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Definition: Urgent |
UrgentAdjective1. Compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "urgent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Urgent \Ur"gent\, adjective. [Latin expression urgens, present participle of urgere: compare to the French expression urgent. See Urge.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are supporting an urgent petition, is a sign that you will engage in some affair which will need fine financiering to carry it through successfully. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
URGENT | English | Urban Regeneration and the Environment | Environment |
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Synonym: UrgentSynonym: pressing (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Haste | In haste, in a hurry; Noun: in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent. |
Importance | Urgent, pressing, critical, instant. |
Request | Importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones. |
Requirement | Urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Urgent |
| English words defined with "urgent": appeal ♦ bring around, bring round ♦ come up ♦ demand, drumhead court-martial ♦ entreaty, exigency ♦ find, Flagitation ♦ get hold ♦ imperative, Importunee ♦ line up ♦ makeshift ♦ prayer, press, pressing, Pressive ♦ stopgap ♦ tenesmus ♦ urge incontinence, urgency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urgent": Abdomen, Acute, all ships call ♦ Deferred Air Freight ♦ fast ACCH, fast associated control channel, Food Security Wheat Reserve ♦ golf-course patroller, GOLF-COURSE RANGER ♦ hello all ships ♦ Latch ♦ navigational warning, notice to navigators ♦ Public health hazard categories ♦ radiological emergency. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "urgent": Pressive. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Urgent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (pressing, urgent, urgently), French (exigent, imperative, imperious, instant, pressing, urgent), Romanian (clamorous, early, emergent, exigent, fast, grave, immediate, immediately, imperious, importunate, instant, pressing, special, urgent). |
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Screenplays | I think it's urgent, Mr. Morolto (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) Ruth thinks it's urgent, Joey (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) What's the urgent urgency (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin) That is why I say, sir, there is urgent reason for us to reach Mars: to provide the resources the human race will need if they are to survive (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) | |
Lyrics | You say it's urgent (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) | |
Tongue Twisters | Urgent detergent! (references; author: unknown) | |
Song Titles | Urgent (performing artist: Foreigner) | |
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 | A flying doctor service brings urgent medical care to rural populations ... / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | In Dry Dock # 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway. USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is being salvaged in the left distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Cockpit of Amelia Earhart's plane showing the transmitter key from which she transmitted an urgent SOS. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Albion, New York (vicinity). So urgent was the need for immediate farm labor that even before the Friends had moved in, they were working in the fields of David Nesbitt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lone Ant" by Hubert H White Commentary: "In the everyday there are great obstacles, ask your local neighbour Ant. This one has lost his friends and looks to be far from home. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? —Martin Luther King, Jr." |
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 | Deliver; informative; important; urgent; immediate; hasty; notice; notification . |
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Milton Friedman | Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. |
Sir Henry Taylor | Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. |
St. Ambrose | No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Among these methods and principles, the following seem to the High Contracting Parties to be of special and urgent importance: First.The guiding principle above enunciated that labour should not be regarded merely as a commodity or article of commerce. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These words recalled Fauchelevent completely to the real state of affairs, which were urgent. |
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Health | Acute often means urgent. (references) | |
Curriculum development is urgent. (references) | ||
This makes the disease an urgent research priority. (references) | ||
Business | Urgent need exists for software to support this information technology revolution. (references) | |
