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Unidentifiable

Definition: Unidentifiable

Unidentifiable

Adjective

1. Impossible to identify.

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


Antonym: identifiable (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unidentifiable

Specialty definitions using "unidentifiable": FIELD INSPECTOR, DISEASE AND INSECT CONTROL. (references)

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Photo Album: Unidentifiable

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Unidentifiable image. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Unidentifiable

"Unidentifiable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unidentifiable" is used about 45 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)100%4550,900

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

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Modern Translation: Unidentifiable

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

Chinese 

  

不可能验明. (various references)

   

German

  

nicht identifizierbar. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meghatározhatatlan (elusive, indefinable, indeterminable, neutral, nondescript, undefinable, undeterminable), azonosíthatatlan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

identifiableunay

   

Russian 

  

неопределяемый. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oidentifierbar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unidentifiable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-n-t-u"

-2 letters: identifiable.

-3 letters: definientia, indefinable, infibulated, undefinable.

-4 letters: beautified, indefinite, infibulate, infinitude, undeniable, unfindable, uninflated.

-5 letters: beatified, butadiene, definable, inaudible, infantile, initialed, unifiable, untenable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unidentifiable


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

55 6E 69 64 65 6E 74 69 66 69 61 62 6C 65

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 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#100 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#102 &#105 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 0064 0065 006E 0074 0069 0066 0069 0061 0062 006C 0065

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

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

5580757071808675727567687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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