ist
/ɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.35 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A practitioner or supporter of an ism.
name
Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.
name
adj
Initialism of incompetent to stand trial.
adj
Abbreviation of first.
Example Sentences
- "Not the obsession with the isms and the ists of Balls, Miliband, Cooper and Alexander and their acolytes."
- "The reply from one large branch of the musculo-cutaneous in the forearm is abolished, but not the reply from the other. 3rd section, replies from musculo-cutaneous in forearm abolished; from Ist and IInd palmar and dorsal digitales collaterales reduced. 4th section, replies from Ist, IInd, and IIIrd collateral digitals, both dorsal and plantar, abolished; from the IVth, Vth, and VIth dorsal collaterals obviously diminished; from the IVth palmar collateral obviously diminished."
- "If each angle were multiplied by three, the eighteen entries of the 1ˢᵗ quadrant would be converted into three groups of six, lying in three quadrants, viz., Iˢᵗ, IIⁿᵈ, IIIʳᵈ;"
- "To the right or south of these was the First Army, under General Sir Douglas Haig—the Indian Corps about Festubert, and then in order the Ist and IVth Corps—a total of nine divisions, or approximately 180,000 men, the two armies thus extending from north of Ypres to north of Arras, and mustering together some 440,000 men."
- "(d) No. of ways of attempting Ist, IInd, IIIrd questions are 4 each."
- "13. Total number of ways of selecting four shoes (in order Ist, IInd, IIIrd, IVth) is 20 × 19 × 18 × 17"
Etymology
From the suffix -ist.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: I