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SIGN-OFF

Specialty Definition: SIGN-OFF

DomainDefinition

Computing

The instruction which commences and terminates communication with the computer system and gives the user access to the terminal by typing in his identification number and the appropriate installation-defined password. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: SIGN-OFF

"SIGN-OFF" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "SIGN-OFF" is used about 7 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
Adjective (general or positive)85.71%6143,867
Noun (singular)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Modern Translation: SIGN-OFF

Language Translations for "SIGN-OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

Sign-on/Sign-off procedure (Sign-on). (various references)

   

French

  

procédure d'identification (Sign-on). (various references)

   

German

  

Sign-on/Sign-off-Verfahren (Sign-on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ign-offsay

   

Russian 

  

выход (egress, egression, emergence, escape, escapement, exit, issuance, issue, loose, orifice, out, outcome, outing, outlet, recourse, runout, safety valve, secession, signoff, turn out, walkout, way out, way-out, yield). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SIGN-OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goniffs, offings.

Words within the letters "f-f-g-i-n-o-s"

-1 letter: goniff, gonifs, offing.

-2 letters: finos, foins, gonif, infos, sniff.

-3 letters: figs, fino, fins, fogs, foin, fons, gins, info, ions, nogs, offs, sign, sing, snog, song.

-4 letters: fig, fin, fog, fon, gin, gos, iff, ifs, ins, ion, nog, nos, off, ons, sin, son.

-5 letters: go, if, in, is, no, of, on, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-g-i-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: griffons, scoffing.

 

+2 letters: offerings, offspring, shroffing.

 

+3 letters: offsetting, offsprings.

 

+4 letters: afforesting, forefingers, offscouring, scaffolding, suffocating.

 

+5 letters: crossruffing, efflorescing, offscourings, overstaffing, overstuffing, scaffoldings.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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