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AJUTAGE

Definition: AJUTAGE

AJUTAGE

Noun

1. A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ajutage \Aj"u*tage\, noun. [French expression ajutage, for ajoutage, from ajouter to add, Late Latin expression adjuxtare, from the Latin expression ad juxta near to, nigh. Compare to Adjutage, Adjustage, Adjust.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: AJUTAGE

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Roman term designating size of water delivery pipes and outlet spouts.Syn:adjutage. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: AJUTAGE

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

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AJUTAGE

English words defined with "AJUTAGE": Adjutage. (references)
Etymologies containing "AJUTAGE": Adjustage. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AJUTAGE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (nozzle).

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Modern Translations: AJUTAGE

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

Greek 

  

ρυθμιστήσ εκροήσ (adjutage), ακροστόμιο (adjutage, mouthpiece, nozzle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ajutageay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "AJUTAGE"

Words rhyming with "AJUTAGE" (pronounced 'Aj"u*tage'): Adjutage, Agiotage, Anecdotage, Cabotage, Colportage, Cottage, D'ecolletage, Dotage, Flotage, Hospitage, Hostage, Lactage, Mutage, Pelotage, Pontage, Pottage, Putage, sabotage, stage, Voltage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AJUTAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-j-t-u"

-1 letter: gateau, jugate.

-2 letters: agate, ajuga, tegua.

-3 letters: ague, gate, geta, juga, jute.

-4 letters: aga, age, ate, eat, eau, eta, gae, gat, get, gut, jag, jet, jeu, jug, jut, tae, tag, taj, tau, tea, teg, tug, uta.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, at, et, ta, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-j-t-u"
 

+4 letters: ejaculating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AJUTAGE


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

41 4A 55 54 41 47 45

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)

01000001 01001010 01010101 01010100 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#74 &#85 &#84 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004A 0055 0054 0041 0047 0045

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

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

35445554354139

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INDEX

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


  

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