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Definition: SIOUX |
SIOUXNoun sing. & plural1. See Dakotas. |
Date "SIOUX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
| 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 |
SIOUX | English | Sequential and Iterative Operation Unit X groups | N/A |
| SIOUX System | English | Sequential and Iterative Operation Unit X groups | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: SIOUX |
| English words defined with "SIOUX": Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Black Hills ♦ Crazy Horse, Custer, Custer's Last Stand ♦ Dakota, Dakotas ♦ Eastern Sioux ♦ George Armstrong Custer, Gros Ventre ♦ Hidatsa ♦ Little Bighorn ♦ Osages, Ostic ♦ Santee, Santee Dakota, Santee Sioux, Santees, Siouan, Siouan language, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Sitting Bull ♦ Tashunca-Uitco. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SIOUX": American Indian tribe/Selected American Indian categories ♦ Gateway 2000 ♦ Sioux Falls jasper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SIOUX" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Sioux), German (sioux). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sioux Nation (1970) The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) Sioux Me (1965) Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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![]() | Mud, rather than water, fills a watershed dam in the Little Sioux Watershed and Flood Prevention project in northwest Iowa. Many of Iowa's older watershed dams are filling with sediment and threatening their capacity to slow floodwaters. Credit: Tim McCabe. | ![]() | NRCS conservationists working with a landowner in eastern South Dakota. The ridge overlooks the Big Sioux River bottomlands. Credit: Don Poggensee. |
![]() | Northeast perspective. Photograph by John A. Bryan, July 1952. (Reproduction Number: HABS SD,1-PIER.V,1A-1) The old wagon wheel rims and wire resting against the wall of this run-down blacksmith shop were but a few of the items made or repaired for the United States Army garrison at Fort Bennett. The U.S. government established the fort on the outskirts of the Great Sioux Nation [Indian] Reservation in 1870 in order to provide protection to the personnel overseeing and implementing governmental policies following the Red Cloud War. Built in 1880, the sod-covered shop is Fort Bennett's only surviving structure. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces. Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D. : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Femme Sioux accroupie / [G. Devy]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Judith leaped from the saddle and running before Sioux, seized his horns and threw himself across his face. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Joseph Bird Head, Lakota or Sioux, full-length portrait, seated on blanket holding handcrafted club, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | U.S. commissioners and delegations of Sioux chiefs visiting Washington, October 13, 1888. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Sioux Indians in civic & industrial parade, Detroit bi-centenary celebration. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | New storage dugout built by rehabilitation client. Old one in foreground. Sioux County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Sioux Proverb | Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "SIOUX" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 83.72% of the time. "SIOUX" is used about 43 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 (common) | 83.72% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.28% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SIOUX": eastern Sioux ♦ Little Sioux ♦ North Sioux City ♦ Portage Des Sioux ♦ Santee Sioux ♦ Sioux Center ♦ sioux City ♦ Sioux County ♦ sioux Falls ♦ Sioux Rapids ♦ sioux State ♦ South Sioux City. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
sioux falls south dakota | 2,096 | sioux falls newspaper | 61 |
sioux city ia | 1,169 | sioux falls job | 57 |
sioux city journal | 647 | north sioux city sd | 57 |
sioux falls | 539 | sioux falls real estate | 57 |
sioux | 270 | south sioux city ne | 50 |
sioux city | 248 | sioux tool | 49 |
argus leader sioux falls | 225 | air falls show sioux | 47 |
sioux city iowa | 207 | lakota sioux | 46 |
hospital sioux valley | 193 | falls ford sioux | 44 |
sioux indian | 189 | sioux valley | 42 |
sioux falls humane society | 133 | sioux tribe | 38 |
canada lookout sioux | 130 | sioux falls weather | 37 |
university of sioux falls | 109 | contact lookout sioux | 36 |
hospital marketing sioux valley | 100 | falls movie sioux | 36 |
sioux falls canary | 93 | sioux empire fair | 35 |
sioux center iowa | 89 | sioux narrow | 34 |
sioux lookout | 81 | sioux falls arena | 34 |
district falls school sioux | 78 | sioux falls airport | 34 |
sioux falls hotel | 73 | city of sioux falls | 33 |
sioux city explorer | 62 | hotel sioux city | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SIOUX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сиукски език, сиукски, сиукс. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Sioux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | dakoto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sioux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수 족의 사람. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iouxsay сиу. (various references) siux. (various references) ชาวอินเ"ียนแ"ง. (various references) siyu kabilesi, siyu, kuzey amerika kızılderilisi. (various references) сіу. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SIOUX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isou, Niaux, Nieux, Rieux, Sarouks, Seydoux, siox, siux, soiux, Sonolux, soux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-s-u-x" | |
-2 letters: six, sou, sox, xis. | |
-3 letters: is, os, ox, si, so, us, xi, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-s-u-x" | |
+2 letters: anxious, noxious. | |
+3 letters: exiguous, eximious, fluxions, poxvirus, quixotes, suboxide, uxorious. | |
+4 letters: amphioxus, anxiously, equinoxes, exclusion, excursion, exordiums, expulsion, extrusion, luxations, luxurious, myxovirus, noxiously, obnoxious, outjinxes, quixotism, suboxides, sulfoxide, vexatious. | |
+5 letters: autosexing, effluxions, exclusions, excursions, executions, exhaustion, exiguously, expulsions, exsolution, extrusions, exudations, microluxes, oxyuriases, oxyuriasis, poxviruses, quixotisms, quixotries, saxicolous, sulfoxides, superoxide, uxoricides, uxoriously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4F 55 58 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. --- ..- -..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I O U X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 004F 0055 0058 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5343495558 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, 불가리아, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holländisch, 네덜란", голландский, holandés, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | есперанто, esperanton, эсперанто, esperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, Duitse, 독일, немецкий, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | корейски език, корейски, Koreaans, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский, coreano, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, 러시아, русский, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, Spaans, spanisch, 스페인, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thais, Thai, thailändisch, Thailänder, 타이 말, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, türkisch, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | украинец, украински език, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglan, englisch, 영국, английский, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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