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SURT

"SURT" is a common misspelling or typo for: curt, sort, spurt, suet, suit, surd, sure, surf, sutra.


Specialty Definition: SURT

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Literature

Surt or ~~~Surtur.
Surtur. The guardian of Muspelheim, who keeps watch day and night with a flaming sword. At the end of the world he will hurl fire from his hand and burn up both heaven and earth. (Scandinavian mythology.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: SURT

Specialty definitions using "SURT": AudhumlaMuspelheim. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SURT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Catalan (departs), Swedish (sour grapes).

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Commercial Usage: SURT

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Books

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: SURT

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Economic History

Libya

Although he holds no formal office, Qadhafi exercises absolute power with the assistance of a small group of trusted advisers, who include relatives from his home base in the Surt region, which lies between the rival provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. (references)

Libya

Administrative divisions: 25 municipalities (singular "baladiyah"; plural "baladiyat"): Ajdabiya, Al'Aziziyah, Al'Fatih, Al Jabal al-Akhdar, Al Jufrah, Al Khums, Al Kufrah, An Nuqat al Khams, Ash Shati', Awbari, Az Zawiyyah, Benghazi, Darnah, Ghadamis, Gharyan, Misratah, Murzuq, Sabha, Sawfajjin, Surt, Tarabulus, Tarhunah, Tubruq, Yafran, Zlitan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Derivations: SURT

Derivations

Words beginning with "SURT": surtax, surtaxed, surtaxes, surtaxing, surtout, surtouts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SURT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rust, ruts.

Words within the letters "r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: rut, uts.

-2 letters: us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: burst, crust, curst, durst, hurst, hurts, roust, routs, runts, rusts, rusty, ruths, spurt, stour, strum, strut, sturt, sutra, torus, tours, trues, trugs, truss, trust, turds, turfs, turks, turns, turps, wurst, yurts.

 

+2 letters: aurist, blurts, bruits, brunts, brutes, burets, bursts, buster, citrus, courts, cruets, cruset, crusts, crusty, curets, curtsy, duster, eructs, erupts, estrum, estrus, fruits, frusta, grouts, grunts, hursts, jurats, jurist, juster, krauts, kurtas, luster, lustra, lustre, muster, ouster, outers, purest, purist, quarts, quirts, rebuts, rectus, recuts, result, retuse, rictus, robust, rousts, routes, rouths, rudest, russet, rusted, rustic, rustle, rutins, santur, souter, sprout, spurts, squirt, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, struck, struma, strums, strung, strunt, struts, stupor, sturdy, sturts, suiter, suitor, sultry, surest, surety, surtax, sutler, sutras, suture, tarsus, thrums, thrush, thrust, thurls, torous, tragus, trouts, truces, trucks, truest, truism, trulls, trumps, trunks, trusts, trusty, truths, tsuris, tubers, tumors, tuners, turbos, turves, tusker, tussar, tusser, tussor, tussur, tutors, tuyers, tzuris, ulster, ultras, unrest, upstir, urates, uterus, utters, vertus, virtus, wursts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SURT


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

53 55 52 54

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)

...    ..-    .-.    -

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

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

01010011 01010101 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0052 0054

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

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

53555254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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