Closed Book

  

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Closed Book

Definition: Closed Book

Closed Book

Noun

1. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets".

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


Synonyms: Closed Book

Synonyms: enigma (n), mystery (n), secret (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Closed Book

Specialty definitions using "closed book": Bell, Book, and CandleDiarySneck Posset. (references)

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Modern Translation: Closed Book

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

Albanian

  

lëndë e pazënë me dorë. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

一寸先は闇 (No one knows what the future holds, The future is a closed book). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いっす"さきはやみ (No one knows what the future holds, The future is a closed book). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osedclay ookbay

   

Vietnamese 

  

điều mù tịt, điều biết rất ít. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Closed Book

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-k-l-o-o-o-s"

-1 letter: codebooks.

-2 letters: codebook.

-3 letters: blocked, boodles, kobolds.

-4 letters: blocks, blokes, bloods, boodle, booked, closed, cobles, cooked, cooled, kobold, locked, locoed, locoes, looked, loosed, oboles, oodles, socked, soloed.

-5 letters: becks, block, blocs, bloke, blood, bocks, bodes, bolds, boles, bolos, booed, books, clods, close, coble, codes, coeds, coked, cokes, colds, coled, coles, cooed, cooks, cools, decks, decos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Closed Book


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

43 6C 6F 73 65 64      42 6F 6F 6B

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

    

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

01000011 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 006F 0073 0065 0064      0042 006F 006F 006B

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

377881857170236818177

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Closed Book"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japonez, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjaponez, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht
 


INDEX

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


  

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