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APROSOS

Definition: APROSOS

APROSOS

Adjective & adverb

1. By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

2. Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Aprosos \Ap"ro*sos`\, adjective. adverb. [French expression propos; (L. ad) propos purpose, from Latin expression proposium plan, purpose, from proponere to propose. See Propound.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: APROSOS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-o-o-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: prosos, sapors, sopors, spoors.

-2 letters: praos, proas, proso, pross, psoas, rasps, sapor, saros, soaps, soars, sopor, soras, spars, spoor.

-3 letters: asps, oars, oops, osar, ossa, pars, pass, poor, prao, proa, pros, raps, rasp, saps, soap, soar, sops, sora, spar, spas.

-4 letters: ars, asp, ass, oar, ops, ora, ors, par, pas, pro, rap, ras, sap.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: prosomas, saporous, sopranos.

 

+2 letters: ascospore, copastors, hospodars, proposals, sauropods, soapworts.

 

+3 letters: apospories, aposporous, ascospores, ascosporic, bootstraps, corposants, crapshoots, gastropods, ponderosas, protostars, scrapbooks, shampooers, sopraninos, spoliators, sponsorial, sporocarps, sporozoans, transposon.

 

+4 letters: absorptions, acropolises, adsorptions, aeciospores, aponeuroses, aponeurosis, apostrophes, blastopores, blastospore, carpospores, comparisons, drosophilas, gastroscope, gastroscopy, gyrocompass, neurosporas, peashooters, personators, postulators, protoplasms, protoplasts, snapshooter, sportswoman, syncopators, transposons, tropopauses, vasopressor.

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

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Alternative Orthography: APROSOS


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

41 50 52 4F 53 4F 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)

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

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

01000001 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010011 01001111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0052 004F 0053 004F 0053

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

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

35505249534953

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


  

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