DEAD PAN

  

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DEAD PAN

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Dead Pan (The). A poem founded on the tradition that at the crucifixion a cry swept across the ocean in the hearing of many, "Great Pan is Dead," and that at the same time the responses of the oracles ceased for ever. Elizabeth Barrett Browning has a poem so called (1844). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Translation: DEAD PAN

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

Albanian

  

pamje e qetë, pamje e çelur, fytyrë e palëvizshme. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безучастно лице, безизразно лице (poker face). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bezvýrazný (blank, characterless, flabby, glassy, inexpressive, insipid, noncommittal, tame, vapid). (various references)

   

German

  

unbewegt (dormant, motionless, still, unaffected, unemotional, unemotionally, unmoved, unmovedly, unmoving, unruffled, untouched, unwavering, unwaveringly), trocken (arid, barren, bookish, drily, dry, dry-cell, dryly, dusty, humorless, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly, jejune, stale, uninspiring, wry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szenvtelen (calm, cold-livered, cool, detached, dispassionate, emotionless, immovable, impassible, passionless, unmoved), pléhpofa (pokerface, poker-face, you can't get a rise out of sy), érzéketlen (brutish, callous, emotionless, have a thick skin, impassible, impassive, impervious, indifferent, inert, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numbed, seared, senseless, thick skin, thick-skinned, unaffected, unfeeling, unmoved). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadday anpay

   

Russian 

  

кислая мина, невыразительное лицо, невозмутимый вид (dead-pan). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bezizrazno lice. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sönük (dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), ifadesiz yüz, ifadesiz (blank, expressionless, inexpressive, sphinxlike, straight-faced, toneless, unmarked, unmeaning, vacant, vacuous), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), anlamsız yüz ifadesi olan, anlamsız yüz, anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

невиразне обличчя. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEAD PAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deadpan.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-n-p"

-2 letters: apnea, paean, panda, paned.

-3 letters: aped, dada, dead, dean, nada, nape, neap, pane, pean, pend.

-4 letters: add, ana, and, ane, ape, dad, dap, den, end, nae, nap, pad, pan, pea, ped, pen.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-n-p"
 

+1 letter: deadpans.

 

+2 letters: decapodan, unadapted.

 

+3 letters: deadpanned, deadpanner, decapodans, landscaped, panhandled.

 

+4 letters: adaptedness, deadpanners, deadpanning, handicapped, pasquinaded, sandpapered.

 

+5 letters: relandscaped.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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