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Definition: GURGOYLE |
GURGOYLENoun1. See Gargoyle. |
Date "GURGOYLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GURGOYLE |
| Specialty definitions using "GURGOYLE": Gargouille. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-l-o-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: eulogy, gouger, gurgle, logger, lugger. | |
-3 letters: erugo, glory, gluer, gluey, gorge, gouge, grego, gruel, gurge, leggy, loggy, loury, luger, ogler, rogue, rouge. | |
-4 letters: eggy, ergo, euro, gleg, gley, glue, glug, goer, gore, gory, grey, grog, grue, gyre, gyro, loge, logy, lore, lory, lour, luge, lure, lyre, ogle, ogre, orgy, orle, oyer, rely, role. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-l-o-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: gorgeously. | |
+3 letters: egregiously. | |
+4 letters: gregariously. | |
+5 letters: encouragingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 55 52 47 4F 59 4C 45 |
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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)01000111 01010101 01010010 01000111 01001111 01011001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G U R G O Y L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0055 0052 0047 004F 0059 004C 0045 |
| 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)4155524149594639 |
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