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Definitions: Eighty |
EightyAdjective1. Being ten more than seventy. Noun1. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eighty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: EightySynonym: fourscore (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also: seventy, eighty, ninety, integer, list of numbers.
This article is about the number. For the year AD 80, see 80.
Eighty-one (81)
Eighty-two (82)
Eighty-three (83)
Eighty-four (84)
Eighty-five (85)
Eighty-six (86)
Eighty-seven (87)
Eighty-eight (88, LXXXVIII)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eighty."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Five | Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eighty |
| English words defined with "eighty": 180th, 190 ♦ 80th, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 ♦ 90 ♦ Almadie ♦ eightieth, eighty-eight, eighty-five, eighty-four, eighty-nine, eighty-one, eighty-seven, eighty-six, eighty-three, eighty-two ♦ hundred-and-eightieth ♦ ixc ♦ lxxxi, lxxxii, lxxxiii, lxxxiv, lxxxv, lxxxvi, lxxxvii, lxxxviii ♦ Mannheim gold ♦ Niagara period, Ninescore, ninety ♦ Octogenary, one hundred eighty, one hundred ninety ♦ Sarplar ♦ xc, xcl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eighty": 15330 ♦ 42130 ♦ Crawley ♦ Gas Gangrene ♦ Judah, Kingdom of ♦ Leaning Tower, Linen Goods ♦ Roses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eighty": Octogenary. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eighty" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (eighty). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You've had your eight, now I have my eighty! (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) The cars are gone, the buyers want their deposits back, they all do. That's eighty thou, Charlie. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Yeah! It cost us eighty cents at the drive-in! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) Eighty percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination. (Hello, Dolly!; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Michael Stewart) You smoke eighty berjillion cigarettes a day! What's that you're eating? (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) | |
Lyrics | Blastin with the nineteen eighty flow ("Young'n"; performing artist: Fabolous) If I live to a hundred and eighty, ("In Old Mexico"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) I hooked up eighty channels and each one stunk ("I Can't Watch This"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nineteen Eighty Four (1965) Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Life Begins at Eighty (1950) The Eighty Days (1944) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hans Christian Anderson | Eighty per cent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes. |
Peter De Vries | Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?'' |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At eighty years, was erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Yes, sir! At eighty bucks you got a buy. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | His father, eighty years old, could not remember when it was not there. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A significantly larger portion of construction in Dubai is privately funded, perhaps around eighty percent. (references) | |
Municipalities (including large ones) are the major sources of untreated discharge, accounting for an estimated eighty percent of all untreated wastewater. (references) | ||
Eighty five percent of residential subscribers are using analog lines; 70% of business subscribers use analog lines while only 30% of the business subscribers have digital subscriber lines. (references) | ||
Economic History | Thailand | Two hundred eighty (78%) of them are located in Bangkok metropolitan area. (references) |
Uruguay | Unionization is high in the public sector (over eighty percent) and very low in the private one (below five percent). (references) | |
Colombia | In addition, in November of 1999 eighty community TV stations were authorized to operate in Bogota and the largest cities. (references) | |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | Belgium ranked as the twelfth-largest trading country in the world in 2000, with exports and imports each equivalent to about 75 percent of GDP. More than eighty percent of Belgium's trade is with other European Union (EU) members. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Since about eighty percent of ADB lending goes directly into the procurement of goods, equipment and services, ADB's lending program provides significant commercial opportunities for U.S. companies. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | Large tour boats (those carrying eighty passengers or more) generally have better safety records than smaller tour boats, particularly those carrying fifteen passengers or fewer. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | But eighty years ago our population was confined on the west by the ridge of the Alleghanies. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Three-hundred Eighty Five Thousand corporations and private foundations are already working on social programs ranging from drug rehabilitation to job training, and thousands more Americans have written us asking how they can help. |
