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Synonym: Person-to-personSynonym: one-on-one (adv). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: person to person (computing). |
Crosswords: Person-to-person |
| Specialty definitions using "person-to-person": Communication Style, Cryptosporidium ♦ personal communications services, Pinta, Private Practice ♦ universal personal telecommunications. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This isn't a person-to-person call. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever is a tickborne hemorrhagic fever with documented person-to-person transmission, and a case-fatality rate of approximately 30%. This widespread virus has been found in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and eastern Europe.Credit: CDC. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Lassa fever may also spread through person-to-person contact. (references) | |
Person-to-person transmission - contact with an already infested person. (references) | ||
Direct person-to-person spread of anthrax is extremely unlikely to occur. (references) | ||
Business | These are well established throughout the country, offer good pre-sales assistance and after-sales technical services, have experience in the different market sectors and maintain person-to-person contact with customers. (references) | |
An ideal representative is one who is well established throughout the country, offers good pre-sales assistance and after-sales technical services, has experience in the different market sectors, and maintains person-to-person contact with customers. (references) | ||
Main users of SMS are young people aged between 15 and 25. As it is now available for customers using pre-paid card systems, there is a significant volume increase over the last year. About 90% of SMS messages are voice mail notifications or simple person-to-person messaging. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | By contrast, person-to-person direct marketing works well (e.g., health and beauty products). (references) |
Czech Rep | Because the importance of building person-to-person relationships in this European market, we recommend U.S. executives visit Prague themselves, using the Commercial Service's Gold Key program or joining a trade mission. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Person-to-person" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Person-to-person" is used about 18 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) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "person-to-person"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 面对面. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gesprek met voorbericht (personal call, person-to-person call, preavis call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | conversation avec préavis (personal call, person-to-person call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσωπική κλήση (personal call, person-to-person call, preavis call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 指名通話 (personal call, person-to-person call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しめいつうわ (personal call, person-to-person call). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erson-to-personpay pessoal (acquainted, individual account, own, personal, personnel, private, privy, staff, untransferable). (various references) personlig (individual, personal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: postponers, properness, proponents. | |
-5 letters: oestrones, opponents, oppressor, postponer, postpones, proneness, properest, proponent, proposers, proptoses, proteoses, reopposes, roseroots, rotenones, spontoons, stroppers. | |
| 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)50 65 72 73 6F 6E 2D 74 6F 2D 70 65 72 73 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r s o n - t o - p e r s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0073 006F 006E 002D 0074 006F 002D 0070 0065 0072 0073 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718485818015868115827184858180 |
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