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Definition: Apprehension |
ApprehensionNoun1. Fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension". 2. The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect". 3. Painful expectation. 4. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "apprehension" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Immigration | The arrest of a removable alien by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Each apprehension of the same alien in a fiscal year is counted separately. (references) |
Public Administration | A fearful perception of events and undue worry about the future. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ApprehensionSynonyms: apprehensiveness (n), arrest (n), catch (n), collar (n), discernment (n), dread (n), misgiving (n), pinch (n), savvy (n), taking into custody (n), understanding (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Danger | Apprehension. |
Fear | Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution). |
Idea | Noun: idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, gr/eidolon/gr, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception; image in the mind, regulative principle. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
Knowledge | Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics. |
Lawsuit | Apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment; (restraint). |
Taking | Noun: taking; Verb: reception; (taking in); deglutition; (taking food); appropriation, prehension, prensation; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension; abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal; abstraction, ademption; adrolepsy. |
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Crosswords: Apprehension |
| English words defined with "apprehension": afraid, alarm, Alarm post, anxiously, appal, appall, apprehensively, At gaze, auricular ♦ Bodily fear ♦ dismay ♦ Fat-brained, For fear ♦ gloom, gloominess ♦ horrify, hunted ♦ immediate apprehension, Inapprehension ♦ knowing ♦ Notionally ♦ Preapprehension ♦ Second intention, sinking, sinking feeling, somberness, suspense ♦ uneasily. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "apprehension": Anxiety Disorders ♦ BALLISTICS EXPERT, FORENSIC, Bed of Thorns, Berze-behandling ♦ firearms expert ♦ life ♦ mobile method ♦ police inspector, chief, proof in solemn form ♦ stationary method, superintendent, police ♦ Undress ♦ Violin ♦ WILDLIFE AGENT, REGIONAL, Wrath. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "apprehension": Preapprehension. (references) |
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Screenplays | The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved. (The Blues Brothers ; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis) I'm offering a 50,000 guineas reward for Barnaby's apprehension, dead or alive. (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Frank Butler; Nick Grinde) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC. |
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 | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Suspense; anxiety; apprehension; chiller; cliff-hanger; expectancy; expectation; grabber; hesitancy; hesitation; impatience; indecision; indecisiveness; insecurity; irresolution; page-turner; perplexity; potboiler; tension; thriller; uncertainty; tense; i. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | ||
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F. L. Lucan | The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | His father had no apprehension of it. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He stood nailed to his place by apprehension and stupor. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The first phase of apprehension is a bounding line drawn about the object to be apprehended. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | His apprehension was so clear, and his judgment so exact, that he made very wise reflections and observations upon all I said. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The AIDS epidemic has raised the level of apprehension regarding the transmission of infectious disease by transfusion. (references) | |
Children | Guatemala | On February 8, she proceeded with Barrientos's apprehension, but immediately after hearing his plea, approved that he be kept under house arrest and present himself every 15 days. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Djibouti | There were credible reports that the police targeted Ethiopian Pentecostal Christians living illegally in the country when conducting the apprehension and deportation of illegal aliens in December 2000. (references) |
Economic History | Kenya | However, the banking sector remained relatively stable in 2000 despite the apprehension that gripped the banking industry at the turn of the century due to the anticipated millennium bug problems. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The ZRP showed poor training in criminal apprehension and interrogation, and there were unconfirmed reports of human rights abuses by the CIO. (references) |
