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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spun Out As "the tale was spun out"- that is, prolonged to a disproportionate length. It is a Latin phrase, and the allusion is to the operation of spinning and weaving. Cicero says, "Tenu'o deducta poemata filo "- that is poems spun out to a fine thread. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
Diuturnity | Lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out; Verb: long-pending, long-winded; slow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPUN OUT |
| English words defined with "SPUN OUT": Longspun. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPUN OUT": Achar. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-p-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: puntos, putons, unstop. | |
-2 letters: pouts, punto, punts, puton, snout, spout, stoup, sunup, tonus. | |
-3 letters: nous, nuts, onus, opts, opus, oust, outs, pons, post, pots, pout, puns, punt, puts, snot, soup, spot, spun, stop, stun, tons, tops, tuns, tups, unto, upon. | |
-4 letters: nos, not, nus, nut, ons, ops, opt, out, pot, pun, pus, put, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-p-s-t-u-u" | |
+3 letters: outpunches, outpushing, plutoniums, stupendous, usurpation. | |
+4 letters: outpourings, punctilious, punctuators, pustulation, subsumption, suppuration, unsupported, usurpations. | |
+5 letters: compunctious, contemptuous, countercoups, neuropterous, percutaneous, pullulations, punctuations, pustulations, seropurulent, stupendously, subsumptions, superconduct, suppurations, transpicuous, unpropitious. | |
| 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)53 50 55 4E 4F 55 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01010101 01001110 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P U N   O U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0055 004E 004F 0055 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535055482495554 |
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