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Definition: Sima |
SimaNoun1. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. The basic outer shell of the Earth; under the continents it underlies the sial, but under the oceans it directly underlies the water. Originally, the sima was considered basaltic in composition with a specific gravity of about 3.0. In recent years, it has been suggested that the sima is peridotitic in composition with a specific gravity of about 3.3. First used in its present form and spelling by Suess b. A petrologic name for the lower layer of the Earth's crust, composed of rocks that are rich in silica and magnesia. It is equivalent to the oceanic crust and to the lower portion of the continental crust, underlying the sial. Etymol: an acronym for silica + magnesia. Adj: simatic. CF:sial; sialma. Syn:intermediate layer; basaltic laye. (references) |
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Prominent people with family name 司馬
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Sima is also a traditional Finnish seasonal sweet mead.
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Crosswords: Sima |
| Specialty definitions using "sima": sialma ♦ ultrasima. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sima" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (mead), Hungarian (calm, chimaera, clean, flat, glassy, glib, glossy, like a mill-pond, plane, sedate, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth air, smooth as glass, smooth working, soft, untroubled), Italian (Sima), Spanish (abyss, chasm, gulf), Turkish (cast of features, face, front, visage). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sima Xiangru (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Funeral procession of Corneliu Codreanu in Bucharest, Rumania, Dec. 1940--Leading the procession are Prime Minister Antonescu and Legion chief Horea Sima; representing Germany are Baldur von Schirach and Gauleiter Bohle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Syria | Since 1999, SIMA (the Syrian Industrial Marketing Fair) has been the showcase event of the year for many local and foreign companies, as well as foreign embassies' commercial services. (references) |
Qatar | Contacts: Maureen Quinn, Ambassador; Adam Ereli, Deputy Chief of Mission; Susannah Cooper, Economic Commercial Officer; Jiryis H. Khoury, Economic Commercial Advisor; Sima Carri, Commercial Clerk. (references) | |
Syria | The U.S. Embassy hosted an American pavilion at SIMA in 2000 and 2001. The first ever Syrian tradeshow to promote the car industry, SyrAuto, was held in April 2001. The event drew several U.S. car manufacturers' agents and was well received by a car-starved public hungry for any information about automobiles. (references) | |
Political Economy | CANADA | Canada operates a partially bifurcated trade remedies system under SIMA. (references) |
CANADA | When the SIMA investigation process has resulted in levies imposed on U.S. products, these duties become a constraint on U.S. trade. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Angola | SIMA strikes continued during the year, and there were spot strikes elsewhere in the country. (references) |
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| "Sima" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Sima" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "sima" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sima | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,346 |
| Sima | Last name | 300 | 25,091 |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sima"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | Sima. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imasay ΡΠΈΠΌΠ°. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sima": simar, simars, simaruba, simarubas, simas, simazine, simazines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sima": stasima. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sima": centesimal, infinitesimal, infinitesimally, infinitesimals, millesimal, millesimally, millesimals, planetesimal, planetesimals, sexagesimal, sexagesimals, vigesimal. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sima" (pronounced sē"mu) |
| 3 | -ē" m u | bima, Edema, emphysema, Pima, prima. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aims, amis. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-s" | |
-1 letter: aim, ais, ami, ism, mas, mis, sim. | |
-2 letters: ai, am, as, is, ma, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-s" | |
+1 letter: agism, amias, amids, amies, amins, amirs, amiss, bimas, iambs, imams, limas, maids, mails, maims, mains, mairs, maist, mavis, maxis, miasm, micas, minas, pimas, salmi, sigma, simar, simas, swami, tamis. | |
+2 letters: admits, ageism, agisms, ahimsa, aimers, ambits, amices, amicus, amides, amidst, amigas, amigos, amines, amnios, amusia, animas, animes, animis, animus, armies, autism, axioms, bimahs, camisa, camise, chiasm, claims, disarm, dismal, dismay, emails, famish, favism, gamins, hakims, iambus, ihrams, images, imagos, imaums, inarms, inseam, jasmin, kamiks, kamsin, kismat, lamias, limans, limbas, limpas, mafias, magics, mailes, maills, maists, maizes, mamies, manias, manics, mantis, maquis, marish, mashie, masjid, massif, mastic, mastix, matins, mavies, mavins, maxims, mbiras, medias, mesial, mesian, miaous, miaows, miasma, miasms, miauls, milpas, mimosa, mirzas, misact, misadd, misaim, misate, miseat, mishap, miskal, mislay, missal, missay, mosaic, myasis, nanism, nizams, passim, primas, racism, ramies, sadism, saimin, salami, salmis, samiel, samite, scampi, semina, sigmas, simars, simian, smalti, smilax, stigma, swamis, umiacs, umiaks, umiaqs, zamias, zirams. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6D 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. -- .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i m a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006D 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53757967 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiano, ΠΈΡΠ°Π»ΡΡΠ½ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ, ΠΈΡΠ°Π»ΡΡΠ½Π΅Ρ, ΠΈΡΠ°Π»ΡΡΠ½ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ |
Russian | ΡΠ»ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΡ, ΠΎΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄Π΅Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅, ΡΡΠ°Π½ΡΠ»ΡΡΠΈΡ, ΡΠ΄Π²ΠΈΠ³, ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π²ΠΎΠ΄, ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ | russo, ΡΡΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | inglese, Π°Π½Π³Π»ΠΈΠΉΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ |
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