PROFACE

  

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PROFACE

Definition: PROFACE

PROFACE

Interjection

1. Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PROFACE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Proface \Pro"face\, interj. [Old French expression prou face, prou fasse; prou profit faire to make, do.]. (Websters 1913)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: PROFACE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

proface

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "PROFACE"

Words rhyming with "PROFACE" (pronounced 'Pro"face'): Paleface, Slapeface, Wheyface. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROFACE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-o-p-r"

-2 letters: afore, caper, coper, copra, crape, facer, farce, force, ocrea, opera, pacer, pareo, recap.

-3 letters: acre, aero, aper, arco, cafe, cape, capo, care, carp, cero, cope, core, corf, crap, crop, face, fare, faro, fear, fora, fore, frae, frap, froe, orca, pace, pare, pear, pore, prao, proa, prof, race, rape, reap, repo, rope.

-4 letters: ace.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-o-p-r"
 

+4 letters: francophone, parfocalize, performance, reproachful.

 

+5 letters: craftspeople, craftsperson, flexographic, parfocalized, parfocalizes, performances, petrifaction, postfracture, profligacies, putrefaction.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PROFACE


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

50 52 4F 46 41 43 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 01010010 01001111 01000110 01000001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#70 &#65 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0046 0041 0043 0045

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

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

50524940353739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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