Polemicize

  

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Polemicize

Definition: Polemicize

Polemicize

Verb

1. Engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years".

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

"Polemicize" is a common misspelling or typo for: polemicist, politicize.


Synonyms: Polemicize

Synonyms: polemicise (v), polemize (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Polemicize

"Polemicize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Polemicize" is used about 2 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Polemicize

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

Farsi 

  

جدلی کردن . (various references)

   

German

  

polemisieren (engage in a controversy, polemize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olemicizepay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polemisati (wrangle), raspravljati (agitate, argue, debate, discuss, talk over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polemizar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Polemicize

Derivations

Words beginning with "polemicize": polemicized, polemicizes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Polemicize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-m-o-p-z"

-2 letters: polemize.

-3 letters: compile, epizoic, polemic.

-4 letters: cleome, compel, police.

-5 letters: celom, clepe, clime, clomp, cloze, cozie, elemi, elope, impel, melic, oleic, piece, pilei.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-m-o-p-z"
 

+1 letter: polemicized, polemicizes.

 

+4 letters: pinealectomize.

 

+5 letters: pinealectomized, pinealectomizes, splenectomizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Polemicize


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

50 6F 6C 65 6D 69 63 69 7A 65

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010000 01101111 01101100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100011 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006C 0065 006D 0069 0063 0069 007A 0065

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

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

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Polemicize"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongermanski, alemán

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanisch, španski, španski jezik, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés
 


INDEX

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


  

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