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Definition: ACCLOY |
ACCLOYTransitive verb1. To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. |
Etymology: Accloy \Ac*cloy"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression encloyer, encloer, French enclouer, to drive in nail, from the Latin expression in clavus nail.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Redundancy | Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "accloy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | accloyay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: coaly, cyclo. | |
-2 letters: acyl, calo, clay, cloy, coal, coca, cola, coly, lacy, loca. | |
-3 letters: cay, col, coy, lac, lay, oca. | |
-4 letters: al, ay, la, lo, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: cacodyl. | |
+2 letters: cacodyls, cyclonal. | |
+3 letters: acyclovir, chocolaty, coccygeal, comically, compactly, conically, covalency, cycloidal, cyclopean, cyclorama. | |
+4 letters: acyclovirs, carbonylic, carboxylic, chalcedony, chocolatey, cocatalyst, comicality, compliancy, complicacy, confocally, cortically, cosmically, cyclopedia, cycloramas, cycloramic, iconically, ochlocracy, plutocracy, slavocracy. | |
+5 letters: accordantly, accordingly, accountably, anticyclone, apocalyptic, bucolically, calefactory, calorically, cancerously, canonically, capaciously, carbocyclic, catholicity, chancellory, chaotically, chronically, circulatory, cocatalysts, codicillary, collenchyma, comedically, complacency, conceivably, conciliarly, consultancy, cyclazocine, cyclization, cyclohexane, cyclopaedia, cyclopedias, cyclothymia, cytological, cytomegalic, cytoplasmic, ectopically, laconically, macrocyclic, mycological, noncyclical, occipitally, plantocracy, prolificacy, pyroclastic, vocalically, volcanicity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 43 4C 4F 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. .-.. --- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01000011 01001100 01001111 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C C L O Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0043 004C 004F 0059 |
| 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)353737464959 |
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