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Definition: Do-or-die |
Do-or-dieAdjective1. Desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Do-or-dieSynonyms: desperate (adj), do-or-die(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Do-or-die |
| English words defined with "do-or-die": desperate. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | The world saw not only their special valor but their special style, their rambunctious, optimistic bravery, their do-or-die unity unhampered by class or race or region. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Do-or-die" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Do-or-die" is used about 12 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "do-or-die"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 正念 (critical moment, do-or-die situation), 決死 (do-or-die spirit, preparedness for death). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうね"ば (critical moment, do-or-die situation), けっし (do-or-die spirit, great man, hero, preparedness for death). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | o-or-dieday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: odored, oroide. | |
-2 letters: diode, dried, droid, odder, oorie, redid, rodeo. | |
-3 letters: dido, died, dire, dodo, doer, door, dore, eddo, ired, odor, ordo, redd, redo, ride, rode, rood. | |
-4 letters: did, die, doe, dor, ire, odd, ode, ore, red, rei, rid, rod, roe. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, er, id, od, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: odorized. | |
+2 letters: deodorize, disrooted. | |
+3 letters: deodorized, deodorizer, deodorizes, didgeridoo, didjeridoo, discolored, dishonored, radiosonde. | |
+4 letters: borohydride, coordinated, decolorized, dendrologic, deodorizers, deodorizing, didgeridoos, didjeridoos, radiosondes, widowerhood. | |
+5 letters: borohydrides, childproofed, codiscovered, dendrologies, dendrologist, discomforted, endoperoxide, foreordained, philodendron, timberdoodle, widowerhoods. | |
| 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)44 6F 2D 6F 72 2D 64 69 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 00101101 01101111 01110010 00101101 01100100 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o - o r - d i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 002D 006F 0072 002D 0064 0069 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388115818415707571 |
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