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ASSUMENT

Definition: ASSUMENT

ASSUMENT

Noun

1. A patch; an addition; a piece put on.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Assument \As*sum"ent\, noun. [Latin expression assumentum, from ad suere to sew.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: ASSUMENT

Non-English Usage: "ASSUMENT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (assume).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASSUMENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

assument

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "ASSUMENT"

Words rhyming with "ASSUMENT" (pronounced 'As*sum"ent'): Advertent, Ament, Clement, Client, Coexistent, Coherent, Concludent, Connivent, Consistent, Contendent, Co-respondent, Covent, Figent, inadvertent, inclement, incoherent, inconsistent, inherent, insistent, interdependent, Multipresent, Nonexistent, Obtundent, Occludent, Omnipresent, parent, Pendent, persistent, Postexistent, Preexistent, Propendent, Provent, Rament, Reflectent, Resorbent, Retrocedent, Revertent, Scient, Self-dependent, Self-existent, Semiadherent, semitransparent, sorbent, Strepent, Subsistent, talent, transcendent, transparent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASSUMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: mutases, stamens, unseams, unseats.

-2 letters: aments, amuses, anuses, assent, assume, manses, mantes, meatus, mensas, messan, mutase, sanest, sautes, sensum, stamen, stanes, steams, sunset, unseam, unseat, unsets, untame, usneas.

-3 letters: amens, ament, amuse, antes, asset, aunts, easts, etnas, manes, manse, manus, masse, masts, mates, mauts, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, menus, mesas, muses, musts.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-s-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: seamounts.

 

+2 letters: amiantuses, amusements, antiserums, enthusiasm, transmutes.

 

+3 letters: adjustments, ambushments, assuagement, consummates, enthusiasms, mansuetudes, menstruates, mutageneses, mutagenesis, neutralisms, nystagmuses, subbasement, submediants.

 

+4 letters: adventurisms, assuagements, eudaemonists, glutaminases, measurements, mensurations, reassumption, simultaneous, subbasements, ultimateness, unsystematic.

 

+5 letters: ambitiousness, anticonsumers, circumstances, customariness, desquamations, emasculations, gastrocnemius, guesstimating, immutableness, instrumentals, languishments, magnetopauses, manslaughters, masculinities, masterfulness, menstruations, misadventures, miseducations, misunderstand, mountainsides, prematureness, readjustments, reassumptions, somersaulting, somnambulates, supplementals, transhumances, unassimilated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASSUMENT


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

41 53 53 55 4D 45 4E 54

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 01010011 01010011 01010101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#83 &#85 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0053 0055 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)

3553535547394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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