MONTANT

  

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MONTANT

Definition: MONTANT

MONTANT

Noun

1. An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile.

2. An upward thrust or blow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MONTANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Montant \Mon"tant\, noun. [F.,prop., mounting, from monter to mount, from the Latin expression mons, montis, mountain. See Mount.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: MONTANT

Etymologies containing "MONTANT": Montoir, Mountant. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MONTANT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (amount, doorpost, jamb, mounting, post, rising, size, stanchion, stile, stud, sum, uphill, upright, upstream), Romanian (beam, high, mullion, post, upright).

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Commercial Usage: MONTANT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Illinois' Roadkill Cookbook: A Collection of Spurious Recipes Using Ventre Montant (French for Belly-Up Animals on Illinois' Highways) (reference)

  • Reaching Port: A Montant Couple Sails Around the World (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: MONTANT

Illustrations:
MONTANT

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MONTANT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

du montant smic

6

montant

6

montant smic

3

charge montant sociales urssaf

2

d montant ttc tva un

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "MONTANT"

Words rhyming with "MONTANT" (pronounced 'Mon"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Flotant, Gestant, humectant, important, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, Sectant, self-important, sextant, Spectant, statant, supernatant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MONTANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-n-n-o-t-t"

-2 letters: tanto, toman.

-3 letters: anon, atom, mano, matt, moan, moat, mott, noma, nona, nota.

-4 letters: ant, att, man, mat, moa, mon, mot, nam, nan, nom, not, oat, tam, tan, tao, tat, tom, ton, tot.

-5 letters: am, an, at, ma, mo, na, no, om, on, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-n-n-o-t-t"
 

+2 letters: atonement, mentation, nonmutant.

 

+3 letters: anointment, atonements, attornment, cantonment, intimation, malcontent, mentations, nonmutants, obtainment, stuntwoman, tantamount, tournament, tramontane.

 

+4 letters: anointments, appointment, attornments, cantonments, cementation, concomitant, containment, contaminant, contaminate, fomentation, intimations, lamentation, malcontents, methanation, mountaintop, multination, nonmilitant, obtainments, remonstrant, termination, tournaments, tramontanes, unimportant.

 

+5 letters: alimentation, antinepotism, antiromantic, antithrombin, appointments, astonishment, augmentation, cementations, commentating, concomitants, containments, contaminants, contaminated, contaminates, contaminator, fermentation, fomentations, implantation, infotainment, intermontane, intimidation, lamentations, malcontented, malnutrition, menstruation, methanations, ministration, monetization, mountaintops, nitromethane, nonautomated, nonautomatic, noncombatant, noncommittal, nonimitative, nonmilitants, nontreatment, pigmentation, remonstrants, segmentation, terminations, transmontane, ultramontane.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MONTANT


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

4D 4F 4E 54 41 4E 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)

01001101 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 004E 0054 0041 004E 0054

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

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

47494854354854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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