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Amain

Definitions: Amain

Amain

Adverb

1. At full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down the hill amain".

2. With all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain".

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

Date "amain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

"Amain" is a common misspelling or typo for: adman, again, amanita, amazing, amen, amine, amino, maim, main.

Synonym: Amain

Synonym: with full force (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Amain

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

Haste

Adverb: with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste; Adjective: apace; (swiftly); amain; all at once; (instantaneously); at short notice; immediately; (early); posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.

Violence

Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Amain

Specialty definitions using "amain": Strike Amain. (references)

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Modern Translations: Amain

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

Albanian

  

me pasion (vehemently), me gjithë forcat (with all one's strength). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

яростно, светкавично, с все сила (hammer and tongs, hard, smash, with might and main), много (almighty, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), бясно, извънредно (exceedingly, extremely, immensely, mightily, mortally, most, notably, only too, over, overly, overtime, passing, remarkably, sorely, supremely, terrifically, ultra-, unco, unusually, utterly, vastly). (various references)

   

French

  

largue en bande (let go amain). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σφοδρώσ (violent), βιαίωσ (vehemently, violent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teljes erõvel (all out), sebesen (at a good pace, at a great pace, at a quick pace, rapidly, scone-hot, speedily, swift, swiftly, to ride hard). (various references)

   

Italian

  

con forza (forcibly, hard). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

広小路 (amain street). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひろ"うじ (amain street). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lesh niart. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amainay

   

Portuguese

  

a toda velocidade, violentamente (slap bang, sorely, violently), rapidamente (apace, chop-chop, double-barrelled, fast, holus-bolus, hotfoot, promulgate, pronunciation, quick, quickly, readily, soon, speedily, swiftly, tantivy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

din rãsputeri (all out, lustily, with all his might), cu toatã puterea (by main force), în mare grabã (in deadly haste). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

с разгона, быстро (apace, fast, hotfoot, in short order, overnight, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, smartly, speedily, swiftly, trippingly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

punom snagom (blast: at full blast), punom brzinom (flat out, speed: at full speed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

a todo correr. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

var gücüyle (up against the wall, with might and main, with one's back to the wall), tüm gücüyle (with might and main), şiddetle (drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sharp, sore, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

усіма силами, сильно (aloud, bitterly, deep, deeply, hard, high, loud, nervously, powerfully, severely, sound, strongly, sturdily, violently, widely), щосили (at full tilt, like anything), вкрай (badly, dead, densely, enormously, horribly, in the extreme, real, really, sorely, thumping), негайно (anon, at once, at short notice, belive, by and by, chop-chop, forthwith, immediately, in an instant, in one's track, instantly, like a shot, on the spot, outright, promptly, right away, right off), надзвичайно (almighty, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), бурхливо (roughly), дуже швидко (posthaste). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mãnh liệt hết sức khẩn trương, hết sức tốc độ, hết sức nhiệt tình. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Amain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amnia, anima, mania.

Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n"

-1 letter: amia, amin, main, mana, mina.

-2 letters: aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, man, nam, nim.

-3 letters: aa, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n"
 

+1 letter: aidman, airman, anemia, animal, animas, caiman, lamina, magian, maniac, manias, manila, marina.

 

+2 letters: alumina, amanita, amazing, amboina, amentia, ammonia, amnesia, anaemia, anaemic, anemias, angioma, animals, animate, animato, anosmia, antijam, antiman, caimans, hazanim, laminae, laminal, laminar, laminas, magians, mahonia, mailman, manakin, maniacs, manilas, manilla, manioca, marinas, martian, matinal, siamang, stamina, tamarin, taximan, timpana.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amain


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

41 6D 61 69 6E

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)

01000001 01101101 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0061 0069 006E

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

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

3579677580

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INDEX

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


  

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