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CANTRIP

Definition: CANTRIP

CANTRIP

Noun

1. A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CANTRIP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)



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Crosswords: CANTRIP

English words defined with "CANTRIP": Cantrap. (references)

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Modern Translations: CANTRIP

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

Albanian

  

magji (bewitchment, black magic, conjuration, enchantment, glamor, glamour, hex, incantation, magic, medicine, necromancy, pishogue, sorcery, spell, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

магия (bewitchment, black art, charm, conjuration, enchantment, hex, magic, necromancy, obi, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

boszorkányság (medicine, sorcery, witchcraft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antripcay

   

Portuguese

  

mistificação (hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, humbug, mystification, quiz, spoof), logro (bluff, Bob, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cross, do, graft, hoax, imposition, leasing, mare's nest, mystification, overreach, sham, spoof, swindle, take in), embuste (bubble, fake, fancy ball, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, humbug, juggle, mystification, quiz, snare, spoof, swindle, take in, trick, trickery, wile), dolo (bad faith, deceit, fraud, hoax, indirection, inveracity, mystification), burla (chouse, mockery, mystify, sneer, spoof, swindle, swindling). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мистификация (hoax, leg pull, mystification, quiz). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

draž (charm, grace, lure, savor, savour), čar (glamor, glamour), šarm (charm). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

broma (badinage, banter, facetiae, fun, gag, jag, jape, jest, joke, lark, panic, pleasantry, prank, quiz). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trolleri (conjuring, enchantment, legerdemain, magic, sleight of hand, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розіграш (leg pull, spoof, windy), чарівництво (bewitchment, conjuration, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry), чари (bewitchment, charm, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell), містифікація (chouse, hoax, mystification), жарт (jape, jest, jocosity, joke, panic, play, pleasantry, skit, trick, wheeze, witticism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CANTRIP

Derivations

Words beginning with "CANTRIP": cantrips. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CANTRIP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-p-r-t"

-1 letter: catnip.

-2 letters: actin, antic, atrip, cairn, carpi, inapt, naric, paint, panic, patin, pinta, print, riant, tapir, train, triac.

-3 letters: airn, airt, anti, cain, cant, carn, carp, cart, crap, narc, nipa, pact, pain, pair, pant, part, pian, pica, pina, pint, pirn, pita, prat, rain, rani, rant, rapt, tain, tarn, tarp, trap, trip.

-4 letters: act, ain, air, ait, ani, ant, apt, arc, art, can, cap, car, cat, nap, nip, nit, pac, pan, par, pat, pia, pic, pin, pit, ran, rap, rat, ria, rin, rip, tan, tap, tar, tic, tin, tip.

-5 letters: ai, an, ar, at, in, it, na, pa, pi, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: cantraip, cantrips.

 

+2 letters: anthropic, cantraips, capturing, carpeting, crepitant, pancratia, pantropic, patrician, preacting, prolactin.

 

+3 letters: antipiracy, apprentice, ascription, carpetings, chaptering, comparting, discrepant, epicentral, importance, importancy, interspace, manuscript, morphactin, pancratium, pancreatic, pancreatin, patricians, patronymic, practicing, practising, pratincole, precasting, precaution, prolactins, repatching, transcript.

 

+4 letters: accipitrine, anisotropic, anthropical, anticipator, antipyretic, aponeurotic, apprenticed, apprentices, ascriptions, becarpeting, carpentries, centripetal, ceratopsian, chiropteran, conspirator, contraption, cooperating, cooperation, coplanarity, corporation, crepitating, crepitation, deprecating, deprecation, emancipator, importances, imprecating, imprecation, incorporate, inculpatory, intercampus, interspaced, interspaces, manuscripts, metanephric, morphactins, narcoleptic, neuropathic, nonoperatic, nontropical, outcapering, pancratiums, pancreatins, pantropical, parachuting, paragenetic, parenthetic, participant, patronymics, pentarchies, percolating, percolation, pertinacity, planimetric, postcranial, praelecting, pratincoles, precautions, precipitant, predicament, predicating, predication, predynastic, preenacting, preromantic, presynaptic, procreating, procreation, procuration, protracting, protraction, provocation, puritanical, reaccepting, recapturing, recarpeting, replicating, replication, transcripts, transpierce, unpatriotic, unpractical.

 

+5 letters: accipitrines, actinomorphy, anticipators, anticipatory, antientropic, antiparticle, antiperiodic, antipiracies, antipruritic, antipyretics, antistrophic, apperception, appreciating, appreciation, apprenticing, bankruptcies, camphorating, carpentering, ceratopsians, chiropterans, compurgation, conspiration, conspirators, contraptions, cooperations, copartnering, corporations, crepitations, deprecations, depreciating, depreciation, deuteranopic, discrepantly, emancipators, entropically, ethnographic, gonadotropic, hierophantic, importancies, imprecations, incorporated, incorporates, incorporator, inoperculate, inspectorate, intemperance, intercompany, intercompare, interspacing, intracompany, intrapsychic, intraspecies, lycanthropic, misanthropic, narcoleptics, naturopathic, nephropathic, nonparasitic, nonpractical, organoleptic, outpreaching, panchromatic, pancreatitis, pantisocracy, pantographic, paramagnetic, paronomastic, participants, pediatrician, perceptional, percolations, pertinacious, petrifaction, pontificator, postromantic, practitioner, precautioned, precentorial, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitants, predicaments, predications, principality, privatdocent, proclamation, procreations, procurations, productional, projectional, prostacyclin, protactinium, protractions, provocations, purification, putrefaction, recuperating, recuperation, reoccupation, replications, scintigraphy, stenographic, supercabinet, transpacific, transpicuous, transpierced, transpierces, trichopteran, triplicating, triplication, unimportance, unscriptural.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CANTRIP


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

43 41 4E 54 52 49 50

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 01010100 01010010 01001001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004E 0054 0052 0049 0050

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

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

37354854524350

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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