One of ICASA’s most urgent tasks will be to establish quickly a framework for a competitive telecoms environment. (references) | ||
At the same time, there is an urgent need locally to re-equip the forestry and wood-processing sectors to meet this growing demand. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | There is an urgent need to develop world-class cold storage and handling infrastructure. (references) |
Australia | Air is used extensively for lighter cargo, small high-value items, and for urgent needs. (references) | |
Spain | In certain situations, urgent or emergency proceedings may be necessary and will follow different rules. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Many of the facilities were in urgent need of renovation and upgrading. (references) |
Taiwan | Police may question persons without a formal summons when circumstances are too urgent to report to a public prosecutor. (references) | |
Russia | Their limited efforts were due at least in part to lack of funding and to the leadership's preoccupation with urgent reorganization problems and the fighting in Chechnya. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | The country evaluation reports issued by the European Commission and the European Parliament both emphasized the pressing and urgent character of the Roma problem. (references) |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | The Government announced that it intended such initial payments to be provisional funds for Sahrawis with urgent medical or financial needs who had appealed for compensation by December 31, 1999, and that more compensation could be distributed pending the results of the Commission's review of petitions by Sahrawi claimants. (references) |
COLOMBIA | The ILO documented more than 300 murders of trade union members during 1995-98. In June 2000, the ILO governing body adopted the conclusions of a November 1999 Direct Contact Mission, which recommended an urgent inquiry into the participation of public officials in the creation of paramilitary groups, an increase in government budgetary allocations to protect trade union officials, and an increase in efforts to combat impunity. (references) | |
Trade | Chile | These new measures are still in the approval process in the congress with the urgent status (Fast Track). (references) |
Ukraine | The project aims at developing capacities at the local government levels (municipalities) to better manage and deliver of urgent infrastructure rehabilitation activities in a cost-effective manner, taking into account priorities as defined by the municipalities themselves in their municipal development plans; improving municipal authorities capacities to better financial management. (references) | |
Ukraine | Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | U.S. Embassy staff who need urgent medical care generally visit the ABC Hospital, tel: 5230-8000; emergency ward 5230-8161-4. Other good private hospitals and clinics located around the city include the Angeles Group (various locations); Medica Sur (south Mexico City), and Clinica Londres (central). (references) |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | The committee could not respond to urgent calls from the countryside because it did not have transportation. (references) |
India | In February 2000, CEDAW noted that "there is an urgent need to introduce comprehensive [legislative] reform to promote equality and the human rights of women." Prostitution is common, with an estimated 2.3 million prostitutes in the country, some 575,000 of whom are children. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Colombia | In response, the ILO committee on free association recommended an urgent inquiry into the participation of public officials in the creation of self-defense or paramilitary groups, an increase in government budgetary allocations to protect trade union officials, and an increase in efforts to combat impunity. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | But among the maxims of political economy which the stewards of the public moneys should never suffer without urgent necessity to be transcended is that of keeping the expenditures of the year within the limits of its receipts. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | A proper consideration for calamities and difficulties of this nature has made us less urgent and peremptory in our demands for justice than duty to our fellow citizens would under other circumstances have required. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to 'saving' the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to 'destroy' it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Some are more urgent than others, but all are necessary. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For the road has been long, the burden heavy, and the pace consistently urgent. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | If we postpone this urgent work now, it will simply have to be done later, and later we will pay a much higher price. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | There are times of emergency, when a nation and its leaders must bring their energies to bear on a single urgent task. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Today, we turn to the urgent duty of protecting other lives, without illusion and without fear. |
