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"CIEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sky". |
Date "CIEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"CIEL" is a common misspelling or typo for: ceil. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CIEL An object-oriented Prolog-like language. ["CIEL: Classes et Instances En Logique", M. Gandriau, Thesis ENSEEIHT (1988)]. (1995-01-25). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exertion | Phrase: aide-toi le ciel t'aidera;" and still be doing, never done"; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie;" it is better to wear out than to rust out"; labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit; manu forti; ora et labora. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CIEL |
| Specialty definitions using "CIEL": Aide toi et le Ciel taidera ♦ Bolt from the Blue ♦ Larks ♦ Marriages are Made in Heaven. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CIEL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (blue, canopy, good heavens, heaven, sky). |
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Lyrics | Dérangera ton ciel (Humana; performing artist: Fabian) Le ciel me promet, J'aimerai encore (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Dessous du ciel (1974) Le Ciel de lit (1974) Quand la liberté venait du ciel (1967) Les Chevaliers du ciel (1967) Le Ciel - la terre (1965) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Un missionnaire du moyen âge raconte qu'il avait trouvé le point où le ciel et la Terre se touchent ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Ce ciel est notre azur ce champ est notre terre! Cette Lorraine et cette Alsace, c'est á nous!" Victor Hugo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Ce ciel est notre azur ce champ est notre terre! Cette Lorraine et cette Alsace, c'est á nous!" Victor Hugo. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Ciel" by Myname Mylastname Commentary: "Nice isn t." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "CIEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "CIEL" is used about 10 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 (proper) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "CIEL": arc-en-ciel. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ceil, lice. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: cel, ice, lei, lie. | |
-2 letters: el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: ceils, celli, chiel, chile, clime, cline, ileac, melic, oleic, relic, slice, telic. | |
+2 letters: aculei, aecial, atelic, beylic, ceiled, ceiler, celiac, chicle, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chisel, cicale, cicely, cilice, cineol, circle, citole, cleric, clerid, clevis, cliche, client, climes, clines, clique, clypei, coiled, coiler, colies, collie, coolie, decile, delict, deltic, docile, eclair, elicit, enolic, epical, exilic, facile, fecial, fickle, heliac, icicle, inlace, lacier, lectin, lentic, leucin, lexica, lichee, lichen, liches, licked, licker, luckie, luetic, malice, micell, mickle, nicely, nickel, nickle, nuclei, ocelli, pelvic, pencil, pickle, plaice, plicae, police, recoil, relics, relict, sickle, sliced, slicer, slices, sluice, splice, stelic, tickle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 45 4C |
| 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)01000011 01001001 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0045 004C |
| 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)37433946 |
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