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DISPAND

Definition: DISPAND

DISPAND

Transitive verb

1. To spread out; to expand.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Dispand \Dis*pand"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression dispandere to spread out; prefix dis- pandere, pansum, to spread out.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: DISPAND

Etymologies containing "DISPAND": Dispansion. (references)

Anagrams: DISPAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-n-p-s"
	-2 letters: nipas, padis, pains, pians, pinas, sapid.
	-3 letters: adds, aids, ains, ands, anis, dads, dais, daps, dins, dips, naps, nipa, nips, padi, pads, paid, pain, pans, pian, pias, pina, pins, sadi, said, sain, sand, snap, snip, span, spin.
	-4 letters: add, ads, aid, ain, ais, and, ani, asp, dad, dap, did, din, dip, dis, ids.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-n-p-s"
	+1 letter: paddings.
	+2 letters: paddlings.
	+3 letters: displanted, hispanidad, pandowdies, spraddling.
	+4 letters: dispreading, hispanidads, pasquinaded, superadding.
	+5 letters: depredations, disappointed, postdeadline.
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Alternative Orthography: DISPAND

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

44 49 53 50 41 4E 44

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 01010000 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 0041 004E 0044

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

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

38435350354838

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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