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CAT-CALL

Specialty Definition: CAT-CALL

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Cat-call A kind of whistle used at theatres by the audience to express displeasure or impatience. A hideous noise like the call or waul of a cat.
"I was very much surprised with the great consort of cat-calls ... to see so many persons of quality of both sexes assembled together at a kind of caterwauling."- Addison, Spectator, No. 361. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: CAT-CALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: catcall.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-l-l-t"

-2 letters: calla.

-3 letters: acta, caca, call, tala, talc, tall.

-4 letters: aal, act, ala, all, alt, cat, lac, lat.

-5 letters: aa, al, at, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-l-l-t"
 

+1 letter: catcalls, catchall.

 

+2 letters: calculate, catcalled, catchalls.

 

+3 letters: arctically, calculated, calculates, calculator, catcalling, malolactic, tactically.

 

+4 letters: accentually, actinically, ascetically, calculating, calculation, calculators, cataclysmal, caustically, chaotically, collectanea, dialectical, parallactic, practically, recalculate.

 

+5 letters: accidentally, acoustically, acrostically, anticlerical, calculatedly, calculations, cancellation, cathodically, catholically, cationically, circulatable, classicality, climatically, didactically, ecstatically, lactobacilli, miscalculate, narcotically, recalculated, recalculates, scatological, thoracically, uncalculated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAT-CALL


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

43 41 54 2D 43 41 4C 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01000011 01000001 01010100 00101101 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#45 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 002D 0043 0041 004C 004C

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

3735541537354646

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