Catercorner

  

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Catercorner

Definition: Catercorner

Catercorner

Adjective

1. Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot".

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


Synonyms: Catercorner

Synonyms: catacorner (adj), cata-cornered (adj), cater-cornered (adj), catty-corner (adj), catty-cornered (adj), kitty-corner (adj), kitty-cornered (adj). (additional references)

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Derivations: Catercorner

Derivations

Words beginning with "catercorner": catercornered. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Catercorner

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-r-r-r-t"

-2 letters: correcter.

-3 letters: accentor, carotene, cocreate, concrete, reaccent, recanter, recreant.

-4 letters: accrete, acetone, caterer, centare, coenact, coercer, coerect, concert, corneae, correct, creator, crenate, enactor, erector, ocreate, reactor, recrate, reenact, retrace, terrace, terrane.

-5 letters: accent, atoner, cancer, canter, cantor, careen, career, carnet, carrot, carter, carton, cenote, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, coatee, coater, coerce, contra, cornea.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-r-r-r-t"
 

+2 letters: catercornered.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Catercorner


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

43 61 74 65 72 63 6F 72 6E 65 72

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)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101111 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#111 &#114 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0065 0072 0063 006F 0072 006E 0065 0072

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

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

3767867184698184807184

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INDEX

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


  

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