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Transiently

Definition: Transiently

Transiently

Adverb

1. For a very short time; "these three pions may actually be joined together transiently as a compound particle during the interchange process".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "transiently" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references)


Crosswords: Transiently

English words defined with "transiently": GlancinglyTo be wrapped up in. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Transiently

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Lower-than-normal blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia) can be caused in a variety of ways, often transiently, and must be examined under specific clinical conditions before relating this finding to any clinical disorders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Transiently

"Transiently" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transiently" is used about 30 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
Adverb (general)100%3063,341

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

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Modern Translation: Transiently

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

Chinese 

  

瞬变地. (various references)

   

German

  

vorübergehend (momentary, passing, short, temporarily, temporary, transient, transitional, transitorily, transitory). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

일시 으로 (Casually, Fugitively, temporally). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ansientlytray

   

Russian 

  

мимолетно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Transiently

Misspellings

"Transiently" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transanal. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Transiently

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-n-r-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: instanter, instantly, interlays, internals, intranets, sterilant, transient, tyrannies, tyrannise.

-3 letters: entrails, entrains, entrants, inlayers, innately, insanely, intently, interlay, internal, intranet, intrants, intreats, lanterns, latrines, nitrates, nystatin, ratlines, retinals, slattern, stannite, straiten, straitly, tanistry, tenantry, tertials, tertians, trenails.

-4 letters: aliners, anestri, antlers, antsier, artiest, artiste, attires, elastin, elysian, ensnarl, entails, entrain, entrant, inanely, inanest.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-n-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: astringently.

 

+3 letters: instrumentally, intransigently, intransitively.

 

+4 letters: instrumentality, intransigeantly.

 

+5 letters: intercrystalline, intracutaneously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Transiently


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

54 72 61 6E 73 69 65 6E 74 6C 79

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)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0069 0065 006E 0074 006C 0079

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

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

5484678085757180867891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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