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DISCRETIVE

Definition: DISCRETIVE

DISCRETIVE

Adjective

1. Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISCRETIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Etymology: Discretive \Dis*cre"tive\, adjective. [Latin expression discretivus. See Discrete.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: DISCRETIVE

English words defined with "DISCRETIVE": Discretive proposition, Discretively. (references)

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Expression: DISCRETIVE

Expression using "DISCRETIVE": Discretive proposition. Additional references.

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

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Anagrams: DISCRETIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: directives.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: directive, revisited.

-2 letters: decisive, derisive, desertic, dieretic, discreet, discrete, scrieved, serviced, siderite, verdicts, veristic, verities, vertices.

-3 letters: cerites, credits, crested, deceits, decries, deicers, deistic, deities, derives, devices, deviser, diciest, dictier, diester, dieters, directs, dirties, ditsier, diverse, diverts, eidetic, eristic, evicted, recited, recites, reedits, resited, restive, revised, revisit, riveted, scrieve, scrived, service, strived, tidiers.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: descriptive, viridescent.

 

+3 letters: descriptively, directivities, valedictories.

 

+4 letters: diverticuloses, inadvertencies, nondescriptive, overidealistic, veridicalities.

 

+5 letters: descriptiveness, destructivities, overmedications, underactivities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISCRETIVE


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

44 49 53 43 52 45 54 49 56 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 01001001 01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0043 0052 0045 0054 0049 0056 0045

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

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

38435337523954435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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