Nigeria | The police, military, and anticrime taskforce personnel committed numerous extrajudicial killings in the apprehension and detention of suspected criminals. (references) | |
Korea | In such emergency cases, judges must issue arrest warrants within 48 hours after apprehension, or, if a court is not located in the same county, within 72 hours. (references) | |
Political Economy | Tanzania | Police killed several persons, and members of the police regularly threatened, mistreated, or occasionally beat suspected criminals during and after their apprehension and interrogation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | Statistics for apprehension of traffickers are not available. (references) |
Slovenia | Victims usually are deported either immediately upon apprehension or following their testimony in court. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy. "Life's not worth living, and that's the truth," Carelessly caroled the golden youth. In manhood still he maintained that view And held it more strongly the older he grew. When kicked by a jackass at eighty-three, "Go fetch me a surgeon at once!" cried he. Han Soper |
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James Cameron | Not when you're doing it. I think there's a little apprehension before, you know, maybe the night before, when you get in the sub and they close the hatch. But from that moment on, it's all business. |
James Dobson | Well I have some apprehension about it. It all depends on how the legislation is written. If it begins to, you know, intrude on the practice of the faith, then I would be opposed to it. Certainly, Focus on the Family will not take any government money. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This measure having been resolved on, it was put in execution without waiting for the meeting of Congress, because the state of Europe created an apprehension of events that might have rendered our application ineffectual. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | The apprehension of dangers from extended territory, multiplied States, accumulated wealth, and augmented population has proved to be unfounded. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Until a way can be found to scale down the level of arms among the superpowers, mankind cannot view the future without fear and great apprehension. |
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| "Apprehension" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Apprehension" is used about 524 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) | 100% | 524 | 11,646 |
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Expressions using "apprehension": be under no apprehension ♦ immediate apprehension ♦ in apprehension of ♦ warrant of apprehension. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "apprehension": over-apprehension. | |
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| 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 |
apprehension bureau criminal | 59 |
apprehension bureau criminal minnesota | 29 |
apprehension | 25 |
apprehension fugitive unit | 17 |
apprehension communication | 11 |
apprehension bureau criminal mn | 5 |
apprehension by divine external eyes light uncreated visual | 5 |
apprehension simple | 3 |
apprehension criminal | 3 |
apprehension communication mccroskey | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "apprehension"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | arrestasie (arrest, detention), aanhouding (arrest, detention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të kuptuarit (comprehension), kapje (arrest, attachment, catch, catchment, clasp, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hitch, hold, holding, hook, hug, interception, jaw, prehension, purchase, recapture, seizing, snatch, uptake), frikë (affright, cowardice, dismay, doubt, dread, fear, fright, habdabs, jim-jams, phobia, scare, shake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فهم (accept, apprehend, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), خوف من شر مرتقب, خشية (fear), إعتقال (arrest, detention, hold, recapture, seizure, sneeze), إدراك (appreciation, cognizance, comprehension, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, sense, senses, sensibilities, sensibility, smart, understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | схващане (comprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, idea, kink, notion, opinion, outlook, perception, prehension, understanding, uptake, view), страх (alarm, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, horror, terror), умствени способности (ability, grey matter, intellect), разбиране (comprehension, conception, feeling, grasp, grip, hold, idea, knowing, opinion, perception, realization, taste, understanding, uptake), опасение (contemplation, fear, misgiving, qualm, uneasiness), мрачно предчуствие, задържане (arrest, detention, hold, impoundment, inhibition, keeping, lockup, retention), арестуване (arrest, attachment, charge, cop, custody, detention, lockup, pinch, seizure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 忧虑 (Anxieties, Anxiety, fraught, Worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strach (alarm, dread, dribbler, fear, fright, tremor), předtucha (anticipation, foreboding, hunch, prescience, presentiment), obava (fear, misgiving), chápání (comprehension, perception, prehension, understanding), úzkost (alarm, anguish, anxiety, care, distress, heartache, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forståelse (comprehension, intuition), begriben, ængstelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | arrestatie (arrest, detention), aanhouding (arrest, detention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aresto (arrest, detention), arestado (arrest, detention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ahdistus (agony, anxiety, difficulty in breathing, oppression, torment, vexation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arrestation, inquiétude, appréhension. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | arrestaasje (arrest, detention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Festnahme (arrest, detention), Auffassungsgabe (grasp, intelligence, understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύλληψη (arestment, arrest, capture, catch, conception, prehension, seizure), ανησυχία (anxiety, concern, concernment, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחשב" (conception, device, idea, mind, skill, think, thinking, thought), תפיס" (capture, cop, grasp, hold, occupation, outlook, perception, seizure, snatch), עציר" (halt, prevention, retention, stand, stop, stoppage), חשש (anxiety, fear, misgiving), "ב " (comprehension, insight, realization, savvy, understanding, wit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | letartóztatás (arrest, attach, custody, detention, detention awaiting trial, detention of suspicion, pulling, seizure), felfogás (approach, cognizance, comprehension, conception, penetration, perception, realization, sense, uptake), rossz előérzet (foreboding, misgiving, misgivings), félelem (affright, awe, dismay, dread, fear, funk, phobia, willies), elfogás (capture, intercept, interception, lock on, pick up), aggódás (anxiety, disquiet, distress, fear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penahanan, ketakutan (cower, dread, scare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arresto (arrest, capture, check, deadlock, detention, halt, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage), apprensione (anxiety, misgiving, qualm, suspense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 逮捕 (arrest, capture), 捕縛 (arrest, capture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎし" (chivalrous spirit, doubt, empress dowager's home, fear, loyal retainer, suspicion), ぎぐ (uneasiness), ぎく (burglar, customs, group, insurgent, manners, mark in dictionary indicating slang, mundane things, periodic table group, race, rebel, the laity, the world, thief, tribe, uneasiness, vulgarity, worldliness), たいほ (arrest, capture, degenerate, your personal name), ふあ"し" (anxiety, fear, insecurity, restlessness, suspense, uncertainty, uneasiness), のみ"み (understand, understanding), ほばく (arrest, capture), ゆうく (distress, dread, fear, sorrow, trouble), ちのめぐり (circulation of the blood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | twoaieaght (awareness, cautiousness, northerliness, wariness), toiggal (comprehend, construction, construe, figure; comprehension, realization, realize, understand), tayrtyn (apprehend, catch, field, seize), goaill (acceptance, affect, apprehend, arrest, assumption, assumption of office, bring off, capture, catch, contract, contract as disease, contraction, distrain, draw off, engage, expropriation, impound, preoccupation, reduce, seizure, take), glackey (adopt, adopt as report, buckle, catch, catch out, clutch, holdfast, input, reception, seize, shoot, shot, snatch), drogh-ourys (misgiving, qualm, qualmish), cur enney er (apprehend, identify, recognize), atchim (awe, dread, fear, fright, scare, terror). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apprehensionay apreensão (apprehensiveness, arrest, capture, creeps, misgiving, prehension, seizing, seizure, sense, sequestration). (various references) arestare (arrest, arresting, attachment, commitment, committal, confinement, round up, taking), aprehensiune, teamã (alarm, anxiety, awe, dread, fear, fright, nervousness, palpitation, panic, pusillanimity, terror), presimţire urâtã, opinie (feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, regard, sentiment, statement, thinking, view, voice), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), fricã (anguish, anxiety, fear, fright, funk, palpitation, pusillanimity, scare, yellow), concepţie (conception, idea, ideology, image, imagination, mind, notion, outlook, principle, realization, school, thinking, view), bãnuialã (anticipation, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, inkling, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise, suspicion), înţelegere (accommodation, accord, agreement, arrangement, compact, compliance, composition, comprehension, comprehensiveness, concert, concord, concordat, connivance, convention, covenant, goodwill, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowing, mindfulness, perception, prehension, realization, sympathy, understanding, unity). (various references) понимание (aprehension, comprehension, conception, digestion, grasp, insight, knowing, perception, reading, realization, savvy, understanding). (various references) shvatanje (comprehension, grasp, insight, understanding, uptake), razumevanje (cognizance, comprehension, intellection, savvy, understanding), pojam (concept, conception, idea, notion, term). (various references) detención (arrest, capture, detention, imprisonment, round up, seizure), arresto (arrest, detention, pickup), aprensión (apprehensiveness, fear, squeamishness), aprehensión. (various references) uppfattning (appreciation, comprehension, conception, contention, estimation, feeling, idea, mind, opinion, perception, understanding), farhåga (fear, misgiving, qualm), anhållande (arrest). (various references) ทำผิ"พลา"อย่างใหญ่หลวง (labour under a delusion, labour under mis apprehension, labour under misunderstanding). (various references) anlayış (cognizance, comprehension, discernment, horizon, intelligence, mentality, percipience, sagacity, savvy, sensibility, understanding), anlama (appreciation, comprehension, drift, fathom, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowledge, prehension, realization, sense, understanding, uptake), algı (feeling, perception, sensation, sense), tutuklama (arrest, arrestment, caption, cop, detention, duress, pinch), korku (affright, alarm, awe, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, gothic, horror, misgiving, phobia, scare, trepidation), kaygı (anxiety, care, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fear, fears, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, worry), kavrama (apperception, bite, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, conception, digestion, engaging, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, understanding, uptake), görüş (argument, aspect, case, concept, conviction, estimation, eye, feeling, genius, horizon, idea, interest, notion, opinion, optical, outlook, position, sentiments, sight, thought, view, vision, visual), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), düşünce (attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice). (various references) howatyr (anxiety, fear). (various references) страх (alarm, anxiety, boggle, dread, fear, fray, fright, horror), уявлення (conception, imagery, impression, notion), сприйнятливість (open mindedness, perceptivity, receptivity, recipience, recipiency, sensibility, susceptibility), ідея (idea, notion, tendence, tendency), розуміння (conception, consciousness, insight, knowing, knowledge, taste, understanding, uptake), чутт"ве сприймання, концепція (concept, conception), кмітливість (acumen, acuteness, aptitude, aptness, brightness, gumption, headpiece, intelligence, nimbleness, nous, pregnancy, prehension, quick wits, quickness, sagacity, savvy, sharpness, understanding), недобре передчуття, затримання (arrest, detention), арешт (arrest, commitment, custody), побоювання (anticipation, apprehensiveness, fear, misgiving, trembling). (various references) sự tiếp thu (intussusception), sự tóm lấy, sự sợ (fear), sự nắm lấy (catch, caught), sự lĩnh hội (comprehension, digestion), sự e sợ sự hiểu. (various references) ofn (dread, fear, terror), dirnadaeth (comprehension, discernment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kan. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sollicitudo. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apoyucontwn anqrwpwn apo fobou kai prosdokiaV twn epercomenwn th oikoumenh ai gar dunameiV twn ouranwn saleuqhsontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Arescentibus hominibus prae timore et expectatione quae supervenient universo orbi nam virtutes caelorum movebuntur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Bifigendum mannum. for ege and anbide þe eallum ymbehwyrfte to becumað; þonne beoð heofones myhta astyrede. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For men schulen wexe drye for drede and abidyng that schulen come to al the world; for vertues of heuenes schulen be mouyd. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And menes hertes shall fayle them for feare and for lokinge after thoose thinges which shall come on the erth. For the powers of heve shall move. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for apprehension of those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | ang mga tawo panguyapan sa kalisang ug sa pagpaabut sa mahitabo sa kalibutan; kay mangatay-og man unya ang mga gahum sa kalangitan. |
