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Mistrial

Definition: Mistrial

Mistrial

Noun

1. A trial that is invalid or inconclusive.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Mistrial

DomainDefinitions

Law

An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury. (references)

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Crosswords: Mistrial

English words defined with "mistrial": hung jury. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mistrial

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I move for a mistrial! This is discrimination! (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose)

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Commercial Usage: Mistrial

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mistrial of the Century: A Private Diary of the Jury System on Trial (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mistrial

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

El Salvador

A jury verdict may be overturned by a mistrial determination that there were serious problems with jury panel selection or errors in the trial procedure. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Mistrial

"Mistrial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mistrial" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mistrial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mistrial

17

civil court federal mistrial rule

3
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Modern Translations: Mistrial

Language Translations for "mistrial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gjykim i pavlefshëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تأجيل قضية, ‏خطأ قضائي, ‏دعوة فاسدة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неприключен процес. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

误判. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

محاکمه غلط(حق.), دادرسی پوچ وبی نتیجه . (various references)

   

French

  

procès entaché d'un vice de procédure, procès annulé par manque d'unanimité parmi les juges, erreur judiciaire (miscarriage of justice). (various references)

   

German

  

fehlerhaft geführter Prozess. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακοδικία (miscarriage of justice, unjust decision), εσφαλμένη δίκη, δικαστικόσ λάθοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עוות ""ין (misjudgement). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

téves ítélet (perverse verdict), szabálytalan bírói tárgyalás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istrialmay

   

Russian 

  

нарушение юр. норм в суде. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pogrešno vođena istraga, ništavan sudski postupak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

juicio nulo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ogiltig rättegång. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hata yüzünden hükümsüz kalan yargılama. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vụ xử án sai. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mistrial

Derivations

Words beginning with "mistrial": mistrials. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mistrial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biserial, mesotidal, mestiza, Meziriac, minstrial, misgrief, Mitsiwa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mistrial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mistrial" (pronounced mistrī"ul or mi"strī'ul)
5-t r ī" u lpretrial, retrial, trial.
4-r ī" u lrial.
3-ī" u ldenial, dial, Lisle, redial, vial.

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Anagrams: Mistrial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-r-s-t"

-1 letter: mistral, ramtils, similar, simitar.

-2 letters: limits, mislit, mitral, ramtil, smalti, trails, trials.

-3 letters: airts, alist, amirs, arils, astir, lairs, laris, liars, limas, limit, liras, litai, litas, mails, mairs, maist, malts, marls, marts, milia, milts, mitis, rails, rials, salmi, simar, sitar, smalt, smart, stair, stria, tails, tamis, tarsi, tirls, trail, trams, trial, trims.

-4 letters: ails.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-m-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: mistrials, ritualism, tribalism.

 

+2 letters: immoralist, literalism, militaries, militarise, militarism, militarist, molarities, moralistic, moralities, relativism, ritualisms, similarity, tribalisms, trinomials.

 

+3 letters: admiralties, altimetries, amoralities, antirealism, assimilator, eliminators, formalistic, formalities, immoralists, immortalise, imperialist, literalisms, madrigalist, magisterial, materialise, materialism, materialist, memorialist, militarised, militarises, militarisms, militarists, militarizes, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, mortalities, multigrains, normalities, orientalism, palmistries, peristomial, primalities, rationalism, relativisms, semitrailer, trigeminals.

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Alternative Orthography: Mistrial


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 73 74 72 69 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    -    .-.    ..    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0074 0072 0069 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4775858684756778

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Mistrial"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzunggjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, người Hê-brơ

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningsuedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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