Never-say-die

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Never-say-die

Definition: Never-say-die

Never-say-die

Adjective

1. Impossible to subdue.

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

Synonyms: Never-say-die

Synonyms: indomitable (adj), unsubduable (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Never-say-die

"Never-say-die" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Never-say-die" 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.

Top     

Expression: Never-say-die

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "never-say-die": never-say-die-ishness.

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

Top     

Modern Translations: Never-say-die

Language Translations for "never-say-die"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

从未说去世. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

결" 말하 죽으십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ever-say-dienay

   

Swedish

  

uthållig (longwinded, never say die, persevering). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Never-say-die

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-n-r-s-v-y"

-2 letters: deaneries, reinvades, vineyards.

-3 letters: arsenide, invaders, nearside, nereides, redenies, reinvade, serenade, veneries, vineyard, yearends.

-4 letters: adverse, advisee, adviser, aniseed, deanery, dearies, deniers, derives, deserve, deveins, devisee, deviser, diverse, endears, endives, enviers, eserine, evaders, eveners, invader, invades, inverse, needers, needier, nereids, randies, ravened, ravined, ravines, readies, redeyes, resined, revised, sandier, sardine, seedier, severed, sneered, veeries, veiners, vendees, venders, veneers, venires, verdins, versine, yearend, yearned.

-5 letters: advise, aedine, aeried, aeries, aiders, aivers, arisen, arsine, averse, davens, davies, deairs, dearie, deaves, denari, denars, denary, denier, denies, denser, derays, derive, desire, devein, devise, dienes, dinars, diners, divans, divers, drains, driven, drives, earned, easier, eiders, endear, enders, endive, envied, envier, envies, erased, evader, evades, evened, evener, eyries, invade, invars, irades, nadirs, naiver, naives, navies, neared, needer, nereid, nereis, nerved, nerves, nieves, rained, raised, ranees, ranids, ravens, ravine, ravins, reaved, reaves, redans, redeny, redeye, rediae, redias, redyes, reeved, reeves, reined, reived, reives, resaid, reseda, reseed, reseen, resend, reside, resiny, revise, rinsed, sained, sander, savine, seared, seeder, seined, seiner, senary, sender, serein, serene, serine, served, severe, sieved, snared, snider, vainer, varied, varies, veenas, veered, veined, veiner, vendee, vender, veneer, venery, venire, verdin, versed, viands, vinery, visaed, visard, viseed, yairds, yarned, yeaned, yearns.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Never-say-die


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

4E 65 76 65 72 2D 73 61 79 2D 64 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110011 01100001 01111001 00101101 01100100 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#45 &#115 &#97 &#121 &#45 &#100 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0076 0065 0072 002D 0073 0061 0079 002D 0064 0069 0065

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

48718871841585679115707571

Top     

 

INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.