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Definition: Civilian Dress |
Civilian DressNoun1. Ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Civilian DressSynonyms: civilian clothing (n), civilian garb (n), plain clothes (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Civilian Dress |
| English words defined with "civilian dress": Mufti. (references) |
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 | Photographed in civilian dress, probably during or soon after the Civil War. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 10 June 1864 "for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the torpedo boat Squib in passing through the enemy's fleet off Newport News on the night of April 9, 1864, and attacking the steam frigate Minnesota". Credit: NAVY. |  | John A. Dix, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, with long hair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | George Douglas Brewerton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes facing front, with beard, in civilian dress. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, head three-quarters to the right, eyes front, in civilian dress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, clean shaven. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hugh Brady, half-length portrait, facing front, in civilian dress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Political Economy | Western Sahara | In September 2000, security forces in civilian dress detained a fourth Sahrawi at the Laayoune airport as he was about to board a flight to the Canary Islands. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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 |
civilian dress | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-i-l-n-r-s-s-v" | |
-3 letters: larvicides. | |
-4 letters: acridines, acridness, civilians, civilised, civilises, dailiness, diclinies, divinises, islanders, larvicide, lividness, salicines, sciaenids, silicides, veridical, viricidal, viricides, viridians. | |
-5 letters: acidness, acridine, advisers, airiness, airlines, alcidine, arcsines, aridness, arsenics, avidness, candlers, carlines, cavilers, civilian, civilise, classier, claviers, decrials, devisals, discerns, diviners, divinise, incisive, indicias, insiders, invaders, invalids, invirile, inviscid, irenical, islander, laciness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 76 69 6C 69 61 6E 44 72 65 73 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i v i l i a n   D r e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0076 0069 006C 0069 0061 006E 0044 0072 0065 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377588757875678023884718585 |
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