Bespangle

  

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Bespangle

Definitions: Bespangle

Bespangle

Verb

1. Decorate with spangles.

2. Dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bespangled; present participle verb or noun Bespangling.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonym: Bespangle

Synonym: spangle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bespangle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, titivate; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bespangle

English words defined with "bespangle": Bespangling. (references)

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Modern Translations: Bespangle

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

Albanian

  

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏زين بالترتر. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cicomáz. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo drillinagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

espanglebay

   

Portuguese

  

enfeitar com lentejoulas. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

împodobi cu zorzoane. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

осыпать блестками. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pokriti šljokicama. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

översålla med paljetter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bespangle

Misspellings

"Bespangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biospunge, bispangle. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Bespangle"

Words rhyming with "bespangle" (pronounced 'Be*span"gle'): Adangle, Beagle, Bedaggle, Bedraggle, Bemangle, Bemingle, Bogle, Broggle, Cingle, Commingle, Cringle, Dingle, Disembrangle, Disentangle, Eagle, Embrangle, Entangle, Enveigle, Estrangle, Fugle, guggle, higgle, Huggle, Imbrangle, immingle, Intangle, Interjangle, Intertangle, inveigle, Jargle, jiggle, jungle, Lingle, Outjuggle, Paigle, Pingle, Rangle, Regle, Scriggle, Shoggle, snuggle, Springle, Teagle, tingle, toggle, Tringle, Twangle, Unentangle, Unmingle, untangle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bespangle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-l-n-p-s"

-2 letters: baleens, bangles, beagles, beleaps, enables, pelages, spangle, spelean.

-3 letters: abeles, agenes, aneles, angels, angles, asleep, bagels, baleen, bangle, beagle, beleap, belgas, bleeps, eagles, elapse, enable, gables, gleans, glebae, glebes, lebens, panels, peages, peasen, pelage, plages, planes, please, plebes, senega, spleen.

-4 letters: abele, ables, agene, aglee, anele, angel, angle, aspen, bagel, bales, banes, bangs.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-l-n-p-s"
 

+3 letters: speedballing.

 

+5 letters: pregnabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bespangle


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

42 65 73 70 61 6E 67 6C 65

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)

01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0073 0070 0061 006E 0067 006C 0065

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

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

367185826780737871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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