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ABORTIVE EFFORTS

Synonyms within Context: ABORTIVE EFFORTS

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

Failure

Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ABORTIVE EFFORTS

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Economic History

Sweden

Foreign policy concerns in the 1930s centered on Soviet and German expansionism which stimulated abortive efforts at Nordic defense cooperation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: ABORTIVE EFFORTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-f-i-o-o-r-r-s-t-t-v"

-4 letters: offertories, restorative.

-5 letters: forfeiters, overtreats, reafforest, riverboats.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABORTIVE EFFORTS


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

41 42 4F 52 54 49 56 45      45 46 46 4F 52 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000101 01000110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#69 &#70 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 004F 0052 0054 0049 0056 0045      0045 0046 0046 004F 0052 0054 0053

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

3536495254435639239404049525453

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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