memeber: Maniac and Necrobutcher. The first release of this new lineup was a MCD Wolf's Lair Abyss in 1997 followed by a some live show in the next year. In 2000 the new full lenght cd was released Grand Declaration Of War with the same lineup followed by two official live album European Legion and Marseille. At the present time Mayhem are working on the new album Chimera scheduled to be released on 29 March 2004.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mayhem (musical group)."
Crosswords: Mayhem |
| English words defined with "mayhem": Maihem. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's nothing like a little bit of mayhem to cheer one up. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Let the mayhem begin. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Shouldn't be too difficult -- just follow the mayhem. (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) Soon after, Halloween became another word for mayhem! One by one, he killed his entire family, until his nine-year-old niece, Jamie Lloyd, was the only one left alive. (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem (1974) 2 Mayhem 3 (1996) A Formula for Mayhem (1992) Mayhem (1987) | |
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| "Mayhem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.68% of the time. "Mayhem" is used about 118 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) | 90.68% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.08% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mayhem | 334 | cheat mayhem motor | 11 |
monica mayhem | 283 | video mayhem | 10 |
mayhem the band | 210 | electric mayhem | 10 |
wcw mayhem | 45 | dead mayhem | 9 |
mayhem project | 37 | joy mayhem | 9 |
dr electric mayhem tooth | 28 | mayhem street truck | 8 |
black mayhem metal | 24 | jordan mayhem | 8 |
ani mayhem | 23 | mayhem wwe | 8 |
mayhem muscle | 22 | mayhem minstrel | 8 |
manor mayhem | 21 | mayhem mortar | 8 |
magic and mayhem | 20 | mayhem mountain | 7 |
mayhem wrestling | 18 | mayhem reboot | 7 |
mayhem metal | 18 | monster mayhem | 7 |
motor mayhem | 17 | mayhem sonic | 7 |
mayhem planet | 15 | mayhem vinyl | 7 |
wcw mayhem cheat | 14 | board discussion mayhem monster | 7 |
b b black inhuman mayhem metal | 13 | mayhem medieval | 6 |
math mayhem | 13 | florida mayhem video | 6 |
mayhem true | 12 | magic and mayhem cheat | 6 |
mayhem monica pic | 12 | wcw mayhem code | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "mayhem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sakatim (disablement, maim, mutilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشاجرة (fracas, fray, kerfuffle, ruction, scrimmage, spat, stink), تمثيل (creation, performance, personification, picture, play, representation, sculpture, sham, torture), تشويه متعمد, تدمير (annihilation, demolition, destruction, devastation, overthrow, ruin, subversion, wreck), صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, pandemonium, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), إقعاد, أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, harm, hurst, injury, injustice, insult, lesion, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тежка телесна повреда, осакатяване (crippling, dismemberment, injury, maiming, mutilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "斗流血. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmrzaèení (crippling, mutilation), vyřazení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ضرب وشتم(حق.), جرح . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mutilation du corps humain, grabuge, destruction. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwere körperverletzung (inflicting grievous bodily harm, serious assault, wounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκόπιμοσ ακρωτηριασμόσ, αντάρα (bad weather, mist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חבל" ז"ו ית ב'וף, "טלת מום (mutilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | súlyos testi sértés, megcsonkítás (dismemberment, emasculation, mutilation), csonkítás (concision, defacement, mutilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lesione permanente, danni (breakage, damages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '乱 (disturbance, riot), 暴力 (violence), 混乱 (chaos, confusion, disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうら" (comprehensive bibliography, control, disturbance, disturbances, general survey, riot, rioting, superintendence), ぼうりょく (violence), ""ら" (chaos, confusion, disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayhemmay mutilação (clipping, curtailment, defacement, mutilation, mutineer, speech clipping), talvez (maybe, mayhap, perchance, percipient, perhaps, possibly, possum, probably). (various references) militãrie (arm, soldiering), schilodire (mutilation). (various references) нанесение увечья. (various references) zločin (crime, felony, misdeed, perpetration, wrongdoing), osakaćenje (mutilation). (various references) mutilación criminal, violencia (fury, intemperance, rudeness, savageness, savagery, sharpness, strain, stress, violence, wildness), alboroto (ballyhoo, brawl, commotion, disturbance, fracas, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, rampage, riot, rowdiness, turmoil). (various references) förödelse (desolation, devastation, shambles). (various references) การประทุษร้าย (ทางกฎหมาย). (various references) savunmasız bırakma suçu, sakatlama suçu. (various references) заподіяння каліцтва. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | mahaigne. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mayhem": mayhems. (additional references) | |
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"Mayhem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jayahen, Machim, maham, mahem, mahyem, Majhi, Mashima, mayem, mayham, mayhew, mayhim, maylem, Maytham, meinem, Miyeh, Moyhun, Myham, Nahema. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-m-m-y" | |
-1 letter: hammy, mamey. | |
-2 letters: ahem, haem, hame, yeah. | |
-3 letters: aye, hae, ham, hay, hem, hey, hmm, mae, may, mem, yah, yam, yea, yeh. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, am, ay, eh, em, ha, he, hm, ma, me, mm, my, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-m-m-y" | |
+1 letter: mayhems. | |
+3 letters: emphysema, mythmaker. | |
+4 letters: emphysemas, mythmakers. | |
+5 letters: hemodynamic, mesenchymal, methylamine, ninnyhammer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 79 68 65 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.--. .... . -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01111001 01101000 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a y h e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0079 0068 0065 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)476791747179 |
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