NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

  

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NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

Definition: NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

1. Neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

Specialty definitions using "NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL": Heads or Tails. (references)

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Modern Translations: NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

Language Translations for "NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

nem (anomalous, breed, caducous, dead to the world, disquieting, extinct, funny, gender, genus, guileless, he doesn't know how to put his things on, his hands were forced, I can make neither head nor tail of this, I can't account for it, I can't make head or tail of this, I think not, I tried and tried but, impertinent, impolitic, impractical, irreducible, isn't it awful I ask you?, jarring, nae, national military authority, nay, no, non, non-compliance, nonconformist, nope, not, plaited, prevarication, sex, square peg in a round hole, stiff, tacky, to be beside the point, to be in sy's black book, to be out of harm's way, to be quick to answer back, to be unlike sg, to be unlike to sg, to be untouched by sg, to disown, to draw the line at sg, to extenuate, to feel slack, to hang fire, to hold one's ground, to jitter, to keep out of sight, to know the ropes, to lose the faculty of speech, to lose the power of speech, to mull, to pass unmarked, to play safe, to prove a broken reed, to stick like a leech, to stick to one's guns, to stick to one's opinions, to take no denial, tribe, un-), tudok rajta eligazodni (I can make neither head nor tail of this, I can't make head or tail of this), ennek se füle se farka (I can make neither head nor tail of this, I can't make head or tail of this), ebből nem tudok kiokosodni (I can make neither head nor tail of this, I can't make head or tail of this). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eithernay eadhay ornay ailtay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-h-h-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-r-t-t"

-5 letters: interrelation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL


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

4E 45 49 54 48 45 52      48 45 41 44      4E 4F 52      54 41 49 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

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

01001110 01000101 01001001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010010 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#78 &#79 &#82 &#32 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0049 0054 0048 0045 0052      0048 0045 0041 0044      004E 004F 0052      0054 0041 0049 004C

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

483943544239522423935382484952254354346

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INDEX

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


  

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