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| "Eighty" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eighty" is used about 3,819 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 |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 3,819 | 2,559 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eighty": Eighty Eight ♦ Eighty Four ♦ one hundred eighty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eighty": eighty-acre, eighty-column, eighty-column mind, eighty-day, eighty-eight, eighty-eighth, eighty-fifth, eighty-first, eighty-five, eighty-foot, eighty-footer, eighty-four, eighty-four-year, eighty-four-year-old, eighty-line, eighty-mile, eighty-minute, eighty-nine, eighty-ninth, eighty-odd, eighty-oddyear-old, eighty-one, eighty-pound, Eighty-second, eighty-seven, eighty-seventh, eighty-seven-year-old, eighty-six, eighty-something, eighty-storeyed house, eighty-storied house, eighty-thousand, eighty-three, eighty-three-year-old, eighty-tonner, eighty-twenty, eighty-two, eighty-two-year-old, eighty-unit, eighty-week, eighty-year, eighty-year-old, eighty-year-olds. | |
Ending with "eighty": two-eighty. | |
Containing "eighty": hundred-and-eighty-degree, hundred-and-eighty-sided, nineteen-eighty-nine, nineteen-eighty-six, nineteen-eighty-two, one-hundred-and-eighty-degree. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
eighty four pa | 32 |
eighty | 25 |
eighty eight | 22 |
eighty sil | 15 |
eighty element | 13 |
one eighty | 12 |
eighty four lumber | 12 |
eighty six | 11 |
d eighty | 9 |
ten eighty | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eighty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | tagtig. (various references) | |
Albanian | tetëdhjetë. (various references) | |
Arabic | العقد الثامن من العمر, ثمانون. (various references) | |
Asturian | ochenta. (various references) | |
Aymara | quimsaqallqtunca. (various references) | |
Basque | larogei. (various references) | |
Bemba | amakumi cinekonsekonse. (various references) | |
Breton | pevar-ugent. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осемдесет. (various references) | |
Catalan | vuitanta. (various references) | |
Cebuano | kawalwan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | ochenta. (various references) | |
Chinese | 八十 (80). (various references) | |
Cornish | peswar-ügans. (various references) | |
Croatian | osamdeset. (various references) | |
Czech | osmdesát. (various references) | |
Danish | firs. (various references) | |
Dutch | tachtig. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | pusac chunca. (various references) | |
Esperanto | okdek. (various references) | |
Estonian | kaheksakümmend. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fýrs. (various references) | |
Farsi | هشتاد. (various references) | |
Finnish | kahdeksankymmentä. (various references) | |
Flemish | tachtig. (various references) | |
French | quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt. (various references) | |
French Canadian | quatre-vingts. (various references) | |
Frisian | tachtig, tachtich. (various references) | |
Galician | oitenta. (various references) | |
German | achtzig (fourscore). (various references) | |
Greek | ογδόντα. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | katreven. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמו ים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyolcvan (fourscore). (various references) | |
Icelandic | áttatíu. (various references) | |
Irish | ochtó. (various references) | |
Italian | ottanta (fourscore). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 八十 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やそじ (eighty years of age), やそ (Jesus), はちじゅう. (various references) | |
Kongo | makumanana. (various references) | |
Korean | 여" . (various references) | |
Luganda | kinaana. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | achtzeg. (various references) | |
Macedonian | osumdeset. (various references) | |
Malagasy | valopolo. (various references) | |
Manx | kiare feed. (various references) | |
Maori | waru tekau. (various references) | |
Norwegian | åtti. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ochenta. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | eighty. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eightyay.(various references) | |
Polish | osiemdziesiąt. (various references) | |
Portuguese | oitenta (either), octogésima parte (eightieth). (various references) | |
Provencal | ochanta. (various references) | |
Romanian | optzeci (fourscore). (various references) | |
Romansch | otganta. (various references) | |
Romany | ohtov rdesh. (various references) | |
Ruanda | mirongo imunani. (various references) | |
