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SPIDER LINES

Definition: SPIDER LINES

SPIDER LINES

1. Filaments of a spider's web crossing the field of vision in optical instruments; -- used for determining the exact position of objects and making delicate measurements. Fine wires, silk fibers, or lines on glass similarly placed, are called spider lines.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: SPIDER LINES

English words defined with "SPIDER LINES": Bifilar micrometerCross wiresWire micrometer. (references)

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Modern Translation: SPIDER LINES

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

Manx

  

feegan (cobweb, extremity, outline, rim, spider's web, spider's web round). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iderspay ineslay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SPIDER LINES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-n-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: sideliners.

-2 letters: dispenser, pilseners, sideliner, sidelines, spindlers, spindlier.

-3 letters: despiser, dieresis, direness, dispense, disperse, dripless, erepsins, idleness, insiders, inspired, inspires, linseeds, pilsener, pilsners, pineries, presides, redlines, reinless, ripeness, sideline, sideslip, sidespin, spenders, spielers, spindler, spindles.

-4 letters: deniers, depress, desires, despise, diesels, dispels, eldress, endless, enisled, enisles, ensiled, ensiles, erepsin, idlesse, inliers, insider, insides, inspire.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-n-p-r-s-s"
 

+4 letters: prejudicialness, serendipitously.

 

+5 letters: postpresidential, professionalized, unprincipledness.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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