Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: APPROVEMENT |
APPROVEMENTNoun1. Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. 2. A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. 3. Approbation. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Noun: approbation; approval, approvement; sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden opinions, admiration; love; appreciation, regard, account, popularity, gr/kudos/gr, credit; repute; best seller. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "APPROVEMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Verbesserung (amelioration, betterment, correction, emendation, improvement, melioration, pick up, rectification, refinement, reform, revision, upgrade, upgrading). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | approvementay одобрение (acclamation, acclamations, applause, approbation, approval, aprobation, encouragement, o.k., ok, recognition, sanction, suffrage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-p-p-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: notepaper, treponema. | |
-3 letters: averment, overneat, overtame, pavement, permeant, renovate. | |
-4 letters: approve, manrope, metopae, nervate, operant, operate, overapt, overate, overeat, overman, overmen, pampero, peptone, perpent, preempt, prename, pretape, prevent, pronate, propane, propene, propman, propmen, protean, tempera, tonearm, varment, venomer, veteran. | |
-5 letters: ampere, arpent, atoner, emoter, enamor, enrapt, entera, entrap, mapper, marten, matron, meaner, mentor, meteor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 50 50 52 4F 56 45 4D 45 4E 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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 01010000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P P R O V E M E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 0050 0052 004F 0056 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3550505249563947394854 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | немецкий |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
