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Definition: Perceptibly |
PerceptiblyAdverb1. In a noticeable manner; "he changed noticeably over the years". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perceptibly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1714. (references) |
Synonym: PerceptiblySynonym: noticeably (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: imperceptibly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perceptibly |
| English words defined with "perceptibly": Discernibly. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Evidence from several communities in which SIDS surveillance has been maintained for a decade or more indicates that annual SIDS rates vary from year to year but have not declined perceptibly since the introduction of home monitoring. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Perceptibly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perceptibly" is used about 59 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "perceptibly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | dukshëm (distinctly, evidently, patently, visibly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 可认识地 (recognizably). (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | viditelnì (visibly), citelnì. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | tuntuvasti (considerably), huomattavasti (appreciably, considerably, markedly, noticeably). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wahrnehmbar (discernible, discernibly, indistinguishable, noticeable, observable, perceivable, perceptible, sensible). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | νοητώσ, αισθητώσ (appreciably, noticeably, sensibly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 인지 수 있. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erceptiblypay perceptibil (audible, collectable, discernible, distinguishable, measurably, noticeable, observable, observably, perceivable, perceptible, sensible). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "perceptibly": imperceptibly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-l-p-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: celebrity. | |
-3 letters: celerity, creepily, peripety. | |
-4 letters: clipper, cripple, erectly, liberty, percept, perlite, peytrel, precept, precipe, prelect, pretype, pyretic, receipt, reptile, reticle, ripplet, terebic, tiercel, tippler, yperite. | |
-5 letters: belier, belter, beylic, ceiler, celery, cerite, clypei, creepy, crepey, ectype, eerily, lipper, pelite, pelter, peltry, peptic, pertly, petrel, piecer, pierce, pricey, pyrite, recept, recipe, recite, relict, retile. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-l-p-p-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: imperceptibly. | |
+3 letters: perceptibility. | |
+5 letters: hypersusceptible. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 65 70 74 69 62 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. . .--. - .. -... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01100010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c e p t i b l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0062 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071846971828675687891 |
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