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Definition: Reliably |
ReliablyAdverb1. In a faithful manner; "it always came on, faithfully, like the radio". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reliably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: ReliablySynonyms: dependably (adv), faithfully (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unfaithfully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reliably |
| English words defined with "reliably": bad block. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reliably": bang path ♦ Detectable Leak Rate, Detection limit ♦ Eli Compiler Construction System ♦ Lower Detection Limit ♦ plug-and-pray, proved reserve ♦ reaktionssprøjtestøbning, reliable transfer server, Research in Motion ♦ Upper Detection Limit ♦ You know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references) |
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 | ARS researchers at Kearneysville, West Virginia, have released peacy varieties that reliably produce sunny, juicy peaches in northerly climes. And thanks to years of pest control studies, the fire blight and pear psylla problems that long ago wiped out the U.S. East Coast pear industry have yielded to a variety of new controls. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Deaf Smith County, Texas. "It is reliably estimated that not less than 40,000 families have moved away from the Great Plains drought area since 1930." From the report of the Great Plains Committee, 1936.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The diagnosis of ADHD can be made reliably using well-tested diagnostic interview methods. (references) | |
It is unclear whether such mildly affected individuals can be reliably identified by their genotype. (references) | ||
Because the disease is underreported, scientists cannot reliably assess how many cases of Q fever have actually occurred worldwide. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Poland | Refugee rights groups have reported no significant improvement in processing time, which is reliably reported to range from 4 months to 2 years. (references) |
Economic History | Finland | Thanks to the early acceptance of strong encryption, E-business has developed briskly and reliably. (references) |
France | Since biotechnology deals with processes rather than products, no generally applicable statistics and estimates of market growth can be reliably provided. (references) | |
Human Rights | Vanuatu | The central prison in Port Vila was dilapidated and not reliably secured. (references) |
Bolivia | Indigenous communities in areas with little or no central government presence impose punishment that reliably is reported to include the death penalty on members who violate traditional laws or rules, although the Constitution prohibits both the death penalty and extrajudicial punishments. (references) | |
Political Rights | Madagascar | Other parties criticized the elections as poorly organized and fraudulent; a lack of transparency made it difficult to assess reliably the extent of abuses. (references) |
Travel | Guyana | Several express cargo services operate reliably in Guyana, including FedEx, United Parcel Service, DHL, and the local Laparkan Group. (references) |
Women | Benin | Surveys, including one conducted by the World Health Organization in 1999, reliably placed the estimate of the number of women who had undergone FGM at approximately 50 percent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reliably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reliably" is used about 281 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% | 281 | 17,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reliably": reliably informed. 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 |
reliably | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reliably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | seriozisht (earnestly, fatally, hard, in earnest, seriously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | من مصدر موصوق به, على نحو موثوق, بثقة (dependable, dependably, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сигурно (certainly, doubtless, must, safely, securely, sure, surely), надеждно (securely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 可 地 (dependably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spolehlivì, dùvìryhodnì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olen kuullut luotettavalta taholta (I am reliably infinformed, I am responsibly told, I have it on good authority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sérieusement, de bonne source. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zuverlässig (authoritatively, credible, dependable, dependably, of good repute, reliable, responsible, responsibly, safe, staunch, steadily, steady, sure, trustworthy, trusty), betriebssicher (foolproof, reliable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | με εμπιστοσύνη, υπευθυνώσ (answerably, responsibly), αξιοπίστωσ (creditably, responsibly, trustily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megbízhatóan (dependably, trustworthily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 견실하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eliablyray com segurança. (various references) благонадежный (trustworthy). (various references) pouzdano (surely). (various references) informado de fuente fidedigna (reliably informed). (various references) beroende (conditional, dependant, dependant on, dependence, dependent, depending, due, habit, reliance, reliant). (various references) надійно (safe, safely), певно (apparently, belike, by all odds, expressly, likely, precisely, pronouncedly, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Reliably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reliab, reliabely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reliably" (pronounced rulī"ublē or rēlī"ublē) |
| 5 | -ī" u b l ē | undeniably, unjustifiably. |
| 4 | -u b l ē | admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, honorably, horribly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly. |
| 3 | -b l ē | ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly. |
| 5 | -ī" u b l ē | undeniably, unjustifiably. |
| 4 | -u b l ē | admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, honorably, horribly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly. |
| 3 | -b l ē | ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blearily. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: bilayer, braille, liberal. | |
-2 letters: aerily, alible, bailer, bailey, baller, barely, barley, biller, bleary, labile, liable, librae, rallye, really, rebill. | |
-3 letters: abler, alley, ariel, baler, bally, barye, belay, belly, beryl, bialy, billy, birle, blare, blear, brail, brill, early, ileal, iller, label, layer, leary, libel, liber, libra, rally, relay, riley, rille, riyal, yerba. | |
-4 letters: able, ably. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: liberally. | |
+2 letters: liberality. | |
+3 letters: acerbically, adverbially, aerobically, bacterially, bilaterally, bimillenary, brainlessly, illiberally, inalterably, intolerably, reliability, subaerially, syllabaries, trisyllable. | |
+4 letters: alterability, behaviorally, biparentally, cherubically, deliberately, herbicidally, hyperbolical, illiberality, invulnerably, proverbially, tolerability, trisyllables. | |
+5 letters: algebraically, anaerobically, bimolecularly, embryological, embryonically, filterability, hyperboloidal, irreclaimably, irreplaceably, obstetrically, recallability, replicability, solderability, unreliability, vulnerability. | |
| 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)52 65 6C 69 61 62 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .. .- -... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l i a b l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0069 0061 0062 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271787567687891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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