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Date "SIDETRACKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A term applied when tools or downhole drilling equipment is not recovered from a borehole because of the drilling-by or bypassing techniques used b. A term applied when a borehole has been deflected, so as to bypass anobstruction. (references) |
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Crosswords: SIDETRACKED |
| Etymologies containing "SIDETRACKED": sidetrack. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sidetracked (1916) Without Work: Sidetracked (1989) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "SIDETRACKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 84.85% of the time. "SIDETRACKED" is used about 33 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 84.85% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sidetracked home executive | 23 |
sidetracked sister | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SIDETRACKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 转变话题 (Sidetracking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 회"하". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | idetrackedsay отводить на запасный путь (sidetracking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SIDETRACKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tyretracked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SIDETRACKED" (pronounced sī"dtra'kt) |
| 5 | -t r a' k t | backtracked, contract, noncontract, subcontract. |
| 3 | -a' k t | artifact, contact, counteract, hijacked, overact, piggybacked, ransacked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-i-k-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: creakiest, dedicates, detickers, readdicts, restacked, sidetrack, trackside. | |
-3 letters: acridest, casketed, credited, dackered, daikered, deciares, deciders, dedicate, descried, desertic, deticked, deticker, dickered, directed, discreet, discrete, disrated, racketed, readdict, readiest, redacted, retacked, screaked, seriated, steadied, steadier, streaked, tickseed. | |
-4 letters: addicts, addrest, aeriest, aridest, astride, caddies, cakiest, catered, cerated, cerates, cerites, creaked, creased, created, creates, credits. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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