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Definition: Clotho |
ClothoNoun1. The Fate who spins the thread of life; identified with Roman Nona. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Clotho" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Clotho in Classic mythology One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her distaff the thread of life, Atropos presided over death and cut the thread of life, and Lachesis spun the fate of life between birth and death. (Greek, klótho, to draw thread from a distaff.) "A France slashed asunder with Clotho-scissors and civil war"- Carlyle. (This is an erroneous allusion It was Atropos who cut the thread.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Clotho |
| English words defined with "Clotho": Nona ♦ Plumed adder, Puff adder. (references) |
Expressions using "Clotho": clotho arietans ♦ clotho cornuta ♦ Clotho nasicornis ♦ Vipera or Clotho arietans ♦ Vipera or Clotho cornuta. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clotho | 9 |
atropos clotho lachesis | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coolth. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-l-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: cholo, cloot, cloth. | |
-2 letters: clot, coho, colt, cool, coot, holt, hoot, loch, loco, loot, loth, tool. | |
-3 letters: col, coo, cot, hot, loo, lot, oho, ooh, oot, tho, too. | |
-4 letters: ho, lo, oh, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-l-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: coolths. | |
+2 letters: oilcloth, oothecal. | |
+3 letters: blowtorch, chlorotic, chocolate, chocolaty, colocynth, dropcloth, footcloth, holocaust, holotypic, homolytic, hypocotyl, loincloth, ochlocrat, oilcloths, otolithic, photocell, theologic, touchhole. | |
+4 letters: broadcloth, catholicoi, catholicon, catholicos, chocolates, chocolatey, clothbound, colocynths, dropcloths, ethnologic, floorcloth, footcloths, histologic, holocausts, holophytic, hypocotyls, lithologic, loincloths, monolithic, mythologic, ochlocrats, orthoclase, pathologic, photocells, photolytic, schoolmate, schooltime, technology, tocopherol, touchholes, trichology, trochoidal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 6F 74 68 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- - .... --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l o t h o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 006F 0074 0068 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377881867481 |
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