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DISPLANT

Definition: DISPLANT

DISPLANT

Transitive verb

1. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.

2. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISPLANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DISPLANT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Displacement

Verb: displace, misplace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile; (seclude); ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DISPLANT

English words defined with "DISPLANT": Di/planted, Displanting. (references)

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Derivations: DISPLANT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISPLANT": displanted, displanting, displants. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISPLANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: pandits, plaints, plastid, sandpit.

-2 letters: distal, instal, island, lapins, paints, pandit, pastil, patins, pintas, plaids, plains, plaint, plaits, plants, pliant, ptisan, salpid, spinal, spital, splint.

-3 letters: adits, alist, anils, antis, dials, dints, ditas, inapt, lands, lapin, lapis, lints, litas, nails, nidal, nipas, padis, pails, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: displants.

 

+2 letters: antipodals, displanted, misplanted, planetoids.

 

+3 letters: depilations, displanting, interpleads, landscapist, pedestaling, pentaploids, postlanding, staphylinid.

 

+4 letters: depositional, despoliation, discrepantly, displacement, duplications, indisputable, indisputably, landscapists, palindromist, pedestalling, pentlandites, plantigrades, postdeadline, postdiluvian, postprandial, presidential, staphylinids, undisputable.

 

+5 letters: depopulations, despoliations, dilapidations, displacements, dispositional, interpleaders, lepidopterans, lymphadenitis, multiplicands, palindromists, pentaploidies, platitudinous, podsolization, postdiluvians, preindustrial, prostaglandin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISPLANT


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

44 49 53 50 4C 41 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 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 004C 0041 004E 0054

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

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

3843535046354854

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INDEX

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


  

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