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Definitions: Relict |
RelictNoun1. An organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated. 2. Geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "relict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | A community or species which, through the operation of some compensatory or protective environmental feature(s)has survived some major change, e. g. climatic, land-use, that has altered the general vegetation of the surrounding territory. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Of any soil whose characteristics attest to its having developed at an earlier time and/or under different environmental conditions than those of to-day. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Pertaining to a mineral, structure, or feature of an earlier rock that has persisted in a later rock in spite of processes tending to destroy it.Also, such a mineral, structure, or other feature. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divorce | Widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Relict |
| Specialty definitions using "relict": armored relict ♦ blastogranitic, blastophitic, blastoporphyritic ♦ Glasgow Arms ♦ helicitic ♦ lavialite ♦ primary relict ♦ relict texture ♦ sedimentary relict, stable relict ♦ unstable relict. (references) |
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| "Relict" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Relict" is used about 17 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 88.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "relict": sedimentary relict. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "relict": relict-enriched. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
relict | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "relict"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | relikt, i ve (widow, wifeless), e ve (matron, widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أرملة (suttee, widow), شىء باق على حاله (relic), بقية معمرة من نبات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реликтен растителен вид, реликтен животински вид, вдовица (widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | relikt (relic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | relict (relic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reliktilaji, relikti (relic), jäännelaji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | relicte (relic), veuve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Witwe (dowager, widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάλοιπο (analyte, remainder, residue), παλαιοσόλ (relic), χήρα (dowager, widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | özvegy (dowager, suttee, widow), hátramaradott (survivor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | relitto (derelict, outcast, relic, shipwreck, wreck, wreckage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 遺存種 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いぞ"しゅ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben hreoghe (widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elictray relíquia (relic, survival). (various references) vãduvã (dowager, feme sole, widow), vãduv (widower, wifeless). (various references) реликтовый (connate), вдова (dowager, widow). (various references) udovac (widower), udova. (various references) relicto (relic), viuda (widow). (various references) relikt (relic). (various references) soyu tükenmekte olan canlı, dul kadın (feme sole, widow). (various references) реліктовий (connate), вдова (dowager). (various references) b quả phụ sinh vật cổ còn sót lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pignoris, pignus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | relicta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "relict": reliction, relictions, relicts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "relict": derelict. (additional references) | |
Words containing "relict": dereliction, derelictions, derelicts. (additional references) | |
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"Relict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: breslich, drelict, elict, Krilich, Ralik, redlist, reflict, relecte, Relekto, relick, relicks, relicta, relicti, relictum, relist, rellic, Relypck, repitch, rilit, rolic, rulit, rylic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: citer, liter, litre, recti, relic, relit, telic, tiler, trice. | |
-2 letters: ceil, celt, cire, cite, clit, etic, lice, lier, lire, lite, rice, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile, tire, tirl. | |
-3 letters: cel, ice, ire, lei, let, lie, lit, rec, rei, ret, tel, tic, tie, til. | |
-4 letters: el, er, et, it, li, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: article, circlet, recital, relicts, reticle, tickler, tiercel, trickle, utricle. | |
+2 letters: articled, articles, celerity, chlorite, circlets, clarinet, cloister, clothier, coistrel, costlier, cryolite, curliest, derelict, directly, eldritch, electric, elicitor, erectile, erotical, flichter, lacertid, leprotic, literacy, loricate, metrical, particle, perlitic, petrolic, prelatic, recitals, reticles, reticula, reticule, sclerite, sterical, stickler, strickle, tailrace, telluric, ticklers, tiercels, tractile, trickled, trickles, tricycle, triscele, utricles, vertical, verticil. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6C 69 63 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .. -.-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l i c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0069 0063 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527178756986 |
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