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Definition: Temporarily |
TemporarilyAdverb1. For a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the town". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "temporarily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Antonym: permanently (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Transientness | Adverb: temporarily; Adjective: pro tempore; for the moment, for a time; awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon; (early); briefly; Adjective: at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in articulo; between cup and lip. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm temporarily insane, Rock, it's all right. (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh) Do you know how a falcon is trained my dear? Her eyes are sown shut. Blinded temporarily she suffers the whims of her God patiently, until her will is submerged and she learns to serve - as your God taught and blinded you with crosses. (The Masque of the Red Death; writing credit: Charles Beaumont; R. Wright Campbell) The only way to control them, and only temporarily, is through certain mind expanding compounds (hands a pill to Sal). (Film School Confidential; writing credit: Douglas Underdahl) Okay, for now, temporarily, you can call me Clint. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) You don't get fired temporarily. It's a permanent lifetime firing. (Brighton Beach Memoirs; writing credit: Neil Simon;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Temporarily Yours (2003) | |
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 | The SHACKLETON temporarily stuck in the ice at Marguerite Bay. 68 00 S Latitude 68 30 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Plastic tarps temporarily hold together the sediments that comprise the containment dike fronting the Gulf of Mexico.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Marine Corps officials temporarily halted flying operations of all models of the V-22, including two CV-22s, (shown here) which are being flight tested at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The officials made the move after a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed in No. |  | Narrow base terrace holds water temporarily. Terrace in northwest Iowa.Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Sediment in this watershed reservoir in northwest Iowa is diminishing its capacity to temporarily store floodwaters. The entire upper portion of the water body is filled with sediment.Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | President Richard M. Nixon talks with the Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., on the hangar deck of USS Hornet (CVS-12), in the Pacific Ocean, 24 July 1969. The astronauts are inside the mobile quarantine station that temporarily housed them after their return from the Moon. Photographed by PHCS R.L. Lawson.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed during the later 1930s. Note that her Mark 33 main battery gun director has been temporarily removed from atop her forward superstructure.Credit: NAVY. |  | Missed!--A deaf looter at Galveston escapes temporarily a deserved fate.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Daughter of resettled farmer living temporarily at the jail in Irwinville Farms, Georgia, while new homes are being built.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House occupied temporarily by FSA (Farm Security Administration) client who moved from western part of state to Transylvania Project. Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In the area defined above the maintenance and the assembly of armed forces, either permanently or temporarily, and military maneuvers of any kind, as well as the upkeep of all permanent works for mobilization, are in the same way forbidden. (reference) |
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Contact | Carl Sagan | In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas. |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There being no lint, the doctor stopped the flow of blood from the wounds temporarily with rolls of wadding. |
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Health | It can also temporarily decrease the need for food and sleep. (references) | |
The patient may temporarily require dialysis to replace renal function. (references) | ||
Caffeine can reduce sleepiness and increase alertness, but only temporarily. (references) | ||
Business | The economic crisis that followed the devaluation of the Brazilian currency in early 1999 had temporarily slowed sales. (references) | |
The MERCOSUR car industry will continue to benefit temporarily from a privileged regime that penalizes companies that have no local production. (references) | ||
Following the June 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, ideological correctness was temporarily revived as the dominant theme in Chinese military affairs. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | In some of these cases, the perpetrators encouraged women to give up their children under false pretenses, for example, by promising to care for the children temporarily but then refusing to return them. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | More than 250 persons were detained temporarily in the raids. (references) |
Uganda | All four continued writing; however, they temporarily practiced some self-censorship. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | As a result, they had to temporarily retrench their workers and close down their offices. (references) |
