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Definition: Assegai |
AssegaiNoun1. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "assegai" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonym: AssegaiSynonym: assagai (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
assegai | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "assegai"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ushtë (assagai, lance, Pike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | копие (assagai, carbon copy, copy, counterpart, ditto, double, duplicate, imitation, javelin, manifold, print off, repetition, replication, reproduction, shaft, spear, tally, transcript, transcription). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lándzsa (arme blanche, assagai, lance, pike, shaft, spear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assegaiay ассагай (assagai). (various references) vrsta drveta (banian, banyan, pagoda tree), koplje (javelin, lance, pike, shaft, spear). (various references) azagaya. (various references) assegaj (assagai). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "assegai": assegaied, assegaiing, assegais. (additional references) | |
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"Assegai" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asagi, Asegid, Ashgari, Asogwa, assaglawi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-s-s" | |
-1 letter: saigas. | |
-2 letters: aegis, assai, gases, sagas, sages, saiga. | |
-3 letters: agas, ages, asea, egis, gaes, gies, saga, sage, sags, seas, segs, seis. | |
-4 letters: aas, aga, age, ais, ass, ess, gae, gas, gie, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei, sis. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ai, as, es, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-s-s" | |
+1 letter: assegais. | |
+2 letters: agenesias, arginases, assagaied, assegaied, gasaliers, magnesias, paganises. | |
+3 letters: anagenesis, analgesias, analgesics, assegaiing, assignable, castigates, disparages, gainsayers, galliasses, galvanises, giardiases, gravitases, mismanages, sagacities, savageries, saxifrages, seafarings. | |
+4 letters: aggrandises, algebraists, anagnorises, anisogamies, asparagines, disarranges, disparagers, magistrates, mispackages, paragenesis, plagiarises, reassailing, sexagesimal, shanghaiers, shenanigans, sialagogues, smaragdites, stagnancies, stalagmites, teargassing. | |
+5 letters: assemblagist, asseverating, embarrassing, galactosides, gamesmanship, glutaminases, greasepaints, magistracies, managerships, miscarriages, mismarriages, plagioclases, plasmogamies, scapegoatism, selaginellas, sexagesimals, steatopygias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 73 65 67 61 69 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... ... . --. .- .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s s e g a i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0073 0065 0067 0061 0069 |
| 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)35858571736775 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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