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| "Urgent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Urgent" is used about 2,158 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% | 2,158 | 4,046 |
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Expressions using "urgent": be in urgent need of ♦ be urgent ♦ be urgent about smth. ♦ be urgent with smb. ♦ be urgent with smb. to ♦ it's urgent ♦ it's very urgent ♦ urgent matter ♦ urgent message ♦ urgent mining ♦ urgent need to empty the bowels ♦ without urgent reasons. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "urgent": urgent-rate. | |
Ending with "urgent": non-urgent. | |
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| Language | Translations for "urgent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | dringend (pressing). (various references) | |
Albanian | urgjent (clamant, exigent, express, imperative, instant, pressing), ngulmues (assiduous, insistent, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, plodder, urgency), kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, cussed, dogged, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, dogged, emphatic, exacting, insistent, lingering, patient, persevering, persistent, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming), i ngutshëm (clamant, fast, hurried, instant, pressing). (various references) | |
Arabic | كثير الإلحاح, ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, salt, stringent), مستعجل (accelerated, instant, pressing, quick, running, rushing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срочен (terminal), спешен (clamant, emergency, instant, necessitous, pressing, rush, speedy), неотложен (clamorous, exigent, immediate, instant, necessitous, pressing), настоятелен (high pressure, insistent), належащ (imperious, indispensable), много важен (all in all, grand, momentous), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, wing-footed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 迫切 (pressing). (various references) | |
Czech | spìšný (express), pilný (assiduous, diligent, industrious, sedulous, studious), palèivý (blazing, burning, pungent, torrid), nutný (essential, imperative, indispensable, inescapable, necessary, needful, perquisite, requisite), nezbytný (basic, essential, imperative, indispensable, inevitable, necessary, needful, vital), neodkladný, naléhavý (burning, dire, emergent, exhortative, exigent, immediate, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, of great importance, pressing, stringent), dùtklivý (emphatic, firm, forcible), bezodkladný (immediate), akutní (acute, immediate, imminent). (various references) | |
Danish | trængende (pressing). (various references) | |
Dutch | spoedeisend (pressing), dringend (emphatic, pressing), brandend (ablaze, afire, burning, pressing). (various references) | |
Esperanto | urĝa (pressing). (various references) | |
Farsi | فوری (Immediate, Posthaste, Spontaneous, Spot, Sudden), مبرم (Demanding, Imperious, Sore), ضروری (Immediate, Imperative, Indispensable, Must, Necessary, Needful, Obligate), اصرارکننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | kiireellinen (hasty, pressing, prompt, speedy). (various references) | |
French | urgent, instant. (various references) | |
German | vordringlich (pressing), dringend (a matter of urgency, badly, compelling, compellingly, crying, desperately, exigent, imperative, imperatively, pressing, sorely, strenuous, strong, urgently). (various references) | |
Greek | επείγων (exigent, instant, pressing, strenuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דחוף (express, imperious, instant, pressing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sürgetõ (clamant, imperious), sürgõs (exigent, express, hurry up, pressing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | urgen, mendesak (adjure, badger, exhort, shove, supplant, urge). (various references) | |
Italian | urgente (instant, pressing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 緊急 (emergency, pressing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おおいそぎ (pressing), しきゅう (a walk, allowance, base on balls, Emperor's coffin, four balls, hit a batter by pitching a ball, payment, pressing, uterus, womb), そうきゅう (throwing a ball), きっきん (urgency, very important), きゅうはくした (imminent, pressing), きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, wage), きんきゅう (emergency, pressing), きんせつ (adjacent, adjoin, neighboring, pressing), きんよう (exigent, Friday, important, momentous, vital), さっきゅう (retroactivity, tracing back), せつじつ (acute, compelling, earnest, pressing, serious, severe), せっぱくした (imminent, pressing), いそぎ (hasty), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, verbal pause, version, weather), とうめん (east face, east side, facing the east, impending, pressing, the east). (various references) | |
