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Definitions: REDAN |
REDANNoun1. A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level. 2. A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy. |
Date "REDAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military | An earthwork having two faces that form an angle pointing toward the enemy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Redan, Georgia."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: REDAN |
| English words defined with "REDAN": Priestcap. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REDAN": Caponière. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "REDAN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (redan), Swedish (already, as early as, by now, even, yet). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Sebastopol with the Redan, Malakoff & Mamelon.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The interior of the Redan taken from its left face, looking towards the salient angle, looking south / / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The interior of the Redan taken from its left face, looking towards the salient angle, looking south / / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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1. Redan, GA (CDP, FIPS 63952) |
| Language | Translations for "REDAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fortinë tip pykë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | редан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γωνιώδεσ οχÏÏωμα (ravelin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogazás (cutting of teeth, dentation, serration, teething). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | redane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edanray obra de fortificação (lung), aberta na gola. (various references) redan. (various references) редан. (various references) uglasto utvrđenje. (various references) dış açı oluşturan iki siper. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "REDAN": redans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "REDAN": contredanse, contredanses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: denar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: dare, darn, dean, dear, earn, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, rend. | |
-2 letters: and, ane, are, den, ear, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed, en, er, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: ardent, bander, cedarn, craned, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, darken, darned, darnel, darner, denari, denars, denary, earned, endear, errand, gander, garden, harden, lander, nacred, narked, neared, pander, rained, ranged, ranked, ranted, redans, remand, repand, sander, snared, unread, wander, warden, warned, yarned, zander. | |
+2 letters: adorned, adorner, adrenal, amender, aneared, aneroid, angered, antired, aproned, araneid, ardency, asunder, banders, bandore, bartend, blander, brained, branded, brander, branned, broaden, cairned, candler, cranked, damners, dancers, danders, dandier, dandler, dangers, dangler, danseur, darkens, darnels, darners, daunder, daunter, deanery, denarii, deraign, derange, detrain, dextran, dragnet, drained, drainer, draymen, duramen, durance, endarch, endears, enraged, errands, franked, ganders, gardens, gnarled, gnarred, gradine, grained, grandee, grander, granted, grenade, groaned, handier, handler, hardens, herdman, inarmed, invader, knarred, kneader, ladrone, landers, landler, launder, learned, lurdane, madrone, mandrel, manured, maunder, meander, nakeder, nardine, natured, operand, padrone, panders, pandore, pardine, pardner, pranced, pranged, pranked, prawned, predawn, ranched, randier, randies, rankled, ravened, ravined, reading, readorn, recaned, redrawn, reedman, remands, renamed, reynard, rondeau, sanders, sandier, sardine, slander, snarled, stander, trained, tranced, unaired, unarmed, undrape, unheard, unraked, unrated, unrazed, unready, untread, uranide, veranda, verdant, wanders, wardens, yardmen, yearend, yearned, zanders. | |
+3 letters: acridine, adherend, adherent, adhering, adorners, adrenals, advancer, aerodyne, alderman, aldermen, amenders, anchored, androgen, aneroids, answered, antherid, antlered, araneids, ardently, aridness, arointed, aroynted, arranged, arsenide, ascender, attender, attorned, bandager, banderol, bandores, bannered, bantered, bartends, bearding, bedarken, bilander, boardmen, boneyard, branched, branders, brandied, brandies, brazened, breading, breadnut, broadens, calendar, calender, candider, candlers, cankered, cantered, careened, cartoned, caverned, chandler, colander, conelrad, cranched, crankled, crannied, cravened, crayoned, credenda, credenza, crenated, daintier, dairymen, dakerhen, damneder, dampener, dandered, dandlers, danewort, dangered, danglers, danseurs, darkened, darkener, darkness, darndest, darneder, daunders, daunters, deaconry, deadener, deairing, dearness, debonair, decanter, decenary, demander, demeanor, denarius, denature, dentural, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, detainer, detrains, dextrans, dicentra, dipteran, dognaper, drabness, dracaena, dragline, dragnets, dragomen, dragonet, drainage, drainers, dreading, dreaming, dungaree, duramens, durances, enamored, endanger, endarchy, endbrain, endeared, endeavor, endocarp, endosarc, endpaper, enframed, engraved, enlarged, ensnared, expander, expandor, forehand, foreland, freedman, freehand, furnaced, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garnered, gendarme, glanders, gradient, gradines, grandame, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grenades, handlers, handover, hangared, hankered, hardened, hardener, hardline, hardness, hardnose, harkened, herdsman, inarched, indurate, infrared, inlander, insnared, invaders, islander, jargoned, kidnaper, kneaders, ladrones, landlers, launders, lavender, lurdanes, madrones, mandrake, mandrels, mannered, margined, marinade, marooned, maunders, meanders, meridian, midrange, muraenid, narrated, narrowed, nattered, nearside, neatherd, nitrated, nonrated, normande, oleander, operands, ordained, ordainer, ordinate, ordnance, organdie, orphaned, overhand, overland, padrones, pandered, panderer, pandores, panfried, pardners, pardoned, pardoner, parented, pedantry, pendular, pomander, predawns, profaned, pronated, radiance, radiomen, rancored, randiest, ransomed, rationed, ratooned, rattened, rawboned, readding, readings, readorns, readying, reascend, reasoned, recanted, redating, redemand, redshank, reearned, regained, rehandle, rehanged, reharden, reinvade, reloaned, remained, remanded, remanned, renailed, rendzina, renegade, renegado, reordain, repandly, retained, reynards, riddance, romanced, rondeaux, ruinated, sardines, serenade, serranid, slanders, solander, spandrel, sprained, squander, standers, strained, stranded, strander, surnamed, swanherd, teardown, transude, treading, truanted, turbaned, unargued, unbarbed, unbarred, unbeared, unbraced, unbraked, uncrated, underact, underage, underarm, underate, undereat, underjaw, underlap, underlay, underpay, underran, undersea, undertax, underway, undraped, undrapes, undreamt, unearned, unerased, unfeared, unframed, ungraced, ungraded, unhaired, unharmed, unloader, unmarked, unmarred, unpaired, unparted, unraised, unranked, unrepaid, unseared, unshared, unthread, untraced, untreads, unvaried, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped, uplander, uranides, uredinia, urinated, verandah, verandas, verdancy, vineyard, wandered, wanderer, wanderoo, wardenry, wrangled, yearends, zemindar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 44 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000100 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E D A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0044 0041 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)5239383548 |
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