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Definition: ENGIRD |
ENGIRDTransitive verb1. To gird; to encompass. |
Date "ENGIRD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumjacence | Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ENGIRD |
| English words defined with "ENGIRD": Engirded, Engirding, Engirt. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ENGIRD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обкръжавам (beleaguer, beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, envelop, environ, hoop, invest, rabble, rim, ring, surround), опасвам (crop, engirdle, gird, girdle, graze down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opásat (gird), obklopit (beset, cluster round, encompass, envelop, environ, hem in, ring, surround). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιζώνω (begird, belt, cincture, embed, skirt, zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | körülövez (engirdle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | engirday опоясывать (begird, engirdle, gird, zone). (various references) zaokružiti (circularize, encompass, engirdle, make a circle, round off). (various references) kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), kemer gibi sarmak (engirdle). (various references) оперізувати (engirdle, twine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENGIRD": engirded, engirding, engirdle, engirdled, engirdles, engirdling, engirds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dinger, girned, reding, ringed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: deign, diner, dinge, dirge, gride, grind, reign, renig, ridge. | |
-2 letters: deni, dine, ding, dire, dreg, gied, gien, gird, girn, grid, grin, ired, nerd, nide, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring. | |
-3 letters: den, die, dig, din, end, eng, erg, ern, ged, gen, gid, gie, gin, ire, red, reg, rei, rid, rig, rin. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, id, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: cringed, deraign, dingers, dingier, dreeing, dungier, energid, engirds, eroding, fringed, gradine, grained, grinded, grinder, grinned, groined, herding, ignored, negroid, reading, redding, redoing, redwing, reeding, regrind, reigned, rending, wringed. | |
+2 letters: adhering, bearding, beringed, breading, breeding, deairing, decrying, deraigns, derating, deriding, deringer, deriving, designer, desiring, dowering, dragline, drainage, dreading, dreaming, dredging, dressing, enduring, energids, engirded, engirdle, fingered, gardenia, gingered, gradient, gradines, grinders, grindery, gueridon, indulger, lingered, margined, midrange, negroids, nidering, ordering, organdie, readding, readings, readying, receding, recoding, redating, reddling, redesign, redrying, reducing, redwings, redyeing, reedings, reedling, regained, regrinds, rehinged, renigged, residing, resigned, ringdove, ringside, rodeoing, springed, stringed, synergid, syringed, treading, trending, ungirded, unrigged. | |
+3 letters: adverting, arraigned, astringed, badgering, bargained, bedraping, bedspring, befringed, begirding, birdieing, bordering, breedings, burdening, chagrined, cindering, crediting, dackering, daggering, daikering, dandering, dangering, darkening, debarking, debarring, debriding, decerning, declaring, decreeing, decurving, deferring, deforcing, deforming, defraying, degerming, degrading, dehorning, dehorting, demarking, demerging, demurring, denigrate, departing, deperming, deploring, deporting, depraving, depriving, deraigned, derailing, deranging, deratting, deringers, derringer, descrying, deserting, deserving, designers, desorbing, deterging, deterring, detouring, detruding, devouring, deworming, diapering, dickering, differing, directing, dithering, divergent, diverging, diverting, doddering, dogearing, draglines, drainages, dredgings, drenching, dressings, driveling, endearing, endoergic, endorsing, energised, energized, engirding, engirdled, engirdles, engrailed, engrained, extruding, foddering, foredoing, friending, gabardine, gaberdine, gandering, gardenias, gardening, garnished, gendering, gerundive, gesneriad, girandole, gondolier, gradients, grandiose, grandsire, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, gueridons, hagridden, hardening, heralding, hindering, humdinger, impregned, indulgers, infringed, ingrafted, ingrained, integrand, intrigued, juddering, laddering, midranges, moldering, murdering, negritude, niderings, niggarded, nigrified, organdies, organised, organized, overdoing, pandering, perduring, pervading, pondering, powdering, preceding, precoding, predating, prefading, preluding, presiding, realigned, rebidding, rebinding, rebodying, recording, redacting, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redialing, redingote, redipping, redlining, redocking, redonning, redrawing, redriving, redubbing, reediting, reedlings, refeeding, refinding, refolding, refunding, regarding, regilding, regrading, reignited, rejudging, relending, reloading, remanding, remedying, remending, reminding, remolding, rendering, rereading, reseeding, resending, resodding, respading, retarding, rewarding, rewedding, rewelding, rewinding, rewording, ridgeline, ridgeling, rigidness, ringdoves, ringsides, screeding, shredding, sniggered, soldering, spreading, sundering, synergids, tendering, threading, tragedian, treadling, treddling, unbridged, undergird, undergirt, underling, underwing, ungodlier, vinegared, wandering, wildering, wondering. | |
+4 letters: abridgment, addressing, adrenergic, aggrandise, aggrandize, androgenic, bartending, becrowding, bedirtying, bedrugging, bedsprings, bedwarfing, befingered, begirdling, begrudging, bestriding, blundering, brigandage, brigandine, brightened, broadening, broidering, burgundies, centigrade, chagrinned, chowdering, coderiving, coenduring, configured, cordelling, corrigenda, daringness, daundering, deaerating, debriefing, debruising, decentring, decoloring, decorating, decreasing, decrowning, decrypting, defrauding, defrocking, defrosting, degreasing, delivering, demeriting, denaturing, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, deorbiting, depressing, depurating, deraigning, deridingly, derogating, derogation, derringers, describing, deservings, designator, despairing, destroying, desugaring, dethroning, detracting, detraining, dewatering, digressing, digression, dimerizing, disarrange, discerning, disgruntle, dispersing, disserting, disserving, divergence, divergency, drivelling, endergonic, enduringly, engineered, engirdling, eradiating, everduring, federating, fingerhold, firefanged, foreboding, foredating, forfending, foundering, frightened, frigidness, gabardines, gaberdines, garnisheed, garrisoned, gentrified, germanized, germinated, gerundives, gesneriads, girandoles, girlfriend, gondoliers, gorgonized, gormandise, gormandize, grainfield, grandniece, grandsires, greediness, greenfield, grenadiers, grenadines, grinderies, grindstone, guarantied, guerdoning, gynandries, hardenings, headspring, highbinder, highlander, humdingers, inbreeding, ingathered, ingredient, integrands, integrated, intergrade, jargonized, jeoparding, ladyfinger, laundering, legendries, lipreading, longhaired, malingered, marginated, maundering, meandering, misreading, moderating, mouldering, mudslinger, negritudes, neighbored, nightdress, nonreading, originated, outgrinned, outreading, overdaring, overdesign, overdosing, overdrying, overdyeing, overlading, overriding, pedicuring, peroxiding, perpending, persuading, plundering, portending, prebinding, precluding, predicting, preediting, prejudging, premolding, pretending, proceeding, propending, protending, radiogenic, reacceding, readapting, readopting, readorning, reassigned, reblending, reboarding, rebounding, rebreeding, rebuilding, recognised, recognized, recordings, redamaging, redarguing, redbaiting, redeciding, redefining, redesigned, redialling, redingotes, redividing, redoubling, redounding, redrafting, redreaming, redressing, redrilling, reedifying, reendowing, reflooding, refounding, regimented, regrinding, rehandling, reimagined, reindexing, reinducing, reinvading, rekindling, remodeling, renegading, reordering, repleading, repledging, rereadings, resaddling, rescinding, reshingled, resignedly, resounding, responding, restudying, retreading, rewidening, ridgelines, ridgelings, ringbarked, ringleader, sanderling, scowdering, semidrying, serenading, shuddering, slandering, smaragdine, smoldering, soldiering, springhead, springtide, stewarding, stringendo, thundering, torpedoing, tragedians, turgidness, unabridged, underdoing, undergirds, undergoing, underlings, underlying, underwings, undressing, untreading, wanderings, wingspread. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 47 49 52 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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 01001110 01000111 01001001 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N G I R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0047 0049 0052 0044 |
| 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)394841435238 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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