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Definition: Provisionally |
ProvisionallyAdverb1. Temporarily and conditionally; "they have agreed provisionally"; "was appointed provisionally". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "provisionally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumstance | Conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so; depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless, without. |
Conditions | Adverb: conditionally; (with qualification); provisionally, pro re nata; on condition; with a string to it. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Provisionally |
| English words defined with "provisionally": Bill of sight ♦ De bene esse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "provisionally": authorisation provisionally to carry out the concentration, authorization of preliminary completion ♦ definite advice. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The international agreements and regulations at present governing the navigation of the Elbe (Labe), the Oder (Odra), and the Niemen (Russstrom-Memel-Niemen) shall be provisionally maintained in force until the ratification of the above-mentioned projects. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | S name in full, as she only gave it provisionally, in case her answer should prove right. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is there provisionally. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Tanzania | The Registrar of Political Parties has sole authority to approve or deny the registration of any political party and is responsible for enforcing strict regulations on registered or provisionally registered parties. (references) |
Economic History | Morocco | The US-Morocco Open Skies Agreement initiated in fall 2000 has entered provisionally into effect pending final signature projected for summer-fall 2001; several new code shares are in the offing. (references) |
Honduras | In terms of national reconstruction efforts and participation in international public bids in general, foreign firms engaged in the execution of construction, design, consulting, and rehabilitation projects are required, under the State Contracting Law, to register provisionally at the Company Registration and Classification Committee of Civil Engineers (CIRCE). (references) | |
Human Rights | Mauritius | The guard was suspended, and the guard and the prisoners were charged provisionally with murder. (references) |
Peru | At the end of 2000, the Government abolished the executive committees responsible for provisionally appointing judges and prosecutors through which President Fujimori had exerted control over the judiciary. (references) | |
Iran | He was provisionally released but rearrested following public remarks he made in March, and remained in detention without new charges being filed against him at year's end. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Provisionally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Provisionally" is used about 170 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% | 170 | 23,898 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "provisionally": authorisation provisionally to carry out the concentration. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
provisionally | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "provisionally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | условно, временно (for the nonce, temporarily, tentatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 临时地 (temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | midlertidigt bringe godkendte protokkolat (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes), ikke-eksklusive licenser paa patenter,midlertidigt beskyttede rettigheder,brugsmoenstre eller patentansoegninger (non-exclusive licences under patents, provisionally protected patent rights, utility models or patent applications), afgørelse,som er foreløbigt eksigible (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorlopige toepassing van het voorlopig goedgekeurde proces-verbaal (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes), voorlopig aanhouden (to arrest provisionally), niet-uitsluitende licenties op octrooien,voorlopig bescherminggevende rechten,gebruiksmodellen of octrooiaanvragen (non-exclusive licences under patents, provisionally protected patent rights, utility models or patent applications), de faillietverklaring als voorlopige maatregel uitspreken (to open the bankruptcy provisionally), bij voorraad uitvoerbaar vonnis (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | väliaikaisesti (for the time being, pro tempore, temporarily), alustavasti (preliminarily, tentatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prononcer la faillite titre provisoire (to open the bankruptcy provisionally), mise en application provisoire d'un procès-verbal agréé (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes), licences non exclusives sur les brevets,titres de protection provisoire,modèles d'utilité ou demandes de brevet (provisionally protected patent rights), jugement exécutoire par provision (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally), autorisation de réalisation provisoire (authorisation provisionally to carry out the concentration, authorization of preliminary completion), arrêter provisoirement (to arrest provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | provisorisch (provisional, skeleton, temporary, tentative), vorläufig (at the last moment, for the present, for the time being, interim, preliminarily, preliminary, provisional, temporarily, temporary, tentative, tentatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσωρινά (momentarily, temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sentenza provvisoriamente esecutiva (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally), licenze di uso non esclusivo sui brevetti,sui titoli di protezione temporanea,sui modellidi utilit o domande di brevetto (non-exclusive licences under patents, provisionally protected patent rights, utility models or patent applications), dichiarare il fallimento a titolo provvisorio (to open the bankruptcy provisionally), autorizzazione dell'esecuzione provvisoria (authorisation provisionally to carry out the concentration, authorization of preliminary completion), applicare provvisoriamente una serie di verbali concordati (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仮に (for argument's sake, for example, temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かりに (for argument's sake, for example, temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 임시 으로 (Occasionally, temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovisionallypray licenças não exclusivas sobre patentes,títulos de protecção provisória,modelos de utilidade ou pedidos de patente (non-exclusive licences under patents, provisionally protected patent rights, utility models or patent applications), decisão executória provisória (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally), aplicação provisória de actas acordadas (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes). (various references) provizoriu (flying, interim, makeshift, passing, temporarily, temporary), temporar (acting, casual, fleeting, makeshift, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, temporarily, temporary). (various references) временно (pro tem pro tempore, temporally, temporarily). (various references) privremeno (pro tempore, temporarily). (various references) resolución provisionalmente ejecutoria (judgment which is enforceable only provisionally), aplicación provisional de las actas acordadas (to apply provisionally the agreed minutes). (various references) умовно. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Provisionally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: provisionalism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "provisionally" (pronounced pruvi"zhunulē or pruvi"zhnulē) |
| 6 | -zh u n u l ē | occasionally. |
| 5 | -u n u l ē | additionally, conditionally, congressionally, constitutionally, conventionally, criminally, diagonally, educationally, exceptionally, fractionally, functionally, generationally, institutionally, intentionally, internationally, irrationally, marginally, medicinally, nationally, nominally, nutritionally, operationally, originally, personally, phenomenally, professionally, proportionally, rationally, regionally, seasonally, subliminally, terminally, traditionally, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, unintentionally. |
| 4 | -n u l ē | diurnally, emotionally, eternally, externally, finally, gravitationally, internally, serenely, uncannily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, confidentially, conspiratorially, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, cordially, crazily, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, eerily, electrically, electronically, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, ethically, eventually, experimentally, exponentially, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, intellectually, intrinsically, involuntarily, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, normally, novelly, officially, oligopoly, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, provincially, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, readily, regally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
| 4 | -n u l ē | additionally, conditionally, congressionally, constitutionally, conventionally, criminally, diagonally, diurnally, educationally, emotionally, eternally, exceptionally, externally, finally, fractionally, functionally, generationally, gravitationally, institutionally, intentionally, internally, internationally, irrationally, marginally, medicinally, nationally, nominally, nutritionally, occasionally, operationally, originally, personally, phenomenally, professionally, proportionally, rationally, regionally, seasonally, serenely, subliminally, terminally, traditionally, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, unintentionally. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, confidentially, conspiratorially, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, cordially, crazily, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, eerily, electrically, electronically, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, ethically, eventually, experimentally, exponentially, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, intellectually, intrinsically, involuntarily, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, normally, novelly, officially, oligopoly, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, provincially, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, readily, regally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-v-y" | |
-2 letters: provisional. | |
-3 letters: visionally. | |
-4 letters: parvolins, pavilions, pavillons, provision, visionary. | |
-5 letters: parvolin, pavilion, pavillon, payrolls, pillions, planosol, polarons, pollinia, raviolis, sailorly, savorily, snoopily, sovranly, spinally, spirally, spirilla, spoonily, synovial, vanpools, villains, villainy, visional. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-v-y" | |
+4 letters: improvisationally. | |
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