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Definition: Serial |
SerialAdjective1. In regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts". 2. (music) pertaining to or composed in serial technique; "serial music". 3. Pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series; "serial monogamy" or "serial killing"; "a serial killer". 4. (computer science) of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing". Noun1. A serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series". 2. A periodical that appears at scheduled times. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "serial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read them. A synposis of the entire work would be still better. The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Pertaining to the sequential performance of two or more activities in a single device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Some programs are produced for half listening. The typical daytime --. . . is beamed to the housewife who is doing other things while the radio is on. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Publication in print or in non-print-form, issued in successive parts, usually having numerical or chronological destinations, and intended to be continued in definitely, whatever the periodicity. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A publication issued at regular intervals, each issue normally being numbered consecutively with no predetermined termination of publication, usually having a variety of contents and contributor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang | Adjective. Source: The word is derived from serious. Definition: Serious, trustworthy. Context: The word is used by members of the AKA's and by many others as well in casual conversation. Social Source: AKA'S (Aoistair, Kenny, and Amon) . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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This article is about serials in the cinema or on the television. You might want, instead,
- Serial communications for information about computer communication technologies that use a single stream of data.
- Cliffhanger (movie)
- Serialism (music)
A serial, or cliffhanger, was a popular form of movie entertainment that dated back to the earliest days of cinema. Usually filmed with low budgets, serials were action-packed stories that usually involved a hero (or heroes) battling an evil villain and rescuing a damsel in distress. The villain would continually place the hero into inescapable deathtraps and situations, or the heroine would be placed into a deathtrap and the hero would bravely come to her rescue, usually pulling her away from certain death only instants before she met her doom. The hero and heroine would face one trap after another, battling countless thugs and lackeys, before finally defeating the villain "once and for all"...even though the villain would almost always get away at the end, to return at a future date.
Poster for The Perils of Pauline, (1914) Many famous cliches of action-adventure movies had their origins in the serials. The popular term "cliffhanger" is derived from the serials (though its origins have been traced by some historians to the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle), and it comes from the many times that the hero or heroine would end up hanging over a cliff, usually as the villain gloated above and waited for them to plummet thousands of feet to their deaths. Other popular cliches included the heroine being tied to a railroad track; being lashed to a log in a sawmill, lying on a conveyor belt and approaching a gigantic whirling sawblade; or being trapped in an abandoned mine shaft, watching as the burning fuse of a nearby bundle of dynamite sparked and sputtered its way towards the deadly explosive.
The serials were filmed in separate parts, and each chapter (a typical serial usually had fifteen of them) would be screened at the same theater for one week. The serial would end with a cliffhanger, as the hero and heroine would find themselves in the latest perilous situation from which there could be no escape. The audience would have to return the next week (and pay admission) to find out how the hero and heroine would escape and battle the villain once again. Serials were especially popular with children, and for many youths in the first half of the 20th century, a typical Saturday at the movies included a chapter of at least one serial, along with cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films.
Famous serials of the silent era include The Perils of Pauline and The Exploits of Elaine. [NOTE to movie buffs: Please add more titles here!]] During the 1930s and 1940s, many famous serials turned to science fiction and fantasy for their stories. Buster Crabbe made a name for himself by starring in several science fiction serials, including Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Popular comic books and radio programs of the 1940s were the basis of several serials; famous superheroes to appear in serials included Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Captain America, and the Green Hornet. The most respected directors during this period was the team of John English and William Witney who directed an acclaimed series of serials for Republic Pictures which include The Fighting Devil Dogs, Daredevils of The Red Circle and The Adventures of Captain Marvel.
With the advent of television and the decline of the moviegoing audience, production of serials ceased due to the dcreasing audience (and revenues). But the serial lived on, moving instead to the small screen and the world of TV reruns.
The serial format is still used, for example in the 2002 television series Alias.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Serial."
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The communications links across which computers, or parts of computers, talk to one another, may be either serial or parallel. A parallel link transmits several streams of data (perhaps representing particular bits of a stream of bytes) along multiple channels (wires, printed circuit tracks, optical fibres, ...); a serial link transmits a single stream of data.At first sight it would seem that a serial link must be inferior to a parallel one, because it can transmit less data on each clock tick. However, there are plenty of compensating advantages.
Some examples of serial communication architectures:
- A serial connection takes up less space. That's good in itself, but it also means that ...
- The extra space can be used to isolate it better from its surroundings.
- Not having multiple conductors in close proximity means less crosstalk at higher frequencies.
