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Definitions: Bate |
BateVerb1. Moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm". 2. Flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons. 3. Soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. To enlarge a colliery road by lowering the floor. CF:batin b. Eng. Cleavage in slates, esp. in the Sheerbate stone. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BATE | English | Bonisistate-traitanxietyscale | N/A |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discount | Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bate |
| English words defined with "bate": Bating ♦ Frugivora ♦ Grainer ♦ To bate an ace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bate": bate barrel, Bate me an Ace ♦ Harrington ♦ Parson Bate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bate": Makebate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bate" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Asturian (bat), Frisian (avail), Romanian (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), Spanish (bat). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pogibija Bate Jankovica (1967) Cand o bate vantul (1995) Onde Bate o Sol (1989) | |
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| "Bate" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 39.02% of the time. "Bate" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 39.02% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 29.27% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.63% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bate | Last name | 1,000 | 13,854 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bate": bate breath ♦ To bate an ace. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bate papo | 1,000 |
bate papo uol | 227 |
bate de papo salas | 52 |
kingsley bate | 41 |
bate bol papo | 41 |
bate de papo sala | 38 |
bate | 29 |
bate chat papo | 28 |
norman bate | 16 |
bate papo uol.com.br | 15 |
bate papo terra | 14 |
bapo bate | 10 |
bate papo yahoo | 10 |
bate brazil papo | 10 |
bate papo uol.brasil | 8 |
bate stamp | 8 |
bate papo uol.com | 8 |
bate ig papo | 8 |
bate papo.com.br | 8 |
bate gratis papo | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mbaj (attach, bear, breed, carry, deduct, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, perform, pitch, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حبس أنفاسه من خوف, صفق الصقر بجناحيه بفروغ صر, خفض صوته. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ярост (desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, rave, tear, violence, wax), Отслабям, Притъпявам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 软化剂 (Bates, softener, tenderizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاءین اوردن (Disrate, Shut), کم کردن (Alleviate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Alight, Assuage, Discount, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate, Relieve), خیساندن چرم درماده قلیاءی , راضی کردن (Content, Sate, Satisfy), دلیل وبرهان اوردن (Reason), بال زدن بطرف پاءین . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | retenir son souffle (bate breath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Beizen (disinfect, etch, marinate, pickle, stain, staining, steep in corrosive fluid, to dress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όετριάζω, Ελαττώνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | méreg (anger, bane, bother, poison, spunk, toxic, toxin, venom), düh (anger, dander, fury, heat, ire, passion, rage, wrath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menurunkan (degrade, demote), menahan (bridle, curb, detain, endure, keep back, retain, weather, withhold, withstand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Trattenere (contain, curb, deduct, detain, deter, entertain, hold, hold back, hold off, inhibit, keep, keep oneself, pull in, remain, restrain, retain, suppress, withhold), Ridurre (abandon ship, abate, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, depress, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into), Diminuire (abate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, depress, dim, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atebay Reduzir (baiting, bating, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), Mitigar (abate, alleviate, assuage, blunt, lightening, mitigate, palliate, quench, relieve, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), Cólera (anger, bile, choler, cholera, Dander, displeasure, fury, heat, Paddy, passion fruit, pip, spunk, state, wrath). (various references) Slãbi (abate, attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), Micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), Fremãta (bustle, fuss, murmur, roar, rustle, sough), Descreşte (abate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane). (various references) ярость (anger, berserker fury, frenzy, furiosity, furor, fury, ire, rabidity, rage, rampage, wrath). (various references) bes (fury, rage), gnev (anger, fume, wrath). (various references) Solución Alcalina, Disminuir Algo (pare down, recede, shrink). (various references) Hålla Tillbaka (check, force back, hold back, keep down, rein in, restrain). (various references) อ"กลั้น (ความหมายเก่า), ล". (various references) Tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), Kuvveti Kesilmek, Kesmek (abandon, amputate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), Hiddet (anger, dudgeon, exasperation, flame, flare up, furor, furore, fury, Paddy, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, wrath), Gazap (fury, rage, wrath), Azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), Asitleme, Öfke (Paddy). (various references) Опускати, Притупляти, Зниження, Зменшувати, Зменшення, Збавляти, Хиріти, Трепетати, Лють (Paddy), "нів (Dander), 'ираховування, Стримувати, Скорочувати, Слабнути. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bate": bateau, bateaux, bated, bates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bate": abate, acerbate, adsorbate, approbate, ascorbate, barbate, bilobate, celibate, cohobate, conglobate, debate, erythorbate, exacerbate, extubate, globate, incubate, intubate, limbate, lobate, makebate, masturbate, niobate, outdebate, polysorbate, postdebate, probate, rebate, reprobate, sorbate, stylobate, trilobate, tubate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bate": abated, abatement, abatements, abater, abaters, abates, acerbated, acerbates, adsorbates, approbated, approbates, ascorbates, celibates, cohobated, cohobates, combated, combater, combaters, conglobated, conglobates, debated, debatement, debatements, debater, debaters, debates, erythorbates, exacerbated, exacerbates, extubated, extubates, globated, incubated, incubates, intubated, intubates, lobated, lobately, makebates, masturbated, masturbates, niobates, outdebated, outdebates, polysorbates, probated, probates, rebated, rebater, rebaters, rebates, reprobated, reprobates, sorbates, stylobates, unabated, unabatedly, unbated. (additional references) | |
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"Bate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abte, Babtie, bache, bactec, bae, baet, bage, bagtie, bahta, baie, baite, Baje, Bajee, Bajt, Balta, Baltay, baltek, balti, balto, bantae, bante, bape, bapti, barte, bata, Batac, batal, batau, batay, batde, baten, bateo, batep, Bater, bateu, batey, Bati, batle, batm, bato, batol, Batov, Batrec, Batse, batt, Batta, batte, Battek, batteo, battu, batu, Batum, Batut, Baty, bave, bawe, baxe, bayti, Bcatp, beate, betem, Beti, betwe, beute, bhakti, biate, biet, bifte, bitey, bith, bitte, bitu, biue, blato, blatte, boate, bote, botei, Botek, Botez, botte, brata, brate, brati, Buato, bute, butke, bwat, bwt, bwta, obate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bate" (pronounced bā"t) |
| 3 | b ā" t | abate, bait, debate. |
| 2 | -ā" t | ate, await, berate, Cate, collate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, deflate, demodulate, desecrate, dictate, dilate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fete, freight, gait, gate, gestate, grate, great, hate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, intrastate, irate, late, lightweight, mate, misstate, multistate, negate, oblate, ornate, overrate, overweight, pate, plate, postdate, predate, procreate, prorate, rate, Recriminate, reflate, reinstate, relate, remunerate, restate, sate, sedate, skate, slate, spate, state, straight, Strait, Tate, trait, translate, underrate, update, upstate, wait, weight. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abet, beat, beta. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-t" | |
