Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Desire To Know |
Desire To KnowNoun1. Curiosity that motivates investigation and study. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Desire To KnowSynonyms: lust for learning (n), thirst for knowledge (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Desire To Know |
| English words defined with "desire to know": enquire ♦ inquire ♦ temptation ♦ wonder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "desire to know": Curiosity ♦ retribution. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | All men by nature desire to know. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "desire to know"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | tudni akar vmit (to desire to know sg), szeretne tudni vmit (to desire to know sg). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | esireday otay owknay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-n-o-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: downstroke. | |
-3 letters: desertion, ironweeds, knotweeds, networked, rosinweed, snookered, stinkweed, stinkwood, stonework, storewide, woodenest. | |
-4 letters: deerskin, dorkiest, doweries, downiest, endowers, enrooted, indorsee, inkwoods, inserted, instroke, ironweed, kernites, kerosine, knotweed, kotowers, nerdiest, networks, oestrone, oneriest, oriented, reendows, resident, restoked, rewidens, rookiest, rowdiest, serotine, sintered, snootier, tinkered, tinworks, trendies, weirdest, weirdoes, wideners, wintered, wonkiest, woodener, woodiest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 73 69 72 65 54 6F 4B 6E 6F 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010100 01101111 00100000 01001011 01101110 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e s i r e   T o   K n o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0073 0069 0072 0065 0054 006F 004B 006E 006F 0077 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718575847125481245808189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
