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CALIVER

Definition: CALIVER

CALIVER

Noun

1. An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CALIVER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Note: Caliver \Cal"i*ver\, noun. [Corrupted from caliber.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: CALIVER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CALIVER

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

caliver

2

caliver chevy

2

book caliver

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

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Modern Translations: CALIVER

Language Translations for "caliver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

alivercay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CALIVER"

Words rhyming with "CALIVER" (pronounced 'Cal"i*ver'): Cadaver, Clover, Demiquaver, Demisemiquaver, Desilver, Drover, Elver, Enfever, Hulver, Marver, Meniver, Minever, miniver, moreover, Papaver, Passover, Quacksalver, Rep-silver, Semidemiquaver, semiquaver, solver, Stiver, stover, Trover, Up-over, Vetiver, Walk-over, Weever. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CALIVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caviler, clavier, valeric.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-v"

-1 letter: carvel, claver, eclair, lacier.

-2 letters: aiver, alive, areic, ariel, calve, carle, carve, caver, cavie, cavil, ceria, clave, clavi, clear, crave, erica, ervil, ileac, lacer, laver, liver, livre, ravel, relic, rival, velar, vicar, viler, viral.

-3 letters: acre, alec, aril, aver, care, carl, cave, ceil, cire, earl, evil, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, lave, lear, leva, liar, lice, lier, lira, lire, live, race, rail, rale, rave, real, rial, rice, riel, rile, rive, vail, vair, vale, veal, veil, vela, vera, vial, vice, vier, vile, virl.

-4 letters: ace, ail, air, ale, arc, are, ave, car, cel, ear, era, ice, ire, lac, lar, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, rec, rei, rev, ria, vac, var, via, vie.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, ar, el, er, la, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-v"
 

+1 letter: acervuli, cavalier, cavilers, caviller, cervical, claviers, vertical, visceral.

 

+2 letters: calvaries, cavaliers, cavalries, cavillers, chevalier, clavering, larvicide, leviratic, lucrative, overclaim, revictual, varicella, vectorial, vehicular, veridical, verticals, vesicular, viceregal, victualer, vocalizer.

 

+3 letters: aviculture, cantilever, cavaliered, cavalierly, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, creatively, curatively, decemviral, lacerative, larvicides, overclaims, overfacile, prevocalic, reactively, receivable, revictuals, silverback, ulcerative, varicellas, varicocele, vermicular, versicular, vertically, victualers, victualler, viscerally, vocalizers, vorticella, vulcanizer.

 

+4 letters: acriflavine, avicultures, cantilevers, caressively, cavaliering, cavalierism, circulative, clavierists, correlative, countervail, curvilinear, declarative, deliverance, diverticula, intervallic, involucrate, irrelevance, irrelevancy, irrevocable, irrevocably, lubricative, lucratively, overcalling, overclaimed, perceivable, perceivably, receivables, recultivate, relevancies, replicative, revictualed, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, valedictory, varicoceles, varicolored, vectorially, ventricular, veraciously, verbalistic, veridically, vermiculate, verticality, viceregally, viceroyalty, victuallers, vorticellae, vorticellas, vulcanizers.

 

+5 letters: accelerative, acriflavines, articulative, attractively, cantilevered, cavalierisms, clairvoyance, clavieristic, conversional, correlatives, countervails, curveballing, decoratively, deliverances, detractively, discoverable, diverticular, extractively, intervocalic, irrelevances, microwavable, overclaiming, overclassify, overcleaning, overclearing, overcritical, overreliance, perspectival, recultivated, recultivates, refractively, relativistic, revictualing, revictualled, revivalistic, slavocracies, surveillance, velociraptor, veridicality, vermiculated, verticalness, verticillate, vesicularity, vocabularies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CALIVER


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

43 41 4C 49 56 45 52

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)

01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004C 0049 0056 0045 0052

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

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

37354643563952

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INDEX

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


  

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