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CLOSE-TONGUED

Definition: CLOSE-TONGUED

CLOSE-TONGUED

Adjective

1. Closemouthed; silent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CLOSE-TONGUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Modern Translation: CLOSE-TONGUED

Language Translations for "CLOSE-TONGUED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

关闭责骂. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ë‹« 혀르 대ëŠ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ose-tonguedclay

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CLOSE-TONGUED

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CLOSE-TONGUED


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)

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

01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 00101101 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#45 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#69 &#68

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

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INDEX

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


  

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