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Definition: Accoutred |
AccoutredAdjective1. Provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; "troops accoutered for battle"; "accoutered for the trip. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accoutred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: AccoutredSynonym: accoutered (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I doubt if they would appreciate it, sir. They rather resent the invasion of their privacy, I believe quite properly, sir. Also, such excursions can be extremely dangerous, sir. I worked for a gentleman once who likewise, with two friends, accoutred themselves as you have, sir, and then went out for a lark. (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Accoutred" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Accoutred" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "accoutred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | rüstete aus. (various references) | |
Hungarian | harci mezben. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accoutreday.(various references) | |
Turkish | teçhizatlı, donanımlı (equipped, shipshape). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: accouter, accoutre, aeroduct, educator, outraced. | |
-2 letters: accrued, coacted, cordate, courted, curated, eductor, outdare, outrace, outread, readout, redcoat, traduce. | |
-3 letters: accord, accrue, acuter, autoed, carted, coated, coater, coteau, couter, crated, curate, decoct, detour, orated, redact, redout, routed, toured, traced, truced, turaco. | |
-4 letters: acred, acted, actor, acute, adore, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, caret, carte, cater, cedar, coact, codec, coder, cored, coted, coude, court, crate, credo, crude, cruet, cured, curet, cuter, dater, decor, derat, doter, douce, doura, ducat, duroc, educt, eruct, oared, oater, occur, ocrea, octad, orate, oread, outed, outer, outre, raced, rated, react, recta, recto, recut, route, tardo, tared, taroc, trace, trade, tread, trode, truce, trued, urate, uredo. | |
-5 letters: aced, acre, aero, arco, auto, cade, card, care, cart, cate, ceca, cero, coat, coca, coda, code, coed, cord, core, cote, croc, crud, cued, curd, cure, curt, cute, dace, dare, dart, date, dato, daut, dear, deco, doat, doer, dore, dote, dour, drat, duce, duct, duet, dura, dure, duro, ecru, euro, odea, orad, orca, race, rate, rato, read, redo, road, rode, rota, rote, roue, rout, rude, rued, tace, taco, tare, taro, tear, toad, toea, toed, tora, torc, tore, tour, trad, trod, true, turd, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: accoutered, coruscated. | |
+2 letters: cotransduce. | |
+3 letters: coadjutrices, cotransduced, cotransduces, counteracted, uncontracted, undemocratic. | |
+4 letters: subcontracted, unconsecrated. | |
+5 letters: counterchanged, countercharged, counterclaimed, countermarched, uncontradicted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 63 6F 75 74 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. --- ..- - .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c o u t r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 006F 0075 0074 0072 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356969818786847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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