Russian | восемьдесят (fourscore). (various references) | |
Samoan | valusefulu. (various references) | |
Sepedi | masomeseswai. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osamdeset. (various references) | |
Sicilian | ottanta. (various references) | |
Slovene | osemdeset. (various references) | |
Somali | siddeetan. (various references) | |
Spanish | ochenta. (various references) | |
Sranan | aytitenti. (various references) | |
Swahili | themanini. (various references) | |
Swazi | -ngemáshûmi lásiphóhlôngo. (various references) | |
Swedish | åttio (fourscore). (various references) | |
Tagalog | walumpu, walumpû, otsenta. (various references) | |
Thai | เลขแป"สิบ. (various references) | |
Tswana | somarobedi. (various references) | |
Turkish | seksen (fourscore). (various references) | |
Turkmen | segsen. (various references) | |
Ukranian | вісімдесят. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tám mươi (fourscore). (various references) | |
Welsh | pedwar ugain. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | octoginta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 16, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epeita eterw eipen su de poson ofeileiV o de eipen ekaton korouV sitou kai legei autw dexai sou to gramma kai grayon ogdohkonta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deinde alio dixit tu vero quantum debes qui ait centum choros tritici ait illi accipe litteras tuas et scribe octoginta |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa sæde he oðrum hu mycel scealt þu: þa cwæð he hund mittena hwætes; þa cwæð he. nim þine stafas and writ hundeahtatig; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Aftirward he seide to another, And hou myche owist thou? Which answerde, An hundrid coris of whete. And he seide to hym, Take thi lettris, and write foure scoore. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then sayd he to another: what owest thou? And he sayde: an hondred quarters of wheate. He sayd to him: Take thy bill and write foure scoore. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 16, Verse 7 |
| Bulgarian | А той рече: Сто мери масло. И каза му: 'земи записа си и седни скоро та пиши петдесет. |
| Cebuano | Unya miingon siya sa lain, `Ug ikaw, pila bay imong utang?` Kini mitubag, `Usa ka gatus ka bakid nga trigo.` Ug siya miingon kaniya, `Ania, dawata ang kasabutan, `ug isulat ang kawaloan ka bakid.` |
| Chinese | 又 問 一 個 說 、 多 少 ． 他 說 、 一 百 石 麥 子 ． 管 家 說 、 拿 的 賬 寫 八 十 。 |
| Croatian | Zatim reèe drugomu: 'A ti, koliko ti duguješ?' On odgovori: 'Sto kora pšenice.' Kaže mu: 'Uzmi svoju zadužnicu i napiši osamdeset.'" |
| Danish | Derefter sagde han til en anden: Men du, hvor meget er du skyldig? Men han sagde: Hundrede Mål Hvede. Han siger til ham: Tag dit Skyldbrev og skriv firsindstyve! |
| Dutch | Daarna zeide hij tot een anderen: En gij, hoeveel zijt gij schuldig? En hij zeide: Honderd mudden tarwe. En hij zeide tot hem: Neem uw handschrift, en schrijf tachtig. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän sanoi toiselle: `Entä sinä, paljonko sinä olet velkaa?` Tämä sanoi: `Sata tynnyriä nisuja`. Hän sanoi hänelle: `Tässä on velkakirjasi, kirjoita kahdeksankymmentä`. |
| French | Il dit ensuite un autre: Et toi, combien dois-tu? Cent mesures de blé, répondit-il. Et il lui dit: Prends ton billet, et écris quatre-vingts. |
| German | Darnach sprach er zu dem andern: Du aber, wie viel bist du schuldig? Er sprach: Hundert Malter Weizen. Und er sprach zu ihm: Nimm deinen Brief und schreib achtzig. |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa, li di yon lòt; Ou menm, konbe ou dwe? Li reponn: San sak (100) mayi. Msye di l': Men papye ou la, ekri katreven. |
| Hungarian | Azután monda másnak: Te pedig mennyivel tartozol? Az pedig monda: Száz kórus búzával. És monda annak: Vedd a te írásodat, és írj nyolczvanat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian ia berkata kepada orang yang kedua, 'Dan Saudara, berapa utang Saudara?' Orang itu menjawab, 'Seribu karung gandum.' Pegawai keuangan itu berkata kepadanya, 'Ini surat utangmu. Tulislah: delapan ratus.' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu berkatalah ia kepada yang lain: Engkau ini, berapa banyak utangmu? Maka katanya: Gandum seratus pikul. Maka katanya kepadanya: Terimalah surat utangmu ini, tuliskan delapan puluh. |
| Italian | Poi disse a un altro: Tu quanto devi? Rispose: Cento misure di grano. Gli disse: Prendi la tua ricevuta e scrivi ottanta. |
| Korean | 또 다 른 이 에 게 이 르 되 너 " 얼 마 나 졌 느 뇨 ? 가 로 되 밀 백 석 이 니 이 다 이 르 되 여 기 네 증 서 를 가 지 " 십 이 라 " 라 하 였 " 지 라 |
| Latvian | Tad viòð sacîja otram: Bet tu cik esi parâdâ? Tas atbildçja: Simts mçru kvieðu. Viòð tam sacîja: 'em savu zîmi un raksti astoòdesmit! |
| Maori | Katahi ia ka mea ki tetahi, E hia hoki i a koe? Ka mea ia, Kotahi rau mehua witi. na ka mea ia ki a ia, Tangohia tau pukapuka, tuhituhia e waru tekau. |
| Modern Greek | Επειτα ειπε προς αλλον· Συ δε ποσον χρεωστεις; Ο δε ειπεν· Εκατον μοδια σιτου. Και λεγει προς αυτον· Λαβε το εγγραφον σου και γραψον ογδοηκοντα. |
