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SIRED

Definition: SIRED

SIRED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Sire

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SIRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Crosswords: SIRED

English words defined with "SIRED": queen. (references)

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Modern Usage: SIRED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Why would a vampire lie about who sired him. What's that, some kind of status symbol for the undead? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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

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Usage Frequency: SIRED

"SIRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.12% of the time. "SIRED" is used about 43 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)65.12%2865,706
Lexical Verb (past tense)34.88%1590,616
                    Total100.00%43N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: SIRED

Expression using "SIRED": be sired by. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SIRED": folio-sired, texel-sired.

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

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Modern Translation: SIRED

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

Chinese 

  

首创 (Siring). (various references)

   

German

  

zeugte (begot, fathered). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iredsay

   

Russian 

  

родить произведенный. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soyundan gelmek (be sired by, descend, descend from), çocuğu olmak (be sired by). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SIRED

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

genitus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SIRED

Derivations

Words ending with "SIRED": desired, undesired. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SIRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esred, ired, iredd, irred, isre, kired, sabred, sarde, sardet, sared, Sarid, saried, sarod, serad, sered, seret, serid, serod, Serradj, serred, serud, shired, siard, Sibree, siced, sicre, Sider, Sied, sigre, siked, Simrad, sird, siree, sireed, sirel, sirex, sirey, sirez, siri, sirod, sirop, sirrea, sirree, sixed, skrud, sored, sorid, sorred, spired, spred, srad, sred, srid, sured, surid, swired, syre. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SIRED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dries, resid, rides.

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

-1 letter: dies, dire, ides, ired, ires, reds, reis, ride, rids, rise, side, sire.

-2 letters: die, dis, eds, ers, ids, ire, red, rei, res, rid, sei, ser, sir, sri.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, es, id, is, re, si.

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

+1 letter: aiders, biders, brides, ciders, deairs, debris, dermis, derris, desire, dicers, dikers, dimers, diners, direst, dirges, divers, dories, driers, driest, drives, eiders, grides, hiders, idlers, irades, irides, irised, jerids, prides, prised, raised, rebids, redias, redips, resaid, reside, resids, riders, ridges, rinsed, risked, scried, sidler, slider, snider, spider, spired, stride, weirds.

 

+2 letters: abiders, admires, adviser, airshed, aridest, aspired, astride, begirds, bestrid, bidders, binders, birders, birdies, bistred, borides, braised, bridges, bridles, brisked, bruised, burdies, chiders, cinders, clerids, credits, crisped, cruised, daikers, dairies, darbies, darkies, dashier, dearies, decries, defiers, deicers, deniers, derails, derbies, derides, derives, derries, dervish, desired, desirer, desires, despair, deviser, devisor, devoirs, dialers, diapers, diaries, diaster, dibbers, dickers, diester, dieters, differs, diggers, digress, dimmers, dineros, dingers, dinners, dippers, directs, dirties, discern, dishier, disrate, disrobe, dissert, dithers, ditsier, diverse, diverts, dossier, dowries, dreidls, drivels, drivers, duikers, durries, duskier, dustier, editors, endrins, engirds, farside, finders, fridges, friends, frisked, gilders, girders, girdles, gliders, guiders, hardies, herdics, hinders, hirsled, hurdies, inbreds, indorse, insider, insured, jerrids, kidders, minders, misdoer, misdrew, misread, nerdish, nereids, ordines, oreides, oroides, periods, pinders, praised, preside, prissed, radices, radixes, raiders, randies, readies, rebinds, reddish, redfins, redfish, redials, redries, redskin, reedits, refinds, regilds, reminds, remised, rescind, resided, resider, resides, residua, residue, resiled, resined, resited, resized, revised, rewinds, ridders, riddles, ridgels, ridleys, roadies, rosined, rowdies, sandier, sardine, scribed, scrived, seabird, sedarim, sedgier, seedier, semidry, serifed, serried, shadier, shirked, shirred, shrined, shrived, sidearm, sidebar, sidecar, sidlers, skidder, skirled, skirred, skirted, sliders, smirked, soldier, solider, sordine, sortied, speired, spiders, spidery, spiered, spirted, squired, staider, steroid, stirred, storied, strider, strides, striped, strived, studier, sudsier, swirled, tardies, tidiers, tinders, tirades, triodes, updries, ureides, verbids, verdins, visored, voiders, weirdos, widders, wilders, winders.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SIRED


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

53 49 52 45 44

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)

...    ..    .-.    .    -..

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0052 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5343523938

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SIRED"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, китайский, китаец, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , немецкий, alman

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, русский, Rusça

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, турецкий, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, английский, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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