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Date "AINT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Crosswords: AINT |
| Non-English Usage: "AINT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (abbas). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well I guess we aint strangers anymore (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) There aint no way I'm going in there (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts) They talk to me, some times we stop and watch the sunset, and look at the birds fly. And sometimes we stop and watch the bird when there aint no birds (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;) Fifty of you are leaving on a mission. Twenty five of you aint coming back (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater.) Aint it (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos) | |
Lyrics | AND LET ME KNOW YOU AINT IN SOME HEAT (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) Aint got no job, but i stay shy (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) Aint no angel gonna greet me, (STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) But the party aint gonna stop (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) It aint where I been (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Movie/TV Titles | You Aint Nothing In This Town Without a Shopping Cart (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Aint science wonderful--This machine tells whether she loves you - better than the "daisy way". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Walking the bass" by Kate Wheeler Commentary: "This bass guitar is called "the bird". it came from a church in Atlanta GA and now lives in Sydney AU. aint it gorgeous!." |
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| "AINT" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "AINT" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AINT": acquaint, attaint, bepaint, complaint, constraint, countercomplaint, depaint, distraint, faint, greasepaint, impaint, mispaint, outpaint, paint, plaint, quaint, reacquaint, repaint, restraint, saint, taint, unconstraint, unrestraint. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AINT": acquaintance, acquaintances, acquaintanceship, acquaintanceships, acquainted, acquainting, acquaints, attainted, attainting, attaints, bepainted, bepainting, bepaints, brainteaser, brainteasers, certainties, certainty, complaints, constraints, countercomplaints, daintier, dainties, daintiest, daintily, daintiness, daintinesses, dainty, depainted, depainting, depaints, distraints, fainted, fainter, fainters, faintest, fainthearted, faintheartedly, faintheartedness, faintheartednesses, fainting, faintish, faintishness, faintishnesses, faintly, faintness, faintnesses, faints, greasepaints, housepainter, housepainters, impainted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anti, tain. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: ain, ait, ani, ant, nit, tan, tin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: actin, antic, antis, entia, faint, giant, inapt, matin, paint, patin, pinta, riant, saint, satin, stain, tains, taint, takin, tenia, tinea, titan, train, twain, witan. | |
+2 letters: acetin, acting, actins, action, anoint, antiar, antick, antics, anting, aroint, atonic, attain, atwain, auntie, bandit, bating, binate, bonita, canthi, cantic, cation, catkin, catlin, catnip, centai, dainty, dating, detain, eating, enatic, entail, etamin, faints, fating, gainst, gating, giants, gitano, gratin, hating, hatpin, incant, infant, ingate, inmate, innate, instal, instar, intact, intake, intima, isatin, kainit, kation, latino, lattin, litany, manito, manitu, mantic, mantid, mantis, martin, mating, matins, mattin, nastic, nation, native, nutria, obtain, paints, painty, pandit, pantie, patina, patine, patins, pinata, pineta, pintas, pitman, plaint, pliant, ptisan, qintar, quaint, quinta, ratine, rating, ration, ratlin, retain, retina, saints, sanity, santir, sating, satins, satiny, shanti, stains, strain, taenia, tahini, taints, taipan, taking, takins, talion, tamein, taming, tanist, tannic, tannin, tanuki, taping, taring, tawing, taxing, tenail, teniae, tenias, tincal, tineal, tineas, tinman, tisane, titans, titian, titman, trains, trinal, tunica, twains, vanity, zeatin. | |
| 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 49 4E 54 |
| 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 01001001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 004E 0054 |
| 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)35434854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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