Korean | 긴급한 (imperative). (various references) | |
Norwegian | inntrengende (pressing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enturgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | urgente (burning, clamant, exigent, immediate, imperious, pressing, urgently). (various references) | |
Romanian | urgent (clamorous, early, emergent, exigent, fast, grave, immediate, immediately, imperious, importunate, instant, pressing, special), stringent (acute, acutely, stringent, urgently), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, zealous), presant (importunate, pressing), perseverent (abiding, dogged, patient, persevering, perseveringly, seductive, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, unwearied), insistent (adhesive, assertive, assiduous, clamant, importunate, insistent, insistently, instant, pressing, pushing, urgently), imperios (imperative, imperious, indispensable, urgently), imediat (anon, at once, before you could say jack robinson, directly, eftsoons, forthright, forthwith, immediate, immediately, in a trice, instanter, instantly, now, on short notice, on the instant, on the spot, out of hand, Pat, present, presently, prompt, quick as flash, right away, slick, soon, speak away, straight, straight away, this instant), grabnic (early, flying, hurried, sudden, unexpected, urgently), de urgenţã, arzãtor (ardent, ardently, burner, burning, fiery, hot, hot-blooded, intense, passionately, scorching, sultry, topical). (various references) | |
Russian | срочный (express, immediate, rash, time-bound), экстренный (special), крайне необходимый (imperative), неотложный (clamorous, pressing), насущный (pressing), настойчивый (emphatic, importunate, insistent, obstinate, unwearying). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hitan (emergency, exigent, express, fleet, hasty, imperative, must, pressing, rush), gorući (ablaze, blazing, burning, hot). (various references) | |
Spanish | urgente (express, immediate, imperative, pressing). (various references) | |
Swedish | brådskande (hurried, pressing), angelägen (anxious, eager, important, keen, pressing, solicitous). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable), kaçınılmaz (fatal, fated, fateful, imperious, indispensable, ineluctable, inevitable, inextricable, irremissible, unavoidable), ivedi (burning, crying, hasty, hurry up, hustle, posting, pressing), acil (crying, direful, exigent, immediate, importunate, insistent, instant, pressing), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, whirl), acíl (pressing), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, weighty, worthy), ısrarlı (clamant, constant, insistent, persistent, pressing, steadfast), ısrarcı (insistent, one way, pertinacious, self-assertive). (various references) | |
Turkmen | yna, mцhletli (pressing), gyssagly (hurried), gaяragolulmasyz, derwaяys (important, vital). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | терміновий (rash), вкрай необхідний, наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, obstinate, patient, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | năn nỉ (suppliant, supplicatingly, supplicatory), khẩn cấp (exigent), gấp (hotfoot), cần kíp, cấp bách khẩn nài. (various references) | |
Welsh | taer (earnest, importunate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | instante, instantem, instantes, instantia, instantibus, instantis, necessaria, necessariae, necessarias, necessarii, necessariis, necessariora, necessarios, necessarium, necessarius. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | urgent. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | cogent. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de epekeinto fwnaiV megalaiV aitoumenoi auton staurwqhnai kai katiscuon ai fwnai autwn kai twn arcierewn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At illi instabant vocibus magnis postulantes ut crucifigeretur et invalescebant voces eorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hig astodon and mycelre stefne bædon þæt he wære ahangen; and hyra stefna swiðredon: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei contynueden with greet voicis axynge, that he schulde be crucified; and the voicis of hem woxen stronge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they cryed with loude voyce and required that he myght be crucifyed. And the voyce of them and of the hye Prestes prevayled. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they were urgent with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voices of them, and of the chief priests prevailed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Apan misamot sila sa pagpangatarungan, nangayo nga nanagsinggit nga kinahanglan ilansang siya sa krus. Ug ang ilang mga tingog mipatigbabaw. |
| Croatian | Ali oni navaljivahu iza glasa ištuæi da se razapne. I vika im bivala sve jaèa. |
| Danish | Men de trængte på med stærke Råb og forlangte, at han skulde korsfæstes; og deres Råb fik Overhånd. |