-1 letter: ate, bat, bet, eat, eta, tab, tae, tea. | |
-2 letters: ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-t" | |
+1 letter: abate, abets, baste, bated, bates, bathe, beast, beats, beaut, begat, betas, betta, blate, bleat, taber, tabes, table, tubae. | |
+2 letters: abated, abater, abates, abject, ablate, ablest, absent, albeit, albite, arbute, baguet, baited, baiter, ballet, bannet, banter, barbet, barest, barite, barret, barter, baryte, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, bateau, bathed, bather, bathes, batmen, batted, batten, batter, battle, battue, bawtie, beasts, beaten, beater, beauts, beauty, bemata, berate, bertha, betake, betray, bettas, bezant, binate, bleats, boated, boatel, boater, borate, breast, breath, butane, cablet, debate, labret, lobate, oblate, rabbet, rebait, rebate, rebato, stable, tabbed, tabers, tabled, tables, tablet, tabued, teabox, terbia, tibiae, tubate, upbeat. | |
+3 letters: abaters, abettal, abetted, abetter, abettor, abeyant, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, aborted, aborter, abreact, abreast, absents, abutted, abutter, actable, albites, ambient, antbear, arbiter, arbutes, astilbe, baccate, backset, baddest, baguets, baiters, baldest, ballets, ballute, bannets, banquet, banteng, banters, banties, baptise, baptize, barbate, barbets, barefit, barites, baronet, barrets, bartend, barters, barytes, basinet, baskets, bassets, basters, bastile, batched, batcher, batches, bateaux, bathers, batiste, batlike, batsmen, batteau, battens, batters, battery, battier, battled, battler, battles, battues, bauxite, bawties, bayonet, bearcat, beastie, beastly, beaters, beatify, beating, beatnik, bedfast, bedmate, belated, beleapt, beltway, beneath, benthal, bepaint, berated, berates, beretta, berthas, bestead, bestial, betaine, betaken, betakes, betaxed, bethank, betrays, bewrapt, bezants, bezzant, bimetal, biretta, bistate, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, boatmen, borated, borates, brachet, bracket, bracted, brattle, bravest, brawest, breadth, breasts, breathe, breaths, breathy, bromate, bullate, bursate, butanes, cabaret, cabinet, cablets, citable, dabster, datable, debated, debater, debates, drabbet, eatable, flatbed, gabfest, getable, globate, habited, habitue, halbert, hatable, iceboat, jetbead, labiate, labrets, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, megabit, mutable, niobate, notable, oblates, obovate, obviate, offbeat, outbake, outbeam, potable, probate, rabbets, rarebit, ratable, rebaits, rebated, rebater, rebates, rebatos, reboant, redbait, retable, seaboot, setback, sorbate, stabbed, stabber, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, tabaret, tabbied, tabbies, tabered, tabetic, tableau, tablets, tabooed, tabored, taborer, taboret, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, terbias, tieback, timbale, totable, triable, tribade, tunable, typable, typebar, unbated, upbeats, vibrate, votable, wetback. | |
+4 letters: abatable, abatises, abdicate, abducent, abducted, abductee, aberrant, abetment, abettals, abetters, abetting, abettors, abjectly, ablative, ablegate, abluents, abnegate, aboiteau, aborters, abortive, abreacts, abrogate, abrupter, absented, absentee, absenter, absently, absinthe, absolute, absterge, abstruse, abutment, abutters, acerbate, acerbest, acerbity, agitable, alphabet, ambients, ambivert, ambulate, antbears, arbalest, arbelest, arbiters, arboreta, arbutean, asbestic, asbestos, asbestus, astilbes, atonable, atremble, aubretia, aubrieta, baccated, backbeat, backbite, backdate, backrest, backseat, backsets, bacteria, bacterin, baggiest, baguette, bailment, bakemeat, baldpate, balkiest, balletic, ballonet, balloted, balloter, ballutes, balmiest, baluster, banister, banknote, banneret, banquets, bantengs, bantered, banterer, baptised, baptises, baptized, baptizer, baptizes, barathea, barbette, bareboat, barefoot, barghest, barguest, baritone, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, baronets, barrater, barretor, barretry, barrette, bartends, bartered, barterer, barytone, basaltes, basement, basinets, basketry, basseted, bassinet, bastiles, bastille, batchers, bathetic, bathless, bathoses, bathrobe, batistes, batteaux, battened, battener, battered, batterie, battiest, battlers, bauxites, bawdiest, bayonets, beadiest, beakiest, beamiest, bearcats, beasties, beatable, beatific, beatings, beatless, beatniks, beauties, beautify, becarpet, bedmates, bedplate, bedstand, bedstead, bedstraw, beltways, benzoate, bepaints, bequeath, berating, berettas, bergamot, berretta, besteads, bestiary, bestowal, betaines, betaking, betatron, betatter, bethanks, bethesda, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, bevatron, bezzants, biacetyl, bidental, biforate, bijugate, bilobate, bimetals, binately, biparted, birettas, birretta, biteable, bivalent, blackest, blandest, blankest, blankets, blastema, blasters, blastier, blasties, blathers, blatters, bleakest, bleaters, bleating, bloaters, bloviate, bluecoat, boasters, boatable, boatlike, boatsmen, bolthead, bootable, bootlace, boracite, botanies, botanise, botanize, bracelet, brachets, brackets, bracteal, bractlet, braggest, brakiest, brashest, brattice, brattier, brattled, brattles, braunite, breadnut, breadths, breakout, breasted, breathed, breather, breathes, bregmata, bregmate, broadest, brocatel, bromated, bromates, browbeat, bunkmate, butanone, butylate, butyrate, cabarets, cabernet, cabestro, cabinets, cabotage, cabresta, cabresto, cabretta, carburet, cartable, castable, catbrier, celibate, citeable, cohobate, combated, combater, crabmeat, cubature, cuttable, dabsters, database, dateable, datebook, daubiest, deadbeat, deadbolt, deathbed, debaters, debating, debutant, diabetes, diabetic, diatribe, downbeat, drabbest, drabbets, drawtube, drumbeat, dutiable, eatables, editable, embattle, entameba, epiblast, eurybath, evitable, extubate, fireboat, firebrat, fittable, flatbeds, fleabite, gabbiest, gabfests, gettable, gigabyte, glabrate, globated, gustable, habitude, habitues, halberts, hatboxes, hateable, heatable, hebetate, hecatomb, hoofbeat, huntable, iceboats, imitable, incubate, instable, intubate, jetbeads, jubilate, keelboat, labiated, labiates, laborite, lambaste, lamberts, lambiest, libelant, liberate, librated, librates, lifeboat, liftable, listable, lobately, lobulate, makebate, meatball, megabits, megabyte, meltable, nestable, nettable, niobates, notables, obdurate, obeisant, oblately, obligate, obstacle, obtained, obtainer, obturate, obviated, obviates, offbeats, outbaked, outbakes, outbeams, outblaze, outbleat, outbrave, outbreak, outfable, overbeat, partible, pitiable, portable, postbase, potables, probated, probates, pubertal, quotable, rabbeted, rabbited, rabbiter, rabietic, rarebits, rateable, rateably, ratsbane, rebaited, rebaters, rebating, rebuttal, redbaits, rentable, reobtain, retables, rustable, sabotage, saboteur, satiable, seaboots, seatbelt, setbacks, sibilate, snakebit, sorbates, sortable, stabbers, stabiles, stablers, stablest, statable, stonable, storable, stowable, subacute, subagent, subcaste, sublated, sublates, subovate, substage, substate, subulate, suitable, sunbathe, sweatbox, sybarite, tabarded, tabarets, tabbises, tabering, tabetics, tableaus, tableaux, tableful, tableted, tabletop, tabooley, taborers, taborets, taborine, taboured, tabourer, tabouret, tabulate, tailbone, takeable, talkable, tameable, tangible, tannable, tastable, taxables, teaberry, teaboard, teabowls, teaboxes, tearable, tellable, tenebrae, terabyte, testable, thebaine, tiebacks, tillable, tiltable, timbales, tippable, tithable, titrable, trabeate, tradable, tribades, tubbable, tubulate, tuneable, tuneably, turbaned, turnable, typeable, typebars, umbonate, unabated, unbathed, unbeaten, unstable, urbanest, urbanite, verbatim, vertebra, vibrated, vibrates, vitiable, voteable, wastable, waterbed, wetbacks, wettable, writable, ytterbia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 74 65 |
| 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)01000010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0074 0065 |
| 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)36678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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