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Definitions: Send-off |
Send-offNoun1. An organized expression of goodwill at the start of a trip or new venture. 2. A start given to contestants; "I was there with my parents at the kickoff". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "send-off" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | An. . . organized demonstration of goodwill and enthusiasm for the beginning of a new venture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Send-offSynonyms: bon voyage (n), kickoff (n), start-off (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Send-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Send-off" is used about 40 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) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "send-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 送 (send, sending, sent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réunion d'adieu, fête d'adieu, cérémonie d'adieu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | búcsúztató, búcsú (departure, farewell, good bye, goodbye, kermis, leave, leave taking, parting, quietus, saint's-day), útnak indítás (flying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 送別 (farewell), 予饌会 (farewell meeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうべつ (farewell, generally), よせ"かい (farewell meeting, farewell party for graduates, primary caucus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보내십시" 떨어 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | end-offsay проводы (send off, sendoff, sendoffs). (various references) avskedstagande (leave taking, send off). (various references) การไปส่ง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) lễ tiễn đưa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: offends, sendoff. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: offend. | |
-2 letters: doffs, fends, feods, fonds, nodes, nosed, offed, sonde. | |
-3 letters: dens, does, doff, done, dons, dose, effs, ends, eons, feds, fend, fens, feod, foes, fond, fons, node, nods, noes, nose, odes, offs, ones, send, sned, sone. | |
-4 letters: den, doe, don, dos, eds, eff, efs, end, ens, eon, fed, fen, foe, fon, nod, nos. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: forfends, sendoffs. | |
+2 letters: forefends, offenders. | |
+4 letters: chiffonades. | |
+5 letters: disaffection, fanfaronades. | |
| 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)53 65 6E 64 2D 6F 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01100100 00101101 01101111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n d - o f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0064 002D 006F 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371807015817272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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