- Clock skew between the different channels is not an issue.
- These last three considerations mean that a serial connection can, all else being equal, be clocked considerably faster than a parallel one.
- RS-232 (old, low-cost, low-speed, for connecting computers to peripherals)
- Universal Serial Bus (newer, moderate-speed, for connecting computers to peripherals)
- Fibre Channel (high-speed, for connecting computers to mass storage devices)
- InfiniBand (very high speed, broadly comparable in scope to PCI)
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A serial number is a unique number applied to a product example, as opposed to a model number or type number. Each of a series of identical products has a different serial number. The term strictly applies only to numbers that increase by one for each unit (for example, 060001, 060002, 060003), but usage has expanded the term to refer to any unique alphanumeric identifier for one of a large set of objects.Serial numbers are valuable in quality control, as once a defect is found in the production of a particular batch of product, the serial number will quickly identify which units are affected. Serial numbers are also used as a deterrent against theft in that serial numbers can be recorded and stolen goods can be identified.
Many computer programs come with serial numbers, often called "CD keys," and the installers often require the user to enter a valid serial number to continue. These numbers are verified using a certain algorithm to avoid usage of counterfeit keys. Some warez organizations supply lists of known valid serial numbers. Others will often develop a "keygen"; a program that creates a random serial number by running the installer's verification algorithm in reverse, fooling it into allowing the user to install the software without a valid licence.
Serial numbers also help track down counterfeit currency, because in some countries each banknote has a unique serial number.
See also: unique identifier
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In computing, a serial port is an interface on a computer system with which information is transferred in or out one bit at a time (contrast parallel port). Throughout most of the history of personal computers, this was accomplished using the RS-232 standard over simple cables connecting the computer to a device such as a terminal or modem. Mice, keyboards, and other devices were also often connected this way.While RS-232 originally specified a 25-pin D-type connector, these were large and awkward, and most of the pins were unused (after all, since data is sent one bit at a time, only one wire is needed for data in each direction plus a few control signals), so it was common to use other connectors for these ports (in particular the 9-pin version used by the original IBM PC). In Europe, the related RS-422 standard was popular, and often used German DIN connectors.
In very recent years, more advanced electronics has made possible more reliable and higher-speed serial communications, so RS-232 is being supplanted by newer standards such as USB and Firewire. These make it possible to connect devices that would not have been feasible over slower serial connections, such as storage devices and sound and video devices.
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Serialism is a rigorous system of writing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined series, and variations on it. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their dynamics, their accents, or virtually anything else.Serialism is an extension of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique (sometimes called dodecaphony), which involves the use of tone rows: the basis of the system is that the main theme of the composition consists of one (and only one) instance of each of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale. The terms serial and twelve tone are sometimes used as synonyms, though this is not strictly speaking correct. Pierre Boulez is a prominent figure in serialism, other composers to use serialism include Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen.
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SELEX | English | Serial enrichment of ligands exponentially | Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SerialSynonyms: consecutive (adj), in series(p) (adj), nonparallel (adj), sequent (adj), sequential (adj), successive (adj), serial publication (n), series (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal. |
Continuity | Adjective: continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row; Noun: uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) a; perennial, evergreen; constant. |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Adjective: periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical; recurring; Verb: intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Everything I ever wanted to know about serial killers fit nicely on those four pages (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) Here's what we do. We leave the car here, we take the plates off, we scratch the serial number off the engine block, and we walk away (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Russel, are you really a serial killer (Roadkill; writing credit: Bruce McDonald; Don McKellar) Most stories with a bunch of camp counselors have some serial psycho who systematically butchers everyone one by one. (Happy Campers; writing credit: Daniel Waters) You're like a serial killer in jail (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Serial Metaphysics (1972) Super Serial Theater (1959) H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer (2003) Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) Never Trust a Serial Killer (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Serial dilutions of antigens on antibodies are performed in wells of a microtiter tray containing tissue culturSerial dilutions of antigens on antibodies are performed in wells of a microtiter tray containing tissue culture media used to grow cells in media. They are used to conduct tests on small amounts of cells. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Lands a U.S. Army Jeep on an Italian beach. USS LST-1 is in the background, at left. Jeep has serial # 2039078. This view may have been taken during the Salerno landings, circa September 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Plan view, amidships, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 8 May 1946. Note details of her structure, among them two 5"/38 twin gun mounts, twin and quadruple 40mm gun mounts, whaleboat and davits, and life rafts. The truck on shore is an International type, with Navy serial number 45742. White outlines mark recent alterations to the ship. Credit: NAVY. |  | William Fox presents bride 13 The serial supreme in fifteen episodes : Episode nine "hurled from the clouds" / / Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Printing war ration book 2. Covers for war ration book 2 roll from the press at a plant in Hoboken, New Jersey. The press is stopped as the ration book's serial number is checked. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rose in Wine Glass" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "After being stolen a few months ago, my old Oly D-450 was recently recovered by police who spotted some kids trying to sell it on the street. This was its "welcome home" shot. (BTW, reminder to all of you: if you haven't kept a record of your camera seria" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Quentin Crisp | An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients should be followed with serial examinations of the skin and palpation of the excision site and regional lymph nodes. (references) | |
However, it seems prudent to follow these patients with serial skin examinations, including the excision site, at regular intervals. (references) | ||
These include fatal and nonfatal MI, angina, sudden death, need for coronary artery bypass graft surgery, angioplasty and other cardiovascular endpoints, or favorable changes in coronary lesions as evaluated by serial quantitative imaging of the coronary artery. (references) | ||
Business | Magneti Marelli has recently started the production of a new dashboard, linked to other on-board control units through two multiplexed Can serial lines. (references) | |
Based on test protocols and results, a certificate of conformity may be issued on a single item or on a lot. Serial production certificates are issued for a maximum of three years, and in the case of serial production, follow-up testing is generally required. (references) | ||
Voice services include telephone service, Czech Direct, home country direct, pre-paid calling cards, toll free service, and value added services such as call waiting, call forwarding, fixed call forwarding, automatic wake-up calls, conference calls, transfer of tariff impulses, cost information service, outgoing calls restriction, direct dial-in service, and serial line service. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iran | The Protocols also were published in serial form in the country in 1994 and again in January 1999. On the latter occasion they were published in Sobh, a conservative monthly publication reportedly aligned with the security services. (references) |
Human Rights | Malawi | Serial killings, which occurred during a 3-month period in 2000, brought international attention to the country. (references) |
Iran | The UNSR reported in August that the serial murders of late 1998 and early 1999 continued to cause controversy at what is perceived to be as the Government's cover-up of involvement of high-level officials in the affair. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | Ballots are marked with a serial number that could be matched against a voter's name. (references) |
Trade | Spain | Tires and Tubes: All tires and inner tubes must be marked with a serial number. (references) |
Trinidad | Items to be re-exported must be clearly identified by a mark such as a serial or part number. (references) | |
Women | Mexico | Also in 1998, the authorities appointed a special prosecutor for crimes against women and hired foreign experts in serial killings to advise investigators. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For every person with a bad childhood who becomes a serial killer, there are a thousand who learn from that experience to be better parents to their own kids. