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DELIBATE

Definition: DELIBATE

DELIBATE

Transitive verb

1. To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Delibate \Del"i*bate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression delibatus, past participle of delibare to taste; de- libare to taste.]. (Websters 1913)

Rhyming with "DELIBATE"

Words rhyming with "DELIBATE" (pronounced 'Del"i*bate'): Acutilobate, Barbate, Bilobate, Breedbate, Cohobate, Columbate, Comprobate, Dealbate, Deturbate, Exacerbate, Hylobate, Hypnobate, Improbate, incubate, Inequilobate, Inglobate, Jubate, Limbate, Makebate, Niobate, Orbate, Pinnatilobate, Rabate, Rabbate, Sebate, sorbate, Stereobate, Stylobate, Surbate, Terebate, Titubate, trilobate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DELIBATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: editable.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-t"

-1 letter: belated, bleated.

-2 letters: aedile, albeit, albite, bailed, bailee, baited, beadle, belied, belted, betide, debate, delate, detail, dilate, edible, elated, ideate, tabled, tailed.

-3 letters: abele, abide, ailed, baled, bated, bedel, belie, betel, bidet, bield, blade, blate, bleat, bleed, blite, dealt, debit, delta, edile, elate, elide, elite, ideal, lated, tabid, table, telae, telia, tidal, tilde, tiled.

-4 letters: abed, abet, able, adit, aide, alee, alit, bade, bail, bait, bald, bale, bate, bead, beat, beet, belt, beta, bide, bile, bite, blae, blat, bled, blet, dale, date, deal, debt, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, dita, dite, edit, eide, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, late, lati, lead, leet, lied, lite, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele, tide, tied, tile.

-5 letters: aid, ail, ait, alb, ale, alt, ate, bad, bal, bat, bed, bee, bel, bet, bid, bit, dab, dal, deb, dee, del, dib, die, dit, eat, eel, eld, eta, lab, lad, lat, lea, led, lee, lei, let, lib, lid, lie, lit, tab, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee, tel, tie, til.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: bedlamite, liberated.

 

+2 letters: bedlamites, creditable, debilitate, deliberate.

 

+3 letters: battlefield, bestialized, binucleated, debilitated, debilitates, deliberated, deliberates, destabilize, detribalize, disablement, established, metabolized, obliterated, predictable, unliberated.

 

+4 letters: accreditable, alphabetized, battlefields, bigheartedly, bipedalities, defibrillate, deliberately, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, destabilized, destabilizes, determinable, determinably, detribalized, detribalizes, disablements, disreputable, dyeabilities, emblematized, equilibrated, extraditable, identifiable, recalibrated, relubricated, restabilized, sedimentable.

 

+5 letters: defeasibility, defibrillated, defibrillates, delectability, deliberations, deniabilities, dependability, detectability, deterrability, discreditable, educabilities, expendability, extendability, indefatigable, multibarreled, nondeliberate, polybutadiene, rattlebrained, readabilities, reestablished, rehabilitated, remediability, thiabendazole, unestablished, unmetabolized, unpredictable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DELIBATE


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

44 45 4C 49 42 41 54 45

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 01001100 01001001 01000010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#66 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 004C 0049 0042 0041 0054 0045

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

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

3839464336355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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