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Definition: DISCEPT |
DISCEPTIntransitive verb1. To debate; to discuss. |
Date "DISCEPT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Discept \Dis*cept"\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression disceptare.]. (Websters 1913) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DISCEPT": discepted, discepting, discepts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: depicts. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: depict, edicts, septic, spiced, spited, stiped. | |
-2 letters: cedis, cesti, cited, cites, deist, dices, diets, dites, edict, edits, epics, piste, sepic, siped, sited, spice, spied, spite, stied, stipe, tepid, tides. | |
-3 letters: cedi, ceps, cist, cite, dice, dies, diet, dips, dipt, disc, dite, dits, edit, epic, etic, iced, ices, ides, pecs, peds, pest, pets, pice. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: despotic, discepts, predicts, scripted, spicated. | |
+2 letters: cadetship, copyedits, cuspidate, depicters, depictors, discepted, dyspeptic, inspected, pesticide, practised, speciated, stepchild. | |
+3 letters: adipocytes, cadetships, centipedes, composited, coscripted, cupidities, deceptions, depictions, descriptor, discepting, discrepant, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, disrespect, duplicates, dyspeptics, lipsticked, mispatched, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, pedicurist, pesticides, pigsticked, predicates, predictors, septicidal, stockpiled, unscripted. | |
+4 letters: capitalised, conscripted, constipated, copresident, decapitates, decryptions, depreciates, description, descriptive, descriptors, despatching, dispatchers, disrespects, duplicities, feldspathic, interspaced, miscomputed, nondescript, orthopedics, paediatrics, pediculates, pedicurists, placidities, plasticized, politicised, postdivorce, predacities, predictions, predynastic, reinspected, supplicated, topstitched, uninspected. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 43 45 50 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. . .--. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S C E P T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0043 0045 0050 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435337395054 |
| 1. Definition 2. Derivations 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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