| Croatian | Izdisat æe ljudi od straha i išèekivanja onoga što prijeti svijetu. Doista, sile æe se nebeske poljuljati. |
| Danish | medens Mennesker forsmægte af Frygt og Forventning om de Ting, som komme over Jorderige; thi Himmelens Kræfter skulle rystes. |
| Dutch | En den mensen het hart zal bezwijken van vrees en verwachting der dingen, die het aardrijk zullen overkomen; want de krachten der hemelen zullen bewogen worden. |
| Finnish | Ja ihmiset menehtyvät peljätessään ja odottaessaan sitä, mikä maanpiiriä kohtaa; sillä taivaitten voimat järkkyvät. |
| French | les hommes rendant l`âme de terreur dans l`attente de ce qui surviendra pour la terre; car les puissances des cieux seront ébranlées. |
| German | und Menschen werden verschmachten vor Furcht und vor Warten der Dinge, die kommen sollen auf Erden; denn auch der Himmel Kräfte werden sich bewegen. |
| Haitian Creole | Gen moun k'ap mouri tèlman y'ap pè lè y'a chonje malè ki pral rive sou tout latè, paske pouvwa ki nan syèl yo va tranble. |
| Hungarian | Mikor az emberek elhalnak a félelem miatt és azoknak várása miatt, a mik e föld kerekségére következnek: mert az egek erõsségei megrendülnek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Manusia akan takut setengah mati menghadapi apa yang akan terjadi di seluruh dunia ini, sebab para penguasa angkasa raya akan menjadi kacau-balau. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang pun rebah mati kelak, sebab ketakutan dan sebab menantikan segala perkara yang akan berlaku ke atas bumi ini; karena segala kuat kuasa langit itu pun akan berguncang-gancing. |
| Latvian | Cilvçki bailçs sastings, gaidot, kas nâks pâr visu pasauli, jo debesu stiprumi sakustçsies. |
| Maori | Ka whiti nga tangata i te mataku, i te manawapa ki nga mea e puta mai ana ki te ao: e ngaueue hoki nga mea kaha o nga rangi. |
| Norwegian | mens mennesker faller i avmakt av redsel og gru for det som kommer over jorderike; for himmelens krefter skal rokkes. |
| Portuguese | os homens desfalecerão de terror, e pela expectação das coisas que sobrevirão ao mundo; porquanto os poderes do céu serão abalados. |
| Rumanian | oamenii kwi vor da sufletul de groazq, kn awteptarea lucrurilor cari se vor kntkmpla pe pqmknt; cqci puterile cerurilor vor fi clqtinate. |
| Shuar | Tura Túrunatin ana nuna Enentáimsar Mayái ashinkiartatui. Warí, nayaimpiniam kakaram ainia nusha peantrartatui. |
| Swahili | Watu watazirai kwa sababu ya uoga, wakitazamia mambo yatakayoupata ulimwengu; kwa maana nguvu za mbingu zitatikiswa. |
| Swedish | då nu människor uppgiva andan av förskräckelse och ängslan för det som skall övergå världen; ty himmelens makter skola bäva. |
| Uma | Ria mpai' tauna to mate ngkokore nakeni kawulunga-ra, mpohilo to jadi' hi humalili' dunia'. Apa' hawe'ea anu to mobaraka' hi langi' ralengo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "apprehension": apprehensions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "apprehension": misapprehension. (additional references) | |
Words containing "apprehension": misapprehensions. (additional references) | |
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"Apprehension" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apperhension, apprehemsion, apprehensio, apprehention, apprehesion, aprehension, prehension. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "apprehension" (pronounced a'pruhe"nshun) |
| 6 | -h e" n sh u n | comprehension, misapprehension. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u n | ascension, attention, condescension, contention, convention, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, invention, mention, pension, pretension, prevention, reinvention, retention, suspension, tension. |
| 4 | -n sh u n | expansion, mansion, overexpansion. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, composition, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: prehension. | |
-3 letters: earphones, hornpipes, pensioner, peperonis. | |
-4 letters: anserine, aphorise, earphone, enshrine, heparins, heroines, hornpipe, hosepipe, insphere, isoprene, naperies, nephrons, panniers, pensione, peperoni, personae, pharisee, pioneers, poperies, preshape, propanes, propenes, propense, prophase, propines, raisonne, saponine, sapphire, seraphin, snappier. | |
-5 letters: aperies, apposer, apprise, arenose, ensnare, epinaos, erasion, erepsin, happens, happier, harpies, harpins, henries, heparin, herniae, hernias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: apprehensions. | |
+3 letters: misapprehension. | |
+4 letters: misapprehensions. | |
+5 letters: pithecanthropines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 70 72 65 68 65 6E 73 69 6F 6E |
| 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)01000001 01110000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p p r e h e n s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0070 0072 0065 0068 0065 006E 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| 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)358282847174718085758180 |
