PECTINATION

  

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PECTINATION

Definitions: PECTINATION

PECTINATION

Noun

1. Comblike toothing.

2. The act of combing; the combing of the head.

3. The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Translations: PECTINATION

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

Albanian

  

lafshë (comb, crest, dewlap, prepuce). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гребенообразно образуване. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fésûs szerkezet, fésûalakzat. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectinationpay

   

Russian 

  

гребень (arris, cam, comb, crest, crown, flange, hackle, peak, ridge, ruff, tongue). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zahvatanje jedno u drugo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pektinering. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PECTINATION

Derivations

Words beginning with "PECTINATION": pectinations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PECTINATION"

Words rhyming with "PECTINATION" (pronounced 'Pec`ti*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PECTINATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-p-t-t"

-1 letter: antipoetic, pentatonic.

-2 letters: inception, inpatient, panettoni.

-3 letters: citation, cotenant, inaction, incitant, intonate, nicotine, optician, petition, pittance, taconite.

-4 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, anionic, antipot, apnoeic, caption, coniine, connate, contain, content, ectopia, enation, entopic, epinaoi, nepotic, nicotin, nictate, paction, patient, picante, pinnace, pinnate, pintano, pontine, taction, tetanic, titanic, tonetic, tontine.

-5 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, ancone, anoint, apneic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-n-o-p-t-t"
 

+1 letter: antientropic, pectinations.

 

+3 letters: antineoplastic, epicontinental.

 

+4 letters: acetophenetidin, antispeculation, emancipationist, introspectional, prenotification.

 

+5 letters: acetophenetidins, emancipationists, pithecanthropine, prenotifications.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PECTINATION


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

50 45 43 54 49 4E 41 54 49 4F 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)

01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0043 0054 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

5039375443483554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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