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Definition: Tenured |
TenuredAdjective1. Appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime; "an irremovable officer"; "a tenured professor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Tenured |
| English words defined with "tenured": tenure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tenured": Adger ♦ tenured graduate student. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Peru | In August President Toledo nearly doubled the salaries of tenured judges and prosecutors to make work in the judiciary more attractive and to reduce corruption incentives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tenured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Tenured" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tenured": tenured graduate student. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
bad good tenured | 111 |
bad cal good poly tenured | 4 |
tenured | 2 |
bad good pomona tenured | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | titulaire. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enuredtay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tenured": nontenured, untenured. (additional references) | |
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"Tenured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enured, Renouard, tenere, teneure, Tenira, tenoned, tenre, tenture, tenute, venured. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tenured" (pronounced te"nyerd) |
| 4 | -n y er d | vineyard. |
| 3 | -y er d | billiard, configured, disfigured, figured, manicured, reconfigured. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: denture, retuned. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: endure, enured, neuter, rented, retune, tender, tenure, tureen, turned. | |
-2 letters: deter, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, nuder, rente, terne, treed, treen, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, undee, under. | |
-3 letters: deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, dree, duet, dune, dunt, dure, durn, erne, need, nerd, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rent, rete, rude, rued, rune, runt, teed, teen, tend, tern, tree, true, tune, turd, turn, unde. | |
-4 letters: dee, den, due, dun, end, ere, ern, nee, net, nut, red, ree, ret, rue, run, rut, ted, tee, ten, tun, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, en, er, et, ne, nu, re, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: denature, dentures, deuteron, neutered, retinued, returned, reunited, sederunt, underate, undereat, underlet, underset, unrented, unrested, ventured. | |
+2 letters: adventure, burthened, chuntered, countered, debenture, decurrent, denatured, denatures, deuterons, durnedest, encrusted, entrusted, indenture, interlude, negritude, numerated, outearned, preunited, recounted, remounted, renatured, sauntered, sederunts, thundered, thunderer, tourneyed, unaltered, uncreated, undereats, underlets, underrate, undersets, undertake, undertone, underwent, unearthed, unmerited, unmitered, unrelated, untenured, untreated. | |
+3 letters: adulterine, adventured, adventurer, adventures, crenulated, debentures, documenter, enraptured, enumerated, frequented, guaranteed, headhunter, indentured, indentures, interfused, interludes, laundrette, mutineered, negritudes, neuritides, nontenured, outlearned, outpreened, overhunted, overturned, rebuttoned, reinducted, tenpounder, thereunder, thunderers, tremendous, ultradense, unbuttered, uncarpeted, uncorseted, uncredited, underacted, undereaten, underneath, underrated, underrates, underreact, understate, understeer, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertaxed, undertaxes, undertones, underwater, underwrite, underwrote, undeterred, undirected, unescorted, unfathered, unfettered, unfiltered, unforested, unlettered, unparented, unreadiest, unreported, unrequited, unrestored, unsteadier, unstressed, untempered, untethered, unthreaded, untraveled, unwreathed. | |
+4 letters: adventurers, adventuress, beardtongue, blueprinted, centrifuged, conjectured, counterbade, countersued, delustering, deuteranope, deuterating, deuteration, documenters, encountered, endometrium, expenditure, groundsheet, headhunters, incertitude, interrupted, launderette, laundrettes, menstruated, neutralised, neutralized, outbreeding, outnumbered, overcounted, prejudgment, recontoured, reeducating, reeducation, reintroduce, rejuvenated, remunerated, superintend, tenpounders, thunderhead, traducement, truncheoned, turpentined, typefounder, unbracketed, uncertified, unchartered, uncluttered, unconverted, uncorrected, undecorated, underactive, undereating, underreacts, underreport, understated, understates, understeers, undertakers, undertenant, underweight, underwriter, underwrites, unfermented, unharvested, unliberated, unperturbed, unprotected, unregulated, unretouched, unseparated, unstoppered, untrammeled, untraversed, unweathered, volunteered. | |
+5 letters: beardtongues, circumvented, counteracted, counterfired, countermined, countermoved, counterorder, counterposed, countertrade, countertrend, denaturalize, deregulating, deregulation, deuteranopes, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, deuterations, disbursement, expenditures, extramundane, groundsheets, housetrained, incertitudes, instrumented, interdiffuse, launderettes, misadventure, neuropeptide, nonregulated, obdurateness, outbreedings, outgeneraled, outrebounded, outsiderness, overdocument, peradventure, precautioned, prejudgments, reacquainted, readjustment, recrudescent, rediscounted, reeducations, reinoculated, reinstituted, reintroduced, reintroduces, rencountered, rotundnesses, sturdinesses, superintends, thunderheads, thunderstone, traducements, tremendously, turbidnesses, turgidnesses, turtlenecked, typefounders, ultrarefined, unaccredited, unadvertised, uncelebrated, unchristened, uncorrelated, underclothes, undercounted, undercurrent, undergarment, underlayment, underletting, underpayment, underreacted, underreports, undershirted, understaffed, understeered, understories, understudied, understudies, undertenants, underutilize, underweights, underwriters, underwritten, undetermined, unembittered, unexpurgated, unfertilized, unfrequented, ungentrified, ungerminated, unintegrated, uninterested, unornamented, unpretending, unregistered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsegregated, unsterilized, uprootedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 75 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. ..- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n u r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0075 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718087847170 |
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