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Tsimshian

Definition: Tsimshian

Tsimshian

Noun

1. A member of a Penutian people who lived on rivers and a sound in British Columbia.

2. A Penutian language spoken by the Tsimshian people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Tsimshian

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tsimshian Narratives 2: Trade and Worker (Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series Directorate, Paper No 3) (reference)

  • Potlatch: A Tsimshian Celebration (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Tsimshian

"Tsimshian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tsimshian" is used about 3 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)100%3202,518

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

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Expression: Tsimshian

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Tsimshian": half-tsimshian.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tsimshian

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

tsimshian

16

art tsimshian

2

people tsimshian

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

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Anagrams: Tsimshian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: histamins, isthmians.

Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-s-s-t"

-1 letter: animists, histamin, isthmian, thiamins.

-2 letters: animist, intimas, isatins, mishits, saimins, santimi, santims, sashimi, shantis, simians, tahinis, thiamin.

-3 letters: animis, insist, intima, isatin, isthmi, maists, mantis, matins, minish, mishit, saimin, saints, satins, shanti, simian, smiths, snaths, stains, tahini.

-4 letters: amins, amiss, animi, antis, hants, hints, hists, intis, mains, maist, masts, maths, matin, minas, minis, mints.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: histamines, machinists.

 

+2 letters: histaminase, shamanistic, thiaminases.

 

+3 letters: almightiness, chrismations, harmonicists, histaminases, sympathising.

 

+4 letters: antihumanisms, helminthiases, helminthiasis, misanthropies, schismatizing.

 

+5 letters: almightinesses, antihistamines, antimechanists, blacksmithings, metaphysicians, trichomoniases, trichomoniasis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tsimshian


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 73 69 6D 73 68 69 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ...    ..    --    ...    ....    ..    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110011 01101001 01101101 01110011 01101000 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#115 &#105 &#109 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0073 0069 006D 0073 0068 0069 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548575798574756780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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