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DECOLLATED

Definitions: DECOLLATED

DECOLLATED

Adjective

1. Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Decollate

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DECOLLATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

 

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Crosswords: DECOLLATED

Etymologies containing "DECOLLATED": Decollate. (references)

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Use in Literature: DECOLLATED

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

What do I see? A decollated precursor trying to pick the lock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: DECOLLATED

Misspellings

"DECOLLATED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deacylated, decollage, decollater, depollute. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DECOLLATED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-o-t"

-1 letter: decollate.

-2 letters: collated, colleted, ocellate.

-3 letters: cadelle, cladode, cleated, collate, delated, located.

-4 letters: called, callet, cellae, celled, coaled, coated, coatee, coddle, colead, collet, decade, decode, delate, delead, doated, dolled, elated, elodea, ladled, leaded, loaded, locale, locate, oleate, talced, toddle, tolled.

-5 letters: acold, acted, addle, aldol, allee, allod, allot, atoll, cadet, ceded, cella, cello, clade, cleat, coded, coled, coted, dated, dealt, decal, dedal, deled, delta, dolce, doled, dotal, doted, eclat, elate, elect, laced, laded, ladle, lated, local, octad, octal, telae, toled.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-o-t"
 

+3 letters: coldheartedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DECOLLATED


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

44 45 43 4F 4C 4C 41 54 45 44

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)

01000100 01000101 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#67 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0043 004F 004C 004C 0041 0054 0045 0044

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

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

38393749464635543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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