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Serial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.92% of the time. "Serial" is used about 635 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) | 81.92% | 520 | 11,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.77% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.31% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 635 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "serial": consecutive sequent sequential serial successive ♦ denied serial number file ♦ electronic serial number ♦ heading for an index of a serial publication ♦ heading of a cumulative index for a serial publication ♦ high Performance Serial Bus ♦ high speed serial interface ♦ high speed synchronous serial interface ♦ I/O serial interface card ♦ march serial ♦ newspaper serial ♦ officer conducting the serial ♦ serial audiovisual work ♦ serial BCD ♦ serial binary coded decimal ♦ serial bond ♦ serial communications controller ♦ serial communications interface ♦ serial communications interface peripheral card ♦ serial communications interface port ♦ serial DAS ♦ serial data acquisition system ♦ serial development ♦ serial digital interface ♦ serial drama ♦ serial enrichment of ligands exponentially ♦ Serial Extraction ♦ serial homology ♦ serial input/output ♦ serial interface ♦ serial Interface Adaptor ♦ serial killer ♦ Serial Learning ♦ serial line ♦ serial Line Internet Protocol ♦ serial Line IP ♦ serial manufacture ♦ serial monogamy ♦ serial murder ♦ serial murderer ♦ serial music ♦ serial number ♦ serial operation ♦ Serial Passage ♦ serial port ♦ serial Presence Detect ♦ serial printer ♦ serial processing ♦ serial publication ♦ Serial Publications ♦ serial rights ♦ serial securities ♦ serial Storage Architecture ♦ serial story ♦ serial symmetry ♦ serial temperatures ♦ universal Serial Bus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "serial": serial-inverted, serial-killer, serial-monogamy, serial-novel, serial-numbered, serial-port. | |
Ending with "serial": non-serial, post-serial. | |
Containing "serial": Ethernet-serial-pcmcia. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
serial | 5,341 | 2003 serial | 264 |
serial killer | 3,516 | serial surfers | 226 |
serial and 2000 | 2,946 | window serial | 205 |
serial number | 2,656 | number serial window xp | 203 |
mac serial | 874 | window 98 serial | 194 |
software serial numbers | 776 | clone cd serial | 191 |
serial ata | 581 | office xp serial | 181 |
nero serial | 510 | serial code | 181 |
2000 serial update | 469 | numbers serial sims | 175 |
game numbers pc serial | 439 | game serial | 173 |
the sims serial number | 413 | killer louisiana serial | 164 |
nero number serial | 411 | serial software | 161 |
serial window xp | 338 | baton killer rouge serial | 160 |
serial and key | 297 | serial surfer | 152 |
serial and 2k | 293 | dtg serial | 147 |
serial interface | 287 | serial tmpgenc | 143 |
usb serial | 286 | serial delux | 140 |
serial port | 282 | window 2000 serial | 139 |
serial experiment lain | 279 | window 98 serial number | 137 |
usb serial adapter | 264 | oscar serial | 137 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "serial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | roman me fshikuj, rendor (ordinal), me seri, me pjesë (sectional). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكون من حلقات, متسلسل (sequent), مسلسلة, مسلسل (series), حلقات مسلسلة, طبعة مسلسلة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сериен филм, сериен (repetitive), роман който излиза на части, последователен (coherent, consecutive, consistent, running, sequacious, successive, true blue), пореден, подлистник (feuilleton), периодично издание (bulletin, periodical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 连续 (Continual, Continuance, Continuous, Continuously, sequential, succession, successive). (various references) | |
Czech | seriál, sériový, román na pokraèování, řadový (ordinal, regular). (various references) | |
Danish | seriel (serialisation, serialization), serie (series, set), tidsskrift (journal, magazine, periodical), periodicum (current publication, serial publication). (various references) | |
Dutch | feuilleton, vervolgverhaal. (various references) | |
Esperanto | seria, felietono. (various references) | |
Farsi | مسلسل (Reel, Unbroke, Unbroken, Unceasing, Uninterrupted), نوبتی (Intermittent, Periodic, Shift, Tyupical), نشریه (Issue, Leaflet, Review, Tract), ترتیبی (Ordinal), سریال , جزء بجزء , ردیفی , رده ای , دوری (Dish, Distance, Improbability, Inaccessibility, Paten, Periodic). (various references) | |
Finnish | sarja-, kausijulkaisu (current publication, serial publication), aikakausjulkaisu (daily paper, journal, newspaper). (various references) | |
French | feuilleton, en série. (various references) | |
German | seriell (series), zeitschrift (journal, magazine, periodical, review, revue), serie (break, line, run, series, set, string, succession). (various references) | |
Greek | σειρά (filch, flight, inning, line, range, rank, row, row of, sequence, series, set, string, succession, suit, train, turn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רציף (continuous, successive), סודר (jumper, ordinal, pullover, sweater, tippet), ספור בהמשכים, סדורי (orderly, ordinal), סדרתי (sequential). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sorozatszám (running number, serial number), sorozatos (sequential), sor- (ordinal), lépcsõ (aircraft step, doorstep, echelon, pair of stairs, set up, staircase, step), folytatásos regény. (various references) | |
Indonesian | cerita bersambung. (various references) | |
Italian | seriale (seral, successional). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 連載小説 (serialized novel), 連続 (consecutive, continuity, occurring in), 連続 (consecutive, continuing, continuity, occurring in succession), シュタイナー学校 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | れんぞく (consecutive, continuing, continuity, occurring in succession), れんさいしょうせつ (serialized novel), シリアル . (various references) | |
Korean | 연속되는 (sequential, undivided). (various references) | |
Manx | straih-skeeal, straihagh (tiered). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erialsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | serial (seral, successional). (various references) | |
