LILIPUTIAN

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LILIPUTIAN

Date "LILIPUTIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references)

Specialty Definition: LILIPUTIAN

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	LILIPUTIAN. A diminutive man or woman: from Gulliver's Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: LILIPUTIAN

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Littleness	Dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling,dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow.
	Adjective: little; small; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Photo Album: LILIPUTIAN

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Best & Co., business on Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts. Liliputian bazaar. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Anagrams: LILIPUTIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-l-l-n-p-t-u"
	-2 letters: antipill.
	-3 letters: initial, nauplii, nautili, nuptial, pintail, unplait.
	-4 letters: paulin, plaint, pliant.
	-5 letters: ilial, inapt, input, lapin, lipin, litai, lupin, paint, patin, pilau, pinta, plain, plait, plant, tulip, ulpan, unapt, unlit, until, uplit.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-l-l-n-p-t-u"
	+1 letter: lilliputian.
	+2 letters: lilliputians.
	+3 letters: pusillanimity.
	+4 letters: manipulability, multiplication.
	+5 letters: multiplications, pusillanimities.
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Alternative Orthography: LILIPUTIAN

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

4C 49 4C 49 50 55 54 49 41 4E

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)

01001100 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010000 01010101 01010100 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#80 &#85 &#84 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 004C 0049 0050 0055 0054 0049 0041 004E

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

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

46434643505554433548

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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