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SIL

Date "SIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

"SIL" is a common misspelling or typo for: sail, silk, sill, silo, silt, soil, sol.


Specialty Definition: SIL

DomainDefinition

Computing

SIL 1. "SIL - A Simulation Language", N. Houbak, LNCS 426, Springer 1990. 2. SNOBOL Implementation Language. Intermediate language forming a virtual machine for the implementation of portable interpreters. ["The Design of Transportable Interpreters", F. Druseikis, SNOBOL4 Project Document S4D49, U Arizona (Feb 1975)]. Version 3.11. (ftp://cs.arizona.edu/snobol4/). E-mail: . (1986-07-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Health

The arithmetical average of the octave band sound pressure levels of a noise, centered on the frequencies 425, 850 and 1700 Hz together with the frequency 212 of the SIL in this band exceeds the others by 10 dB or more. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: SIL

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SIL

EnglishSpecific investment loanFinance

SIL

FrenchSystème d'information localeComputing

SIL

GermanSprachstörpegelMedicine, Physics

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

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Crosswords: SIL

English words defined with "SIL": Almagra. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SIL": speech interference level, squamous intraepithelial lesion, String Oriented Symbolic LanguageTLAs. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SIL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Faeroese (roe), Scottish (distil, drop, rain), Swedish (filter, fix, hit, sieve, strainer), Turkish (dele), Turkmen (flood), Welsh (fry, spawn).

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Modern Usage: SIL

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hey, Sil. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramn De Espaa)

Movie/TV Titles

Sil de strandjutter (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: SIL

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Improvised Suppressors:Secrets of Sil (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: SIL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Three-quarters of all grades of SIL will not progress. (references)

One-third of all grades of SIL will regress, whereas 41 percent persist and 25 percent progress. (references)

An unknown percentage of women infected with HPV will develop either low-grade SIL (LSIL) or high-grade SIL (HSIL). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SIL

"SIL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "SIL" is used about 9 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
Noun (singular)44.44%4175,879
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
Unclassified Items22.22%2245,945
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SIL

The following table summarizes the usage of "SIL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SilLast name10078,149
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: SIL

CountryName
South Korea

Shin Hwa Sil Up Co., Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: SIL

Expressions using "SIL": repondez sil vous plait rpondez sil vous plait sil atticum SIL pack. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SIL": Cap-sil.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sil

109

sil lum tao

4

eighty sil

15

eighty nissan sil

4

khannaz sil

14

sil species

4

80 sil

10

shelter sil

4

0680 sil

10

plait sil vous

4

motor sil

9

klinger sil

4

sil victoria

9

3112 sil

3

air sil

8

sil austin

3

cab o sil

7

hydro sil

3

choi jin sil

6

80 nissan sil

3

deacon sil

6

del sil valle

3

sil pad

6

3112a image sil silicon

3

lim sil tao

6

sil k

2

tye sil

5

air compressor sil

2

0680 driver sil

4

sil suffisait daimer

2

exhaust motor sil

4

international sil

2

ford sil terhar

4

sil ultra

2

grade low sil

4

ipa sil

2

fitness sil

4

0680 image sil silicon

2

sil terhar

4

alien sil species

2

med sil

4

bio sil

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SIL

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

Danish

  

single-in-line hus (SIL pack, single-in-line package), Sil-O-Cel (Sil-O-Cel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

single-in-line behuizing (SIL pack, single-in-line package), Sil-O-Cel (Sil-O-Cel). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Sil-O-Cel (Sil-O-Cel), yksirivinen kotelo (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

   

French

  

Sil-O-Cel (Sil-O-Cel), boîtier sorties alignées (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

   

German

  

Single-in-Line-Gehäuse (SIL pack, single-in-line package), Sil-O-Cel (Sil-O-Cel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκευασία με ακροδέκτες σε μια ευθεία (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

   

Italian

  

contenitore con adduttori su un lato (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilsay

   

