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Definition: CLOSE-TONGUED |
CLOSE-TONGUEDAdjective1. Closemouthed; silent. |
Date "CLOSE-TONGUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "CLOSE-TONGUED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | å…³é—责骂. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | ë‹« 혀르 대ëŠ". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ose-tonguedclay sessiz (dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), konuşmayan (incommunicative, tacit, tongue tied), kapalı kutu (a dark horse, cagey, close-lipped, secretive). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-l-n-o-o-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: congested, consulted, counseled, decongest, duecentos, goldenest, goldstone, lodestone. | |
-4 letters: closeout, closeted, cologned, colognes, condoles, consoled, contused, couldest, duecento, duotones, eclogues, ecotones, enclosed, ensouled, esculent, eugenols, loosened, neglects, noctules, nodulose, nutsedge, outscold, stegodon, toluenes, unclosed, uncooled, unloosed. | |
-5 letters: cenotes, cestode, clouted, coldest, cologne, colones, colonus, colugos, condoes, condole, congeed, congees, congest, congoes, congous, console. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-l-n-o-o-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: oligonucleotides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 4F 53 45 2D 54 4F 4E 47 55 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 00101101 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L O S E - T O N G U E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 004F 0053 0045 002D 0054 004F 004E 0047 0055 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37464953391554494841553938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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