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Unrepaired

Definition: Unrepaired

Unrepaired

Adjective

1. Unserviceable because necessary repairs have not been made.

2. Not repaired.

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

Date "unrepaired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)


Synonym: Unrepaired

Synonym: in disrepair(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unrepaired

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Ecuador

Many roads and bridges that were damaged during the 1997-1998 El Nino weather phenomenon remain unrepaired, causing delays and detours. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unrepaired

"Unrepaired" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrepaired" is used about 10 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%10111,207

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

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Modern Translation: Unrepaired

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

German

  

nicht repariert. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neucharrit (unfixed, unfixed unrepaired), gyn karraghey (unfixed, unfixed unrepaired). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epairedunray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unrepaired

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-u"

-1 letter: unreadier.

-2 letters: panderer, rapiered, repaired, unpaired, unrepaid, unrepair, upreared.

-3 letters: dernier, drainer, nerdier, pardine, pardner, parried, perdure, perinea, randier, rapider, readier, repined, repiner, ripened, ripener, unaired, undrape, unriper, uranide.

-4 letters: aedine, aeried, aerier, arider, darner, dearer, dearie, denari, denier, diaper, draper, durian, durrie, earned, earner, endear, endure, enured, errand, eupnea, inured, neared, nearer, nereid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-u"
 

+3 letters: perpendicular, superordinate.

 

+4 letters: overpersuading, perpendiculars, superhardening.

 

+5 letters: daguerreotyping, perpendicularly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unrepaired


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

55 6E 72 65 70 61 69 72 65 64

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 01110010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#112 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0070 0061 0069 0072 0065 0064

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

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

55808471826775847170

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INDEX

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


  

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