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POLYSTYLE

Definition: POLYSTYLE

POLYSTYLE

Adjective

1. Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall.

Noun

1. A polystyle hall or edifice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Polystyle \Pol"y*style\, adjective. [Greek expression with many columns; poly`s many column: compare to the French expression polystyle.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "POLYSTYLE"

Words rhyming with "POLYSTYLE" (pronounced 'Pol"y*style'): Amphiprostyle, Areostyle, Blastostyle, Cephalostyle, Cyclostyle, Cyrtostyle, Decastyle, Octastyle, Octostyle, Pentastyle, Peristyle, Prostyle, Pygostyle, Substyle, Surstyle, Urostyle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POLYSTYLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-p-s-t-y-y"

-2 letters: peyotls.

-3 letters: peyotl, solely, tellys, tepoys, tolyls.

-4 letters: estop, lopes, losel, pelts, pesto, pesty, plots, ploys, poesy, poets, poles, polls, polys, potsy, sepoy, slept, slope, slyly, slype, spell, spelt, stole, stope, style, tells, telly, telos, tepoy, toles, tolls, tolyl, topes, types, typey, typos, yells, yelps.

-5 letters: ells, epos, espy, lept, lest, lets, leys, lope.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-p-s-t-y-y"
 

+4 letters: polydactylies, polyethylenes, pyrophyllites.

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

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Alternative Orthography: POLYSTYLE


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

50 4F 4C 59 53 54 59 4C 45

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)

01010000 01001111 01001100 01011001 01010011 01010100 01011001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#76 &#89 &#83 &#84 &#89 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 004C 0059 0053 0054 0059 004C 0045

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

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

504946595354594639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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