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PORTCRAYON

Definition: PORTCRAYON

PORTCRAYON

Noun

1. A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Portcrayon \Port`cray"on\, noun. [French expression porte-crayon; porter to carry crayon crayon.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: PORTCRAYON

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

Manx

  

glackeydane craaynyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortcrayonpay

   

Russian 

  

держатель для грифеля. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cán cắm bút chì (porte-crayon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PORTCRAYON"

Words rhyming with "PORTCRAYON" (pronounced 'Port`cray"on'): Agon, baron, Baton, Bion, Breton, Briton, Cambro-Briton, Caxon, Cion, Cyon, DRAGON, Flagon, Heron, imprison, Leon, melon, meson, Misreckon, Odeon, Orion, Outreckon, Overreckon, Padelion, pademelon, paeon, Pantheon, Pheon, Pinon, Raton, rayon, Reimprison, salmon, scion, Semi-Saxon, talon, Underreckon, Unprison, Ventrimeson, Weapon, xenon, Zion. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PORTCRAYON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-y"

-2 letters: cartoony, contrary, copatron, coronary, cryotron, octonary, pronator.

-3 letters: carport, carroty, carryon, cartoon, coranto, corpora, oratory, parroty, patroon, portray, proctor, pronota.

-4 letters: aroynt, arroyo, canopy, cantor, captor, carrot, carton, cartop, contra, corona, craton, crayon, croton, crypto, notary, orator, pantry, parrot, parton, patron, pronto, proton, racoon, rancor, raptor, ratoon, rotary, tarpon, torpor, trocar, tycoon.

-5 letters: acorn.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: contemporary, postcoronary.

 

+3 letters: chronotherapy.

 

+4 letters: contemporarily, cryoprotectant, uncontemporary.

 

+5 letters: crossopterygian, cryoprotectants, noncontemporary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PORTCRAYON


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

50 4F 52 54 43 52 41 59 4F 4E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000011 01010010 01000001 01011001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#89 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0052 0054 0043 0052 0041 0059 004F 004E

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

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

50495254375235594948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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