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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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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: |
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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SIL | English | Specific investment loan | Finance |
SIL | French | Système d'information locale | Computing |
SIL | German | Sprachstörpegel | Medicine, Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: SIL |
| English words defined with "SIL": Almagra. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SIL": speech interference level, squamous intraepithelial lesion, String Oriented Symbolic Language ♦ TLAs. (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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sil | Last name | 100 | 78,149 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| South Korea | Shin Hwa Sil Up Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 involucro de terminais alinhados (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references) 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) single-in-line-kapsling (SIL pack, single-in-line package), SIL-kapsling (SIL pack, single-in-line package). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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