AFFREIGHT

  

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AFFREIGHT

Definition: AFFREIGHT

AFFREIGHT

Transitive verb

1. To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: AFFREIGHT

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

Chinese 

  

ç§Ÿç"¨. (various references)

   

French

  

affréter. (various references)

   

German

  

chartern (charter, hire), befrachten (freighting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fuvaroztat. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affreightay

   

Turkish

  

kiralamak (buy, charter, hire, hire on, job, lease, rent, tenant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AFFREIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-g-h-i-r-t"

-1 letter: affright.

-2 letters: fighter, freight, frigate, giraffe, refight.

-3 letters: aigret, aright, father, fright, gaffer, gaiter, gather, griffe, haffet, haffit, hafter, hegari, hegira, tariff, trefah, triage.

-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, airth, earth, eight, faith, feria, fifer, fifth, fight, firth, frith, gaffe, garth, gerah, girth, graft, grate, great, grief, griff, grift, grith, hater, heart, irate, ither, rathe, refit, retag, retia, right, targe, terai, terga, their, thief, tiger, tragi.

-5 letters: ager, airt, eath, fair, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fiar, fiat, fief, fife, fire, frae, frag, frat, fret, frig, frit, gaff, gait, gate, gear, geta, ghat, gift, girt, grat, grit, haet, haft, hair, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, heft, heir, hire, raff, raft, rage, ragi, rate, rath, reft, reif, rhea, rife, riff, rift, rite, tahr, tare, tear, teff, thae, thir, tier, tiff, tire, tref, trig.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-g-h-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: affrighted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AFFREIGHT


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

41 46 46 52 45 49 47 48 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)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01010010 01000101 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#82 &#69 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 0052 0045 0049 0047 0048 0054

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

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

354040523943414254

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INDEX

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


  

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