Malaysia | Malaysia has also temporarily eased equity restrictions on licensed telecommunications companies. (references) | |
Lithuania | The conversion invalidated the claims by the Teutonic Order and temporarily halted its wars against Lithuania. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | WFP subsequently suspended food aid to Kuito temporarily. (references) |
Sri Lanka | University administrators temporarily closed the university to avoid violence. (references) | |
Guatemala | In 1998 and 1999, President Arzu had ordered the army to support the police temporarily. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | The ECHR has agreed to review that asylum case and is temporarily housing and maintaining the remaining applicants. (references) |
Mexico | On several occasions, village officials temporarily detained Evangelicals for resisting participation in community festivals. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sri Lanka | The suspension was lifted after the PA coalition temporarily re-established control through an accord with a small leftist party. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The customs fee for temporarily imported goods is $30 for each customs declaration. (references) |
Bulgaria | In 2001, duty free import quotas apply temporarily to some additional commodity groups. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Certain goods that are imported temporarily are exempt from payment of Customs duties and taxes. (references) | |
Travel | Chile | Individuals temporarily residing outside Santiago should register at the corresponding Gobernacion. (references) |
Haiti | Haiti does require special payment to be made on products that are entering the country temporarily. (references) | |
Vietnam | Exhibit materials and related items have generally been allowed to enter Vietnam temporarily without duty or restriction. (references) | |
Women | Honduras | This law allows the Government to protect battered women through emergency measures, such as detaining an aggressor or separating him temporarily from the victim's home. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | Some trade unionists have temporarily resigned from their union posts to run for office. (references) |
Qatar | Some employers temporarily withhold this consent to force foreign employees to work for longer periods than they wish. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | Some religious zealots act like the code of morality they claim to be upholding can be temporarily shelved when it gets in the way of their more immediate goals. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Even if substantial further withdrawals from the labor market occur, unemployment will increase temporarily. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But he left office honorably and, as it turned out, temporarily, knowing that the liberty of his people was more important than the fate of any single leader. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We should also offer help and hope to those Americans temporarily left behind by the global marketplace or by the march of technology, which may have nothing to do with trade. |
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| "Temporarily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Temporarily" is used about 1,286 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 1,286 | 6,146 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "temporarily": person temporarily absent ♦ prop up temporarily ♦ temporarily filled military post. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "temporarily": temporarily-closed. | |
| 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 |
temporarily yours | 15 |
temporarily | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "temporarily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | provizore, tydelik (for the time being, provisional, temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përkohësisht (pro tem, pro tempore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مؤقتا (tentatively), الى حين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | временно (for the nonce, provisionally, tentatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 暫" , 暫 (scatter, separate, to open, to spread out, to unroll), 姑" , 临时地 (Provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | doèasnì (pro tempore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | midlertidigt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tijdelijk (provisional, temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | provizore (for the time being), kelktempe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tilapäisesti (for the time being), väliaikaisesti (for the time being, pro tempore, provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | temporellement, par intérim (in temporary capacity), titre temporaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zeitweilig (intermittent, now and then, odd, sporadic, temporary), vorläufig (at the last moment, for the present, for the time being, interim, preliminarily, preliminary, provisional, provisionally, temporary, tentative, tentatively), aushilfsweise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσωρινά (momentarily, provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זמ ית, ארעית (bottom), באפן זמ י, בארח זמ י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ideiglenesen (pro tem, pro tempore), egyelőre (for the time being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | akting (temporarily in charge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | temporaneamente, provvisoriamente, a titolo