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Definitions: Ostracise |
OstraciseVerb1. Expel from a community or group. 2. Avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: OstraciseSynonyms: ban (v), banish (v), blackball (v), cast out (v), ostracize (v), shun (v). (additional references) |
| "Ostracise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Ostracise" is used about 6 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ostracise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξοστρακίζω (ostracize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | dare l'ostracismo (ostracize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostraciseay изгонять (banish, eject, evict, exorcise, exorcize). (various references) เนรเทศ (exile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ostracise": ostracised, ostracises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: coarsest, coasters, crosstie, scariest, scariose. | |
-2 letters: actress, aorists, aristos, ascites, casters, castors, coaster, coaters, corsets, cosiest, costars, costers, cristae, ectasis, erotica, erotics, escorts, raciest, racists, recasts, rosiest, sacrist, satires, satoris, scoriae, scoters, scotias, sectors, sorites, sorties, stearic, stories, trioses. | |
-3 letters: across, actors, airest, aorist, aortic, ariose, arises, aristo, ascots, assert, assort, asters, caress. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: costmaries, ostracised, ostracises, ostracizes. | |
+2 letters: aerostatics, categorises, desiccators, escharotics, microstates. | |
+3 letters: atmospherics, cataphoresis, ceratopsians, choirmasters, clearstories, commiserates, conservatism, contrariness, creationisms, creationists, desecrations, intercostals, miscreations, overcastings, resuscitator, romanticises, spirochaetes, transections, varicosities. | |
+4 letters: anticonsumers, antirecession, archeologists, aristocracies, arthroscopies, atrociousness, bacteriolyses, bacteriolysis, bacteriostats, borosilicates, consecrations, conservations, conservatisms, conservatives, conservatizes, containerises, containerless, conversations, cosignatories, counterstains, customariness, ectoparasites, encrustations, eviscerations, fractiousness, gastrectomies, gastrocnemius, gastroscopies, gesticulators, inspectorates, masticatories, microcassette, myocarditises, nonresistance, obstetricians, perissodactyl, personalistic, pictorialness, radiochemists, reescalations, resuscitation, resuscitators, sacerdotalism, sacerdotalist, scatterations, secobarbitals, spectatorship, stratocracies, stratospheric, subcategories, subcontraries, supercautious, transfections, triceratopses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 73 74 72 61 63 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ... - .-. .- -.-. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O s t r a c i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0073 0074 0072 0061 0063 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498586846769758571 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, греческий, грек |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Ρώσος, russo, русский, ชาวรัสเซีย |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, английский, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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