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Definition: Name-dropping |
Name-droppingNoun1. The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener; "the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Name-dropping" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Name-dropping" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "name-dropping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 名字滴下. (various references) | |
German | angeberei mit berühmten bekannten. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dobálódzás nevekkel. (various references) | |
Korean | 이름 투하. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ame-droppingnay.(various references) | |
Swedish | kändissnobberi. (various references) | |
Thai | การอ้างชื่อผู้มีชื่อเสียงที่รู้จักกันเพื่อทำให้คนอื่นประทับใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ünlülerden sık sık bahsetme. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-n-o-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: promenading. | |
-2 letters: propending. | |
-3 letters: appending, dampening, dognapper, enamoring, omnirange, pampering, pandering, pardoning, pondering, prenomina, remanding, remapping. | |
-4 letters: adorning, amending, amidogen, androgen, aproning, demonian, deponing, dognaper, dopamine, dragomen, dreaming, dropping, ideogram, margined, midrange, nonimage, normande, organdie, papering, peponida, pomading, pomander, propined, radiomen, renaming. | |
-5 letters: adoring, aginner, agnomen, amidone, andiron, aneroid, aproned, damning, damping, dapping, darning, deaning, demoing, deraign, dipnoan, draping, droning, earning, emporia, engrain, epigram, eroding, gappier, genipap, germina, gormand, gradine, grained, grannie, grinned, gripman, gripmen, gripped, groaned, groined, ignored, imponed, impregn, inarmed, madrone, mangier, manrope, mapping, marengo, meaning, medigap, megapod, mendigo, mending, meropia, minored, moaning, moneran, mopping, moraine, morning, nappier, napping, nardine, nearing, negroid, negroni, nongame, nonpaid, omening, opening, operand, oppidan, padrone, padroni, pampero, pandore, pannier, pardine, pending, perigon, perming, pignora, pirogen, podgier, ponding, poniard, pranged, prepaid, primage, primped, promine, pronged, propane, propend, propine, propman, propmen, ramping, rampion, rapping, reading, reaming, reaping, redoing, rending, roaming, romaine, romping. | |
| 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)4E 61 6D 65 2D 64 72 6F 70 70 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01101101 01100101 00101101 01100100 01110010 01101111 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a m e - d r o p p i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 006D 0065 002D 0064 0072 006F 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48677971157084818282758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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