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EQUILIBRIST

Definition: EQUILIBRIST

EQUILIBRIST

Noun

1. One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Photo Album: EQUILIBRIST

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Eldora, the premier equilibrist and juggler of the world.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translations: EQUILIBRIST

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

Albanian

  

ekuilibrist (balancer), akrobat (acrobat, balancer, distortionist, rope dancer, rope walker, tumbler). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏البهلوان (acrobat, stuntman, tightrope walker). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

еквилибрист (funambulist). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

taitovoimistelija (acrobat). (various references)

   

French

  

équilibriste. (various references)

   

German

  

Akrobat (acrobat, tumbler). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kötéltáncos (acrobat, aerialist, funambulist, rope dancer, rope walker, tight-rope dancer, tightrope walker, tight-rope walker, wire dancer), egyensúlyozó művész, akrobata (acrobat, tumbler, vaulter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

equilibrista (acrobat, balancer, tightrope walker). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

equilibristay

   

Portuguese

  

equilibrista (balancer), equilíbrio (balance, counterpoise, equator, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, trim), acrobata (acrobat, balancer). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

echilibrist (acrobat, balancer, funambulist). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

акробат (acrobat, aerialist, contortionist, distortionist, tumbler). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ekvilibrista (balancer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

equilibrista (aerialist, balancer). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ekvilibrist, balanskonstnär, akrobat (acrobat). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ip cambazı (aerialist, rope dancer, ropewalker, tightrope walker, wire dancer, wirewalker), dengeci, akrobat (acrobat, aerialist, contortionist, stunter). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

канатоходець (balance-master, funambulist, rope walker, wiredancer), еквілібрист (balance-master, balancer). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người l m xiếc trên dây (funambulist). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EQUILIBRIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "EQUILIBRIST": equilibristic, equilibrists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EQUILIBRIST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Equilibre. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "EQUILIBRIST"

Words rhyming with "EQUILIBRIST" (pronounced 'E*quil"i*brist'): Decembrist, Septembrist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EQUILIBRIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-i-l-q-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: tilburies.

-3 letters: briquets, burliest, quilters, subtiler, trilbies, utiliser.

-4 letters: blister, bluster, briquet, bristle, bustier, butlers, ileitis, lustier, querist, quilter, rebuilt, riblets, risible, rubiest, ruliest, rutiles, silique, siltier, subtile, subtler, utilise.

-5 letters: bestir, birles, bisque, bister, bistre, biters, blites, bluest, bluets, blurts, bruise, bruits, brutes, burets, buries, busier, buster, bustle, butler, butles, iritis, libers, lister.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-i-l-q-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: equilibrists.

 

+2 letters: equilibristic.

 

+3 letters: disequilibrate, equilibrations.

 

+4 letters: disequilibrated, disequilibrates.

 

+5 letters: disequilibrating, disequilibration.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EQUILIBRIST


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

45 51 55 49 4C 49 42 52 49 53 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)

01000101 01010001 01010101 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000010 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#81 &#85 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#66 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0051 0055 0049 004C 0049 0042 0052 0049 0053 0054

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

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

3951554346433652435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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