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Definition: POINT-DEVISE |
POINT-DEVISEAdjective1. Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. Adverb1. Exactly. |
Date "POINT-DEVISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Point-devise Punctilious: minutely exact. Holofernes says, "I abhor such insociable and point de vise companions, such rackers of orthography." (French, point de vise.) "You are rather point de vise in your accoutrements."- Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POINT-DEVISE |
| English words defined with "POINT-DEVISE": Point-device. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "POINT-DEVISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 点构想. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 소 안하십시". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oint-devisepay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: denotive, divinest, editions, epidotes, invested, invitees, nosedive, pentodes, poetised, positive, postdive, sedition, veiniest, visioned. | |
-4 letters: deities, denotes, depones, deposit, despite, destine, deveins, devotes, dipnets, divines, dopiest, edition, endites, endives, epidote, episode, evident, indites, inosite, invited, invitee, invites, iodines, ionised, openest, pensive, pentode, pentose, peonies, pieties, piniest, pinites, pintoes, pivoted, podites, poetise, pointed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-t-v" | |
+3 letters: nondescriptive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 49 4E 54 2D 44 45 56 49 53 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100 00101101 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O I N T - D E V I S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0049 004E 0054 002D 0044 0045 0056 0049 0053 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504943485415383956435339 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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