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Definition: CAPTATION |
CAPTATIONNoun1. A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. |
Etymology: Captation \Cap*ta`tion\, noun. [Latin expression captatio, from captare to catch, intens. of caper to take: compare to the French expression captation.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flattery | Noun: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling;Verb: captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAPTATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kërkim të fitoj zemrën me lajka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | каптаж (catchment), демагогия (demagogy, tub-thumping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bedrog bij testamentaire beschikkingen (obtaining succession by insidious means). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | perinnön saaminen vilpillisin keinoin (obtaining succession by insidious means). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | captation d'héritage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erbschleicherei (obtaining succession by insidious means). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλοιαρχία (captaincy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fondorlatos megszegés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | captazione di eredit (obtaining succession by insidious means). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aptationcay captação de herança (obtaining succession by insidious means), captação (capture, catchment, poll, reception, recipiency). (various references) каптаж (catchment), заискивание. (various references) impuesto (cess, duty, exact, imposition, impost, inflicted, kept, laid, levy, lewd, self-imposed, tax, toll). (various references) lura till sig arv (obtaining succession by insidious means), fjäsk (bustle, flannels, fuss, hurry, servility). (various references) каптаж, підлещування (adulation, coaxing), підлабузництво (adulation, bag-play, subservience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "CAPTATION" (pronounced 'Cap*ta`tion'): Ablution, Aftersensation, Capitalization, Captivation, Carburization, Cross-question, Dynamization, Frigefaction, Fructuation, Fulguration, fulmination, Funambulation, Galvanization, Gubernation, insinuation, Penetration, Reforestization, strangulation, Subalternation, sublimation, Underaction, Underfaction. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-p-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antipot, captain, caption, paction, taction, tapioca. | |
-3 letters: action, anatto, anopia, atonic, atopic, attain, capita, captan, cation, catnap, catnip, intact, octant, patina, pinata, ptotic, taipan, tipcat. | |
-4 letters: actin, antic, apian, attic, canto, capon, coapt, coati, cotan, cotta, inapt, octan, ontic, optic, paint, panic, panto, patin, patio, piano, picot, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, tacit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: capitation, coaptation. | |
+2 letters: acceptation, anticipator, capitations, captivation, coaptations. | |
+3 letters: acceptations, anticipation, anticipators, anticipatory, capacitation, capitulation, captivations, coadaptation, decapitation, naturopathic, placentation. | |
+4 letters: anticipations, anticorporate, antipolitical, capacitations, capitulations, coadaptations, computational, decapitations, expectational, noncapitalist, pantisocratic, participation, placentations, procrastinate. | |
+5 letters: accountantship, antineoplastic, capitalization, incapacitation, noncapitalists, nonparticipant, pantisocratist, participations, plasticization, procrastinated, procrastinates, procrastinator, recapitulation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 50 54 41 54 49 4F 4E |
| 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 01000001 01010000 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A P T A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0050 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| 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)373550543554434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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