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Definition: DEMIVOLT |
DEMIVOLTNoun1. A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner. |
Etymology: Demivolt \Dem"i*volt`\, noun. [Compare to the French expression demi- volte.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Leap | Ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEMIVOLT": demivolts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: motived, vomited. | |
-2 letters: meloid, milted, moiled, molted, motile, motive, toiled, violet. | |
-3 letters: demit, devil, divot, limed, lived, loved, model, motel, moved, movie, oiled, oldie, olive, teloi, tilde, tiled, timed, toile, toled, veldt, video, voile, voled, volte, volti, vomit, voted. | |
-4 letters: deil, deli, delt, demo, diel, diet, dime, diol, dite, dive, doit, dole, dolt, dome. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: demivolts. | |
+4 letters: postmedieval, ventromedial. | |
+5 letters: improvidently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4D 49 56 4F 4C 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- .. ...- --- .-.. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01010110 01001111 01001100 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E M I V O L T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004D 0049 0056 004F 004C 0054 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3839474356494654 |
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