Romanian | roman foileton (serial story), foileton (column, feuilleton, lampoon), film în serii, de serie, care formeazã serie. (various references) | |
Russian | серийный, выходящий выпусками, продолжающееся издание, последовательный (coherent, consecutive, consequent, consistent, logical, running, sequacious, sequential, successional, true blue, true-blue), порядковый (ordinal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | serijski, serija (batch, round, series, stick), redni (ordinal, seriate), emisija u nastavcima. (various references) | |
Spanish | serial (soap opera). (various references) | |
Swedish | som följetong, serienummer (serial number), seriell publikation (current publication, serial publication), seriell, serie-, serie (cartoons, combination, concatenation, course, division, league, sequence, series, set, straight, strip, suite, train), tidskrift (journal, mag, magazine, periodical, review), periodisk skrift (current publication, serial publication), i seria, i följetongsform, följetong. (various references) | |
Turkish | seri halinde, seri (battery, chain, crash, cycle, fast, fleet, high speed, quick, rapid, sequence, seriate, series, set, sharp, speedy), sıralı (in line, in order, in train, Sequent, serried), dizi olarak yayınlanan öykü, dizi (battery, chain, cluster, course, cycle, order, progression, queue, range, rank, rope, round, row, sequence, series, set, string, tier, train), birbirini izleyen (alternate, consecutive), art arda. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | серійний, серіал, роман у кількох частинах, порядковий (ordinal), періодичне видання (bulletin, periodical), періодичний (etesian, intermittent, periodic, periodical, recurrent, rhythmic, rhythmical, seasonal, seriate, seriated, terminal). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | truyện ra từng số tạp chí, theo từng hàng, theo từng dãy, theo từng chuỗi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "serial": serialise, serialised, serialises, serialising, serialism, serialisms, serialist, serialists, serialization, serializations, serialize, serialized, serializes, serializing, serially, serials. (additional references) | |
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"Serial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erial, Pseira, sahiwal, sarai, Saral, Sardial, saria, Sarwal, Savrola, screal, sedia, Seeia, Seiriol, Sekiya, senial, serai, seral, Seralab, sercial, sereal, sereall, Serel, serele, Serhad, Serhal, seria, seriac, seriak, serias, Serica, seriel, serii, seril, serio, serion, Serrault, Serreau, serria, Sersale, serul, Serula, serval, Sesia, Setila, Sgriol, sheidal, siril, Skrela, soral, soreal, sorial, soriel, Sorvall, strail, uerial, verial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "serial" (pronounced si"rēul) |
| 6 | s i" r ē u l | cereal. |
| 5 | -i" r ē u l | antibacterial, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, ethereal, immaterial, imperial, managerial, material, venereal. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, arboreal, Ariel, burial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, terrestrial, territorial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, tutorial, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ariels, resail, sailer, serail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, reals, rials, riels, riles, serai, seral, slier. | |
-2 letters: ails, airs, ales, ares, aril, arse, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leis, liar, lier, lies, lira, lire, rail, rale, rase. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aerials, airless, aliners, bailers, claries, derails, dialers, eclairs, glaires, hailers, jailers, mailers, nailers, railers, rallies, realise, realism, realist, redials, remails, renails, resails, retails, revisal, sailers, sallier, saltier, saltire, scalier, serails, serials, shalier, slatier, tailers, wailers. | |
+2 letters: ailerons, airholes, airlines, alieners, alienors, aligners, appliers, articles, assailer, ateliers, auricles, ballsier, barflies, bedrails, bilayers, blastier, brailles, calibers, calibres, calipers, calories, carioles, carlines, cavilers, charlies, claimers, classier, claviers, dalliers, darioles, decrials, diallers, dialyser, dilaters, dismaler, earliest, earlship, engrails, entrails, espalier, failures, filarees, flashier, foresail, frailest, gasalier, gaselier, gasolier, girasole, glaciers, glariest, glassier, glaziers, graciles, greasily, gremials, hairless, harelips, hauliers, impalers, impearls, inhalers, inlayers, islander, lamister, lanciers, lardiest, larkiest, latrines, lavisher, leariest, lempiras, liberals, librates, literals, marliest, marlines, marlites, measlier, minerals, miracles, misalter, mislayer, mislearn, moralise, nargiles, parslied, pelorias, perillas, pilaster, plaister, plaiters, plashier, polarise, pralines, prevails, radicels, radicles, rainless, raisable, ralliers, ramilies, rashlike, ratlines, ravelins, realigns, realised, realiser, realises, realisms, realists, realizes, realties, reassail, reavails, recitals, reclaims, redtails, relaxins, replicas, reprisal, resailed, residual, retinals, retrials, revisals, revivals, rinsable, ruralise, salaried, salaries, salliers, saltiers, saltires, seraglio, serially, shoalier, shrieval, sidereal, signaler, slaggier, slangier, sleazier, slipware, snarlier, solarise, solarize, sparlike, spiracle, spiraled, spirulae, stalkier, starlike, sterical, talliers, tertials, trailers, trenails, uralites, valorise, varioles, virelais, virelays, visceral, yearlies. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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