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AFOAM

Definition: AFOAM

AFOAM

Adverb & adjective

1. In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AFOAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

Note: Afoam \A*foam"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- foam.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: AFOAM

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

Ukranian 

  

у піні, пінячись. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AFOAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-m-o"

-1 letter: foam.

-2 letters: ama, moa, oaf.

-3 letters: aa, am, fa, ma, mo, of, om.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-m-o"
 

+3 letters: antifoam, foamable, foramina, meatloaf, paraform.

 

+4 letters: fibromata, foraminal, marrowfat, paraforms.

 

+5 letters: camouflage, defamation, defamatory, fathomable, flamboyant, formalwear, malefactor, marrowfats, microfarad, microfauna.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AFOAM


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

41 46 4F 41 4D

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-.    ---    .-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01000110 01001111 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#79 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 004F 0041 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3540493547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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