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Definition: Over-the-hill |
Over-the-hillAdjective1. Too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Over-the-hillSynonyms: overage (adj), overaged (adj), superannuated (adj). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Over-the-hill" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Over-the-hill" is used about 4 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "over-the-hill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 在这小山. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 에 언덕. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | over-the-hillay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-h-i-l-l-o-r-t-v" | |
-3 letters: hotelier, lovelier. | |
-4 letters: eviller, helleri, overlet, overlie, overlit, relievo, theelol. | |
-5 letters: either, eolith, etoile, eviler, heller, hereto, heriot, hetero, hiller, hither, holier, holler, levier, liever, liroth, lither, loiter, relive, retell, retile, revile, revolt, revote, rillet, teller, thieve, thrill, thrive, throve, tiller, toiler, toller, veiler, verite, vetoer, violet. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 2D 74 68 65 2D 68 69 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110100 01101000 01100101 00101101 01101000 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r - t h e - h i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 002D 0074 0068 0065 002D 0068 0069 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49887184158674711574757878 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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