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DESIGNMENT

Definitions: DESIGNMENT

DESIGNMENT

Noun

1. Design; purpose; scheme.

2. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DESIGNMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)


Commercial Usage: DESIGNMENT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Designment Review (reference)

  • Designment Review 1990 (reference)

  • Designment Review, 1987 (Builders' Almanac of Home Designs Series) (reference)

  • Designment Review: Home Plan Catalog (reference)

  • The Best of Designment Review Home Plan Catalog (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Derivations: DESIGNMENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DESIGNMENT": designments. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "DESIGNMENT"

Words rhyming with "DESIGNMENT" (pronounced 'De*sign"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DESIGNMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-m-n-n-s-t"

-1 letter: dementing.

-2 letters: dentines, desinent, emending, ingested, meetings, mendings, meninges, sediment, signeted.

-3 letters: deeming, dements, dentine, denting, dentins, destine, edgiest, emetins, eminent, endings, endites, engined, engines, indenes, indents, intends, intense, meeting, mending, mensing, midgets, mindset, mistend, needing, nesting, nidgets, seeding, seeming, segment, sending, sidemen, smidgen, teeming, tending, tennies, tensing.

-4 letters: deigns, dement, demies, demise, demits.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-m-n-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: designments, sedimenting.

 

+2 letters: meningitides.

 

+3 letters: disengagement.

 

+4 letters: decompensating, disarrangement, disengagements, disgruntlement.

 

+5 letters: aggrandizements, depigmentations, disarrangements, disentanglement, disgruntlements, underestimating, unmitigatedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESIGNMENT


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

44 45 53 49 47 4E 4D 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 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#71 &#78 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0049 0047 004E 004D 0045 004E 0054

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

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

38395343414847394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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