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AMBITUS

Definitions: AMBITUS

AMBITUS

Noun

1. A canvassing for votes.

2. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: AMBITUS

Etymologies containing "AMBITUS": Ambit. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AMBITUS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (border, circuit, circumference, edge, extent /going around).

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Commercial Usage: AMBITUS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ardet ambitus : Untersuchungen zum Phänomen der Wahlbestechungen in der römischen Republik (reference)

  • Crimen e quaestio ambitus nell'età repubblicana : contributo allo studio del diritto criminale repubblicano (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Rhyming with "AMBITUS"

Words rhyming with "AMBITUS" (pronounced 'Am"bi*tus'): Afflatus, Ailantus, Alto-stratus, Amotus, Asphaltus, Attritus, Benedictus, Boletus, Cactus, Cathetus, Cognatus, Conatus, Conspectus, Crepitus, Cumu-cirro-stratus, Decubitus, Delectus, Detritus, fetus, Fremitus, Gymnotus, habitus, ictus, impetus, Inflatus, Lacertus, Leptus, Literatus, Mallotus, meatus, Notus, Pectus, Pericarditus, Plutus, Productus, Prospectus, Pruritus, Quietus, rectus, rictus, Salaeratus, Sanctus, Scorbutus, singultus, Situs, status, Subsultus, tinnitus, Vermetus, Victus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AMBITUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-m-s-t-u"

-1 letter: ambits, autism, iambus, submit.

-2 letters: abuts, ambit, baits, bimas, iambs, maist, mauts, tabus, tamis, tsuba, tubas.

-3 letters: abut, aims, aits, amis, amus, bait, bams, bast, bats, bias, bima, bits, bums, bust, buts, iamb, isba, mast, mats, maut, mibs, mist, must, muts, sati, sima, smit, smut, stab, stub, stum, suba, suit, tabs, tabu, tams.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-m-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: ambitious, subatomic, sublimate, submittal.

 

+3 letters: absolutism, abstemious, strabismus, sublimated, sublimates, submediant, submittals, suboptimal, subprimate, thumbnails.

 

+4 letters: absolutisms, ambiguities, ambitiously, ambulations, automobiles, bullmastiff, dumbwaiters, fibromatous, funambulist, subdominant, sublimating, sublimation, submediants, subprimates, subterminal, summability, tambourines, unambitious.

 

+5 letters: abstemiously, adumbrations, ambidextrous, ambulatories, assumability, automobilist, bullmastiffs, disambiguate, drumbeatings, funambulists, lactalbumins, masturbating, masturbation, misattribute, mutabilities, nimbostratus, noctambulist, obscurantism, rambouillets, rambunctious, somnambulist, strabismuses, subdominants, sublimations, subminiature, subnormality, tolbutamides, unmistakable, unmistakably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMBITUS


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

41 4D 42 49 54 55 53

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 01001101 01000010 01001001 01010100 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#66 &#73 &#84 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0042 0049 0054 0055 0053

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

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

35473643545553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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