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Sere

Definition: Sere

Sere

Adjective

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines".

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

Date "sere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Sere

DomainDefinitions

Avian

A series of stages of community change in a particular area leading toward a stable state (Ricklefs 1979:879). (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

The sequence of communities in the gradual surplanting of one community of plants by another. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sere

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SERE

EnglishSurvival,Evasion,Resistance to InterrogationN/A

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

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Synonyms: Sere

Synonyms: dried-up (adj), sear (adj), shriveled (adj), shrivelled (adj), withered (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sere

English words defined with "sere": dried-upsear, shriveled, shrivelledwithered. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sere": seral, Subclimax. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Sere" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Turkmen (stare).

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Modern Usage: Sere

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Por ti sere. ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens)

Y arriba y arriba, por ti sere, ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sere

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Expression: Sere

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "sere": Wood-sere.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sere

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

  sere

34

  school sere

24

  sere training

11

  instructor sere

4

  richard sere

4

  navy sere

4

  army sere

4

  navy school sere

3

  al mar sere

3

  sere usaf

3

  al mar sere 2000

2

  air force sere

2

  fantacalcio sere

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sere

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

Albanian

  

i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i fishkur (faded, wasted, withered, wizen, wizened, wrinkled). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذابل (blasted, dry, passe, sear, shrivelled, staleness, tatty, withered, wizened). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съсухрен (sear, seared, shrunken, wizen), увехнал (dead, sear, withered), изсъхнал (dried, dry, parched, sapless, thirsty). (various references)

   

Czech

  

suchý (arid, bald, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, torrid, wry). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sere. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

serie (series, set), reeks (file, line, rank, rosary, row, series, set, turn), onafgebroken opeenvolging. (various references)

   

French

  

sere, série (series, set), flétri (sear), desséché. (various references)

   

German

  

Serie (break, line, run, serial, series, set, string, succession). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σειρά (filch, flight, inning, line, range, rank, row, row of, sequence, serial, series, set, string, succession, suit, train, turn), ξηρόσ (arid, droughty, dry, seared, terse), μαραμένοσ (languishing, sear, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יבש (dry), קמל (withered), כמוש (dried, faded, withered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hervadt (blighted, sear, wilted, withered), fonnyadt (parched, sear, weazened, withered, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Italian

  

serie (collection, division, line, range, round, run, sequence, series, set, string, succession, train), sere, appassito (faded, withered). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eresay

   

Portuguese

  

seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jeroboam, parching, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, stale, thirsty, undamped), série (catena, chain, group, line, number, range, run, sequence, series, set, succession, tissue), ressequido (parched, sear, seared, thirsty), murcho (sear, seared). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

veştejit (quaggy), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), ofilit (wilting, withered). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сухой (arid, brut, dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, sec), изношенный (battered, down-at-heel, moth-eaten, outworn, raggedy, worn out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

osušen (dried, sapless, wizened). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

seco (barren, curt, dead, dried, dry, hacking, parched, rainless, sharp, short, short-spoken, tired), marchito (dead, drooping, droopy, overblown, sear, shrivelled, withered, wizened), cuartel de ordenación (circle, working circle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förtorka (dry, parch, sear, wither). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แห้ง (arid, dry). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sararmış (fade, flavescent, foxed, foxy, pale, sear, yellow), kurumuş (dried, dry, sear, seared, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сухий (arid, brut, chilly, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, withered), поношений (bare, frayed, mangy, napless, old, ole, ratty, reach-me-down, seedy, time worn, well worn, worn). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cái hãm cò súng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sere

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Clusia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sere

Derivations

Words beginning with "sere": sered, serein, sereins, serenade, serenaded, serenader, serenaders, serenades, serenading, serenata, serenatas, serenate, serendipities, serendipitous, serendipitously, serendipity, serene, serenely, sereneness, serenenesses, serener, serenes, serenest, serenities, serenity, serer, seres, serest. (additional references)

Words ending with "sere": hydrosere, prisere, subsere, xerosere. (additional references)

Words containing "sere": dosseret, dosserets, hydroseres, miserere, misereres, priseres, subseres, xeroseres. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eere, Eser, esgre, esred, Essere, iere, isere, Oseri, sarae, sarce, sare, Saree, sarei, Sarek, saro, Sarreqi, saru, sder, sdr, seare, Sebrea, Secre, sede, sedret, seece, seee, seerg, seery, Sefel, Sefra, sega, sege, segr, sehr, seje, seke, sele, selra, sepe, sepre, serac, serad, serag, serai, seral, serao, serau, seraw, serax, seray, serd, serec, sered, Serei, Serel, seren, seret, serev, Serez, serg, serh, seri, seric, serid, serii, seril, serio, serip, serk, serl, sern, serne, sero, serod, serp, serq, Serr, serrao, Serre, Serreau, serred, serree, Serret, sers, serse, sert, serud, serul, serut, serv, sery, sete, Seurel, seve, sevre, Sexe, sexee, seze, Sfera, shere, Sibree, sicre, Sierre, sigre, siree, sirel, sirex, sirey, siri, sirree, sirze, sjer, skera, skree, sleri, sorre, sqer, sre, srea, sreb, srec, sree, sreg, srei, srek, srene, sreo, srer, sreu, ssr, ssru, stre, Sverre, sxer, syre, szer, tsere, zeer, zera, zere, zery. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Sere"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sere" (pronounced si"r)
3s i" rfinancier, insincere, sear, sincere.
2-i" radhere, Amir, appear, auctioneer, austere, bandolier, beer, belvedere, bioengineer, bombardier, Brigadier, budgeteer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, cheer, Chevalier, clear, commandeer, conventioneer, dear, deer, disappear, domineer, ear, electioneer, emir, engineer, fear, fleer, Frere, frontier, gear, gondolier, hear, here, interfere, jeer, Kier, Lear, marketeer, mere, mir, mutineer, near, overhear, pamphleteer, peer, persevere, pier, pioneer, premier, premiere, profiteer, queer, Racketeer, Rainier, reappear, rear, reengineer, rehear, revere, severe, shear, sheer, smear, sneer, souvenir, spear, Speer, speir, sphere, steer, summiteer, unclear, veer, veneer, volunteer, year, Zaire.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sere

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rees, seer.

Words within the letters "e-e-r-s"

-1 letter: ere, ers, ree, res, see, ser.

-2 letters: er, es, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-r-s"
 

+1 letter: beers, brees, ceres, deers, drees, egers, erase, ernes, erose, erses, esker, ester, ewers, eyers, eyres, feres, frees, grees, heres, jeers, leers, meres, peers, perse, prees, prese, redes, reeds, reefs, reeks, reels, reest, reges, resee, reset, resew, reuse, rexes, saree, scree, seder, seers, sered, serer, seres, serge, serve, sever, sewer, sheer, siree, sneer, speer, spree, steer, stere, sweer, terse, trees, veers, verse.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sere


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

53 65 72 65

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)

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

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Bibliographic Items: "sere"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "sere"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Sere