LAGADO

  

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LAGADO

Date "LAGADO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Specialty Definition: LAGADO

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Literature

Lagado Capital of Balnibarbi, celebrated for its grand academy of projectors, where the scholars spend their time in such useful projects as making pincushions from softened rocks, extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, and converting ice into gunpowder. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Voyage to Laputa.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: LAGADO

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Movie/TV Titles

Lagado (1977)

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

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Anagrams: LAGADO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-l-o"

-2 letters: alga, dago, gala, gaol, glad, goad, goal, gold, load.

-3 letters: aal, ado, aga, ago, ala, dag, dal, dog, dol, gad, gal, goa, god, lad, lag, log, old.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ag, al, do, go, la, lo, od.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-l-o"
 

+1 letter: gonadal.

 

+2 letters: agalwood, diagonal, galopade, gladiola, goalward, gonadial, largando, podagral.

 

+3 letters: agalwoods, cataloged, cladogram, diagonals, gallopade, galopades, gladiator, gladiolas.

 

+4 letters: allargando, amygdaloid, analogized, catalogued, cladograms, coagulated, diagonally, dialogical, dogmatical, gallopades, gladiators.

 

+5 letters: allografted, amygdaloids, autoloading, camouflaged, diagnosable, diagonalize, galactoside, gradational, grandiflora, halogenated, pedagogical, railroading, uncataloged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LAGADO


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

4C 41 47 41 44 4F

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000111 01000001 01000100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#71 &#65 &#68 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0047 0041 0044 004F

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

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

463541353849

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INDEX

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


  

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