UNDRAW

  

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UNDRAW

Definition: UNDRAW

UNDRAW

Transitive verb

1. To draw aside or open; to draw back.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNDRAW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references)


Modern Translation: UNDRAW

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

Albanian

  

hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вкарвам в ножник, издишвам (breathe out, exhale, expire). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

széthúz (to draw aside, to haul, to pull away). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awundray

   

Portuguese

  

descerrar (unclose), abrir (barge, cut, cut up, dehisce, deploy, ditcher, driftage, Frank, free, let by, open, open up, pecker, rip, Rive, spread, to open, unbar, unclasp, unclench, unclose, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstrap). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

открывать (abroach, dedicate, detect, discover, lead off, open, open up, reveal, turn on, uncap, unclose, uncover, unfold, unkennel, unlock, unshutter, unveil). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ne vući. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dra undan (draw away). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNDRAW

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNDRAW": undrawing, undrawn, undraws. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: UNDRAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-n-r-u-w"

-1 letter: drawn.

-2 letters: darn, dawn, draw, dura, durn, nard, nurd, rand, wand, ward, warn, waur.

-3 letters: and, awn, daw, dun, naw, rad, ran, raw, run, urd, urn, wad, wan, war, wud.

-4 letters: ad, an, ar, aw, na, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-n-r-u-w"
 

+1 letter: sunward, undrawn, undraws.

 

+2 letters: outdrawn, sunwards, underjaw, underway, untoward, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped.

 

+3 letters: unawarded, underjaws, underwear, undrawing, unwearied, unwrapped.

 

+4 letters: outdrawing, unanswered, underwater, unrewarded, untowardly, unwreathed, upwardness, wanderlust, workaround, wraparound.

 

+5 letters: groundwater, handwrought, outwardness, unrewarding, unwarranted, unweariedly, unweathered, wanderlusts, workarounds, wraparounds.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNDRAW


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

55 4E 44 52 41 57

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)

01010101 01001110 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0052 0041 0057

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

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

554838523557

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INDEX

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


  

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