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PREMIER PAS

Specialty Definition: PREMIER PAS

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Literature

Premier Pas Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte. Pythagoras used to say, "The beginning is half the whole."
"Incipe Dimidium facti est coepisse."- Ausonius,
"Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet."- Horace.
"Well begun is half done."
The reverse of these proverbs is: "Cest le plus difficile que d'écorcher la queue." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: PREMIER PAS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beginning

Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PREMIER PAS

Specialty definitions using "PREMIER PAS": Well Begun is Half Done. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PREMIER PAS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (first step).

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Modern Usage: PREMIER PAS

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Premier pas (1979)

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

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Anagrams: PREMIER PAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-p-p-r-r-s"

-1 letter: pamperers.

-2 letters: appriser, pamperer, paperers, perspire, premiers, prepares, repapers, simperer, smearier.

-3 letters: amperes, aperies, apprise, aspirer, empires, emprise, epimers, impresa, imprese, mappers, marries, pampers, paperer, parries, perries, praiser, preamps, prearms, premier, premies, premise, prepare, primers, prisere, rapiers, rappees, rappers, raspier, reamers, reapers, repairs, repaper, reprise, reraise, respire, rippers, ripraps, sappier, seamier, seriema, smearer.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-p-p-r-r-s"
 

+3 letters: preamplifiers.

 

+4 letters: hypermetropias.

 

+5 letters: mercaptopurines.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PREMIER PAS


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

50 52 45 4D 49 45 52      50 41 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010000 01010010 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010000 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#80 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 004D 0049 0045 0052      0050 0041 0053

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

505239474339522503553

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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