PREDILECT

  

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PREDILECT

Definition: PREDILECT

PREDILECT

Transitive verb

1. To elect or choose beforehand.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Predilect \Pre`di*lect"\, transitive verb. To elect or choose beforehand.. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PREDILECT

Non-English Usage: "PREDILECT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (favorite, favourite).

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Derivations: PREDILECT

Derivations

Words beginning with "PREDILECT": predilection, predilections. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PREDILECT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r-t"

-1 letter: decrepit, depicter, derelict, precited.

-2 letters: pedicel, pedicle, periled, perlite, pierced, predict, preedit, prelect, receipt, recited, replied, reptile, reticle, retiled, tierced, tiercel, tripled.

-3 letters: ceiled, ceiler, cerite, cleped, clerid, credit, creped, deceit, decile, deicer, delict, deltic, depict, dieter, direct, lieder, pedler, pelite, pelted, pelter, perdie, petrel, pieced, piecer, pierce, priced, recept, recipe, recite, redipt.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: decrepitly, replicated.

 

+2 letters: predictable, reduplicate.

 

+3 letters: helicoptered, predictively, predilection, reduplicated, reduplicates, stepchildren.

 

+4 letters: deprecatingly, deprecatorily, descriptively, disrespectful, predicatively, predilections, recapitalized, recapitulated, reduplicative, unpredictable.

 

+5 letters: depreciatingly, disrespectable, electrodeposit, reproductively, unpredictables.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PREDILECT


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

50 52 45 44 49 4C 45 43 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)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01000100 01001001 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#67 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0044 0049 004C 0045 0043 0054

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

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

505239384346393754

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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