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CANDLEBOMB

Definitions: CANDLEBOMB

CANDLEBOMB

Noun

1. A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.

2. A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: CANDLEBOMB

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

Russian 

  

светящаяся авиационная бомба. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CANDLEBOMB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-d-e-l-m-n-o"

-2 letters: bondable.

-3 letters: abdomen, celadon, cembalo, cobbled, codable, nobbled.

-4 letters: acnode, albedo, almond, ambled, badmen, beacon, becalm, bedamn, bedlam, beldam, bemoan, blamed, blonde, bombed, cabbed, cabled, cabmen, calmed, candle, canoed, cloned, coaled, cobble, colead, comade, combed, dabble, daemon, deacon, doable, dolman, dolmen, lambed, lanced, loamed, loaned, lobbed, macled, moaned, mobbed, mobled, nabbed, nobble.

-5 letters: abode, acned, acold, admen, adobe, alone, amble, amend, amole, anode, anole, babel, bacon, baled, banco, baned, beano, blade, blame, bland, blend, blond, bombe, boned, cable, cabob, camel, cameo, caned, canoe, celom, clade, clean, clomb, clone, coble, coden, coled, comae, comal, combe, coned, dance, decal, demob, demon, dobla, dolce, dolma, domal, eland, laced, laden, lamed, lance, leman, lemon, lobed, loden, maced, macle, macon, maned, medal, melon, menad, modal, model, monad, monde, nabob, naled, named, noble, nodal, nomad, ocean, olden.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CANDLEBOMB


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

43 41 4E 44 4C 45 42 4F 4D 42

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 01001110 01000100 01001100 01000101 01000010 01001111 01001101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#66 &#79 &#77 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004E 0044 004C 0045 0042 004F 004D 0042

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

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

37354838463936494736

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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