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DISCORDANCY

Definition: DISCORDANCY

DISCORDANCY

Noun

1. State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISCORDANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)


Modern Usage: DISCORDANCY

DomainUsage

Screenplays

How fascinating that any discordancy between us must always arise from my being wrong. (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath)

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

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Modern Translation: DISCORDANCY

Language Translations for "DISCORDANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

désaccord (disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, discrepancy, disharmony, dissidence, division). (various references)

   

German

  

Uneinigkeit (disagreement, discord, discordance, dissension, disunity, division). (various references)

   

Italian

  

disaccordo (disaccord, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, misunderstanding, odds, variance). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscordancyday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DISCORDANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-d-i-n-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: cancroids, disaccord.

-3 letters: androids, cancroid, cryonics, draconic, isocracy, sardonic.

-4 letters: accords, acronic, android, candids, candors, cocains, crayons, cryonic, cyanids, cycasin, discard, discord, dryadic, dyadics, inroads, ordains, sadiron, sarcoid, scandic, syconia, synodic.

-5 letters: accord, acorns, adonis, adorns, anodic, aroids, arsino, caddis, cairds, cairns, cairny, candid, candor, canids, casino, cocain, conics, corsac, crayon, cyanic, cyanid, cycads.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISCORDANCY


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

44 49 53 43 4F 52 44 41 4E 43 59

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 01001001 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010010 01000100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#68 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0043 004F 0052 0044 0041 004E 0043 0059

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

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

3843533749523835483759

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Non-English Dictionaries with "DISCORDANCY"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, francese

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionallemand, tedesco

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalien, italienisch, italiano

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, inglese
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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