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Definitions: Send-off |
Send-offNoun1. An organized expression of goodwill at the start of a trip or new venture. 2. A start given to contestants; "I was there with my parents at the kickoff". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "send-off" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | An. . . organized demonstration of goodwill and enthusiasm for the beginning of a new venture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Send-offSynonyms: bon voyage (n), kickoff (n), start-off (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Send-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Send-off" is used about 40 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "send-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 送 (send, sending, sent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réunion d'adieu, fête d'adieu, cérémonie d'adieu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | búcsúztató, búcsú (departure, farewell, good bye, goodbye, kermis, leave, leave taking, parting, quietus, saint's-day), útnak indítás (flying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 送別 (farewell), 予饌会 (farewell meeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうべつ (farewell, generally), よせ"かい (farewell meeting, farewell party for graduates, primary caucus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보내십시" 떨어 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | end-offsay проводы (send off, sendoff, sendoffs). (various references) avskedstagande (leave taking, send off). (various references) การไปส่ง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) lễ tiễn đưa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: offends, sendoff. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: offend. | |
-2 letters: doffs, fends, feods, fonds, nodes, nosed, offed, sonde. | |
-3 letters: dens, does, doff, done, dons, dose, effs, ends, eons, feds, fend, fens, feod, foes, fond, fons, node, nods, noes, nose, odes, offs, ones, send, sned, sone. | |
-4 letters: den, doe, don, dos, eds, eff, efs, end, ens, eon, fed, fen, foe, fon, nod, nos. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: forfends, sendoffs. | |
+2 letters: forefends, offenders. | |
+4 letters: chiffonades. | |
+5 letters: disaffection, fanfaronades. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 64 2D 6F 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01100100 00101101 01101111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n d - o f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0064 002D 006F 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371807015817272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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