Portuguese

  

involucro de terminais alinhados (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tierra diatomácea (Sil-O-Cel), tierra de diatomeas (diatomaceous earth, diatomite, fossil meal, infusorial earth, kieselguhr, moler earth, mountain meal, randanite, Sil-O-Cel, tellurine, tripoli-powder), paquete en línea simple (SIL pack, single-in-line package), kieselguhr (Sil-O-Cel), diatomita (diatomaceous earth, diatomite, fossil meal, infusorial earth, kieselguhr, moler earth, mountain meal, randanite, Sil-O-Cel, tellurine, tripoli-powder). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

single-in-line-kapsling (SIL pack, single-in-line package), SIL-kapsling (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SIL

Derivations

Words beginning with "SIL": silage, silages, silane, silanes, sild, silds, silence, silenced, silencer, silencers, silences, silencing, sileni, silent, silenter, silentest, silently, silentness, silentnesses, silents, silenus, silesia, silesias, silex, silexes, silhouette, silhouetted, silhouettes, silhouetting, silhouettist, silhouettists, silica, silicas, silicate, silicates, siliceous, silicic, silicide, silicides, silicification, silicifications, silicified, silicifies, silicify, silicifying, silicious, silicium, siliciums, silicle, silicles, silicon. (additional references)

Words ending with "SIL": basil, brasil, deasil, dossil, fossil, fusil, macrofossil, microfossil, nonfossil, pensil, subfossil, tahsil, tonsil, utensil. (additional references)

Words containing "SIL": aluminosilicate, aluminosilicates, antimissile, antimissiles, basilar, basilary, basilic, basilica, basilicae, basilican, basilicas, basilisk, basilisks, basils, blousily, blowsily, borosilicate, borosilicates, bossily, brasilin, brasilins, brasils, brassily, busily, cheesily, circumscissile, classily, clumsily, cosily, crusily, desilver, desilvered, desilvering, desilvers, disillusion, disillusioned, disillusioning, disillusionment, disillusionments, disillusions, doorsill, doorsills, dossils, dressily, drowsily, easily, ensilage, ensilaged, ensilages, ensilaging, ensile. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lis.

Words within the letters "i-l-s"

-1 letter: is, li, si.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-s"
 

+1 letter: ails, fils, ilks, ills, isle, leis, libs, lids, lies, lins, lips, lisp, list, lits, mils, nils, oils, sail, sial, sild, silk, sill, silo, silt, slid, slim, slip, slit, soil, soli, syli, tils.

 

+2 letters: aisle, alias, alifs, alist, anils, arils, axils, bails, basil, biles, bilks, bills, birls, blips, bliss, boils, ceils, clips, clits, coils, deils, delis, dials, dills, diols, dirls, evils, fails, files, fills, films, filos, flics, flies, flips, flits, foils, fusil, gilds, gills, gilts, girls, glias, glims, hails, heils, hills, hilts, hilus, idles, idols, idyls, iglus, ileus, isled, isles, islet, istle, jails, jills, jilts, kails, kills, kilns, kilos, kilts, laics, lairs, lapis, laris, lenis, lewis, lexis, liars, licks, lidos, liens, liers, lieus, lifts, likes, lilts, limas, limbs, limes, limns, limos, limps, lines, lings, links, linns, linos, lints, lions, liras, lisle, lisps, lists, litas, lives, loins, loris, louis, lweis, lysin, lysis, mails, miles, milks, mills, milos, milts, moils, nails, nills, noils, olios, pails, piles, pilis, pills, pilus, plies, polis, pulis, rails, rials, riels, riles, rills, roils, sails, salic, salmi, shiel, shill, shily, sials, sibyl, sidle, sigil, silds, silex, silks, silky, sills, silly, silos, silts, silty, silva, sisal, skill, skirl, slain, slice, slick, slide, slier, slily, slime, slims, slimy, sling, slink, slipe, slips, slipt, slits, sloid, smile, snail, soils, soldi, solei, solid, spail, speil, spiel, spile, spill, spilt, split, spoil, stile, still, stilt, styli, sulci, swail, swill, swirl, sylis, tails, tiles, tills, tilts, tirls, toils, vails, veils, vials, vills, viols, virls, wails, wilds, wiles, wills, wilts, yills, zills.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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