| Dutch | Maar zij hielden aan met groot geroep, eisende, dat Hij zou gekruist worden; en hun en der overpriesteren geroep werd geweldiger. |
| Finnish | Mutta he ahdistivat häntä suurilla huudoilla, vaatien Jeesusta ristiinnaulittavaksi; ja heidän huutonsa pääsivät voitolle. |
| French | Mais ils insistèrent à grands cris, demandant qu`il fût crucifié. Et leurs cris l`emportèrent: |
| German | Aber sie lagen ihm an mit großem Geschrei und forderten, daß er gekreuzigt würde. Und ihr und der Hohenpriester Geschrei nahm überhand. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi mereka terus berteriak sekuat tenaga bahwa Yesus harus disalibkan. Dan akhirnya teriakan mereka berhasil. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi makin sangat mereka itu berkeras dengan nyaring suaranya meminta Ia disalibkan. Maka menanglah serunya itu. |
| Korean | 저 희 가 큰 소 리 로 재 촉 하 여 십 자 가 에 못 박 기 를 구 하 니 저 희 의 소 리 가 이 긴 지 라 |
| Maori | Otira nui atu o ratou reo ki te tohe, e tono ana kia ripekatia ia. A riro rawa i ta o ratou reo. |
| Norwegian | Men de trengte på med stort skrik og krevde at han skulde korsfestes; og deres skrik fikk overhånd. |
| Portuguese | Mas eles instavam com grandes brados, pedindo que fosse crucificado. E prevaleceram os seus clamores. |
| Rumanian | Dar ei strigau kn gura mare, wi cereau de zor sq fie rqstignit. Wi strigqtele lor wi ale preoyilor celor mai de seamq au biruit. |
| Russian | оП ПОЙ РТПДПМЦБМЙ У ЧЕМЙЛЙН ЛТЙЛПН ФТЕВПЧБФШ, ЮФПВЩ пО ВЩМ ТБУРСФ; Й РТЕЧПЪНПЗ ЛТЙЛ ЙИ Й РЕТЧПУЧСЭЕООЙЛПЧ. |
| Shuar | Tura niisha kakaram untsumainiak "Jesus mantamnati" tiarmiayi. Kame aencha tura Patri uuntrisha ti untsumaina ásarmatai ni wakeramuri tsankatnakarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Pero ellos insistían a grandes voces, pidiendo que fuese crucificado. Y sus voces prevalecieron. |
| Swahili | Lakini wao wakazidi kupiga kelele kwa nguvu sana, kwamba Yesu ni lazima asulubiwe. Mwishowe, sauti zao zikashinda. |
| Swedish | Men de lågo över honom med höga rop och begärde att han skulle låta korsfästa honom; och deras rop blevo honom övermäktiga. |
| Uma | Aga rahudukulei' lau-mi merapi' bona Yesus raparika'. Ka'omea-na medagi mpu'u-ramo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urgent": urgently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "urgent": assurgent, counterinsurgent, insurgent, nonurgent, resurgent, turgent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "urgent": counterinsurgents, insurgently, insurgents. (additional references) | |
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"Urgent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ergent, Gurgen, rugen, Uget, Umgeni, unrent, uren, urent, urgant, urgend, urrent, uxgent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urgent" (pronounced er"junt) |
| 5 | er" j u n t | convergent, detergent, divergent, emergent, insurgent, resurgent. |
| 4 | -j u n t | agent, argent, astringent, cogent, contingent, diligent, exigent, indigent, indulgent, intelligent, intransigent, negligent, pageant, pungent, reagent, Regent, sergeant, stringent, tangent. |
| 3 | -u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, convalescent, convenient, convent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indignant, indolent, inducement, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, integument, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gurnet. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: grunt, tuner. | |
-2 letters: gent, genu, grue, rent, rune, rung, runt, tern, true, trug, tune, tung, turn, urge. | |
-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, get, gnu, gun, gut, net, nut, reg, ret, rue, rug, run, rut, teg, ten, tug, tun, urn. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, nu, re, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gaunter, grunted, grunter, gruntle, grutten, gurnets, trudgen, trueing, turgent. | |
+2 letters: argentum, argument, burgonet, eructing, erupting, geniture, grunters, gruntled, gruntles, intrigue, outrange, refuting, reputing, restrung, retuning, runagate, sturgeon, trudgens, trudgeon, turgency, urgently, uttering. | |
+3 letters: argentums, argumenta, arguments, assurgent, augmenter, augmentor, burgonets, buttering, congruent, curetting, curveting, detouring, detruding, embruting, entourage, extruding, featuring, garniture, gauntries, genitures, gesturing, granulate, granulite, grungiest, guarantee, guttering, hungriest, insurgent, intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, lecturing, lustering, mustering, muttering, naughtier, negritude, neutering, nonurgent, outranged, outranges, permuting, puttering, rebutting, recutting, refulgent, relucting, repugnant, requiting, rerouting, resulting, resurgent, returning, reuniting, roqueting, runagates, russeting, signature, sturgeons, texturing, trudgeons, tuckering, undergirt, uptearing, venturing, vesturing, wuthering, youngster. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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