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Uncommercial

Definition: Uncommercial

Uncommercial

Adjective

1. Not conducive to commercial success; "might prove arty and hence uncommercial"- H.E.Clurman.

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

Date "uncommercial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Commercial Usage: Uncommercial

DomainTitle

Books

  • Being out of order; some poems and "The uncommercial traveller" (reference)

  • The Uncommercial Traveler (reference)

  • Uncommercial Traveller Reprinted Pieces, Etc. (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Uncommercial

"Uncommercial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Uncommercial" is used about 19 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
Adjective (general or positive)94.74%1882,615
Noun (common)5.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%19N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Uncommercial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

uncommercial

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Uncommercial

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

Bulgarian 

  

който не търси печалба, нетърговски. (various references)

   

German

  

nicht kommerziell. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommercialuncay

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thương mại ngược với nguyên tắc thương mại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Uncommercial

Derivations

Words beginning with "uncommercial": uncommercialized. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Uncommercial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-m-m-n-o-r-u"

-1 letter: macronuclei.

-2 letters: commercial.

-3 letters: numerical.

-4 letters: acrolein, amelcorn, camomile, caruncle, clammier, cocinera, colinear, columnar, communal, coremium, cornicle, cornmeal, coumaric, coumarin, encomium, manicure, meconium, memorial.

-5 letters: acronic, aileron, aleuron, alienor, almoner, alumine, ammonic, auricle, calcine, calcium, caloric, calorie, cariole, carline, carmine, cauline, ceramic, claimer, clammer, clamour, clarion, coalier, cocaine, coeliac, coenuri, comical, commune, conceal, conical, coracle.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-m-m-n-o-r-u"
 

+4 letters: uncommercialized.

 

+5 letters: countercommercial, macroglobulinemic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Uncommercial


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

55 6E 63 6F 6D 6D 65 72 63 69 61 6C

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)

01010101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#109 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0063 006F 006D 006D 0065 0072 0063 0069 0061 006C

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

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

558069817979718469756778

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Uncommercial"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, bulgare, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionгермански, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchвиетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, englisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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