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| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Allude to, Refer to, Mention. The word allude is often incorrectly used. Allusion is the by-play of language. It means to hint at by remote suggestions, to speak of figuratively or sportively. Whatever is directly mentioned, or spoken of, or described, cannot be said to be alluded to. The terms differ in degree, the first being the weakest. An allusion is an indirect reference. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Verb: mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; (latency); declare; (affirm). |
Information | Hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink; (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear. |
Latency Implication | Involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper; (conceal). |
Metaphor | Verb: employ -metaphor; Noun: personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to. |
Supposition | Allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ALLUDE TO |
| English words defined with "ALLUDE TO": To hint at. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ALLUDE TO": LOB'S POUND ♦ Mention ♦ Refer to. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ALLUDE TO": Rota. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In a pinch, I sometimes allude to not wearing any underwear. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I allude to such as have for their object the improvement of our harbors, the removal of partial and temporary obstructions in our navigable rivers, for the facility and security of our foreign commerce. |
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| Language | Translations for "ALLUDE TO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπαινίσσομαι (allude, drop a hint, glance, hint at, imply, insinuate, to drop a hint), αναφέρομαι (advert, pertain, refer, relate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hivatkozik valamire (adduce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仄めかす (to allude to, to hint at, to intimate, to suggest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほのめかす (to allude to, to hint at, to intimate, to suggest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alludeay otay ссылаться на (allege, make reference to, make relation to, refer to). (various references) hänsyfta på (allude, hint at). (various references) ima etmek (adumbrate, give smb. to understand, hint at, imply, import, insinuate, intimate, mention, refer, shadow forth, shadow out, sign, suggest). (various references) so+n am (mention, talk about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-l-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: allude, aludel, autoed, duello, louted, luteal, tolled. | |
-3 letters: adult, aldol, allod, allot, aloud, atoll, dealt, delta, dotal, ladle, lated, lutea, luted, outed, toled, tulle. | |
-4 letters: aloe, alto, auld, auto, dale, date, dato, daut, deal, dell, delt, doat, dole, doll, dolt, dote, dual, duel, duet, dull, lade, late, laud, lead, leal, leud, load, lode. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-l-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: lobulated. | |
+3 letters: flocculated, outcavilled, outrivalled, subtotalled, unallocated. | |
+4 letters: adulterously, andouillette. | |
+5 letters: andouillettes, educationally. | |
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