temporaneo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仮に (for argument's sake, for example, provisionally), 一時 (a time, at one time, moment, once, one hour, short time, time, twelfth part of a day), 一朝 (a short period, once, one morning), 一旦 (for a moment, once, one morning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かりに (for argument's sake, for example, provisionally), いった" (a part, for a moment, once, one end, one morning, one-tenth hectare), いっとき (a time, at one time, once, one hour, short time, twelfth part of a day), いっちょう (a piece, a short period, an order, once, one block, one morning, one pairof clothes), いちじ (a character, a letter, a time, at one time, first, first-order, linear, once, one hour, one thing, primary, short time, twelfth part of a day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 임시 으로 (Occasionally, Provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | temporalmente (for the time being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporarilytay temporariamente. (various references) temporar (acting, casual, fleeting, makeshift, pro tempore, provisional, provisionally, provisory, temporary), vremelnic (ephemeral, fleeting, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory), provizoriu (flying, interim, makeshift, passing, provisionally, temporary). (various references) временно (pro tem pro tempore, provisionally, temporally). (various references) prolazno, privremeno (pro tempore, provisionally). (various references) temporalmente (temporally), provisionalmente (for the time being, pro tem, pro tempora). (various references) tillfälligt (fortuitously, incidental, momentarily, provinsional, temporary). (various references) โ"ยชั่วคราว. (various references) geçici olarak (momentarily, pro forma, pro temp, pro tempore, rough), şimdilik (for now, for the nonce, for the present, for the time being, pro temp, pro tempore). (various references) тимчасово (in the interim, pro tempore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "temporarily": contemporarily, extemporarily. (additional references) | |
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"Temporarily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temporaraly, temporarely, temporarilly, temporarity, temporarly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "temporarily" (pronounced te'mpere"rulē) |
| 5 | -e" r u l ē | customarily, extraordinarily, merrily, militarily, momentarily, necessarily, ordinarily, preliminarily, primarily, secondarily, summarily, voluntarily, warily, wearily. |
| 4 | -r u l ē | angrily, arbitrarily, centrally, cerebrally, eerily, florally, hungrily, morally, orally, orchestrally, satisfactorily, severally, statutorily, unnecessarily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, annually, anomaly, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, methodically, metrically, mightily, mineralogically, minimally, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, presidentially, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: polarimetry. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: imperator, temporary. | |
-3 letters: amitrole, imparter, implorer, importer, literary, molarity, morality, paltrier, petiolar, playtime, polarity, portlier, premolar, premoral, pretrial, priorate, proemial, reimport, retailor, rolamite, temporal, trampler. | |
-4 letters: airport, armoire, emporia, emptily, impaler, impearl, implore, irately, lamprey, lempira, loamier, lorimer, maltier, marlier, marlite, marplot, maypole, meatily, meropia, merrily, mortary, motlier, optimal, orality, palmier, parroty, partier, partyer, peartly, peloria, peroral, peytral, pierrot, plaiter, platier, poitrel, politer, polymer, portray, praetor, premolt, preriot, pretrim, primary, primate, primely, primero, priorly, prolate, prorate, protyle, pteryla, pyrrole, rampole, reality, realtor, relator, retiary, retrial, tearily, templar, topiary, trailer, tramper, trample. | |
-5 letters: aerily, aliyot, ampler, aplite, armlet, armory, armpit, artery, artier, artily, elytra, employ, imaret, impale, impart, import, irater, irreal, limper, limpet, lipoma, loiter, lyrate, mailer, maloti, martyr, merlot, milter, mitral, moiety, moiler, molter, mopery, mopier, morale, mortal, mortar, motile, motley, myopia, myrtle, opiate, optima, optime, palier, palmer, palter, paltry, parity, parley, parlor, parole, parrel, parrot, partly, patrol, pearly, pelota, peltry, permit, pertly, petrol, peyotl, piolet, pirate, plater, player, poetry, polite, polity, portal, porter, portly, prater, prayer, prearm, prelim, pretor, primal, primer, primly, priory, protea, protei, protyl, pyemia, pylori, pyrite, pyrola, pyrrol, railer, ramtil, rapier, raptly, raptor, rarely, rarity, realty, remail, remora, repair, replay, replot, report, retail, retial, retral, retrim, rialto, rimple, rioter, ripely, roamer, romper, ropery, ropier, ropily, rotary, tailer, tailor, tamely, tamper, teapoy, termly, termor, timely, toiler, tramel, tremor, trimer, trimly, triple, triply, trompe, typier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: extemporarily. | |
+3 letters: contemporarily, performability, pyrometrically, supernormality. | |
+4 letters: interparoxysmal. | |
+5 letters: morphometrically, pyrometallurgies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 6F 72 61 72 69 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. --- .-. .- .-. .. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p o r a r i l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0061 0072 0069 006C 0079 |
| 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)5471798281846784757891 |
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