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DEFIX

Definition: DEFIX

DEFIX

Transitive verb

1. To fix; to fasten; to establish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Defix \De*fix"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression defixus, past participle of defigere to fix; de- figere to fix.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: DEFIX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fixed.

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-x"

-1 letter: defi.

-2 letters: dex, die, fed, fid, fie, fix.

-3 letters: de, ed, ef, ex, id, if, xi.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-x"
 

+2 letters: affixed, fixated, fixedly, infixed, refixed, unfixed.

 

+3 letters: detoxify, inflexed, prefixed, suffixed.

 

+4 letters: fixedness, postfixed, reaffixed, sulfoxide.

 

+5 letters: detoxified, detoxifies, exfoliated, ferredoxin, sulfoxides, transfixed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEFIX


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

44 45 46 49 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01000110 01001001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#70 &#73 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0046 0049 0058

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

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

3839404358

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3. Orthography
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