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AGGRATE

Definition: AGGRATE

AGGRATE

Adjective

1. To please.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AGGRATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Aggrate \Ag*grate"\, transitive verb. [Italian aggratare, from the Latin expression ad gratus pleasing. See Grate,]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: AGGRATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-r-t"

-1 letter: garage, garget, ragtag, tagger, tagrag.

-2 letters: agate, agger, eggar, gager, grate, great, reata, retag, targe, terga.

-3 letters: agar, ager, area, gaga, gage, gate, gear, geta, grat, raga, rage, rate, tare, tear.

-4 letters: aga, age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, egg, era, erg, eta, gae, gag, gar, gat, get, rag, rat, reg, ret, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-r-t"
 

+1 letter: graftage.

 

+2 letters: aggravate, aggregate, graftages.

 

+3 letters: aggravated, aggravates, aggregated, aggregates, arpeggiate, exaggerate.

 

+4 letters: agglomerate, aggregately, aggregating, aggregation, aggregative, arpeggiated, arpeggiates, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerator, reaggregate, teargassing, variegating.

 

+5 letters: agglomerated, agglomerates, aggregations, arpeggiating, carpetbagger, deflagrating, disaggregate, exaggerating, exaggeration, exaggerative, exaggerators, exaggeratory, guaranteeing, magnetograph, reaggregated, reaggregates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGGRATE


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

41 47 47 52 41 54 45

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 01000111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0047 0052 0041 0054 0045

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

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

35414152355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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