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Maxi

Definition: Maxi

Maxi

Adjective

1. (of women's clothing; often used in combination) with hemline at the ankle; "wanted a maxi-length coat"; "a maxidress".

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


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Maxi

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MAXI

EnglishMetropolitan Area communication system-integration phaseN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Antonyms: midi (adj), mini (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Maxi

Non-English Usage: "Maxi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (maxi), Hungarian (maxi), Romanian (maxi, maximum), Spanish (maxi).

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Modern Usage: Maxi

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Welcome to the maxi pad. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Helen Childress)

I'll get the um, um, um the cheeseburger Maxi Meal. (Ready to Rumble; writing credit: Steven Brill)

Movie/TV Titles

Bitte kommen Maxi (1990)

Joe and Maxi (1978)

Song Titles

Close To You (performing artist: Maxi Priest)

That Girl (performing artist: Maxi Priest featuring Shaggy)

Set The Night To Music (performing artist: Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest)

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

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Commercial Usage: Maxi

DomainTitle

References

  

Books

  • Aa Street by Street West Midlands Maxi (reference)

  • Maxi Scale Atlas of Britain (reference)

  • Maxi, the Hero (reference)

  • Maxi, the Star (Picture Puffins) (reference)

  • Most Work Measurement Systems: Basic Most, Mini Most, Maxi Most (Industrial Engineering Series, 16) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Maxi

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Ukraine

Other popular Ukrainian cash-and-carry chains are Fozzy, Rainford, Le Fourchette, and Maxi. (references)

Brazil

In 1999, after the January maxi currency devaluation, U.S. exports of fresh fruit to Brazil dropped significantly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Maxi

"Maxi" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Maxi" is used about 45 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
Noun (plural)40%1882,615
Noun (proper)33.33%1590,616
Noun (singular)17.78%8124,375
Adjective (general or positive)8.89%4175,879
                    Total100.00%45N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Maxi

The following table summarizes the usage of "maxi" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MaxiLast name10081,388
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Maxi

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "maxi": maxi-break, maxi-dowment, maxi-endowment, maxi-mum, maxi-prep, maxi-rater, maxi-read, maxi-sloops, maxi-yacht.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Maxi

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  maxi mound

669

  maxi reductor

13

  maxi

203

  maxi saver

13

  maxi priest

108

  gallery maxi mound

13

  maxi cosi

67

  maxi topheavy

13

  maxi pad

66

  maxi fuse

13

  maxi trim

59

  maxi gamer cougar

13

  puch maxi

53

  maxi scooter

13

  maxi tuning

33

  maxi gamer phoenix

12

  maxi sound muse

19

  car cosi maxi seat

12

  isis maxi studio

19

  maxi gamer

12

  maxi aids

19

  basketball maxi

12

  77 maxi

17

  maxi vision

11

  ica maxi

17

  maxi teen

11

  always maxi pad

17

  maxi tunning

11

  lyrics maxi priest

17

  maxi tit

10

  maxi mound pic

17

  maxi pad picture

10

  cie maxi

16

  magnet maxi plate power

10

  driver maxi muse sound

14

  maxi cosi priori

9

  maxi taxi

14

  free maxi mound pic

9

  maxi mound mpeg

13

  boob maxi

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Maxi

Language Translations for "maxi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sipër- (maxi-). (various references)

   

German

  

maxirock (maxiskirt), maximantel, maxikleid, maxi. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μάξι φόρεμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

maxi. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

マオリ族 (Macadam, macaroni, macaroni western, Macbeth, Machiavellism, macrame, macro, macrocosm, macroengineering, macrolens, macron, magazine, magazine rack, Maori, Maxell, maxim, maximum, McDonalds). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マキシ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aximay

   

Romanian

  

maxi (maximum). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

макси- (maxi-). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

maksi- (maxi-). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

maxifalda, maxi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

maxi- (maxi-). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maksi (maxi-), uzun etek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

макси. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Maxi

Derivations

Words beginning with "maxi": maxicoat, maxicoats, maxilla, maxillae, maxillaries, maxillary, maxillas, maxilliped, maxillipeds, maxillofacial, maxim, maxima, maximal, maximalist, maximalists, maximally, maximals, maximin, maximins, maximise, maximised, maximises, maximising, maximite, maximites, maximization, maximizations, maximize, maximized, maximizer, maximizers, maximizes, maximizing, maxims, maximum, maximums, maxis, maxixe, maxixes. (additional references)

Words containing "maxi": climaxing, premaxilla, premaxillae, premaxillaries, premaxillary, submaxillaries, submaxillary, submaximal. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Maxi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amoxil, axi, emaix, emax, Gmax, Haxhi, haxhiu, imaxe, jaix, laxi, Macii, madi, mafi, Maggsy, Magsi, magx, magz, mahi, maix, maji, maki, maksic, maoi, mari, masi, mati, maui, mauii, maux, mauxi, mavi, mawi, maxa, Maxat, maxe, maxee, maxen, Maxet, maxexp, maxey, maxez, maxia, maxie, maxif, maxil, maxint, maxit, maxix, maxs, maxy, mayi, mazi, meci, mexa, mexi, Mexx, mihi, miqi, mixa, mixo, mixy, moax, moix, moxa, moxi, moxxi, mrx, mxe, Mxu, mxxvi, mxxxi, mzx, naxe, naxi, nexi, paxi, saxi, umax, Xmai, xmax. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Maxi"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "maxi" (pronounced ma"ksē)
4-a" k s ētaxi, waxy.
3-k s ēapoplexy, boxy, doxie, doxy, epoxy, folksy, foxy, galaxy, heterodoxy, hydroxy, Moxie, Nixie, orthodoxy, oxy, pixie, proxy, sexy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Maxi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-m-x"

-1 letter: aim, ami, max, mix.

-2 letters: ai, am, ax, ma, mi, xi.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-x"
 

+1 letter: admix, axiom, maxim, maxis.

 

+2 letters: admixt, axioms, climax, mastix, matrix, maxima, maxims, maxixe, smilax.

 

+3 letters: admixed, admixes, chamoix, examine, exclaim, mailbox, maxilla, maximal, maximin, maximum, maxixes, minimax, mixable, taxemic, taximan, taximen, toxemia.

 

+4 letters: admixing, amphioxi, anoxemia, anoxemic, apomixes, apomixis, cacomixl, climaxed, climaxes, examined, examinee, examiner, examines, exclaims, exogamic, exonumia, hexamine, mastixes, matrixes, maxicoat, maxillae, maxillas, maximals, maximins, maximise, maximite, maximize, maximums, monaxial, panmixes, panmixia, panmixis, proximal, smilaxes, toxaemia, toxaemic, toxemias.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maxi


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

4D 61 78 69

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)

01001101 01100001 01111000 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#120 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0078 0069

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

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

47679075

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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