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Unpublishable

Definition: Unpublishable

Unpublishable

Adjective

1. Not suitable for publication.

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

Date "unpublishable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references)


Antonym: publishable (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Unpublishable

DomainTitle

Books

  • This Book is Unpublishable! Rejected Writers -- Alcott to Zane Grey (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unpublishable

"Unpublishable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpublishable" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translation: Unpublishable

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

Turkish

  

yayınlanamaz, basılamaz (unprintable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unpublishable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-h-i-l-l-n-p-s-u-u"

-2 letters: publishable, unplausible.

-3 letters: punishable.

-4 letters: plausible, subalpine.

-5 letters: biplanes, bubaline, bullpens, lapsible, lupulins, nauplius, pinballs, pushball, sillabub, spinulae, splenial, subpanel, unusable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unpublishable


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

55 6E 70 75 62 6C 69 73 68 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 01110000 01110101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#117 &#98 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0075 0062 006C 0069 0073 0068 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)

55808287687875857467687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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