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DECRESCENT

Definitions: DECRESCENT

DECRESCENT

Adjective

1. Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.

Noun

1. A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: DECRESCENT

Language Translations for "DECRESCENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zvogëluar (diminished). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متناقص (decreasing, flagging, incongruous, tapering, waney). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

намаляващ се (diminishing). (various references)

   

French

  

en baisse (depressed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csökkenõ (decreasing, diminishing, regressive, shrinking). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cooylaghey (antecedence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecrescentday

   

Portuguese

  

decrescente (decreasing). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

убывающий (diminishing). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji je u opadanju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decreciente (decreasing, degressive, sagging). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avtagande (abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, diminution, fall, letup, refluence, refluent, reflux, subsidies, wane). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küçülen, azalan (decreasing, diminishing, downward, sinking). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що убува". (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xuống dần, giảm bớt (diminutively, down, mitigative, mitigatory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DECRESCENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: credences, decenters, decentres.

-2 letters: centered, credence, crescent, decenter, decentre, renested, resected, resented, screened, secerned, secreted.

-3 letters: centers, centred, centres, credent, crested, decerns, decrees, descent, entered, entrees, erected, needers, recedes, reested, retenes, scented, seceder, secrete, sneered, steered, teeners, tenders, tenrecs.

-4 letters: ceders, censed, censer, center, centre, certes, creeds, creese, decent, decern, decree, denser, desert, deters, enders, enters, entree, erects, eterne, needer, nested, nester, recces, recede, recent, renest, rented, rentes, resect, reseed, reseen, resend, resent, rested, retene, screed, screen, secede, secern, secret, seeder, sender, serene, teener, tender, tenrec, tensed, tenser, terces, ternes, treens, trends.

-5 letters: ceder, cedes, cense, cents, cered, ceres, cetes, creed, crest, deers, deets, denes, dense, dents, deter, drees, drest, ender, enter, erect, ernes, ester, needs, nerds, nerts, recce, redes, reeds, reest, rends, rente, rents, resee, reset, scend, scene, scent, scree, seder, sente, sered, sneer, steed, steer, stere, stern, teens, tends, tense, terce, terne, terns, terse, treed, treen, trees, trend.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-n-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: deconsecrate, recrudescent.

 

+3 letters: concertedness, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, reconsecrated, transcendence.

 

+4 letters: deconcentrates, transcendences.

 

+5 letters: concertednesses, transcendencies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DECRESCENT


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

44 45 43 52 45 53 43 45 4E 54

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 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0043 0052 0045 0053 0043 0045 004E 0054

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

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

38393752395337394854

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INDEX

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


  

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