| Norwegian | Derefter sa han til en annen: Og du, hvor meget er du skyldig? Han sa: Hundre tønner hvete. Han sier til ham: Her har du ditt gjeldsbrev; skriv åtti! |
| Portuguese | Perguntou depois a outro: E tu, quanto deves? Respondeu ele: Cem coros de trigo. E disse-lhe: Toma a tua conta e escreve oitenta. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a zis altuia: ,Dar tu, ckt ewti dator?` ,O sutq de mqsuri de grku`, a rqspuns el. Wi i -a zis: ,Ia-yi zapisul, wi scrie optzeci.` |
| Russian | рПФПН "ТХЗПНХ УЛБЪБМ: Б ФЩ УЛПМШЛП "ПМЦЕО? пО ПФЧЕЮБМ: УФП НЕТ ЫЕОЙ"Щ. й УЛБЪБМ ЕНХ: ЧПЪШНЙ ФЧПА ТБУ ЙУЛХ Й ОБ ЙЫЙ: ЧПУЕНШ"ЕУСФ. |
| Shuar | `Nuyá Chíkich tumashmaku Támatai "¿Amesha Urutmá tumashiitiam?" timiai.' `Tutai nii chichaak "Shana sian taru tumashiitjai" timiai.' `Tutai "Pai. Papinium tumashrum ana nu Júiti. Chíkich papinium aya uchentak aarta" timiai.' |
| Spanish | Después dijo a otro: 'Y tú, ¿cuánto debes?' Y él le dijo: 'Cien medidas de trigo.' Él le dijo: 'Toma tu recibo y escribe: ochenta.' |
| Swahili | Kisha akamwuliza mdeni mwingine: `Wewe unadaiwa kiasi gani?` Yeye akamjibu: `Magunia mia ya ngano.` Yule karani akamwambia: `Chukua hati yako ya deni, andika themanini.` |
| Swedish | Sedan frågade han en annan: 'och du, huru mycket är du skyldig?' Denne svarade: 'hundra tunnor* vete.' Då sade han till honom: 'Tag här ditt skuldebrev och skriv åttio.' |
| Thai | แล้วเขาก็ถามอีกคนหนึ่งว่า `ท่านเป็นหนี้กี่มากน้อย' เขาตอบว่า `เป็นหนี้ข้าวสาลีร้อยกระสอบ' คนต้นเรือนจึงบอกเขาว่า `จงเอาบัญชีของท่านแก้เป็นแป"สิบ' |
| Ukrainian | А потім пита"ться другого: А ти скільки винен? І той відказав: Сто кірців пшениці. І сказав він йому: 'ізьми ось розписку свою й напиши: вісімдесят. |
| Uma | "Oti toe, pai' na'uli' -ki karodua-na: `Hiaa' iko, hangkuja-kowo inta-nu?' "Natompoi' -hawo: `Hancobu karu' pae.' "Na'uli' topobago toei: `Ohe'i sura inta-nu, uki' -mi walu atu karu' -wadi.' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "eighty": weighty. (additional references) | |
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"Eighty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aity, dighty, eighte, eighter, eigth, Eithy, Gerighty, Keighlty, Keighly, nighty, peight, rightie, righty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eighty" (pronounced ā"tē) |
| 3 | ā" t ē | Matey, Paty, platy, weighty. |
| 2 | -t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admiralty, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, almighty, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, amnesty, analyticity, angioplasty, animosity, annuity, anonymity, ante, anti, antipoverty, antiquity, anxiety, aplenty, applicability, appointee, Arty, atrocity, audacity, Auntie, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, Batty, Beastie, beauty, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, biosafety, bisexuality, bitty, bloodthirsty, bootie, booty, bounty, brevity, brutality, cacti, calamity, Canty, capability, capacity, Cappelletti, captivity, casualty, catty, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, certainty, charity, chastity, chatty, Chitty, Christie, Christy, city, civility, clarity, cognoscenti, collegiality, comity, committee, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, concerti, conditionality, conductivity, confetti, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, county, coyote, crafty, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, cruelty, crusty, culpability, curiosity, Cutty, cyclicality, dainty, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, diamante, difficulty, dignity, dimensionality, dirty, disability, discontinuity, dishonesty, disloyalty, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-t-y" | |
-1 letter: eight. | |
-2 letters: hyte, they, yeti. | |
-3 letters: eth, get, gey, ghi, gie, git, het, hey, hie, hit, teg, the, thy, tie, tye, yeh, yet. | |
-4 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, ti, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-t-y" | |
+1 letter: hygeist, weighty. | |
+2 letters: eighthly, eyesight, hygeists, hygieist. | |
+3 letters: eyebright, eyesights, flyweight, hygieists, hygienist, lengthily, weightily. | |
+4 letters: daylighted, ethylating, everything, eyebrights, fetchingly, flyweights, hygienists, overmighty, skylighted, tigerishly, trichogyne, youthening. | |
+5 letters: benightedly, copyrighted, dehydrating, delightedly, etherifying, heavyweight, hectoringly, homogeneity, hygrometric, hyphenating, lightsomely, methylating, mythologies, mythologize, pennyweight, phagocytize, rehydrating, righteously, sightlessly, trichogynes, witheringly, yesternight. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 69 67 68 74 79 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .. --. .... - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E i g h t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0069 0067 0068 0074 0079 |
| 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)397573748691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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