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Seism

Definition: Seism

Seism

Noun

1. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Seism

Synonyms: earthquake (n), quake (n), temblor (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Seism

Non-English Usage: "Seism" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (earthquake, seism).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seism

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  seism

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Seism

Language Translations for "seism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tërmet (earthquake, quake, temblor). (various references)

   

Danish

  

jordskælv (earthquake, quake). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aardbeving (earthquake, quake). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maanjäristys (earth tremor, earthquake, quake). (various references)

   

French

  

séisme. (various references)

   

German

  

Erdbeben (earthquake, earthquakes, quake). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σεισμός (earthquake, quake). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

földrengés (earthquake, temblor), földlökés. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sisma (earthquake). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

지진 (earthquake, seismic, seismical). (various references)

   

Manx

  

seismey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eismsay

   

Portuguese

  

sismo (earthquake, quake, shock). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

seism (earthquake). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

землетрясение (convulsion of nature, earthquake, quake, temblor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

seísmo (earthquake, quake, shock). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skalv (earthquake, quake), jordskalv (earthquake, quake, tremor), jordbävning (earth tremor, earthquake, earth-quake, quake). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แผ่น"ินไหว (earthquake). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sismik (seism-, seismic), depremle ilgili (seism-, seismic). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

землетрус (earthquake, quake). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

động đất, địa chấn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Seism

Derivations

Words beginning with "seism": seismal, seismic, seismically, seismicities, seismicity, seismism, seismisms, seismogram, seismograms, seismograph, seismographer, seismographers, seismographic, seismographies, seismographs, seismography, seismological, seismologies, seismologist, seismologists, seismology, seismometer, seismometers, seismometric, seismometries, seismometry, seisms. (additional references)

Words ending with "seism": microseism. (additional references)

Words containing "seism": microseismic, microseismicities, microseismicity, microseisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Seism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eisma, Esis, meism, reism, sajism, scism, Seeisa, Seim, Seis, seish, seismo, seisms, seist, Seium, seiz, sekism, Semsi, Sesia, sesit, Sesm, Seym, seyum, Shiism, sism, teism, Zosimo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Seism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mises, semis.

Words within the letters "e-i-m-s-s"

-1 letter: isms, mess, mise, miss, seis, semi, sims.

-2 letters: ems, ess, ism, mis, sei, sim, sis.

-3 letters: em, es, is, me, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-s-s"
 

+1 letter: deisms, dismes, emesis, mioses, misers, missed, missel, misses, misset, misuse, remiss, seisms, sexism, slimes, smiles, smites, stimes, tmesis.

 

+2 letters: ageisms, aimless, bemists, camises, cesiums, demises, desmids, dimness, egoisms, eonisms, impasse, imposes, impress, inseams, isomers, kirmess, kismets, lissome, mashies, massier, massive, mavises, meioses, meiosis, merises, merisis, messiah, messier, messily, messing, metisse, mimeses, mimesis, minuses, miscues, misdoes, misease, miseats, mislies, mispens, misseat, missels, missend, missent, missets, missies, missile, missive, misstep, misters, misused, misuser, misuses, mitises, mitoses, mossier, mueslis, muskies, mussier, myiases, nemesis, premiss, remises, rimless, samiels, samisen, samites, seismal, seismic, semises, sexisms, siamese, siemens, similes, simmers, simnels, simpers, simples, smidges, smilers, smileys, smiters, somites, spirems, stimies, stymies, surmise, swamies, tamises, theisms, tsimmes, verisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Seism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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