Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Semirigid

Definitions: Semirigid

Semirigid

Adjective

1. (aeronautics) having a form maintained by a rigid keel-like structure as well as by internal gas pressure.

2. Not fully rigid.

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


Synonyms: Semirigid

Synonyms by domain: semirigid hose (building & civil engineering), semirigid plastic (chemical industry, meteorology & standards), semirigid tine (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Semirigid

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Rigid and semirigid cystoscopes. (references)

Surgical procedures, in which an inflatable or semirigid device is implanted in the penis, offer a more permanent solution. (references)

One variation of the vacuum device involves a semirigid rubber sheath that is placed on the penis and remains there after attaining erection and during intercourse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Semirigid

"Semirigid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Semirigid" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Semirigid

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

Bulgarian 

  

полутвърд (semi-hard). (various references)

   

Czech

  

napùl ohebný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

stiv tand med sikkerhedsfjeder (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verend bevestigde stijve tand (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine). (various references)

   

French

  

plastique semi-rigide (semirigid plastic, semi-rigid plastic), dent semi-rigide (semirigid tine), dent rigide ressort (semirigid tine), dent escamotable ressort (semirigid tine). (various references)

   

German

  

halbstarrer Zinken (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine), geferderter Zinken (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine), Arnszinken (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άκαμπτο δόντι με ελατήριο (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tubazione flessibile (semirigid hose), dente semirigido (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine), dente schivabile a molla (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine), dente rigido con attacco a molla (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine), dente rigido a molla (semirigid tine, spring loaded rigid tine, spring loaded tine). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emirigidsay

   

Portuguese

  

semi-rígido. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

полужесткий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polučvrst. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

semirrígido. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarı sert. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

напівжорсткий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Semirigid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dirigisme.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-m-r-s"

-3 letters: dermis, dimers, dirges, grides, grimed, grimes, imides, irides, irised, midges, ridges, smidge.

-4 letters: deism, derms, dimer, dimes, dirge, disme, dregs, dries, emirs, germs, girds, gride, grids, grime, imide, imids, irids, medii, midge, midis, mired, mires, miser, resid, rides, ridge, rigid, rimed, rimes, sired.

-5 letters: derm, dies, digs, dime, dims, dire, dreg, egis, emir.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-m-r-s"
 

+1 letter: dirigismes.

 

+3 letters: misdirecting.

 

+4 letters: administering, misdescribing.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Semirigid


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

53 65 6D 69 72 69 67 69 64

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

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

=

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 01101101 01101001 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#114 &#105 &#103 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006D 0069 0072 0069 0067 0069 0064

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

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

537179758475737570

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.